When you experience stress, your body releases a hormone called cortisol. So what exactly does the “stress hormone” do? Why is there an instinct to freeze in stressful situations, and what lifestyle changes could improve our ability to handle stress? Here, Medcan CEO Shaun Francis talks to the director of the UHN Krembil Research Institute, Dr. Jaideep Bains, an expert on stress, about how exactly stress affects our wellness-and why it’s so important to have healthy coping mechanisms when dealing with difficult situations. He also shares what he does to get through stressful times.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Medcan CEO Shaun Francis introduces Dr. Jaideep Bains, who recounts how he became a neuroscientist and expert in short- and long-term stress.
03:47 What is the physiology of stress in the brain? What happens to the brain when you’re in a stressful situation?
06:19 Social contagion, and the idea that stress is contagious. And if it, how does that happen? And does contagious stress have the same effect on the brain as authentic stress?
09:19 What’s the evolutionary explanation for why stress is infectious? [9:19]
14:03 Navy SEAL training helps soldiers with stressful situations through practice. What do you do if you encounter a threat - how do you overcome the instinct to flee? What’s the physiological basis for that training?
15:18 Does chronic stress lead to burnout? And why? Why doesn’t the body turn off the stress response in these cases? And what is burnout?
18:10 How is anxiety related to stress and burnout?
19:28 How does chronic stress affect human wellness? And how can you help the body deal with chronic stress?
22:26 Are there specific time periods, after a stressful event, where intervention is possible, in order to fight the brain-imprinting, health-harming effects of stress?
25:18 The challenge of developing wearables that measure stress in real-time-and can they one day be designed to intervene, to mitigate the stress of an event?
28:50 What tactics does Dr. Jaideep Bains employ in his stress relief kit? How do you overcome chronic stress?
31:25 Cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis-people do turn to these things for stress relief. Do they work? And what are their long-term effects, as stress relievers?
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