Issues arise when the body fails to control the on–off switch, says Wendy Berry Mendes, a psychologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Stress becomes problematic if the body overreacts ...

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The human body doesn't have a check engine ... The team found considerable individual variability in autonomic nervous system stress responses as measured by HRV, with some individuals showing a ...

Survival over reproduction Our body has two main nervous system branches: the sympathetic, which is activated in stress, and the parasympathetic, which rules our fertility.