I admittedly have a very weak understanding of human physiology, but from personal experience that the body typically has good built in defenses. You got some nasty bacteria in you? You sneeze it out. You cut yourself, platelets come in and scab it over for protection. You get too hot, you sweat to cool yourself off. These are all pretty gross examples, I guess, but it shows a trend.

There’s one defense I can’t seem to find though. That is against stress, as in the feeling one receives when buying carpet. In fact, the body handles stress quite the opposite. Rather than start pumping out endorphins or something useful, it tends to cause physical ailments that are unpleasant and, unfortunately, add to your stress. Anyone know why that is? I don’t really expect an answer. Just musing…