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Brain myths with Dr Lisa Feldman-Barrett

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The Most Metaphorical Way to Run a Body Is Predicting

The most metabolically efficient way to run a body is predictively. Your brain is actually always guessing, using your past experience and making similarity comparisons. Some stress is good stress, like it's stress that makes you healthy and strong, like exercise. There are other stressers which are considered bad stressers, meaning they don't contribute. They're not really investments. They don't contribute to a stronger, better uThey're like taxes that you pay needlessly. And so why is there this mistake about quartes all being called a stress hormon? All stress is is your brain preparing your body for a big mea lic outlay.

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