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Enjoy the show. Welcome to the Maximized Minimalist podcast. I'm your host, Katie Wells,

and joining me on the podcast today is my friend Ali Damran. So Allie is an acupuncturist and an expert in women's hormones. And today, we are diving into stress. The good, the bad, and the ugly. All things stress. So I wanted Allie to come on the show because I absolutely love her perspective and knowledge on the matter.

And, you know, since most of us have had more stress than usual over the past several months now, you know, this couldn't come at a better time.

So let's dive in.

So welcome to the show.

So happy to have you here today.

Thank you so much for having me. So let's dive right in

because there's a false kind of belief out there about stress. And that is something that I wanted

you to dispel today. And that is that all stress is bad. But there's good stress. And so I wanted

you to just tell me in the listeners like, what's the difference? What's good stress and bad stress? And what is that all? Yeah. So stress is an

interesting topic. Obviously, a lot of us have a lot of stress and not the great kind of stress.

But like you said, there is good stress. So it's called you stress instead of regular stress, I guess. And it's things like exercise that can actually put stress. So it's called you stress instead of regular stress, I guess. And it's things like exercise

that can actually put stress on your muscles and bones and things like that to help strengthen

them. So that part of stress is good. Now, obviously we're humans. And so some emotional stress

is just going to happen. that's part of being an emotional

being and we can't escape that we have lots of systems and processes in our body to help manage that

like cortisol and your adrenal glands and adrenaline and noraphynephrine there's all these different

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