Pumped

Group members : (Year 8)

Joyce Wong
Alison Cho
Karen Wangx=^.^=
Sinead Lai
Katrina Wan = )

 What is Adrenaline?
Adrenaline (also known as Epinephrine) is the feeling of a sudden
burst of energy that courses through your bloodstream, making your
heart beat faster and faster. It usually occurs when you feel angry,
stressed, fearful, sorrow or energized, it makes your movement much
more stronger and faster.

Importance Of Adrenaline / Evolutionary

Usefulness
Adrenaline is important because it warns us when dangers
come, and it prepares the body to defend and fight back in
response to a stressful situation.

 How is Adrenaline Controlled?

Adrenaline is mainly let go in response to stressful events to prepare the body for the fight or flight
response. These events lead to the activation of nerves connected to the adrenal glands, which
trigger the secretion of adrenaline and thus increase the levels of adrenaline in the blood.
This process happens relatively quickly, within 2 to 3 minutes of the stressful event being
encountered. When the stressful situation ends, the nerve impulses to the adrenal glands are
lowered, meaning that the adrenal glands stop producing adrenaline.
Stress also stimulates the release of adrenocorticotropic hormone from the pituitary gland, which
promotes the production of the steroid hormone cortisol from the cortex of the adrenal glands. This
steroid hormone is more important in altering the bodys metabolism (ie, raising plasma glucose)
under conditions of longer-term, ongoing (chronic), rather than acute, stress.

 Effects on body
Adrenaline is a hormone found in our body that are released by
the adrenal glands. It is very important in terms of helping our
body to prepare for fight or flight and in terms of responding on
stress for vigorous and sudden actions. The key actions of
adrenaline includes increasing our heart rate, blood pressure,
expanding the air passages in our lungs,, redistributing the blood
to our muscles, maximise blood glucose levels, primarily for our
brain, and more.

 Chemical reactions in the body

When you perceive something as threatening or exciting, the
hypothalamus in the brain signals to the adrenal glands that it's time to
produce adrenaline and other stress hormones. The adrenal glands
produce adrenaline by transforming the amino acid tyrosine into
dopamine. Oxygenation of dopamine yields noradrenaline, which is then
converted into adrenaline. Adrenaline binds to receptors on the heart,
arteries, pancreas, liver, muscles and fatty tissue. By binding to
receptors on the heart and arteries, adrenaline increases heart rate and
respiration, and by binding to receptors on the pancreas, liver, muscles
and fatty tissue, it inhibits the production of insulin and stimulates the
synthesis of sugar and fat, which the body can use as a fuel in fight-orflight situations.

 Side Effects
Too much Adrenaline:
This happens rarely, if we have too much adrenaline, it can cause by many things,
like:
high blood pressure
anxiety
weight loss
excessive sweating
palpitation (a rapid, strong or irregular heartbeat)

 Side Effects (Continued)

Too little Adrenaline:
Suffering from too little adrenaline is also unusual. If we have too
little adrenaline, the results will be:
an inability to prepare the body for action in response to stressful
or physical situation.

Thank You!
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BYE