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Podcast 458: How to make stress good for you

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

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Toxic Stress and the Immune System

There's a little genetic switch in the kind of cluster that switches on to basically protect us when we go. But if we in toxic stress, it switches off. So that particular function is removed from the equation. You also get an increase in oxidative stress, which is when we have free radicals floating around our brain that start weakening our cells and making our cells more vulnerable. When we've got that immune, that happening in toxic stress with the immune response kind of going kind of almost backfiring, we get more vulnerable to diseases. It's not good if it stays long term.

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