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#693 - Dr Robert Sapolsky - The Shocking New Science Of How To Manage Your Stress

2023/10/14
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Dr Robert Sapolsky is a Professor at Stanford University, a world-leading researcher, and an author.

Stress is an inevitable part of human life. But what is stress actually doing to the human body when it happens for such a prolonged period of time? And what does science say are the best interventions to defeat it?

Expect to learn the crucial difference between short term and long term stress, how stress actually impacts the human system, the neurodevelopmental consequences of stress and poverty, how to detrain your dopamine sensitivity, what everyone doesn't understand about how hormones work, whether believing in free will is a useful world view, why there is a relationship between belief in free will and obesity and much more...

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