Wendy Suzuki

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628 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Particles of Thought · Good Anxiety · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

And you don't have that wherewithal to say, how come

I didn't respond better.

Well, because higher levels of cortisol are doing that to your brain.

Well,

Yes, yes,

what happens to everybody.

And that's a beautiful example of, you know, um, you had a lot of activation energy.

You were ready for that for any anything.

But if it goes over, you know, the the optimum period, uh the o optimum level of cortisol, of adrenaline r coursing through your body, then it starts to break down and your memory starts to w stops working.

Your prefrontal cortex, your ability to focus on things stops working very well.

But that same anxiety

at its optimum point was there the best talk you ever gave in your whole life.

We always remember that.

That that is what good anxiety is giving f to you.

So so it's just you have to get it uh uh away from the other side of that U shaped curve.

Yes, I mean high levels of stress in in those uh in those periods, yeah, will will absolutely uh cause this disconnection of of control from the prefrontal frontal cortex uh down onto the amygdala.

So absolutely.

So let me start with the anxiety question.

And is there something that you could do to kind of uh uh take your medicine?

Yes, stave off uh your anxiety attacks.

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