Dr Jenna Macciochi

Everything needs to be able to calm back down to baseline in a really nice, timely fashion.

And if it doesn't, then you end up, you know, in some sort of anxiety spiral.

So it's a similar thing with inflammation.

Like you don't need to have the immune system in one state all the time.

It needs to be responsive and then it needs to come back.

It's like the nervous system needs to respond and come back.

We have to be able to

you know, we don't know what danger is around the corner, we don't know what healing and repair we will need, but we need to be able to be ready and then also back to baseline.

Yeah, I think stress is just this pervasive thing that is everywhere.

Whenever I speak to friends, it's like we're all stressed all of the time, but nobody quite knows how to stop it.

And a lot of the tips inherently are usually useful and have some evidence, but they're often kind of in a self-care bucket and it makes you as this self-isolated person.

human that's meant to do it by yourself.

And we're actually living in this kind of wider ecosystem of stressors.

As I mentioned, the nervous system and the immune system are completely integrated.

You know, if your eyes are seeing danger, then it's telling your brain there's a danger, your nervous system's preparing for whatever that might need.

And then your immune system is also being told, right, that you might get injured.

You might have an infection.

Something might happen.

There might be tissue damage.

You've got to be ready.