“Relax, avoid stress, don’t work so hard, sit back…” Such statements and advice are common when it comes to healthy living. However, there is no scientific evidence to confirm this. On the contrary, the above advice can pose serious dangers to health. Leaving an interesting and demanding job where one feels successful and settling down in a resort town or Bodrum and joining a group where one spends one’s time playing golf or bridge are choices that are more likely to cause harm than to bring the expected ease and freshness to life.
Scientists have seen that rats confined to a crowded cage and forced to struggle get sick due to stress, and thought that the same could be true for humans. But it is grossly inaccurate to infer from this that “what is good for mice will be good for humans”. Most of the studies that draw this conclusion examine a limited number of variables such as age, working time, gender. However, beyond these variables, many other factors such as competence in one’s job and job satisfaction are also determinants of health.
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It is very common in science to draw conclusions about humans from experiments with mice. Some of these results do indeed provide valuable clues about humans. For example, the relationship between learning