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Eventually sympathin was found to be a molecule named norepinephrine (also called noradrenalin), which is very similar in structure to epinephrine (or adrenalin), discussed toward the end of Chapter 2 (see pp. 40-43).
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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Instead, we find ways to override this need with caffeine, sugar, and our own stress hormones -- adrenalin, noradrenalin, and cortisol -- all of which provide short bursts of energy but leave us overaroused.
Tony Schwartz: A 90-Minute Plan for Personal Effectiveness Tony Schwartz 2011
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In a fraction of a second, your amygdala prompted the release of hormones into your blood stream -- adrenalin, cortisol, and noradrenalin -- which prepared you to defend yourself.
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Instead, feeling stretched and stressed and pushed, we increasingly fuel ourselves with adrenalin, noradrenalin, and cortisol.
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If you operate at high intensity, under high pressure, for long hours, you inexorably burn down your own best resources -- your energy reservoir -- and you begin to rely instead on the physiology of fight or flight: adrenalin, noradrenalin, and cortisol.
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It was flooded with grief molecules, hormones like adrenalin, noradrenalin, and cortisol.
Mark Hyman, MD: Stress Tips: Calm Your Mind, Heal Your Body 2010
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Instead, we find artificial ways to pump up our energy: caffeine, foods high in sugar and simple carbohydrates, and, perhaps most interestingly, our body's own stress hormones -- adrenalin, noradrenalin and cortisol.
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Instead, feeling stretched and stressed and pushed, we increasingly fuel ourselves with adrenalin, noradrenalin, and cortisol.
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If you operate at high intensity, under high pressure, for long hours, you inexorably burn down your own best resources -- your energy reservoir -- and you begin to rely instead on the physiology of fight or flight: adrenalin, noradrenalin, and cortisol.
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It was flooded with grief molecules, hormones like adrenalin, noradrenalin, and cortisol.
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