Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

So there was a line out the bathroom door.

Really?

A hundred percent.

Oh, 100%.

You had to wait in line to get a stall, man.

So what is the connection between stress and needing to go to the bathroom?

Yeah.

Okay.

So, so let's, let's play this out.

So within the context of stress, which is basically leading to the activation of your sympathetic nervous system, this is one of two like yin and yang parts of your autonomic nervous system, which means that your body just reacts.

You don't necessarily get to choose.

It just happens.

So when your sympathetic gets activated, your brain will release a hormone called corticotropin releasing hormone or CRH.

CRH comes from the brain and basically enters the pituitary gland and then sets off an entire storm throughout the body.

Now, this was designed, if we go back to 99.99% of human history, which predates modern times, right?

This was designed where if there was something that was going to attack you, if there was some sort of serious threat, right?

You instantly had the force that you need between your heart pumping, circulating blood, you're breathing heavy, circulating oxygen, your blood pressure is clamped down, so you're getting the blood to your tissues, right?

And you're ready to go.

Right.

And whether it's fighting another tribe or some animal that's attacking you or whatever it might be, that adrenaline saves your life potentially.