Welp, turns out life is definitely not all glitter and rainbows.

A new study out of the University of Zurich, published in Biological Reviews, suggests that the modern world is wrecking our bodies and minds. Turns out, our tech and the world we’ve built with it have evolved so quickly that we’re struggling to keep up.

Researchers Colin Shaw and Daniel Longman argue that for nearly all of human history, stress came in short bursts, mostly in the form of predators popping out of the bush to obliterate us. If you were fortunate enough to survive, that was generally the end of your peak stress levels for the foreseeable future.

Now, there are lions everywhere. The lions are traffic jams, constant notifications, smartphones, etc. Our bodies respond to all of this exactly the way they were pr

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