Zach, this is Dr. Matthew Stoltz-Kohl-Miden, if I'm pronouncing that correctly.

He is an expert on exercise and

stress. He works at the Yale New Haven Hospital, and I was just telling Zach that you did a postdoc

at Yale Medical School and also at Columbia. I just want to say, like, I like having conversations

with someone like yourself, because I am not somebody who's like deep into academia. Like,

I am somebody who is able to have conversations like this

and then I'm like okay let's see how could somebody like myself be able to bring this down

to a level that is easy to no pun intended digest so thus then somebody can actually apply it

and so when Miguel told me about your work and and then I looked into it, I'm like,

oh my gosh, she's being cited everywhere.

And you actually studied in Austin, which is really cool because that's where I am right now.

It was just sent it was such a no-brainer to have you on.

It's really cool and exciting because I believe a lot of people know that a lot of the people, a lot of

things that are cited that think people know to be true is actually your work, which is really,

really cool. So we talk about stress all the time. Stress is such this huge phenomenon that

everybody talks about. It's very misunderstood. And we wanted to, with today's

episode, kind of bring it all together because we know that a certain amount of stress in the

gym is good. It's essential for stimulating growth. But one of the things that we are still

trying to understand and we would love your insights on and

our audience would love as well is what is the impact of the stress outside of the gym that has

the impact on the stress inside the gym? So if you imagine exercise and you imagine everything that's

related to exercise will stress pretty much has an impact on all of those things.

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