The secret to coping with stress - how to protect your brain and body, and feel calmer now | Prof Carmine Pariante
ZOE Science & Nutrition

The secret to coping with stress - how to protect your brain and body, and feel calmer now | Prof Carmine Pariante

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 3, 202659 min

Growing up, many of us were taught to just stay calm and carry on - as if stress was all in the mind, with no real effect on the body. But chronic stress can change your brain, raise your risk of heart disease, and even shorten your life. In this episode, we ask: what happens when a stress response built to last minutes never switches off? Today, Professor Carmine Pariante, one of the world's leading researchers on stress, helps us understand what’s happening in your body during a stressful moment and why chronic stress dis...

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Welcome to ZOE, Science and Nutrition, where world-leading scientists explain how their research can improve your health. The wind cuts across an ancient tundra. Somewhere in the distance a predator creeps Evernira. An ancient human freezes, heart hammering, muscles tightening,

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sense it sharpening. In the next few seconds, that surge of stress could mean the difference between life and death. Hundreds of thousands of years later,

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the predator has changed. Now it's an overflowing inbox, a mortgage payment, a sleepless night, a meeting you're already late for.

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