Andrew Huberman· PhD
It's a system to mobilize other systems in the brain and body. That's what stress really is. It's designed to be generic.
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It's a system to mobilize other systems in the brain and body. That's what stress really is. It's designed to be generic.
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stress at its core is a generalized system it wasn't designed for tiger tigers attacking us or people attacking us it's a system to mobilize other systems in the brain and body it wasn't designed for one thing thing and that gives it a certain advantage in taking over our the state of our brain and body but it also gives you all of us an advantage in controlling it because it's based on hardwired biological mechanisms