Today we're starting a new series on stress. This is a word that gets thrown around a lot but it's actually a pretty complex problem and a lot of people don't even completely understand exactly how damaging stress can be. Every part of your body – your reflexes, gut, nutrition, brain – is impacted when you're in a state of stress. If we want to really understand stress then we need to look at the whole body.

Stress is a physiological event. When our brains perceive a threat or stressful situation, there is a cascade of events that occur in our bodies sometimes even before we are conscious of the threat at hand. Of course, stress is an important survival instinct, but what happens when we live in a state of chronic stress? A prolonged state of stress can dysregulate your autonomic nervous system and cause a lot of concerning symptoms, which, if left unchecked, will just continue to cause more and more problems. This episode is just a starting point, but it's important to start thinking about stress and figuring out how to recognize and then break that cycle of chronic stress. Each episode I'll share something practical that you can do right now to help relieve some of that stress.

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