Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

"Equally logical is another feature of the stress-response.
During an emergency, it makes sense that your body halts long-term, expensive building projects. If there is a tornado bearing down on the house, this isn’t the day to repaint the garage.
Hold off on the long-term projects until you know there is a long term.
Thus, during stress, digestion is inhibited—there isn’t enough time to derive the energetic benefits of the slow process of digestion, so why waste energy on it?
You have better things to do than digest breakfast when you are trying to avoid being someone’s lunch."

Robert M. Sapolsky
in, "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers"


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