How to make stress your friend
Video 6 Kelly McGonigal- How to make stress your friend
Stress makes you sick. It increases the risk
of everything from the common cold to cardiovascular
disease. People who experienced a lot of stress but did not view stress
as harmful
were
no more likely to die.
In
fact, they had the lowest risk of dying, including people who
had relatively little stress. Stress response is helpful because
that pounding heart is preparing you for action. If
you're breathing faster, it's no problem. It's
getting more oxygen to your brain. And participants who learned to view the stress
response as helpful for their performance, well,
they were less stressed out, less anxious, more confident, but
the most fascinating finding to me was how their physical stress response changed.
Stress makes you social. To understand this side
of stress, we need to talk about hormone Oxycontin ( Cuddle
hormone ), and I know Oxycontin has already gotten as much
hype as a hormone can get. Oxycontin
is a neuron-hormone. It fine-tunes your brain's social instincts. It
primes you to do things that strengthen close relationships. Oxycontin
makes you crave physical contact with your friends and family. It
enhances your empathy. It even makes you more willing to help and
support the people you care about. But here's what most people don't understand
about Oxycontin. It's a stress hormone. Your
pituitary gland pumps this stuff out
as part of the stress response. Oxycontin doesn't only act on your brain. It
also acts on your body, and one of its main roles in your body is to
protect your cardiovascular system from the effects of stress. It's
a natural anti-inflammatory. It also helps your blood vessels stay relaxed
during stress. Your heart has receptors for this hormone, and Oxycontin helps heart cells regenerate and
heal from any stress-induced damage.
This stress hormone strengthens your
heart. And
all of these physical benefits of Oxycontin are enhanced by social contact and
social support.
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