Aditi Nerurkar

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

So that when a patient would come to me and say, I'm stressed and I would do the medical workup, my response wouldn't be, ah, it's just stress.

Go home and try to relax.

So my work really focuses on bridging that gap and closing that gap.

So I don't have to say to patients, just relax.

I can offer them something tangible.

And so that's the genesis of my work, my origin, my villain origin story, so to speak, of how I became a doctor with an expertise in stress with my background as a stress patient.

I think stress has really been vilified.

And when you look at it scientifically, not all stress is created equal.

when you use the word, I'm so stressed, or it's been a stressful week or a stressful year, or in many cases, the stressful five years, right, for most of us, that type of stress that you're describing scientifically is known as maladaptive stress.

That's the kind of stress that is dysfunctional, unproductive, and it really gets in the way of your everyday functioning.

It's what causes all of the mental and physical health manifestations that you and I and all of us are aware of, you know,

things like insomnia, anxiety, depression, the list goes on and on.

We can talk about that in this conversation, the manifestations of stress.

But there is another kind of stress, healthy stress.

In scientific terms, this is known as adaptive stress.

This kind of stress is productive and motivating, and it moves your life forward.

In fact,

Everything good in your life was created because of a little bit of healthy stress.

And the goal of life is not to live a life with zero stress.

It's actually biologically impossible to do that because, you know, examples of healthy stress include things like getting a promotion, falling in love, getting a new job or buying a new home.

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