Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

And then every four weeks, check your stress score again and see if it decreases.

Because we should start thinking about stress like blood pressure in the same way that you do certain things to lower your blood pressure.

Because we should start thinking about stress like blood pressure in the same way that you do certain things to lower your blood pressure.

And then you keep monitoring.

And then you keep monitoring.

I think one of the first things that like the aha moment that crystallized my future, my forward path and career was just that, wait a second, I'm stressed.

Like all of these things are happening to my body because of stress.

And then, oh my goodness, I can do certain things in my day-to-day to reset my stress.

I think one of the first things that like the aha moment that crystallized my future, my forward path and career was just that, wait a second.

Like that felt something that, you know, that was like...

Out of the bounds of anything I had even considered first that I could get stressed because I was resilient.

I was living the resilient Smith, which is like resilient people don't get stressed.

I'm stressed.

Like all of these things are happening to my body because of stress.

We're superheroes.

And then, oh my goodness, I can do certain things in my day-to-day to reset my stress.

But in fact, that is not true.

We are all just simply mere mortals and your brain and your body need rest.

And so if you're working 80 hours a week and not having any time to decompress, you know, that.

Like that felt something that, you know, that was like out of the bounds of anything I had even considered first that I could get stressed because I was resilient.