Wendy Suzuki
speaker
628 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Wendy Suzuki’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because you're getting ready to either fight or run away.
That that ancient fight or flight response.
Um so your heart rate goes up, your eyes widen up so you can see everything, um your breath gets sh shallow and and um um
um shallow and fast rather than slow and deep.
Back in your brain, the cortisol is the stress hormone and it is uh basically suppressing activity.
It goes into my favorite brain area called the hippocampus.
Critical for your ability to form and retain new memories.
High levels of cortisol, bad memory.
When you're really too nervous and your anxiety is way too high when you have to go on stage and give a speech, you forget.
Why?
Because the cortisol is acting on your hippocampus.
Absolutely.
Cortisol is excreted by um uh the uh adrenal gland.
Uh and it goes through the body but it also passes into the brain and it has many, many receptors throughout the brain.
I mentioned the ones in the hippocampus, also it acts on the prefrontal cortex.
And one of the things that happens when you have high levels of cortisol and high levels of stress is that um your
Emotional part of the brain, the amygdala gets disconnected from your control part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex.
So it's severing those connections.
So your amygdala can run amok in those stressful periods.
And it I I think a lot of people can feel that, you know, in those periods where you're really, really stressed, it's hard to control those emotions.
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