Hello, my beautiful beans. Welcome to this episode all about stress on the brain. I think this

episode is going to be really, really interesting, mainly because I recently actually did a couple of

lectures around this topic and there's a few of the lectures and a few things that I've spoken

about in the past. And if you've been a long time listener of the podcast, you'll kind of be

able to see

how a lot of what I talk about is going to tie into this episode and a lot of it is going to

make sense. I'm talking about obviously the effects of stress on the brain, but I'm going

deeper into a bit of a scientific explanation of how stress will change, physically make changes in your brain and then due to those

changes in the brain how there will be more of a presence of certain neurotransmitters,

neurochemicals and because of that presence, you're going to start to behave differently.

Things are going to affect you differently. You're not going to be able to do other things

as well and all these,

it's kind of like an accumulation of all these negative effects that starts creating a bit of a,

like a vicious circle or a vicious cycle for you that you start to kind of go down and down and down and why things become really difficult. And then I'm going to be talking about what you can do,

actions that you can put into place now, starting today, to start to reverse those changes and then bring your brain back to a state where you're not easily triggered, you're not so stressed and to kind of literally rewire and re kind of build up those networks to reverse the effects that stress is

having your brain. So it's really, really interesting. Also, not only is it interesting,

but it's actually extremely crucial that we are all aware of this information because as you'll

find out later on in the podcast, you're going to realize that a lot of neurodegenerative diseases

stem from not taking care of your brain. There's a lot that we can do to take care of our brain

to avoid getting a neurodegenerative disease, including things that are genetically,

you're genetically predisposed to having. Even if you are genetically predisposed to having something,

there are certain things you can do within your behaviors and your actions throughout your life that will

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