These hormones are released by glands in your body and they can control your behavior and physiology.

When you read about an impending war, your brain releases cortisol atropine releasing hormones.

This thing goes to your pituitary gland where it releases a hormone called a.

C.

Th, which then goes to the glands on top of your kidneys, the adrenal glands to release adrenaline and nor adrenaline.

Reading about this war releases adrenaline and nor adrenalin.

It makes you hyper focus.

It makes you physiologically aroused.

And it is for this reason that the news of this work and hijack your brain and it can become really hard to not think about it, essentially.

You're arousing your body.

It's also why sometimes you can have the sadistic feeling that bad news is a little bit addictive because it's actually again creating a specific physiological arousal in your body.

That makes it hard to focus on anything else.