chadcilli, Mike and I and you should gather for a mtg and discuss the above, the data we have in AZ here as well will make sense of some things...and i have some thoughts as well on it
- we forget that resiliency and emotional toughness has no biological markers, hence the reason why we see some adapters and some non adapters; we are going to develop a psych test to see if we can flush this out and over time compare those scores with the health bio markers - hypothesis, we wont see any connections
- stress adaptation is necessary for the sport; and hence a large lack of health, the closer to innate maximums, the worse the health, and we are using health parameters - also see the military method as an upgrade for our thinking, as their adaptation is measured, but who gives a shit when trying to live and survive, as we can drop the barbell, they cannot stop running from the gun...which leads me to my next point, there needs to be more time on this and correlates taken on the "placings" of the individual and the scores in health,,,,as we are seeing folks that are really good not even think about, are aware of, or even care about their hormones and state of being, whereas take someone who is "chasing" and they "perceive" themselves as working hard and are "aware" of it, this causes the downstream affect when they see their scores plummet....time will tell on this one as we get more years into the sport
- you're right on the gut and stress combo, and that terrain adapts 1st, before the HPA...i.e. you learn fast in schooling how to digest fast and break food down after you eat and go hard for 3 hours and throw it all up in the 1st 10 min...everyone adapts fast then....but i think that having a omega wave HRV or the HRV we have here in AZ might be a better method of seeing internally the SNS and PSNS differences based on the stress...and i can betcha just like we'll see in the sport of CF that there are some made for it based on the stress adaptation and resiliency, and this CAN be measured as you had mentioned in the SNS/PSNS ratios...more to come on that as we are digging into it more now

and you are right, there is only a few who are interested in this...reason being is that the truth hurts...