We live in a world of constant stress and noise and demands and (subtle and less subtle) violence and power games in basically all our relationships. No wonder our balance can only be (somewhat) restored by introducing massive amounts, either of “food” or “highly concentrated substances” like drugs. The village around us is out of balance, and burning, and so are we. Nowhere is (emotionally) safe, our nervous systems run on high intensity survival mode 24/7.

Yep; Things make much the same sense to me.

This paper is… I can't unsee it?: Aggression, Social Stress, and the Immune System in Humans and Animal Models – https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/behavioral-neuroscience...

serious paper, serious authors. Frontiers In is sometimes considered unserious? This is the real stuff.

Unserious tho: I lo-o-ove the Hideo Kojima-esque Friedman Brain Institute that one of the author is affiliated with, haha. <3