

What triggers the release of norepinephrine? These hormones rev up your heartbeat and send blood rushing to the areas that need it most in an emergency, such as your muscles, heart, and other important organs. In your brain, the hypothalamus gets the ball rolling, telling your adrenal glands to release the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol. When the human body is responding to stress the hormone adrenaline is released? The sympathetic nervous system The sympathetic nervous system coordinates the body’s automatic fight-flight response by stimulating the adrenal medulla to secrete catecholamines and by directly stimulating cardiac output and blood flow to muscles while diverting blood flow away from visceral organs. What part of the nervous system stimulates the adrenal medulla? Sympathetic neural outflow is increased by the fight-or-flight response, fear, emotional stress, upright posture, pain, cold, hypotension, hypoglycemia and other stress. Stimulation of the adrenal medulla is via preganglionic sympathetic fibers causing release of dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine. You can learn more by reading a SpineUniverse article about the sympathetic nervous system. As such, the adrenal medulla helps you deal with physical and emotional stress. The hormones of the adrenal medulla are released after the sympathetic nervous system is stimulated, which occurs when you’re stressed.
