This episode was all about stress and all the ways it can silently ruin your health and well-being. Topics include:

• What stress is
• Good stress vs bad stress: eustress vs distress
• How the stress response is linked to inflammation 
• How the stress response works
• The 3 types of stress: physical, chemical, and psychological
• How your body deals with stress. The GAS or general adaptation syndrome and the 3 stages it goes through.
• We talked about how chronic stress leads to prolonged cortisol levels in the body and eventually leads to the exhaustion stage, which is where serious diseases start to show up. 
• We talk about how psychological stress has a tendency to be indefinite because those stressors can go unresolved for long periods of time.
• How stress affects working memory and leads to cognitive issues over time.
• How prolonged stress leads to antisocial behaviors and a propensity to misinterpret unclear social signals negatively as well as a tendency to lash out. We explore how this is affecting our youth.
• And in this week's Call-to-Action we take steps to control our stress. These include identifying the sources of your stress and taking steps to mitigate the ons that are within your control. 

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