#363 BITESIZE | The Best Type of Exercise to Reduce Stress and Anxiety | Dr Roger Seheult

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Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

You may have heard that exercise can really help to support mental health, but which type of exercise is best?

Feel Better Live More Bitesize is my weekly podcast for your mind, body, and heart. Each week I’ll be featuring inspirational stories and practical tips from some of my former guests.

Today’s clip is from episode 242 of the podcast with California based medical doctor, Roger Seheult.

In this clip, Roger explains the connection between stress, inflammation and immunity, and he shares the type of exercise that studies show is most effective in lowering stress, anxiety and fear.

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0:50.0	Today's clip is from episode 242 of the podcast with California-based medical doctor, Dr. Roger Schwellt.
0:59.0	In this clip, Roger explains the connection between stress, inflammation, and our immune systems,
1:05.0	and he shares the type of exercise that studies show is most effective at lowering stress, anxiety, and fear.
1:15.0	So when we're looking at inflammation, how does stress fit into that? What does the science tell us?
1:24.0	If we look at stress and see it's effects with inflammation, it becomes very apparent very quickly.
1:32.0	So there's a number of researchers to give you an example here in Pittsburgh that look to add stress and inflammation and the immunity specifically,
1:42.0	how this affects immunity, because I think that's a big thing as well.
1:46.0	We all know about cortisol.
1:48.0	Cortisol is a hormone in the body that gets released during stressful situations.
1:55.0	It's a stress hormone.
1:57.0	And I want to make sure that I'm using the word stress here appropriately.
2:00.0	There is stress that we feel mentally, and there is stress that's going on in the body.
2:06.0	And I want to make sure that when we talk about stress, we're talking about that specifically.
2:10.0	So when there is stress in the body physically, there is that stress hormone cortisol, which is released from the adrenal gland.
2:17.0	And one of the physiological downstream effects of cortisol, they found was a way that it shifts the number of white blood cells.
2:27.0	There's different types of white blood cells not to get too technical.
2:30.0	There are white blood cells called neutrophils, and there are white blood cells called lymphocytes.
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