Can Danger Give You Super Strength?

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Have you ever heard that you become more powerful in life-or-death situations? There are a lot of anecdotes about super strength, but is it a real thing?

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Sources:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/extreme-fear-superhuman/
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160501-how-its-possible-for-an-ordinary-person-to-lift-a-car
https://www1.udel.edu/chem/C465/senior/fall00/Performance1/epinephrine.htm.html
https://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/stresscortisol.html
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/extreme-fear/200912/superhuman-no-just-very-scared
http://www.salisbury.edu/sportsperformance/Articles/INTENSITY%20OF%20STRENGTH%20TRAINING%20FACTS%20AND%20FALLACIES%20-%20ZATZIORSKY.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3073528/

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