From Die Puny Humans (and indirectly the Bad Signal Mailing list):
Fear of new things shortens lifeAnimals with an innate phobia of novelty have higher levels of stress hormones after a new experience and die significantly younger than their braver kin, new research has found. The work suggests that a lifetime of fearful stress can take an accumulated toll on health."It shows we need to consider personality traits and behavioural styles when trying to understand physiological mechanisms of health," says Sonia Cavigelli at the University of Chicago, Illinois, who conducted the study with her colleague Martha McClintock.
Stress is known to have many effects on health including triggering brain cell loss and reducing fertility. But it is also known in some cases to enhance the immune response for inflammation. So the lifelong effects on stress on an individual are difficult to gauge.
If you're here, I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're not a neophobe.
Probably the opposite, in fact.
That Bad Signal message I mentioned above contains a bit of what Warren Ellis would do with NEWXMEN if he was taking it over, which he isn't, so stop fucking asking.
It's quite good.
And no, I'm not quoting it.
Suffer, non-subscribing scum.
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