Why Your Brain Feels Overloaded and How to Fix It, with Dr Tara Swart
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
World’s leading neuroscientists Dr Tara Swart explains why so many high-functioning people feel exhausted, stressed, and out of balance, even when they’re doing everything “right.” She breaks down the hidden cost of being constantly switched on, how chronic stress rewires the brain, and why late-night scrolling is quietly sabotaging your energy, focus, and health.
Dr Tara also reveals how stress can drive weight gain, particularly around the belly, and why modern lifestyles keep the brain stuck in survival mode.
From simple micro-habits that move you from fear to joy, to the science behind nature, attention, and human connection, this episode offers practical, science-backed ways to feel calmer, healthier, and more present, starting with just a few minutes a day.
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| 0:00.0 | all these things I'm about to say impact your mental health, your physical health and your |
| 0:08.6 | longevity. You know, I say neuroplasticity is hope, the opportunity to improve your brain, to change |
| 0:14.2 | the way that you think, to have lifelong learning. It's all there. Welcome to High Performance. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm Jay Comfrey, and that is Dr. Tara Swartz, one of the world's leading neuroscientists. |
| 0:26.6 | And today, she's revealing why you might be exhausted, overweight and stressed, despite |
| 0:32.6 | doing everything that you think's right. |
| 0:34.6 | We're about to explore the hidden cost of being always on, |
| 0:38.1 | why chronic stress is making you store belly fat and while scrolling at 2am is actually rewiring |
| 0:44.3 | your neurons. But here's the hope. Neuoplasticity means your brain can change at any age. |
| 0:51.4 | Tara will share with you her 12 micro-hab habits that can shift you away from fear to joy. |
| 0:57.2 | She'll explain why trees literally boost your immune system and explains why five minutes |
| 1:02.0 | listening to your child could change everything. Let's get straight into it and welcome to |
| 1:06.9 | high performance, Dr Tara Swart. |
| 1:17.2 | I've spent my life seeing resilient people achieve more than talented people. |
| 1:20.2 | So how do we build resilience? |
| 1:24.1 | And why is resilience such an important thing in the modern world? |
| 1:27.8 | You know, I always like to take it back to ancient times to explain things that aren't necessarily, obviously explainable now. So when we had to be resilient in a way that was |
| 1:35.9 | geared around physical survival, like when we lived in the cave, for a start, by the age that you and I are now, |
| 1:42.7 | we'd be dead. So we didn't have to live for as long. |
| 1:46.3 | We had to be resilient more physically to the elements, to the predators, to the risk of |
| 1:51.9 | disease and things like that. So then you fast forward to now. And today, compared to 100 years ago, not times we would read if we read a full newspaper from cover to cover |
| 2:06.5 | we would receive as much information as someone received in their entire lifetime 100 years ago |
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