So the cool thing about psycho-nuroimmunology is that we get to look at basically how our experience of the world gets represented by our brains and how our brain influences our immune system and also how our immune system influences our brain and our experience of the world,

which anybody who has ever been sick knows that we feel and think very differently when we're

sick than when we're not sick. So long story short we've been applying this

perspective of psycho neuroimmunology to try to understand the different types of stress that

people experience how it influences our brain and how our brain influences our immune system

and ultimately our health.

Hello and welcome to pursuing health.

I'm Dr. Julie Fushe, family physician and former cross-fit games athlete.

Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness and medicine

and support your journey toward your healthiest self.

Thank you so much for joining me. Now let's get started with this

week's episode. In this episode I sat down with Dr George Slavich who is a

leading research expert in the field of stress and its impact on health. He is the founding director of the Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research at UCLA, whose goal is to advance the science of stress and health to help prevent disease and improve and health and

and help prevent disease and improve human health and resilience

worldwide.

I followed Dr. Slavich's research for some time now

as I find our body's response to stress

to be particularly interesting.

Especially given the times that we're in,

I felt like this would be an important conversation

for all of us to listen to.

A little bit of background about Dr. Slavich

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