Myth Busted. Acute Stress Response: How the Body Responds (2024) is the foundation for Defense Cascade (2025), coalescing research and updated knowledge on how the human body handles stress. The zine exposes additional stages in the “Fight or Flight” response, newly understood as the Defense Cascade. Utilizing carefully selected scans from The Human Figure: A Photographic Reference for Artists (1979) to illustrate each stage of the Defense Cascade, the zine highlights how important knowledge of the Defense Cascade is when understanding trauma.