BITESIZE | Why Your Brain Wants You To Be Anxious (And What You Can Do About It) | Dr Anders Hansen #579

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Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Compared to most of our evolutionary history we have never been richer, safer, or lived longer lives. Yet, despite that, more of us are struggling with our health than ever before. What’s going on? 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 381 of the podcast with Swedish psychiatrist, globally renowned speaker, and best-selling author Dr Anders Hansen. Anders believes we can start to understand the struggles of modern life by looking to the brain, where our emotions are created. In this clip, he offers a powerful reframe for understanding anxiety, and some simple, practical tools to help. Anders is someone who really wants all of us to learn how exactly our brains are wired – so we can more easily understand ourselves and our daily behaviours. He is passionate, knowledgeable and a brilliant communicator. Thanks to our sponsor ⁠⁠⁠https://www.drinkag1.com/livemore⁠⁠ Show notes and the full podcast are available at drchatterjee.com/381 Support the podcast and enjoy Ad-Free episodes. Try FREE for 7 days on Apple Podcasts ⁠⁠https://apple.co/feelbetterlivemore⁠⁠ For other podcast platforms go to ⁠⁠https://fblm.supercast.com. DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website.

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1:13.6	Welcome to Feel Better Live More bite size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend.
1:24.6	Today's clip is from episode 381 of the podcast with Swedish psychiatrist and best-selling
1:32.1	author Dr. Anders Hansen. Anders believes that we can start to understand the struggles of
1:39.9	modern life by looking to the brain where our emotions are created. In this clip, he offers
1:47.0	a powerful reframe for understanding anxiety and some simple practical tools to help. As I think about
1:56.8	your work, a central philosophy, I would say, seems to be this idea that we've got it pretty
2:03.6	good as humans these days, yet at the same time, many of us are struggling. From your perspective,
2:11.6	what's going on? Well, this is something that I have thought of my entire life. We have never had it so good as we have today.
2:19.1	We've never been so rich.
2:20.3	We never lived so long.
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