fight-or-flight OR flight-mode: don’t let screens fry your system

Ever heard of the “fight-or-flight” response? This reaction had been instrumental to our survival for hundreds of thousands of years until we swapped hunting for agriculture some 10 thousand years ago and wild beasts gradually have become less of an issue. Nonetheless, when we stress, our brain still “thinks” that a tiger might be involved and, just in case, it prepares us physiologically to face it.

This century we are witnessing another major switch in the way we live: turning away from the material world to virtual reality on our screens.