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Adrenaline
So basically what im getting at is, do you really believe all those stories that people say like "i lifted a car to save my dad" and so forth. Also, do you believe that there is some way to control adrenaline, like to use it on command. (if you actually believe the stories) and finally do you have any stories of your own that involve adrenaline, (or heard of) and if you believe them or not.
What is adrenaline anyway?
Adrenaline is a chemical (actually a hormone) produced by the two adrenal glands, which are located on top of the kidneys (ad - renal, on - kidney). These glands secrete adrenaline directly into the blood stream when people are exposed to something that they see as potentially dangerous.
Because adrenaline has to be carried by the blood to all the different parts of the body, it takes a second or two before people will feel its effects. I will explain below how this slight delay can be important in how you react to danger.
What does adrenaline do?
Physically, adrenaline increases your heart rate, raises your blood pressure, and is associated with a diversion of blood away from certain areas of your brain and internal organs and into your muscles. As a result, adrenaline has the ability to increase speed and strength. It also decreases how much people feel pain. A large amount of adrenaline released into your system all at once causes what is often called an adrenaline dump, rush, or surge. All of these effects are designed to prepare your body to either run away or to fight.
What does an adrenaline surge feel like?
Adrenaline can make you feel energized, or it can make you feel shaky, weak or sick to your stomach. Sometimes all of these feelings come at the same time, which can be confusing. Results of an adrenaline surge might also include:
• feeling as though time has slowed down.
• tunnel vision, where you only see what is in front of you and not what is around you.
• a sensation of your mind wandering or floating, making it hard to concentrate.
• decreased coordination.
• difficulty in thinking clearly.
I do not know whether these sensations result directly from the adrenaline itself, or if some other factor, like sensory overload from trying to figure out what is happening around you, causes them. As an emergency physician I have given pure adrenaline as a drug to treat many people having severe allergic reactions. Treatment involves injecting them with amounts of adrenaline far greater than what the body produces naturally. Many of these patients have described feeling shaky, weak, and nauseated as a result. I have not heard complaints of the other feelings often attributed to adrenaline. What is important for you to know is that when you are in a situation likely to cause an adrenaline surge, these are the feelings you are likely to experience.
How does adrenaline affect your ability to react to danger?
The effect of an adrenaline surge depends on many different things. Sometimes you have no warning that something is about to happen until you are suddenly startled by a surprise attack or other unexpected event. When startled in this way, it is natural to momentarily freeze, jump, flinch, or run.
Your first response normally happens without the effect of adrenaline because it takes a second or two for the adrenaline surge to hit. During those first pre-adrenaline seconds, you will may or may not move. People’s initial reaction is normally based on how circumstances interact with their personality, and their built-in tendency to react a certain way under stress, without adrenaline.
Once adrenaline kicks in, it will likely reinforce your initial response. If you are frozen, you might find it even harder to break out of it and take action. This is especially likely if you are overwhelmed by an unfamiliar adrenaline surge and misinterpret the feelings associated with it as fear or panic. People often associate fear with helplessness. Helplessness is not a good mindset when you need to take action to ensure your own safety and the safety of others. This is why an adrenaline surge can sometimes make freezing worse.
If you do not freeze initially, your adrenaline surge is more likely to be helpful as long as it is directed into effective action. If you are already running, you may run faster. If you are fighting, you may fight harder. However, sometimes adrenaline can make a person fight back so frantically that although they are fighting hard, the techniques are uncoordinated and not very effective. This ineffective, frantic way of fighting back is sometimes called “flailing”.
There are also times when you see danger developing more gradually and adrenaline does get a chance to work before it becomes clear that you need to do something to respond to the threat. In this case adrenaline can still interfere with your ability to think clearly and initiate a response as both your adrenaline levels and the level of the threat increase. ©http://kidpowervancouver.org/id40.html author: dr.david harrison
this was writting by a doctor, but still people may doubt that this is true, or they may not. DISCUSS!
stuff above in a nutshell: adrenaline spreads through your body makes you have abilities that you didn't have before, helps with defence or whatever else. has -'s and +'s
What is adrenaline anyway?
Adrenaline is a chemical (actually a hormone) produced by the two adrenal glands, which are located on top of the kidneys (ad - renal, on - kidney). These glands secrete adrenaline directly into the blood stream when people are exposed to something that they see as potentially dangerous.
Because adrenaline has to be carried by the blood to all the different parts of the body, it takes a second or two before people will feel its effects. I will explain below how this slight delay can be important in how you react to danger.
What does adrenaline do?
Physically, adrenaline increases your heart rate, raises your blood pressure, and is associated with a diversion of blood away from certain areas of your brain and internal organs and into your muscles. As a result, adrenaline has the ability to increase speed and strength. It also decreases how much people feel pain. A large amount of adrenaline released into your system all at once causes what is often called an adrenaline dump, rush, or surge. All of these effects are designed to prepare your body to either run away or to fight.
What does an adrenaline surge feel like?
Adrenaline can make you feel energized, or it can make you feel shaky, weak or sick to your stomach. Sometimes all of these feelings come at the same time, which can be confusing. Results of an adrenaline surge might also include:
• feeling as though time has slowed down.
• tunnel vision, where you only see what is in front of you and not what is around you.
• a sensation of your mind wandering or floating, making it hard to concentrate.
• decreased coordination.
• difficulty in thinking clearly.
I do not know whether these sensations result directly from the adrenaline itself, or if some other factor, like sensory overload from trying to figure out what is happening around you, causes them. As an emergency physician I have given pure adrenaline as a drug to treat many people having severe allergic reactions. Treatment involves injecting them with amounts of adrenaline far greater than what the body produces naturally. Many of these patients have described feeling shaky, weak, and nauseated as a result. I have not heard complaints of the other feelings often attributed to adrenaline. What is important for you to know is that when you are in a situation likely to cause an adrenaline surge, these are the feelings you are likely to experience.
How does adrenaline affect your ability to react to danger?
The effect of an adrenaline surge depends on many different things. Sometimes you have no warning that something is about to happen until you are suddenly startled by a surprise attack or other unexpected event. When startled in this way, it is natural to momentarily freeze, jump, flinch, or run.
Your first response normally happens without the effect of adrenaline because it takes a second or two for the adrenaline surge to hit. During those first pre-adrenaline seconds, you will may or may not move. People’s initial reaction is normally based on how circumstances interact with their personality, and their built-in tendency to react a certain way under stress, without adrenaline.
Once adrenaline kicks in, it will likely reinforce your initial response. If you are frozen, you might find it even harder to break out of it and take action. This is especially likely if you are overwhelmed by an unfamiliar adrenaline surge and misinterpret the feelings associated with it as fear or panic. People often associate fear with helplessness. Helplessness is not a good mindset when you need to take action to ensure your own safety and the safety of others. This is why an adrenaline surge can sometimes make freezing worse.
If you do not freeze initially, your adrenaline surge is more likely to be helpful as long as it is directed into effective action. If you are already running, you may run faster. If you are fighting, you may fight harder. However, sometimes adrenaline can make a person fight back so frantically that although they are fighting hard, the techniques are uncoordinated and not very effective. This ineffective, frantic way of fighting back is sometimes called “flailing”.
There are also times when you see danger developing more gradually and adrenaline does get a chance to work before it becomes clear that you need to do something to respond to the threat. In this case adrenaline can still interfere with your ability to think clearly and initiate a response as both your adrenaline levels and the level of the threat increase. ©http://kidpowervancouver.org/id40.html author: dr.david harrison
this was writting by a doctor, but still people may doubt that this is true, or they may not. DISCUSS!
stuff above in a nutshell: adrenaline spreads through your body makes you have abilities that you didn't have before, helps with defence or whatever else. has -'s and +'s
Last edited by DropKick; Aug 4, 2011 at 05:33 AM.
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Interesting read there. I have indeed heard of the adrenaline stories of cars and mothers and babies etc...and it intrigues me greatly. Firstly, I do not believe that there is a way to physically harness your own adrenaline to use at will. It is a chemical that is released as an instinct and at a trigger. The "fight or flight" phenomena.
As far as I think, stories-true.
Adrenaline powers on command-impossible.
As far as I think, stories-true.
Adrenaline powers on command-impossible.
I believe it quite well, because matter o fact, just yesterday i was ATV'ing in the mountains and i hit a tree stump/rock and flipped my atv. 1. i was thrown to the ground and then suddenly i saw the 1000 pound ATV about to land right atop me, but somehow i manage to stop it with my feet and kick it to the side (afterwards i had sprained my ankle) im 13, can only benchpress a 130. i can't quite recall symptoms mentioned above but im sure i can't do that on a normal day.
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Adrenaline is like steroids. Every body has it and you can perform better. Its like a extra rush when your tired. Awsome in football games ^^. It can save peoples lives or end them. Like a dumbass is about to jump off a roof and fails the landing. Its adrenaline.
