Norman Swan
speaker
10,140 appearances
108 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2020
last heard 11 Aug
Norman Swan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You hear multiple stories.
Daughters, usually daughters.
Going into the elderly parent's house, it's a mess, and saying, mum, dad, you need somebody to come in and help, or maybe you need to go into sheltered accommodation.
The daughter gets thrown out the house, don't come near us again, talking of that sort of talk, because they feel they're going to lose control.
So we intuitively know that this idea of control over our lives, the ability to make decisions, is really important.
So what is it about chronic stress?
So the late Professor Bruce McEwan at Rockefeller University took Michael Marmot's work and other people's work, also Len Gray at Berkeley, and said, well, what is going on?
He called it allostatic load.
He argued you need stress, but when it goes overboard in terms of chronic stress, he called that allostatic load.
And he showed, particularly in animal models, that high allostatic load was bad for your health, increased the risk of coronary heart disease, probably cancer, diabetes, obesity, and a whole host of other problems.
And you shouldn't be surprised about that because the brain and the body are one, and the brain controls a lot of basic functions in the body.
No, it's not.
It comes from raised blood pressure, raised pulse, hormone systems that get switched on.
But also it changes our behavior.
So you're possibly more likely to smoke.
You're possibly more likely to drink alcohol in excess to actually treat the chronic stress and to try to make you feel better.
So it changes you behaviorally as well as it does metabolically.
Well, that's not true, if I might respectively disagree with my longstanding co-host.
So let's take the job situation.
I think Michael Marmot called it job strain.
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