Stress
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And that support provides a crucial buffer to the
stress
of racism and discrimination facing these women every day.
History has shown that people are incredibly resilient, and while we can't eradicate racism or the
stress
that results from it overnight, we might just be able to create environments that provide a buffer to what people of color experience on a daily basis.
The
stress
reaction was so extreme that normal kids we picked because they were healthy had breakdowns within 36 hours.
So all of these added up to a social
stress
scale, and you can ask the question: How did the children look?
And it appears that as
stress
increases, the children develop more autism, they develop more metabolic diseases and they develop more autoimmune diseases.
We would map the methylation state, and again, you see the green genes becoming red as
stress
increases, the red genes becoming green as
stress
increases, an entire rearrangement of the genome in response to
stress.
They hand me the microphone as my shoulders sink under the weight of this
stress.
For example, a study of black teens found that those who reported higher levels of discrimination as teenagers had higher levels of
stress
hormones, of blood pressure and of weight at age 20.
However, the
stress
of discrimination is only one aspect.
Now, I want to
stress
that none of these peoples that I've been quickly talking about here are disappearing worlds.
Faced with enormous stress, I suffered an anxiety attack.
My doctor asked if I'd like to speak with a mental health professional about my
stress
and anxiety.
Unfortunately, it's also what makes elephants one of the few non-human animals to suffer from post-traumatic
stress
disorder.
For example, memories that are formed in times of heightened feeling, or even stress, will be better recorded due to the hippocampus' link with emotion.
They're designed to isolate and
stress
test our intuitions on ethics, just like science experiments do for the physical world.
Studies have shown that people who work in organizations that encourage them to talk about and learn about the technologies in the workplace have 20 percent lower
stress
levels than those in organizations that don't.
And we now know that ship noise increases levels of
stress
hormones in whales and can disrupt feeding behavior.
Elevated testosterone levels, elevated levels of
stress
hormones, and your amygdala is going to be more active and your frontal cortex will be more sluggish.
This is the realm of neural plasticity, the fact that your brain can change in response to experience, and if your previous months have been filled with
stress
and trauma, your amygdala will have enlarged.
And as an example of this, if as a fetus you were exposed to a lot of
stress
hormones through your mother, epigenetics is going to produce your amygdala in adulthood as a more excitable form, and you're going to have elevated
stress
hormone levels.
So it lowers your
stress.
Anthropologist Joan Silk's work shows that female baboons who have a core of female friends show lower levels of
stress
via their cortisol levels, they live longer and they have more surviving offspring.
I wanted to find the smartest people who would disagree with me to try to understand their perspective or to have them
stress
test my perspective.
Now, Elissa's expertise is in the effects of severe, chronic psychological
stress
on our mind's and our body's health.
So we had discovered something unheard of: the more chronic
stress
you are under, the shorter your telomeres, meaning the more likely you were to fall victim to an early disease span and perhaps untimely death.
So studying these women closely revealed that they were resilient to
stress.
So several studies rapidly confirmed our initial finding that yes, chronic
stress
is bad for telomeres.
If you're habitually a negative thinker, you typically see a stressful situation with a threat
stress
response, meaning if your boss wants to see you, you automatically think, "I'm about to be fired," and your blood vessels constrict, and your level of the
stress
hormone cortisol creeps up, and then it stays up, and over time, that persistently high level of the cortisol actually damps down your telomerase.
If the gene's under stress, it behaves totally differently.
And the
stress
of it all is trickling down through the population.
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