cortisol is Nature's Threat Signal it makes you feel like you will die if you don't do something fast cortisol promotes Survival by motivating action to prevent harm when a child touches fire for the first time cortisol creates a sense of urgency that pulls their hand out of the fire neurons connect when cortisol flows which turns on the bad feeling sooner the next time you get near a fire cortisol Pathways protect you from having to touch a hot stove twice anything relevant to past pain turns on your threatened feelings cortisol works by making you feel so
bad that you do what it takes to make it stop when a gazelle smells a lion it does what it takes to relieve the threatened feeling even though it would rather keep eating
