Exercise - the sweaty solution to stress Published weekly by the Department of Communication in the interests of better campus communication.
Stress is the best-know cause of many modern mental health afflictions.
But, writes, Dr Helgo Schomer from UCT's Department of Psychology, exercise is a great, albeit sweaty, option for coping in the stress jungle. S urvival chances for the caveman were greatly enhanced by highly effective stress reactions. Since then we have moved away from a mere survival epoch to one of life quality. Nevertheless we are stuck with caveman's highly effective stress reactions. Periodically the two adrenal hormones, epinephrine and norepinephrine pump into the body to ready it for fight or flight.