Primal Stress

Hippocrates by taking the Pythagorean theory of humors claims that any "dyscrasia" or rupture of the normal balance is the cause of disease

USA, HI (prHWY.com) September 16, 2012 - From the twentieth century, the use of the concept of stress to living organisms will generalize this based on concepts such as homeostasis, a concept created from the cell theory and the Darwinian adaptation. This link-stress-adaptation homeostasis will make its way to our days and produce an abundant literature and fruitful.

The binding of these three concepts is the so-called biological stress and will help to explain the function of the way that stress is an adaptation to the environment, this within certain limits, and thus serves to maintain the life.

As just mentioned, the biological model attaches great importance to the Darwinian adaptation. In fact, it is the core of this thought. To summarize Darwin's theory, we say that adaptation is the set of internal and external correlations are an organization can live a certain way in a given habitat, and contribute to the perpetuation of the species to which it belongs. This adaptation is in favor of natural selection in the form of problems that are posed to the organization, if he can not overcome them, will kill him. Thus we can summarize natural selection.

Many authors have shown that adapt or be adapted to a problem can be done in several ways. And the biological theory of stress Primal Stress, it is part of the effort in preparing adaptive organisms to rapid and intense muscle responses thereby increasing the ability to flee or fight and thus survive.

We will see later the contributions and limitations of such an explanation, but first we must retrace somewhat the setting in which this theory has taken place.

Hippocrates by taking the Pythagorean theory of humors claims that any "dyscrasia" or rupture of the normal balance is the cause of disease. Hippocrates laying the foundations of the concept of homeostasis and the consequences of his passing.

Scientifically speaking, it is in 1865 that Claude Bernard observes and describes the concept of homeostasis, without naming it as such:

All the vital mechanisms some varied as they are, still have one goal, that of maintaining the unity of the living conditions in the internal environment.

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