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Photo credit :By Jvnkfood (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons body is faced with. This gives you more energy in muscles to combat the accident. The adrenaline produced at that time shuts down the functioning of the immune system and gut by decreasing its blood supply. This is known as the flight or fight response. This natural response is one of the greatest gifts to human body in combating external threats that we often encounter in our daily life. This response gives us more power and energy to survive any external threats like accidents, being chased by wild animals etc. (1) This was the case in ancient ancestors. One flight fight response would save their life from wild animals. This flight fight response is present in every ani5