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How Do Stress Chemicals Affect Your Brain?
If somebody doesn't have this instinctual desire for altruism or helping others, it's an indicator that their brain is still in survival mode. Stress chemicals puts us into that state of fight-free flight. And so if we're faced with a bear, the brain produces stress chemicals that cause the brain and body to go into thatState of emergency. When we come out of it, the stress chemicals are lower and we go back to normal. However, the challenge is that the brain can't tell the difference between an immediate physical threat and an emotional suffering like betrayal or fear,. That kind of thing.