時差N小時:胃里的蝴蝶

It's five minutes before your big job interview. Asyou wait in the outer office, your palms startsweating, your feet shuffle back and forth, and thebutterflies in your stomach are fluttering doubletime. Butterflies in your stomach?

離你那場關鍵的面試只有5分鐘了。你在辦公室外面等待著，你的手心開始冒汗，雙腿來來回回拖著，胃里的蝴蝶顫抖得更厲害了。什么，你的胃里有蝴蝶?

In the late 1940's, a pair of medical researcherscame across an unusual patient a soldier with apermanent opening between his inner stomach andhis skin. The researchers used this opening as a window on the patient's stomach physiology.If the patient was put in a stressful situation, the researchers discovered a sudden decrease inthe amount of acid that the stomach produced. They also discovered a decrease in the bloodflow to the stomach. The butterfly sensation is part of what happens when your body goesinto “fight or flight” mode.

19世紀40年代晚期，兩位醫(yī)學研究者遇到一位不尋常的病人，他是一名軍人，在他的胃部和肚皮之間有個創(chuàng)口。研究人員將這個創(chuàng)口當作觀察病人胃部生理結構的窗口。他們發(fā)現如果病人處于壓力條件下，胃部產生的酸會突然減少。他們還發(fā)現流向胃部的血液也會減少。這種蝴蝶感應正是你的身體進入戰(zhàn)斗-逃跑模式時的反應。

If you're confronted with a highly threatening situation, an important job interview, perhapsadrenaline floods into your bloodstream. This adrenaline raises your overall metabolism while itincreases your heart rate and blood pressure. It also increases the sensitivity and strength ofthe smooth muscles in your stomach. This added sensitivity is what causes the flutteringsensation. Butterflies are just one way that your stomach can react to extra adrenaline.

如果你面臨著高度危急的情況，一場重要的求職面試，或許腎上腺素會像洪水般涌進你的血液中。腎上腺素會加快你全身的新陳代謝，讓你心跳加快血壓升高，同時還會使你胃部平滑肌的敏感度和力度增強。敏感度的提升又會導致蝴蝶感應。蝴蝶感應只是多余的腎上腺素作用于胃部的方式之一。

If the adrenaline level continues to rise, the electrical activity in your stomach muscles increasesand your stomach will begin contracting more frequently than usual. You will stop feelingbutterflies, and your stomach will start feeling “tied in knots” instead. The best way to deal withthese problems is to convince your body that it's not in actual physical danger. Take a deepbreath and relax. Job interviews aren't that dangerous, are they?

如果腎上腺素持續(xù)上升，胃部肌肉的生物電活動會增多，胃也會收縮得更頻繁。這時你感受到的不是胃在顫抖，而是胃在打結。對付這個問題最好的辦法就是說服自己——身體沒有陷入任何危險。深呼吸放輕松。不就是個求職面試么?