Cool cool...

But the body is so friggin amazing. When its rarely short on what it NEEDS to do the priority task cause it robs from a less important one.

Exercise (read stress) is a priority. Why? Cause your body doesn't know its not in fight or flight. Its survival so it producess what is needed to run away from the bear etc

So if not balanced this can still be effective-by the time it effects performance big time or shows up its been building for a long time.

Athletes are great examples.

Digestion is shut down when in fight or flight, repair and growth is shut down, reproductive hormones are shut down (how many times you see a guy running for his life with a hard on?-then you hear athletes saying they aren't interested in sex close to a fight-why? cause they are using up all the sex hormones for the fight or flight response. A likely bet they have digestive issues. If you have digestive issues you have hormone issues (even though in this case we're going the other way) and we all know hormones effect everything.

Immune function is suppressed. Do you really need to fight off cancer while being chaced by a crocodile?

But because in a stress response and because the body is amazingly good at making do and or taking from other areas you have enough resorces to be in the fight or flight for a long time.

So an athlete can perform for a long time (because training is stress-read fight or flight) while continually depleting store or robbing from other areas etc etc.. Few years later, depending on strength of genes, on other factors etc etc Performance drops (and we say getting old and stop) and or more and more injuries, more and more illnesses and very likely a disease process-lets say cancer. Oh but thanks God for doctors and radiation etc etc Must be in my genes why I got it. (anyone who says its alot to do with life style is a fluff!!) While the whole time we supress the immune system, inflame the digestive system, use all are growth and repair hormones for stress (including the stress of viagra cause we need artificial help to get it up so we can screw and feel like a man).

You can see poor health from poor fittness but good fittness is not alone a sign of health IMO


There are too many signs-I have heard loads of stories about top athletes, I meanthe big names who are f^%$ed but still go out and perform...

However, IF you believe the disease process isn't just chance and genes and realise that it can progress over 10, 15, 20 years... then you can start to look at how and why it progresses.

Its a totally different paradigm.

1-Genes/virus=wamma disease-go get pill, burned, friend, cut open.

2-Expression of genes, host more important than invador, terin more important than invador

I believe in 2. Most believe in 1.

If you choose to believe in 1 then that is the experiences you will have. If you choose to believe in 2 then you will have those experiences. IMO

So I htink you are right but...