Dr. Majid Fotuhi

It's like cortisol goes up and come down and the left continues.

We were talking about sympathetic versus parasympathetic nervous system earlier.

When you're stressed out, your sympathetic system, the fight or flight system is up.

And it's intended to be up for minutes, maybe a couple of hours, not constantly.

People who are in high stress jobs, they're always stressed out.

I was in a national television earlier this week and the stress of people walking around, it was just crazy just looking at them, trying to get everything.

It was live show with Kelly and Mark show.

And I felt bad looking at these people who were stressing out.

to make sure this live television go without any glitches the way it's supposed to.

So bottom line is that these high cortisol levels can kill brain cells.

Cortisol is toxic to the hippocampus, and the higher a level of stress you have, the more cortisol you have and the more your hippocampus shrinks.

I know that now, and it really takes a lot to make you stress out.

A lot of things happen that I used to get stressed out.

Things don't work out.

You spend a lot of time on an app and then at the end they say, sorry, we can't do this.

And you can say, well, what do you mean you can't do this?

Well, we can't.

Well, you said you could.

Well, that person who told you you could made a mistake.

We can't.