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Podcast: Well, hello anxiety with Dr Jodi Richardson
Episode: 91. What doesn’t kill you… w/ Paul Taylor, Neuroscientist, Exercise Physiologist, Nutritionist and PhD student in Psychology
Description: Over 10 days of freezing, starving and being ‘hunted’, during brutal resistance to interrogation training with the British Royal Navy, helped inoculate this week’s podcast guest against the stresses of daily life. Events and situations that would have previously caused grief felt like ‘water off a duck’s back’; sparking an epiphany. Paul Taylor realised that psychological and emotional stress stimulated adaptive, protective responses in the same way exercise, physical stress, does. In this conversation Paul explains the good, the bad and the ugly of stress, how our perception of stress changes its affects on us for better or for worse, w...