Why is of adrenaline important to the body?

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Adrenaline is the body/brain's natural defense mechanism. It is also called epinephrine. We usually think of it as the "fight or flight" response to sudden danger. But it goes much deeper than this. It is what gives you "butterflies" in the stomach or, in other words, makes you nervous to help you prepare for such things as public speaking. It is what awakens you after fainting and smelling salts are administered by someone. It is contributory to a personality disorder arising from living through the constant conflict of a troubled childhood in a dysfunctional family. Such a child is always being warned by adrenaline that "something is very wrong here - get up and do some thing about it!" But, of course, the child is unable to handle the problem created by his or her parents, so the response becomes a chronic low-level of constant adrenaline making that seek for other ways of controlling the environment. Fear, anger and nervousness are that child's constant companion until he or she can successfully find intervention through counseling and/or improved diet aimed at building the calming neurotransmitters to suppress the overabundance of adrenaline.

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