BS 178 Peter Sterling
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Ginger Campbell, MD
4.8 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This month's episode of Brain Science features neuroscientist Peter Sterling sharing the key ideas for his new book What Is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design. In recent years neuroscientists have developed a growing appreciation of the predictive functions of the brain. Sterling takes this principle to the next level by asking what this means for human health. He argues that medicine's traditional focus on homeostasis ignores the much larger role of what he calls allostasis, which is a word he actually coined many years ago to capture the idea that the brain's predictive function is critical to health.
His book explores the ancient origins of both allostasis and homeostasis with an emphasis on why recent changes in the human life style contribute to the health problems of modern life.
One goal of this episode is to remind listeners that understanding how the brain works may be the key to our future survival.
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- What Is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design by Peter Sterling
- Principles of Neural Design by Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin
- Peter Sterling (University of Pennsylvania)
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| 0:00.0 | I began to look at the evidence, the electromicroscopy that showed nerves on all the blood vessels that are controlled by the brain. |
| 0:08.0 | It showed nerves contacting insulin secreting cells, and I realized my gosh actually the body is is changing up and |
| 0:17.2 | down it's not constant your pressure is going up and down and your blood sugar is |
| 0:21.9 | going up and down and the reason it is going up and down. |
| 0:23.0 | And the reason it's going up and down is because the needs of the body change from moment to moment. |
| 0:29.0 | The job of physiological regulation is really not to hold things constant. It's to vary though in order to provide resources just enough, just in time. |
| 0:42.0 | I want to take just a moment to remind you. just in time. |
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| 1:25.0 | Welcome to Brain Science, the podcast where we explore how discoveries in |
| 1:34.1 | neuroscience are helping unravel the mystery of how our brain makes us human. |
| 1:39.2 | I'm your host Dr. Ginger Campbell and this is episode 178. |
| 1:44.7 | If you're curious about how your brain really works, |
| 1:47.4 | this is the podcast for you. |
| 1:49.4 | Before I tell you about today's episode, |
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