Dr. Tara Narula

We turn off all the non-essential functions, our digestion, our reproduction, our growth, so we can live.

The issue is that when you're in the wild and you're escaping an animal and then you escape, your stress response goes off.

In our current day society, we turn on the stress response for all those things you just talked about.

We get a bill in the mail that's difficult to handle.

We hear something at school.

Our friend says something to us.

We feel bullied.

We go to work and our boss is tough on us.

Every little insult during our day

causes a stress reaction.

And you can imagine how damaging this can be to our bodies on the inside.

So the point is, even though we have this stress response, guess what?

We are not victim to it.

We can mount a resilient response.

We can actually turn it off, dial it down, and counteract it, right?

That's the purpose of the resilient response.

But I think it's important to understand how negative and destructive stress can be.

And I hear it from my patients.

all day long that they're stressed.

Yeah, well, the stress is there all the time, every day.