Posted on 12/10/2009 4:37:14 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Ontario, Canada (AHN) - In the first study of its kind researchers detected the stress hormone cortisol in the hair of ancient Peruvians. The study subjects lived between 550 and 1532 A.D. and like us today stress was a part of their daily lives.
Researchers say cortisol is released into the body including the hair when an individual is stressed due to real or perceived threats.
Emily Webb, a Ph.D. the lead author of the study says, "By studying the lives of people using traditional archaeological methods like surveying and excavation and combining that with new research techniques like sampling ancient hair specimens, we can get a good picture of what life was like and how our ancestors may have responded to life-changing experiences like illness and disease," explains Webb.
The study found that many of the individuals researchers studied displayed high stress levels right before death. However authors of the study said a majority also experienced multiple episodes of stress throughout their final years of their life.
The findings give rise to the similarities between stress then and now and reveal it was very much a part of ancient Peruvian daily lives.
What a finding people on the edge of subsistence had stress.
Probably because they couldn’t check in with FR. I get the same way when I’m away or FR is down.
A study of the OBVIOUS?
Ancient Peruvian Bad Hair Day Ping.
Yeah, it's not like they were living with all the conveniences of stone age life ala the Flinstones
Ha, Flintstones, very very good, you made me laugh out loud.
Me, too! And here I thought I was the only one. Let’s exchange hair samples to compare how stressed out we really are.
Most of mine are gray from raising teenagers, so don’t be shocked when what looks like a horse’s tail arrives in your mail box, LOL!
100% BS. The “scientific” community is a joke.
South American tribes were cannibals.
Captives taken in war were dragged up to the Jaguar God alter, held down, and then subjected to having their chest hacked open and their heart ripped out while it was still beating.
However, even the native members of the Incas could be condemned for sloth.
No wonder the hair samples showed a “stressful life”.
This would be a good place to show some archaeological pictures of Helen Thomas....... Ok, I made that up, its never a good place to show pictures of Helen Thomas.
I know I left people off that I wanted to post to: I don’t know about you guys but I bet my the cortisol levels in my hair are wAaaaay elevated due to the sress of constant revelations of cazars, scandals, forthood, gates, acorn and rinos. That doesn’t count the normal everyday stresses.
:-p :-p :-p
Hence our need for HuMoR and reaffirming sAnitY posts!
I know EXACTLY how you feel. What with Bo, MO, all their little friends, etc. all I do is *tear my hair out*!!
By the end of the year I’ll be unrecognizable to my poor family.
Hair? You still have hair? You haven’t torn it out? ;-)
LoL my hair is falling out!! I hope it’s the little gray ones that started showing up. ;-) ~cortisol overload and antibiotics for sinusitis!! Thanks MoBo
Studying hair of ancient Peruvians answers questions about stress
University of Western Ontario | Dec 9, 2009 | Unknown
Posted on 12/09/2009 8:23:56 AM PST by decimon
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