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THE SCIENCE OF STRESS DOING STRESS The aan hisa ORA fr star THE DOCTOR WHO CHANGED THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT STRESS enduse even in times of peace. That to change thanks in large part to Father of stress research Selye was a medical researchers Meet ing hormonal changes in them, the realized that something was periments. He was trying to track the jection of a particular hormone, but it matter what he stuck the rodes Yes showed signs of being affected by that their adrenal glands were but there was no way to link that the specific hormones he was givingThanh Selye-who had also noticed that seen as a medical student sembly a way that wasn't necessarily link to a specie disease-had an important reall the oder he was studying were responding merely to injections of hormones and places but also to be stress caused by the experiment "His 1936 paper on stress, as the case of dead Hans Selye pioneered the study in his experimental rats, attracted to more attende than Alexander Fleming's first report of penicili of stress and its effects, both and it may prove no less important to suffering me negative and positive kind." TIME noted in 1950, by which point his con tinuing work had earned him renown in the field BY LILY ROTHMAN Selye theorised that overexposing the body to stresa would cause what he called "general adaptation THESE DAYS, THE MEDICAL PROFESSION TAKES syndrome." The idea was that the body would se stress seriously contess stadies on the effects spond to a lasting stress the same way it would to of stress indicate it should But that has not always a brief shock, but when the shock dide't dissipate been the case. Though human beings have always the body would become inured to its cause. Though felt stress, it's actually been less than a century since that might seem advantageous for daily life, it took the subject began getting the attention it deserves. its toll; when a new, different shock came around As TIME explained in 1983 cover story, it used the body would be less able to summon the necessary to be thought that was just a vague feeling reaction. The eventual result was exhaustion and te not a term precise enough to have real medical use lated medical conditions, such as high blood per fulness. There was so firm definition or way of mea sute. Far from being limited to soldiers, the range of suring it. Even so, it was clear that there was some potential sufferers included all of humanity known a soldier's heart was noticed by doctors but his discoveries had yet to trickle down to patients At that time, Selye was known to his colleague During World War I, the crippling anxiety called Still, he said he believed that a "whole new branch of from heavy artillery, which was believed to damage the specialized attention it deserved. Sure enough blood vessels is the bias TIME put it. This the as the decade progressed, stress-related diseases long and the problea was renamed battle fatigue. Researchers dedicated themselves to learning home What earlier doctor studying soldiers had missed exactly stress worked and, while attempting to find ce-fight resense cold cause problems that hold me stichtingen leisure to their patients as a self-help 1 solution. Stress research would go far beyond Selye's live without stress but you wouldn't want to anyway criticism for his relationship with the tobacco indus- own discoveries (and he would, posthumously, draw "Crossing a busy intersection, exposure to a draft or even sheer joy are enough to activate the body's try), but he is still considered a towering figure. stress mechanism to some extent," he wrote. "Stress And Selye's research also uncovered something is not even necessarily bad for you, it is also the spice that may surprise-or perhaps comfort--the stressed of life, for any emotion, any activity causes stress. among us, and that's a takeaway that has largely en- But, of course, your system must be prepared to take dured even as research on the subject has evolved it." Life, he added, "is largely a process of adaptation Though we use the term "stress" almost exclusively to the circumstances in which we exist." in a negative sense, his 1956 book, The Stress of Life, So how to strike the right balance? Selye, who and its 1974 follow-up, Stress Without Distress, made died in 1982, offered this advice: "Fight always for the case that while stress could shorten our lives and the highest attainable aim, but never put up resise decrease their quality, not only was it impossible to 0 tance in vain."
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Medical professionals in the current world observe stress seriously, with numerous studies
indicating that human beings have experienced stress at a certain period of their life. It took less
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