Stress gets a really bad rep, but it's not just this random bad thing that our bodies experience. It exists in part because it is highly adaptive. And there are many situations in which an active stress response helps us do what needs to be done. But one of the problems is when we can be overactivated and too attentive to threat. Are staying elevated kind of chronically. That is what leads to disease and all of these problems that we want to avoid physiologically.