Stuart Shanker
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to turn off stress.
we have in our limbic system, and I promised every I wouldn't talk too much brain, but deep inside our brain, right in the middle almost, there's a a little structure that we think of as the master control system.
It's called the hypothalamus.
And in that there's a group of neurons, a nucleus called the periventricular nucleus, PR PDN.
And it has I'm sorry for I know I promise, but this is kind of cool.
It has these neurons in it to deal with stress.
A stress for scientists is anything that causes us to burn energy.
To keep our systems running smoothly.
So these neurons are triggered by stress, and they set they set a chain of reactions that end up tapping into the body's energy.
That's why we have cortisol.
It's to get the energy.
But in that same nucleus, in that same little tiny part of the brain, there's another set of neurons that trigger oxytocin.
And Debbie's nodding her head.
We know what oxytocin is.
One of its most important functions is oxytocin turns off stress.
Turns off the CRF, the neurons that create this chain.
So okay, we've got these two different systems inside this little mechanism.
We know what turns on the stress response.
That's simple, that's stress.
What turns off for the young child what turns on sorry, what turns on the oxytocin?
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