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

You start breathing quicker because you're trying to get oxygen to your lungs to then send it to your heart and get fresh oxygenated blood all over to your muscles.

And so there's a certain biochemical cascade that happens.

And then what happens is in an ideal world, right?

Evolutionarily, you have that fight or flight response.

The acute threat goes away.

That tiger dissipates and you come back to baseline.

The challenges can over the past several years and the modern day stressors that we have

These tigers are these metaphorical tigers are everywhere and it's not like they're going away.

So financial struggles.

We have relationship issues there because we have a little device that we can check of things happening in the world.

All the headlines coming in climate disasters, humanitarian crises.

And so you feel that sensation of the tiger all the time and that amygdala just stays on in the background at a low hump.

And so you're not coming back to that state, the steady state or the baseline.

And so over the past several years, particularly, it's been very challenging.

And this is why stress is very much at the forefront.

Stress, burnout, mental health.

If there's one silver lining over the past several years is that now people are talking about it much more.

We have so much more work to do to really dismantle the stigma and shame around these terms.

But there's been a lot of progress made.

Why?

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