Dr. Aditi Nerurkar
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4 Jun
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So it's not about zero stress.
It's absolutely impossible to have zero stress in your life.
You need a little bit of stress, but it just needs to be in balance.
And that's the goal.
Well, there's two kinds of nervous systems.
First, you have the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.
These are just big scientific words, but we'll break it down.
So your sympathetic nervous system is fight or flight.
That's like your stress response lives in your sympathetic nervous system.
It's governed by a part of your brain called the amygdala, which is a small almond-shaped structure deep in your brain.
And in scientific terms, we call this your reptilian brain or lizard brain because it's that part of the brain that hasn't evolved the way the other parts of the brain have.
And your amygdala is what powers and drives your stress response.
And so that's what the fight or flight or sympathetic nervous system does.
The goal is survival and self-preservation.
It's about keeping you safe.
And so when that amygdala is on, that is the sense that you feel, that feeling of survival.
And so...
You know, what's happened now, the purpose of the amygdala and the sympathetic nervous system, your fight or flight system, evolutionarily it was to keep you safe.
So when you face a tiger in the forest, you know, when we were all cave dwellers back in the day, evolutionarily, you would face a tiger in the forest and you would fight the tiger or you would flee.
That's what the fight or flight response is.
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