![]() ![]() Stress affects every system in the body as well as our emotions.A cascading effect then begins, leading to cellular disturbances and eventually disease symptoms. It only takes a low level of chronic inflammation, not even noticeable to the patient, to throw off the body’s efficient distribution of heat. Inflammation has been linked to a wide range of chronic disorders, including hypertension, heart disease, and probably cancer.This small piece of advice actually links many phenomena that are well authenticated in medicine, psychology, and the social sciences. If someone is lonely, depressed, anxious, grieving, or under stress beyond a certain limit, there is a point of no return that leads to a chronic condition, and the effects can spread to the body as well-the chronically depressed, for example, are at greater risk for disease and premature death.Ĭomplex as this picture is-and we’ve barely scratched the surface-lifelong well-being seems to depend on something simple: Staying inside your Goldilocks zones. Then there are our Goldilocks zones that apply to psychology. For example, it can be fatal to go without water for 3 days, without sleep for 11 days (the longest anyone has remained awake-sleep deprivation causes damage long before that), and without oxygen to the brain for 3 minutes. Our Goldilocks zone for internal temperature is therefore only 10 degrees.īut your body has many overlapping Goldilocks zones. ![]() The human body has a surprisingly narrow range of temperature for survival-it is life-threatening to have a fever over 105 o F. The human Goldilocks zone begins with our physiology. Yet simple as it sounds, the goldilocks zone determines in many ways how successful someone’s life will be and at the same time the likelihood of enjoying wellness to age 70 and beyond. The Goldilocks zone makes sense, although there has to be a fudge factor, since large enough planets and moons can generate their own heat. The critical factor is heat, since being too close to a star, as Mercury and Venus are in our solar system, is intolerably hot while being too far away, as Saturn and Jupiter are, is intolerably cold. This is the region, not too close to a star but also not too far away, that makes the development of life possible. In the search for life on other planets, a concept known as the Goldilocks zone is critical.
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