Abstract :Stress is a very familiar unpleasant feeling in today’s life. From a small kid to an octogenarian,
feel stressed in their day to day life. Now the question arises whether stress is a 21st century syndrome
or our ancient ancestors also felt stressed to the same extent. If we go by history, in times past people
used to protect themselves from predators and used to stalk their own prey. In every step there was
a chance to face danger (could be wild animals, natural disaster, unknown disease etc). But those
stresses were acute, intense but short lived. The sources of stress arose and passed relatively quickly
.There were two options, either to fight or flee. But in recent times people face chronic ongoing
stress, which is detrimental to health.