Stress Proof Your Life with Dr. Mithu Storoni
The Brain Health Revolution Podcast
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The Pupil as a Window to the Brain
The pupil is actually a very interesting structure in a very interesting location because if you really look at the dynamics of its nerve supply of its input and output it essentially stretches over the entire landscape of the topics we talk about when it comes to stress. How big your pupils are when you're feeling relaxed all of those reflect the state of the brains or of our arousal when we say arousal we need physiological arousal so looking at your pupil tells us the state of arousal of kind of baseline alertness state of your brain. Your alertness level which is set by the conversation within your autonomic nervous system decides the threshold at which you react in stressful situations and how easy you find it to switch off
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