Cherry Healey
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The thing that's supposed to calm your security guard, your amygdala down.
Yeah.
Amygdala?
Did I say it right?
Amygdala.
I like amygdala.
Yeah.
So I feel like amygdala would get on holiday in France.
Yeah.
...is the security guard that's on high alert.
But because there's nothing coming to calm it down and give it context of, this is important, this is not important, it remains in high alert, which affects your hippocampus, which means that you're not focusing on things, you're not able to store memories.
There's a real system breakdown.
No, there is threat and it is serious.
You need to worry about everything as long as it's calmed down.
You go, well, I can't.
And if I could, I would.
Yeah.
So that's how stress affects the brain.
What about the body?
It kind of makes sense because if you're a migdala, you're constantly stressed, your security guard is constantly stressed by everything.