This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. He'll see this guy all the time on CNN. He's always talking about medical things and he has a new

HBO special One Nation Under Stress. let me welcome the one and only

Dr Sanjay Gupta welcome so much for having me nice to be on the greatest

Todd of Sean the Galaxy there was Galaxy. The Martians were trying to hold out, but we, we, you know, put them in the headline.

We do Wellness Wednesday on our show, and we're really committed to health so we cover the range on any

given week we have several doctors naturopaths that are regulars on the show.

But under stress, stress is such a, it's like back pain.

It's a vague nebulous term.

Yeah, how do, how do you define stress and how do we eradicate it?

Stress is one of these things that is it is it is nebulous and it's funny because we've

treated it that way in the medical world for a long time.

We all know it's not constant stress is a bad thing and we're getting a better idea of what it does to the body.

We know what it can do to your blood pressure, your heart rate, your blood vessels.

I think what is changing now is that we have got a better idea of what it does to the brain

and how it changes your brain in a way that then becomes a self-fulfilling

prophecy.

When you're under stress, we know that the brain, certain areas of the brain change that

are responsible for your judgment judgment for your ability to make

good decisions. So think of it like this if you have a if you're under an

anordinate amount of stress your choices about dinner tonight might be affected your choices about

empathy in terms of how you treat your friends and family tonight could be affected.

We don't carefully draw lines between these things.

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