Stress is a good thing when it's short term, because a burst of stress gets you moving faster and can save your life, we call this acute stress. Say a car swerves into your path, you need to move fast to get out the way. In this situation short term stress will save your life.

Here is what happens in that moment. In less than a trice the fight n' flight response (sympathetic nervous system) gets triggered, adrenalin shoots out and the whole body is suddenly switched to deal with whatever threat it's facing.  
  
And then the brain makes fructose.   
  
Brain fructose is made in 2 stages, by converting glucose to sorbitol and sorbitol to fructose via the polyol pathway and acts like rocket fuel to the brain.  


Fructose is also made throughout the animal kingdom in response to stress and other things like, in semen to fuel sperm journey, the liver also produces it, the lens of the eye produces fructose via the sorbitol polyol pathway which is implicated in diabetic cataracts, peripheral nerves use the same polyol pathway implicated in diabetic neuropathy, kidneys both produce fructose endogenously and metabolise it which is implicated in diabetic kidney damage, and the placenta and fetal blood in some mammals like sheep cattle and pigs use fructose as a major fetal energy source.  
So fructose gets a free pass into the body, it's sweet and it's organic, it's like it arrives wearing a little pink bow tie, and greeted with a big smile.   
it's a wolf in sheep's clothing and quite possibly the lynch pin to the massive disease wheel that's rolling along.  
  
When the 'fight n flight' signal gets triggered your perception of time changes, everything seems to slow down, like in the Neo in the Matrix but in reality it's the brain has just sped up in order to get more data points and respond accordingly. ---Your pupils dilate to take in more light, a tenth of a second later your heart starts to race, your blood pressure goes up and all resources from non vital organs switch off in order to supply your biggest muscles preparing you to jump out the way.

So, when stress gets triggered resources get borrowed and the things you don't need in that moment, such as upper cognitions, memory formation, ovulation (female), sperm production (male) and cell repair (both), get turned off. There's no need to allocate resources to making babies when you're just about to die. Stress is like a wartime emergency and everything gets sent to the front line. The idea is that if you survive then they can all be turned back on again.

But what happens when the danger lasts longer than three minutes, the acute stress becomes chronic stress.   
Chronic stress (from chrono, meaning time).

For most people who talk about stress it's got nothing to do with a fast approaching car, instead it's in anticipation of something bad happening in the future. Your nervous system stays on alert and you feel anxious. Anxiety is a future based problem because of something unresolved you remember from your past.

Anxiety comes in fear of breaking the rules, that might be your own rules or THE rules imposed by religion, the law or social situations, or if you're struggling to pay your bills, or have an exam coming up, you may have a bully in your environment, workplace, home or neighbourhood, all of which can create chronic stress and will continue until it's been properly dealt with and put to bed.

Say you get trapped and can't escape, so the resources don't get turned back on again, the nervous system keeps firing, you might start shaking with fear, the pulse keeps racing and your heart feels like it's about to explode.

That's when stress becomes problematic.

What happens is the stress signal never ever gets switched off, like when your body in under attack from a poisons day after day, year after year and decades later, SNAP!

But maybe you don't notice or care that you've been loading on the Kgs, or just don't have the strength or resources to deal with it today and put it off till tomorrow. You try to avoid the bullies or pay the bills or can't find a way out of the mess you're in, and because it's difficult you ignore what's coming and instead either self medicate, after work drinks, smoke every time you 'feel' an urge, or comfort eat with a happy meal. Or maybe you get therapy to block out the bad memories of the past.   
Your medications are on repeat prescription, you know they'll never cure yoyu but at least you feel better for now... meanwhile the poison keeps coming.  
  
Autoimmune diseases are the golden goose of big pharma, it creates massive business revenue, it must be really hard to count all that money. All created to deal with your symptoms but never addressing the root cause.  
A trip to your doctor to investigate will usually result in a repeat prescription.

Acute stress causes acute discomfort, but the body resets and was never the cause of the disease. But slow poisoning creates metabolic stress and that creates chronic stress and chronic disease, this is the situation for everyone with an autoimmune problem.   


It's worth remembering: Autoimmune is not a genetic problem because Asians living in America have up to 20x more cases of psoriasis than Asians living in Asia, meanwhile they have exactly the same genes.  
 \- clearly it's not a genetic disease but rather it depends on how much food they eating, stress level management and how much toxic poisoning hitting their system.

When the liver and kidneys are overwhelmed with toxins the excess fructose leaks down into the intestines, and creates havoc to the mucus layer, this is where 70% of of our immune system lives and dies.

The skin, the largest organ in the body, it's the defensive wall against the outside world. The immune system thinking it's in immediate danger, goes to damage limitation mode and starts firing off inflammatory signals, new skin cells get churned out multiple times faster than normal, and that's when we notice something has gone wrong, plaques start to form and as we continue to pour more fructose the peripheral blood vessels get damages, electrical signalling to the brain goes haywire and you start to itch, uncontrollably.

You reach for another fizzy soda, or maybe a fresh organic mango smoothie packed with more fructose to keep you in a vicious loop and chronic disease. The new cells get created and pushed to the surface, bunched together and appearing as psoriasis.

The old school fruit knew how to manipulate animals, but that's been turned into an industrial machine to make huge profits from over consumption, it's these huge quantities of fructose people are gulping down that make fructose become toxic.

In summary, autoimmune isn't the body mysteriously turning on itself. Industrial toxins build the gun, load the barrel chamber and point it. That's chronic metabolic stress but it's short term stress pulling the trigger.

The predictability of autoimmune dis-ease