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The body's panic button, wired to make you fight, flee, or do something stupid faster.
means A hormone your adrenal glands dump into the blood to spike heart rate, energy, and alertness during stress.
from From Latin ad- (toward) and renes (kidneys), since the glands that make it perch atop your kidneys like tiny alarm hats.
Other nameCalled epinephrine in American medicine, same molecule.
Speed demonFloods your system in under a second.
EpiPen heroIt is the drug reversing severe allergic shock.