Andrew Huberman· PhD
We can control whether stress reduces or enhances our capacity for life and to perform.
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
We can control whether stress reduces or enhances our capacity for life and to perform.
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It does reveal that if you adopt the “stress grows me & improves my performance over time” that it will do just that.
We can control whether stress reduces or enhances our capacity for life and to perform.
But these mindsets can help with the translational process.
So just talking about this, right? For your listeners, they're now invited to bring their stress mindsets up to the consciousness and say, what is my stress mindset? How am I thinking about stress? Can I reprogram that? Can I start to think about it as more enhancing?
Ali's lab has clearly shown us over and over again that what we know, our knowledge base, really does shape the physiology over those outcomes.
can I start to think about it as more enhancing that takes a little bit of a conscious work potentially but then once you do that it can that can kind of operate in in the background influencing how your body responds and you don't have to say okay I'm stressed I better tell my, you know, anabolic hormones to go that that doesn't work that way.