Name: What Coronavirus Stress Is Doing To Your Brain And Body
Uploaded: 2021-01-04T18:20:55.000Z
Duration: 4 min 11 s
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Graham Flanagan: I literally played that song,

Victoria Barranco: Physically, like all of

Abby: This probably sounds super familiar,

and it is messing with our brains in a very specific way.

When you get stressed, it triggers a chain reaction

Your eyes and ears send info to the amygdala,

to your command center, the hypothalamus.

and pump adrenaline into your bloodstream.

They're preparing to react to whatever threat

All of this happens in the blink of an eye.

It's like how people can jump out of the way of a car

basically overrides your prefrontal cortex,

the part of your brain where all the logic happens.

So you don't get a chance to think things through;

the parasympathetic nervous system takes over

and returns all those heightened reactions to normal.

the hypothalamus sends out another message

to stay on high alert and keep pumping out stress hormones.

The amygdala is still overriding the prefrontal cortex,

which is in charge of decision making and planning.

So those feelings of forgetfulness and tiredness,

they're likely a product of this stress response

Stress hormones and the accompanying bodily responses

but our bodies aren't meant to function in this

heightened state for weeks or months at a time.

the cumulative wear and tear that happens to your body

It's even been seen to decrease the volume

the area responsible for learning and memory,

and a reduced hippocampus is more often seen in people

And humans are historically really bad at making decisions

when they don't know what's going to happen.

So, what can you do to reduce allostatic load?

Exercising alone can reduce stress hormones,

And a different way of thinking could also help us:

This way, you reassess and update your own estimate

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What Coronavirus Stress Is Doing To Your Brain And Body

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