Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Dr. Robert Sapolsky. He's a professor

at Stanford University, a world-leading researcher and an author. Stress is an inevitable part

of human life, but what is stress actually doing to the human body when it happens for such a

prolonged period of time? And what does the science say are the best interventions to defeat it?

Expect to learn the crucial difference between short-term and long-term stress. How stress actually

impact the human system, the neurodevelopmental consequences of stress and poverty, how to

detrain your dopamine sensitivity, what everyone doesn't understand about how hormones work,

whether believing in free will is a useful worldview, why there is a relationship between belief in

free will and obesity, and much more. If you don't know Dr. Sapolsky, he is a complete legend

in the field of evolutionary biology and research in general. And this conversation goes absolutely

everywhere. So yeah, so much to take away from this. And he's really fun. I love his light,

playful, joky approach to pretty serious academic topics. He's great.

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