Title: Understanding Your Body’s Stress Response

Date: 3/19/25

Name of podcast: Thrivology Lab

Episode title and number: #19 Understanding Your 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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