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From the Radiolab podcast: Stress — the good, the bad and the extraordinary. Examine the body’s system for getting out of trouble.
When it comes to stress, a little bit goes a long way. We look at why this trick of our biology that saved us on the plains, might be killing us in the boardroom. Stanford University neurologist (and part-time "baboonologist") Dr. Robert Sapolsky takes us through what happens on our insides when we stand in the wrong line at the supermarket, and offers a few coping strategies: gnawing on wood, beating the crap out of somebody, having friends. Plus: a man battles a boat propellor and survives by virtue of stress hormones; the story of folk singer Linda Thompson, who lost her voice; and author J. M. Barrie, who, like Peter Pan, was stuck in a body that never grew up.
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Episode Segments:
0:00 Intro
1:01 Take A Deep Breath — Hold It — Now Exhale
21:50 What It Means To Be Stressed Out
36:32 Stress Can Make An Enemy Of Your Own Body
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Stress can give your body a boost — raising adrenaline levels, pumping blood to the muscles, heightening our senses. And those sudden superpowers can be a boon when you’re running from a lion. But repeatedly dipping into that well can make you sick, even kill you. Since it feels like there’s been an extra bit of stress going around lately, we decided to replay this episode from one of our first seasons, which takes a long hard look at the body's system for getting out of trouble. And how in our modern, hyper-connected world, that system misfires and takes us from the frying pan, right into another, albeit entirely different, frying pan.
Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor [unsplash.com/@innernature]
Video by Kim Nowacki and Andrea Latimer.
From the Radiolab podcast: Stress — the good, the bad and the extraordinary. Examine the body’s system for getting out of trouble.
When it comes to stress, a little bit goes a long way. We look at why this trick of our biology that saved us on the plains, might be killing us in the boardroom. Stanford University neurologist (and part-time "baboonologist") Dr. Robert Sapolsky takes us through what happens on our insides when we stand in the wrong line at the supermarket, and offers a few coping strategies: gnawing on wood, beating the crap out of somebody, having friends. Plus: a man battles a boat propellor and survives by virtue of stress hormones; the story of folk singer Linda Thompson, who lost her voice; and author J. M. Barrie, who, like Peter Pan, was stuck in a body that never grew up.
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Episode Segments:
0:00 Intro
1:01 Take A Deep Breath — Hold It — Now Exhale
21:50 What It Means To Be Stressed Out
36:32 Stress Can Make An Enemy Of Your Own Body
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Stress can give your body a boost — raising adrenaline levels, pumping blood to the muscles, heightening our senses. And those sudden superpowers can be a boon when you’re running from a lion. But repeatedly dipping into that well can make you sick, even kill you. Since it feels like there’s been an extra bit of stress going around lately, we decided to replay this episode from one of our first seasons, which takes a long hard look at the body's system for getting out of trouble. And how in our modern, hyper-connected world, that system misfires and takes us from the frying pan, right into another, albeit entirely different, frying pan.
Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor [unsplash.com/@innernature]
Video by Kim Nowacki and Andrea Latimer.
