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#1240 You & Your Brain (Part 2: The Reptilian Brain) - Dr. Hannah Korrel

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The Reptilian Brain and the Fight Response

The reptilian brain is responsible for keeping everything going on a unconscious automatic like those autonomous systems that just heart keeps beating. The hormones keep hormones. Digestion, the wedding, all of those things. So it also contains these two core systems in your brain, which I'm sure you've talked about many times before. But we also know now with more research that we have more than just fight and flight. There's also freeze and for responses.

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