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How to keep stress from harming your health, with George Slavich, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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April is stress awareness month, which this year seems more relevant than ever. How does stress get under our skin to affect our health? What are the biological pathways through which this happens? Do different types of stress affect us differently? Is it possible to measure stress object y and to figure out whether the level of stress we're under is high enough to harm our health? And when we do feel stress, what are some strategies we can use to minimize its negative effects?

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