BITESIZE | The Small Daily Habits That Reduce Stress, Fix Your Focus and Build Resilience | Dr Tara Swart #633
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Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite-size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 416 of the podcast with neuroscientist, executive coach and author Dr. Taras. In this clip, Tara shares some of the most effective ways to manage stress and she shares some of the simple practices she implements herself. I genuinely believe that a lot of us don't even realize how stressed we are.
I agree. Many doctors, including myself, say that 80 to 90% of what we see in any given day is in some way related to stress, right? As a neuroscientist, I would say that's where the stress piece really lands for me, because your brain's perception of what is going on is going to have this cascade effect on the rest of your body. So if you perceive, basically your brain perceives that there's a threat to your survival, then
it's going to signal for your cortisol levels to rise so your adrenal glands will release more cortisol that goes around in the blood it crosses the blood-brain barrier and the receptors in the brain can see that you're on high alert all the time and so that process is pro-inflammatory So that has all sorts of knock-on effects on your cardiovascular system, your immunity, your gastrointestinal system, and it's very dehydrating. So, you know, that can show up on your skin and your hairs, your scalp. And and the other thing is that as a very ancient survival mechanism that encourages storage of fat in the abdominal fat cells. So basically you would kind of have
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