Aditi Nerurkar

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631 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard Apr 2025

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TED Talks Daily · Feeling stressed? The answer isn’t to “just relax” | Aditi Nerurkar · 28 Apr 2025 podcast

And my doctor with a big reassuring smile said, hey, everything's great.

It's just stress.

Try to relax.

We've all been there.

Medical training is tough.

So I went home and I did what you're supposed to do when you hear your doctor say, just relax.

I watched movies.

I had a spa day, retail therapy, spent time with friends, went out to dinners.

Nothing really seemed to help.

And only when I put my scientist hat on, because as a medical trainee, I had access to lots of studies and data.

I put on my scientist hat and figured out what is stress?

How does it affect my brain and my body?

Because honestly, Whitney, my first reaction when my doctor said it's stress, I thought stress doesn't happen to people like me.

I'm resilient.

I was living the resilience myth.

We can talk a little bit about that because in my medical training, I was taught that pressure makes diamonds and I was a diamond in the making and then my diamond cracked.

And so I read everything under the sun at that time and have continued to stay up to date on all the literature.

To figure out how stress affects the brain and the body.

I found my way out of stress, my own stress struggle.

And when I found my way out is when I vowed to become the doctor I needed during that difficult time.

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