Do You Have a Fear Response?

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When our body's in fear, it's not trying to digest properly. This is also why a sustained fear response leads to part of the obesity epidemic that we're seen in the united states and throughout the developed world. So when like the grumbly tumbly stuff, that's more of the digestion system, like trying to take things off line. And with the excavation aspect, that's trying to trying to lighten the pay load so that we wich u teeno, lik, dump the cargo. See, go run faster, which is it, which is an animal response. Like when um birds, like, take off for flight, they want to lightening the cargo

FEAR. Anxiety. Stress. Dread. It's all the same dang thing, as it turns out. Biologist and fear expert Mary Poffenroth is back to answer your questions in Part 2 of the encore presentation that's been one of the most helpful interviews of ol' Alie Ward's life. Learn how super successful people approach fear, Mary’s scariest hour, plus answers to all of your questions about night terrors, self-spookery, sharks' bad PR image to how likely it is that a snake will bite your butt. Plus: the best thing about following your passions in life. If this episode helped you at all, consider telling friends about it so we can all get over being chicken sh*ts and, as Mary would say "die with great stories."

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