WEBVTT - What You Don't Know About Stress Could Kill You 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:07.400 Brought to you by Toyota. Let's go places. Welcome to 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:15.240 Forward Thinking. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to Forward Thinking, 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.080 the podcast that looks to the future and says, I'm 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:19.880 addicted to stress. That's the way that I get things 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:21.480 done when I'm not under pressure. That I sleep too 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:22.799 long and I hang around like a bum, and I 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:24.360 think I go in nowhere and that makes me nervous. 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.800 I'm John and Strickland, I'm Lauren vocal Ban, and I'm 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.960 Joe McCormick. And they are staring at me and stunned silence. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:38.040 Mostly we are today talking about stress, its effects on us, 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:42.879 and ways to manage stress, because that ties into this 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:47.360 week's video all about stress and the future of stress management. 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.800 Really and um, it's an important deal. So I guess 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.600 first we need to kind of look at just what 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.959 is stress? What do we how do we define that, 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.400 and what does it do to us, especially in the 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.360 short term. Yeah, that's funny. Everybody knows what stress is, 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.119 but you kind of be hard pressed to define it. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.160 It's kind of like consciousness, right, and one of those 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.800 one of those concepts that as you start to define it, 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.760 you realize, oh wait, it's this thing that everyone knows, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.560 but it's hard to put into words. Really, you can 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.720 describe it physiologically. It's certain things are happening to your 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.560 body when you have a stress response. Essentially, it's it's 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.520 your body's reaction to any sort of perceived threat or 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.839 perceived any moment where your body feels like it needs 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:33.360 to prepare itself physically for something that's going to be demanding. 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.480 And unfortunately, our you know, our genetics don't really have 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.160 a button that says like, you know, this, this test 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.080 that I'm studying for isn't a tiger that is actually 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.120 going to eat my face. And so we have a 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:50.480 very similar response to physical stresses and mental stresses, and yeah, 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.120 the body doesn't have a way of differentiating the different 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:58.280 types of stressors that we could encounter. Now we should 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.640 be fair, Actually you do, and it's your brain and 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.200 you do have a way of telling a difference. But 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.720 the point is that things that are not actually a 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.400 big threat to you are still going to trigger some 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:15.040 of that response. Yeah, may of it. I probably would 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.280 have a much bigger stress response if Lauren suddenly pulled 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.320 out a knife and thrust it at me, then, if 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.359 you know, I would just to say suddenly forget all 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.280 the research I didn't before this and be like, oh, well, 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.520 you know the question. The question is what if what 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.320 if Lauren pulled a knife on you, and at the 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.480 same time you received an email from the head of 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.760 how Stuff works saying we need to talk and make 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.480 sure you clear out your desk. Those those two things 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.079 would give you quite a bit of stress early on, 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:50.320 even though one is is actively and physically threatening you 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.400 at this moment. By the way, Lauren with a knife 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:58.079 not something you want to encounter. I mean, she's I 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.720 don't really need knives. My elbows are sharp, like that's true, 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:06.280 that's true. And plus she has a cutting wit anyway. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.680 So so let's get back to talking about what stress 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.160 is in our way of reacting to it. It really 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.480 is kind of a survival mechanism, you know, like you 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.760 were saying, Lauren, this whole being attacked by a tiger thing. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.000 It's part of the fight or flight response. Yeah, there's 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.600 a chemical we need to talk about, the big one. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.560 It's called cortisol. Yeah, there's another one called adrenaline, and 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.679 that also plays a factor obviously in the stress response. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.520 And these are these are both hormones that are released 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:33.200 by our body whenever our brain starts to think, this 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:37.000 is a situation that needs to have uh, this particular reaction, 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.200 and in general, what this reaction does is it prepares 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.800 you for something that's about to happen right then and there. 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.800 So in certain situations, like a tiger, you spot a 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.080 tiger in the woods and you realize you need to 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.200 get the heck out of Dodge. I don't know why 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.080 there's a tiger and Dodge, but you've got to get 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.320 out of there. The tigers wielding a knife at the 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.040 tiger is wielding a knife and threatening your job. This 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.200 is this is the worst dresser that we can imagine. Son, 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.400 Get out of done. So yeah, you you Your body 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.920 starts to to react and you get you begin to 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.600 have responses like your your senses start to sharpen. You 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.280 begin to really be able to focus on certain things 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.440 while filtering out lots of other information. So when you're 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:21.839 under stress, you might be keenly aware of the stressor 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.640 I mean everything from your sense of sight and hearing, 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.840 as well as your sense of smell. These things can 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.800 all be really focused. But it also means that you 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.800 are filtering out anything that would your brain would think is, well, 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:35.599 that's not gonna threaten me, So we're just not going 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.000 to even pay attention to that, which is interesting. That's 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:42.360 why people can react to situations very quickly but not 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.880 necessarily have a lot of recollection of everything that was 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.560 going on at that moment um. It also means that 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.360 your muscles get ready to react. Your heart rate starts 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.880 to increase, your breathing rate starts to increase. They're trying 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.000 to oxygenate your brain and your muscles right right right, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.520 Get you ready to move. Moving is what you need 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.160 to do. Write either either to fight or to to 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.000 run to the fight or flight. Our buddies over at stuff. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.240 You should know this is one of their favorite phrases. 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.799 Anyone who had listened to that podcast, especially from the beginning, 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.400 that was like their go to phrase for early episodes 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.839 was fight or flight response. And so we're talking about 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.200 here now there are different types of stressors. Uh that 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.360 that this isn't necessarily something that's discussed at length in 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:32.320 scientific literature, but there's the concept of distress versus you stress. 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.360 So you stress is this this is considered to be 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.159 uh useful and uh that it's something that you are 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.880 capable of handling. It can get you excited about something, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.000 it can it can really get you focused on something. 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.680 So let's say that our boss comes in and says, hey, guys, 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.280 we've got this opportunity for a brand new show and 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.480 we want you to be a part of it. Assuming 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.480 that that's something that we would like to do. Then 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.279 we wind experience. You stress, We get excited about it. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.560 Our body starts to respond, but it's not a negative experience, 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:07.240 and that's you stress with an EU, and then distress 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.080 would be the more negative type, something like the boss 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.840 coming and says, we gotta you know, we gotta talk numbers, 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:14.359 and they're just not where we want them to be. 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.279 Then we start, you know, your stomach sinks, you know 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:23.120 exactly or distress. Um, yeah, so we start, you start 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:27.800 to feel uh, negative impact there. So stressors do not 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.960 automatically fall into you stress or distress. They are completely 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.160 dependent upon not only the individual. So something that I 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:39.400 find exciting, Joe might discover is not something he wants 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.840 to do and it actually fills him with distress. For example. Uh, 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.720 and maybe all three of us feel the same way 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:50.120 about this. Who here, and do you guys enjoy roller coasters. Sure, yeah, 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.400 not really. So you just don't care though, or do 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.839 you actively not like being on a roller coaster? You know, 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.240 I wouldn't freak out like I'd get on one, but 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.640 it's just not lot of fun, gotcha? Got you? All? Right? Well, 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.159 well let's assume that we have a fourth person in 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:09.120 here who just does not They are terrified of roller coasters. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.040 For them, the idea of getting in line to go 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.960 on a roller coaster is just it's it's bad. Yeah, 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.440 it's bad. They're experiencing negative levels of stress. Lauren and 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.360 I we might love roller coaster, so we're all excited 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.600 and pumped up and ready to go, and and it's 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.320 you know, it's again different for us, and it may 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:29.280 be different for an individual depending upon the context. There 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.960 might be a roller coaster that you lead me up 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:33.720 to and I take one look at and I think 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.360 this thing should have been condemned thirty years ago, and 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.720 I might be filled with distress. Not you stress in 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.320 that situation. So it's not something that we can easily 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.040 say all of this example is you stress, and all 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.720 of this is distress. So all the things we've been 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.880 talking about so far have been examples of what we 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:54.520 might say is acute stress, like a specific stressor causes 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.240 you to have a reaction in that moment, and and 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:01.080 it's related to a specific period of time. But what 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.040 if you were somebody who really hated roller hosters and 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.440 your whole life is kind of like you're near the 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.680 back of a line waiting for roller coasts. So essentially 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.240 what you're talking about is is chronic stress the idea 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.920 of encountering stress on a regular basis, perhaps even a 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:23.120 daily basis. So for example, people who absolutely despise their jobs. 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.320 You know, I know that I've had jobs in the 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.760 past where I just every day I would wake up, 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.680 I would have to motivate myself to go to work 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.719 because I did not like what I did. I might 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.920 like the people I worked with, but I didn't like 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.400 the work I was doing. Uh, that of course does 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.320 not apply. Right now, I got a dream job that 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.680 I'm very happy about, but back in the day, not 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:49.320 so much. And um, and that can be something that 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.640 is a real uh difficult time for for a person 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.360 to to deal with. I mean, you're encountering this level 0:08:55.400 --> 0:09:00.000 of stress, this this feeling of anxiety that you experien 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.800 arians whenever stress is hitting you, but it's a prolonged experience. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.319 It's a chronic experience. This is a problem, and it's 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.240 a problem right now. It's been a problem forever. But 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.080 it's one of those things we're really aware of. It's 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.960 more than just the fact that it's unpleasant, though it's 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.640 apparently really bad for your health. Well, yeah, I mean, 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.880 let's let's look at some of the common reactions people 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.440 have when they are under stress. Here, there's a couple 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.000 of different ways you can look at their three big 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:31.360 categories that people tend to fall into when they're reacting 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.960 to negative levels of stress, particularly over more than just 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:39.600 you know, a momentary encounter. Uh. That is to get 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.760 really keyed up and overly emotional and irritable and angry. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:48.079 I call that turning into hot spur from King Henry 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.120 the fourth part one. These are all gonna have Shakespearean references. 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:58.120 Then there's uh, you get withdrawn into yes, withdrawn depressed. 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.959 You get have low energy or you have very little 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:05.640 expression of emotion. I call that Antonio from Merchant of Venice. Okay, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.480 but then you have frozen where you are unable to 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:13.280 act or respond. You are agitated, but you are essentially 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:19.920 emotionally paralyzed. Obviously Hamlet, right, so I tell you, I 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:24.599 mean Shakespeare he was really good at somewhere. No, no, 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.720 the Shakespearean Well, I mean the reactions, the categories I 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.120 took from from research, but the EXPERI characters, No, that 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.719 was me. Well, I mean he was, he was very 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:38.120 good at the human experience and expressing that. Right, So 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:42.760 I mean kudos to him anyway. Other problems that are 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.920 associated with stress include things like you can have problems 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.520 with memory, so you can have problems forming and retaining 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:54.480 memories while you're undergoing stress over a prolonged period. Concentration 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.680 is another issue, so while you might have a really 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:02.640 sharp focus in the short over a longer period chronic 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.680 stress can hurt your concentration. You can have issues with 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.520 judgment where you start making bad decisions because you're feeling 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.440 so much pressure that you just want to relieve it, 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:16.160 so you're not really considering what the consequences of your actions. Maybe. Uh, 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:20.439 you can start suffering physical aches and pains from muscle 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.120 tension and other issues of these hormones can really start 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.320 to wreak havoc, especially like cortisol. If you have heightened 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.720 cortisol production over a whild that can actually damage your muscles. 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.400 It can cause to an even bone loss if you 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:38.520 have heightened levels over a prolonged period of time. Uh. Nausea. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.960 I mean there's other gastro intestinal issues such as diarrhea. 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:48.040 Pleasant experience. Anyone who's ever had like that stressful feeling 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.360 where they're just like, I have got to find a 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.360 rest room and just hide for the next two hours. Uh. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:59.040 Loss of sex drive often accompanied when you have diarrhea. 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:03.480 I would assume, Uh, there changes in eating habits, so 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.960 you might start to over eat or you might stop eating. Uh, 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:12.720 changes in sleeping habits where you are having insomnia you 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.840 have trouble getting sleep. Then it can lead to behavioral 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.360 issues like procrastination where you just you know, even though 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.000 you're feeling more and more stress about the fact that 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.120 you need to do more stuff, it actually causes you 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.000 to not act and you end up making it worse 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:33.600 over time. Uh. You can develop a reliance on drugs 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.240 to relieve the symptoms, whether that's a prescription, which you know, 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:42.480 some people the stress they experience, medication maybe the best 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.600 approach for them to manage their stress. But there's a 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.280 lot of self medicating that goes out out there, and 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.640 not just with prescription drugs, but with things like recreational 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:56.120 drugs or alcohol or tobacco or even coffee. Yeah, this 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.440 kind of stuff where you're you're relying heavily on some 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.679 other substance to help relieve the tension and stress. That's 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:07.520 your experience. And then they're just developing nervous habits, stuff 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.520 that like biting your nails, things that uh, you know, 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.040 it's kind of these these compulsions that you can develop 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.640 as a result of enduring stress over a long time. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.240 And a lot of these I'll tie back into. I mean, 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.800 when you're starting to talk about um sleep loss and 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.280 uh and and fatigue and things like that, that's going 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.840 to start affecting everything else in your life. Um, it's 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.760 a it's going to affect your um, your immune system. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.199 And and when you're sick, that's another stressor. I mean, 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.960 because you know you can't you can't function, and yeah, yeah, 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.439 you can have auto you can develop autoimmune diseases. You 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.040 can develop you can well if you're if you have 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.319 an overeating problem that can lead to obesity. You can 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.840 suffer from depression, you can have uh, you can even 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:53.040 develop heart disease because of this, um. And you know, 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.800 things like skin conditions, you can you can either end 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.840 up well really you can exacerbate existing skin conditions like exima. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:05.280 So the stresses, I mean, it's a really powerful thing. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.200 The really terrifying one for me, if I can share 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.800 this one, is that um uh, they've they've found that 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:15.400 stress is linked to psychoses and and triggering things like 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.760 schizophrenia that that don't on set until your your early adulthood. 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.360 That if if you know, given you know, if you 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:26.720 take two identical twins and and one developed schizophrenia, the 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:31.000 other one only has a chance of developing it even 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:35.120 though they're genetically identical, because because the environment and the 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.240 stressors in your life are so important to uh, to 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.520 the development of the disease. Yeah. So, so, I mean, 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.760 clearly stresses is pretty rough on on people. And and 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.520 it may be rough not just on the person who's 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:52.080 experiencing the stress, but perhaps even to their offspring. Right. Yeah, 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:58.280 there's this concept now known as epigenetic inheritance. Um and 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.360 that's kind of a mouthful, but it means literally on 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:06.920 top of the genes genetics. Yeah, um, And so to 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:12.960 explain epigenetics. Basically, it's the concept that without changing your 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.240 d N A, without changing the code that makes up 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:21.520 your body, um, environmental factors can make changes in the 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.800 way that code is expressed right right, because your your 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:31.240 RNA is is continually um picking what genes are turned 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.520 on and turned off based on a lot of different stuff. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.760 And this is a completely normal process, not just due 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.800 to stress, but right. So, so you can have you've 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.160 got DNA and all your cells and that's the building 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.880 blocks for making you so but certain genes in there 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.760 can be turned on, turned off, can be told to 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.760 express themselves into different proteins at different points in your 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:53.960 life and um, you know, due to uh, you know 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.840 whatever whatever needs doing. Huh. And so one of these 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.400 things that can cause epigenetic changes is stress, um and 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.400 that that can change the way your DNA is manifest. 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.760 But also what some people are saying now is that 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:12.000 might not be just for you, that those epigenetic changes 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:16.120 might be able to pass on through say a sperm cell, 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:21.040 to your offspring or even your grandchildren. Uh. This isn't 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.040 proven yet, by the way, but there's a lot of 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.280 research to indicate this might be the case. Right, And 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.320 What's what's going on here is a process called methylation 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.600 inside your genes and that is UM. These these methyl 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:37.800 groups UM will mark a particular gene to to just 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.800 turn it off to just be like you sit down 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.480 and and uh and there's you get a time out 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.480 and in some cases of permanent time out and UM 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.320 and it was you know that There's been an argument 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.400 for a really long time about whether or not UM 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:57.680 those markers can be passed on to a sperm and 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.520 egg cell at all UM and and furthermore, you know, 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.879 whether they would be wiped out during the fertilization process 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.959 and UM. And there is currently some evidence UM study 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.959 out of yeah, the University of Cambridge that was published 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:16.080 in late that showed that UM a tiny number of 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.639 genes and UM mass germ cells the that's the sperm 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:24.160 and the egg uh survived into the next generation like 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:28.639 like two thirty three out of some thousand, which sounds 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:33.720 really tiny, but it's still it's still there. I mean yeah, interesting. Yeah, 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.520 And so this is interesting because it ties into older 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.399 concepts like Lamarckian is um if you'll ever heard of this. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.199 Lamarckian is um was the idea that uh that that 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:49.920 you could take a characteristic developed or learned by the adult, 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.600 and that adult could pass it on to their children 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:57.280 just by birth. Um, that was before we understood genetics, 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.159 and now we know that that's essentially not true. Or 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.520 you know the concept that if um, you know, if 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.280 you work out and you have a really big bicep, 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.359 that your child is not necessarily going to have a 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.440 really big right, or that you are a capable king 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:15.440 of England that your child. No, seriously, the entire monarchy 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.320 system is based upon this concept. Well, that could be 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.520 based on the idea well, I mean, excluding divine right 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.919 and stuff like that. That was also you could argue 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:25.960 that there was some kind of genetic idea there that 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.080 they didn't know about genetics. No, but I think I 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.280 think the same sort of armchair born although I guess 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:32.720 it was an armchair approach. It was more of a 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.840 throne approach a time. But yeah, the idea that learned 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.480 or or adapted characteristics could be passed on, that's that's 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:42.960 not so much true through the d n A. You're 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.760 not altering your genome by doing that, but you can 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:49.200 make these epigenetic changes and it's very possible, and lots 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.200 of experts think that you can pass them on and 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.880 maybe not, maybe not permanently. The studies that I've seen, 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.760 um that have shown that traits are passed down to 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.280 at least one or two generations, um in mice. These 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:06.640 are not human studies, um are I have shown that 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:10.439 that the results peter out after about two generations. I 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.920 haven't seen anything that has gone on longer than that. Yeah, 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:16.080 but I explains the millennials. A lot of these are 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.560 these tests they've done on mice are related to stress, 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.320 right right, Yeah, Yeah, that's that that that's the the 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:27.920 main thingy, the science thingy tie in. Yeah, the main variable, yes, 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:32.000 thank you. Yeah. So like that, they'll expose say, male 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:36.960 mice to u nic chronic stress something you know, preventing 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.440 them from from being in a in a social group 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.480 or something like that, thrending the mouse jobs. Yeah, and 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.359 then they have those mice mate with females, and sure 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:50.920 enough the offspring they produce show increased levels of stress 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:55.920 and difficulty difficulty dealing with stress responses. Yeah, so let's 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.159 let's talk now. I'm starting to get stressed out by 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.200 this whole conversation. Really, we might need to start talking 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:05.800 about ways of managing stress in the way to relieve stress. 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:07.640 And uh, you know, there's been a lot of work 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:09.720 that's been done in this some of it has been 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:15.040 you know, um, not necessarily held up against scientific rigor, 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:19.399 although several approaches have. But it's there are ways to 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:23.520 manage stress without necessarily going down the route of medication, 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.800 although again that might be appropriate depending upon the circumstances 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.920 of the individual. Um, you know, there are some things 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:33.560 that are you know, really body chemistry issues that no 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:37.280 amount of deep breathing techniques are necessarily going to address. Well, 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.679 we should certainly say that it's not all environmental. Some 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:46.120 people are just prone distressed, right, genetically predisposed, pre predisposed 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:52.000 predisposed distress. And uh, and those people are very likely 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:54.960 the people who are need to seek a medical response, 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:58.880 right right, So it's or at least a combination of therapies. Right, Well, 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:00.640 we don't we just don't want to suggest that there's 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:02.680 any one way that you know, all you have to 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:04.520 do is just take a little moment for yourself and 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:07.600 you'll be fine. It's more complicated in that, although for 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:12.360 for many people doing just that can help a great deal. So, um, 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:14.840 first I wanted to mention something along the lines of 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:21.359 along the less scientific approach. Uh so, so clearly everything 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:23.200 from stress management. I mean, this is a big deal. 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.120 We all have stress in our lives, and we're perhaps 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.520 more aware of that now than we've ever been before. 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:32.080 And uh and you know, it's an unpleasant experience, and 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:34.639 a lot of our time and effort tends to be 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:38.600 dedicated towards creating as pleasant an experience as we can 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:42.760 possibly manage at any given time. If you're not if 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:47.280 you're not constantly worried about survival, if that rory has 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:50.239 taken away from you, then comfort becomes one of your 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:53.440 big drivers for a lot of us. Anyway, some people 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:56.800 I guess like discomfort, but I'm not one of those. 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:58.440 I'm one of the people who I want my life 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:01.280 to be as comfortable as possible. So that means that 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:04.440 there's been a lot of time, effort, and money spent 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:10.320 and on finding ways to make stress kind of go away. 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:14.160 In some cases, it's more like a marketing thing where 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:21.040 someone's trying to sell some goofy device or treatment that magnets. Yeah, magnets, 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:24.280 that's a good one. They won't don't listen to anybody 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:27.800 who tells you that magnets are going to reduce your stress. Now, 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:30.600 here's the here's the thing, is that that because stress 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:34.560 because of stress in the way stress uh works on 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.160 our bodies, in the way that our our counter stress 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:41.400 reactions work. Relaxation essentially, the way relaxation works is if 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:45.080 you find something that relaxes you technically, that's helpful. That's 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:48.400 what's helping you manage stress. It doesn't you know whether 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:51.480 or not you it's because you believe that it has 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:55.159 some sort of mystical or spiritual property to it doesn't 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:59.160 necessarily matter. The plassybo effect in um in mental health 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:01.960