By Dr. Zen-Jay Chuang
Life is full of stressful events.
When you encounter a threatening situation, your body reacts with a stress response that helps you avoid or make it through the situation. The stress response initiates a cascade of changes that tenses up your muscles, speeds up breathing and heartbeat, increases blood pressure, and revs up energy production.
This "flight-or-fight" reaction helped our ancestors deal with life or death circumstances, such as escaping from
