Have you ever wondered how well science supports the adage “Stress kills?”  Of course, a convincing answer would not fit into a Psychology Today article, because stress neuroscience has shown us that for all of us there are many possible pathways from stress to death.

We can be glad that evolution has given us a stress response system that automatically self-regulates the basic functions that keep us alive. Imagine every day trying to figure out your breathing patterns, your heartbeats, your digestion, your sleep, and your responses to pain and pleasure. We go through most of our lives hardly thinking about this everyday miracle of self-regulation.