Title: UnderstandingYour Body’s Stress Response
Date: 3/19/25
Name of podcast: Thrivology Lab
Episode title and number: #19 UnderstandingYour Body’s Stress Response
Brief summary of episode: In this episode we uncover the basic mechanisms of your body’s stress response. Understanding how and why you respond to stress is key to managing your stress.
Bullet points of key topics + chapter markers
Topic #1 [0:00] Intro
Topic #2 [1:00] Stress as an evolved system for short-term threats
Topic #3 [10:00] Homeostasis and allostasis
Topic #4 [12:00] Sympathetic vs parasympathetic systems and Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
Topic #5 [15:00] Stress isn’t necessarily bad
Topic #6 [21:00] Stressors, real or imagined? Prediction, simulation, and stress
Topic #7 [27:00] The impact of chronic stress
Topic #7 [39:00] Your challenge
References & Resources:
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/327.Why_Zebras_Don_t_Get_Ulcers
- https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/12/7/1179/3574673
- https://books.google.com/books/about/Surfing_Uncertainty.html?id=Yoh2CgAAQBAJ
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19488073/
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4155/fso.15.21
- https://www.cdc.gov/heart-disease/data-research/facts-stats/index.html
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