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Dr. Tara Swart

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“Yeah, so you know, you've got your stomach, you've got your small intestine, you've got your large intestine. You have other organs, your liver, your spleen, your kidneys, and they're all innervated, which means they've all got nerves going into them. So does your heart. So, you know, we could have a similar conversation like this about your heart as well, because your heart only knows how to beat because of the nerves that penetrate it. So, you know, this round brain in here and the spinal cord that goes down the center of your back, that gives rise to all of the neurons that go out to your arms, your legs, all of your organs, your skin, which is your largest organ. So that's how that works because every single part of your body has nerve.”
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“Into the limbic system, which is the emotional system of the brain, into the brainstem, into the spinal cord, and into the gut neurons. And that's why they sometimes call it gut instinct, because it's that feeling of knowing something but not knowing why you know it. But it's actually to do with the fact that you have wisdom and experience. That is, it's embodied in you, but you're not conscious of it necessarily.”
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“It's basically neurons that fire together, wire together, but it's that the things that you've learned today, like things that you've learned by speaking with me, that's going to be very front of mind and kind of just little pathways that are just kind of connecting up with each other. But stuff that you learn when you were five, like when you put your hand in a fire and it burnt you and you never ever want to do that again, that's deep down. You're not really conscious of that. But, you know, and other things maybe that you don't recall. So we believe that wisdom gets pushed from the outer cortex.”
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“So because you can't remember everything that you've experienced in But somewhere in the neural architecture and in the gut neurons as well, that information is stored because you have experienced it. Maybe you would say that you understand that wisdom and experience is the product of patterns that you've seen repeating in your life that are conscious to you. Intuition is the lessons that you've picked up along the way that you're not conscious of, but they're still stored in your nervous system. And so the less conscious you are of them, the deeper they're pushed into the nervous system. So there's a process called Hebian learning named after the neuroscientist Donald Hebb. And that is”
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“That's changed a lot. I mean, I remember when I was teaching at MIT about seven years ago, and I was teaching the science of intuition, someone actually stood, you know, it's all senior leaders in the classroom. It's executive education. Someone stood up and said, well, I'm not going to make a really important decision, like hire or fire based on my gut feeling, am I? And he was quite young, and quite a few of the older guys turned around and were like, that's absolutely how I would make my decision and my most important decisions. But at that time, it was still kind of like, not everybody was really sure that that's like your superpower, but I think people are beginning to understand more that with age and experience and wisdom, you do understand that intuition is actually your strongest, should be your strongest decision making modality.”
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“I think they're more open to accepting that it's a thing, and I believe that the more men need the science to explain how intuition works.”
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“So let's put it like this. If you had 100 people in a room, 50 men and fifty women, and you asked them to line up in order of height, not all the men would be taller than all the women, in the middle there'd be a bit of a mixture. And it's like that with the brain and intuition and everything else. So yeah, there are some There's some disparity, so I think most people would agree that it feels like more women are in touch with their intuition than men, but it's absolutely not all women versus all men.”
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“That's amazing. I mean, you know, some of these things can't necessarily immediately be explained by science, but if you use your intuition, then you have to ask yourself, and I feel like you are coming around to thinking that could be true.”
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“I literally saw us because it does it by every 15 minutes as well. And I saw the highest spike of turquoise at that exact time.”
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“It actually measures both because it Compares your heart rate variability to your heart rate. So it knows if you're exercising because your heart rate has gone up, but if your heart rate is at base level, then the change in variability can either mean that you're stressed or you're recouping resilience. If your heart rate is high, then it's obviously physical. But it's a factor of both. So it's not just looking at physical resilient. It is looking when it's in this turquoise zone, that is actually more about recouping psychological resilience. But those two things, you know, they feed into each other, but it can tell the difference because if you're heart rate. So obviously I was asleep, so my heart rate was low.”
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“is so neuroprotective that the I would encourage everybody to do it if they can. I also know some people who say, oh, I sleep better if I sleep on my own. But we were not meant to survive on our own. We were meant to survive as part of a tribe, and I think now, you know, since the pandemic, people are more lost and lonely and disconnected than ever. If you've got somebody that you can actually sleep with overnight, I strongly suggest that you do it.”
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“So I was using that finished technology where you wear the HRV monitor with a gel pad on your chest. And so it's color-coded for whether you're doing light exercise, heavy exercise, whether you're stressed, or whether you're recouping resilience. And mostly people recoup resilience overnight. But you could clearly see with people with young children, you could see when they were woken up overnight because it would go into stress. Some people recoup resilience during the day if you know, let's say you're with your partner or your sibling and you're just sitting together and it's super relaxed or if you love your job, you know, that you can see that happening during the day as well. But because I am so... Obsessed with my sleep. I wouldn't normally welcome any sleep disturbance, but the power of sleeping together and cuddling all night.”
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“It won't be less quality C if I've worn HRV monitors and shown that even at the time if My husband woke up at five and I wouldn't wake up any at all before eight, and he gave me a kiss goodbye, I got a spike of resilience at that time”
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“Because it's so good for you. The bonding, the physical warmth, the skin to skin contact, the love, the trust, you know, I mean, I'll put up if somebody's waking up early and I don't have to wake up at that time, I'll even put up with that.”
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“Never Apart from maybe if there was a young baby and one person had to go to work and one person didn't. That I get, but that's temporary Ideally, people would find ways to make up for that. I mean, I guess you're in a bit of a love bubble with the oxytocin from the baby at that time. So that is quite neuroprotective. But co-sleeping is fundamental to our survival. It was physically when we were in the cave, but now I would say, emotionally, spiritually, it's fundamental to our survival. I mean”
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“I know that co-sleeping is definitely how we evolved from co-sleeping, so in groups. And What I find interesting is that you needed to huddle together like that for physical warmth in the cave, but it also because of that proximity and interaction, you got more of the bonding hormone oxytocin. So you also experienced the warmth of being part of a tribe. And I think they stepped on their side because they would have to be ready for an attack from a predator. So you'd need to keep your dominant arm ready to grab something and most likely they slept on their left because they would have been protecting their most vital organs, the heart.”
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“It's a memory foam pillow. My one is by Tempor UK. And they actually gifted it to me because I was talking about side savings. Yeah. That's great”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wasn't naturally a side sleeper, so it doesn't matter if it's the left or the right, but that is a better position in terms of the veins in your neck than sleeping on your back or your front. So that's one thing you can do. Oh, you woke up, you know, your sleep was disturbed. At least turn yourself onto your side.”
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“Just sleep not in bed if you're in bed awake You're not asleep you know you have to be asleep but you'll go through the different sleep cycles every 90 minutes This isn't in time with that this is just taking seven or eight hours to flush this stuff out of your brain So one of the things I do say to people who don't sleep well is if you find yourself awake at night and you're not lying on your side turn yourself onto your side because that's the best position for this cleansing process I actually have a special pillow that makes me sleep on my side”
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“Those things are being flushed out of the brain very actively overnight, and that process takes seven to eight hours to complete the cleaning. That's why you need to be in bed for eight to nine hours.”
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“Is a very active Kind of waterway channel cleansing system of the brain. We used to think that the fluid around the brain and there's ventricles which are like lakes and then there's just like trickling areas that that sort of passively dripped through the brain overnight. We did not expect to see like jets of fluid flushing out toxins from the brain. So the exact things that we see in the pathology of dementing diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's like tau proteins and amyloid plaques and neurofibrillery tangles.”
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“These very driven CE level people to want to give up eight hours a night to sleep. If they feel they can get by on four or five, then they'll rather do that because they've got so much to do. The ideal is 8 hours and 15 minutes in population norm studies. So that doesn't mean it's for everyone, but for most people that's the ideal. Actually sleeping more than that can be depressogenic so it can start to lower your mood. So you don't want to really be sleeping for nine plus hours but you ideally need to be in bed for nine hours to get that amount of sleep. And so there was some award-winning research around 2012 to 2014 when we were beginning to understand how important the cleaning of the brain is overnight. So this entirely new system that we didn't know existed, which is called the glymphatic system, it's like the lymphatic system in your body, but it's to do with glial cells, so it was named the lymphatic system. That system”
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“But I try to do everything I can to make that as good as possible. And the reason is, we've always known that when you sleep, you lay down your memories and new learning, you process your emotions, the cells and the body regenerate themselves. We've known that for a long time. That's never really been enough for”
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“It's so important I can't stop going on about it, and I do understand that for some people it's not a choice that they just don't sleep well or their sleep gets interrupted because they've got young kids or they do shift work. So I'm not particularly talking about the people where there's a reason that you can't sleep in this way. I'm mostly directing this out if you have a choice. This is the way that you need to sleep and this is why. If you don't have a choice, there are some things that you can do to mitigate it as well. I mean, obviously I have done shift work as a junior doctor in the NHS and I travel a lot, so I'm like jet lagged half the time.”
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“If you've got a therapist or a trusted friend speaking it out loud, so it's all about getting cortisol and or the negative thoughts that are associated with your stress out of your brain body system.”
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“Like, pushes you too far, so that's not good. Because cortisol is pro-inflammatory, it's very drying of the system as well. So you might notice that your skin's really dry or you've got skin problems. Your skin isn't just the physical border of your body, it's the psychological boundary of your body too. So often stress shows up in the skin. There are two main things that you can do. One is physical exercise because you can literally sweat cortisol out of your body. So you can sweat excess cortisol out of your body by doing aerobic exercise. The other one is journaling, so writing out what's on your mind rather than just let it be in there and keep going.”
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“So first of all, if someone's saying that, half the battle is won, the problem is when people are not aware of that. But let's say you are, so let's say that I give you that list of signs and symptoms that you've got high levels of cortisol, which include things like sleep disruption because cortisol is part of the 24-hour clock, melatonin helps us to wake up, cortisol helps melatonin helps us to fall asleep, cortisol helps us to wake up. Maybe you've noticed the belly fat. Because of the really strong connection between the brain and the gut, any sort of reflux or indigestion symptoms are often signs that you've got high levels of cortisol too. And of course things like irritability and mood changes. What I mostly would hear people say is that I can just about keep it together when I'm at work, but when I get home, if my kids are, you know, annoying or my partner's asking for too much, I just snap. So that means you're like one step away from snapping at work if somebody”
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“Yeah, yeah, no, that's a really good way of putting it. I mean, I always think of that phrase what got you here won't get you there, which is more about the fact that people get promoted because they're good at what they do, but they don't really get taught all the, you know, best management and leadership skills. But that's a really pertinent point. If there are a person who is stressed particularly who suppresses stress, which some of these successful people do, then it would have an impact down the organization.”
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“That's really hard to shift. So, again, what I would see with people is that they would say, oh, I've put on a bit of weight around the middle, you know, had to do some to belt a bit. So I've started eating less. I've started like exercising more and I still can't shift it. And again, that's when I would explain this is the impact of cortisol. As long as you're still leaking out extra cortisol, nothing's going to change. So And like I said, even exercising more or eating better, less or differently whatever it is, wouldn't shift that fat. You had to get to the root cause. You had to reduce the cortisol.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, with my clients in financial services, it got to a point where as soon as I walked into the room, they just lift their t-shirt up and say, now you know how I've been in the last month. And then I had a really, really funny incident when I was speaking at a bank, and the CEO's PA was there in the audience. And I was explaining that, you know, leadership stress leaks down, that that stress can lead to abdominal fat, that you can't shift. And she shouted out So he's the reason that I'm fat But Steve, no one laughed.”
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“And the other thing about cortisol, which is quite funny Well, one of the side effects is quite funny, is that as a survival mechanism, it will help you to store fat around your abdomen. So, you know, again, in the cave, if you were potentially going to not find food for a month, then if you had extra fat around your abdomen, you could digest that and survive till you could find food.”
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“Usually in that conversation I mentioned to you where you go into a room and you just feel completely drained afterwards, usually the person that comes out feeling drained is less senior than the person that's had that effect on them. And that's why this is so crucial to leadership because your stress levels as a leader, as a CEO, are going to have more impact on everybody else than the rest of the people put together, basically. So managing your stress is obviously important for you, but it's important in terms of what happens to other people. And the first issue I came up against was CEOs and CFOs that said, well, I won't show them that I'm stressed. I won't tell them what's happening with the numbers, I won't display emotions in front of them, and I said they're still going to know physiologically, it's going to impact them. So now you really have to do something about it.”
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“They basically cortisol is a hormone that works in that same way. So, cortisol is the main stress hormone. And this one doesn't matter if you're male or female, but it does matter where you are in the hierarchy of the organization, as I just mentioned.”
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“And also it'll probably be to do with things like, you know, survival genes. So it'll be the people with the hardiest genes, because that's what you want to pass on as well.”
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“I don't know if it really matters. I think it's just a case of physiology. So it's a little bit like in troops of guerrillas the stress levels of the silver bat gorilla affect the other gorillas more than guerrillas who are peers to each other. So we have a natural hierarchy. It must be related to survival as well.”
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“If you aren't together and you sit right next to each other every day, then it does happen too. So, you know, in a small office that's got like six girls in it, the menstrual synchronization will happen. Interestingly, it's led by the alpha female. So yeah. So you can work out if you don't know already who the alpha female. Well, basically, let's say my cycles don't change and everyone says, oh, I've got my period early or I haven't had my period yet. But now it's started, then that would mean that probably I was the alpha female.”
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“I mean, it's not, you wouldn't have to be sitting next to each other. If you lived together, then that means you're interacting enough that it would happen. So particles”
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“He needed to make sure that at least five women were impregnated with his sperm at the same time, so that if there was a food shortage or there was still birth or miscarriage or whatever, at least one out of five would survive. So to be able to do that, they had to be fertile at the same time. So that's why that mechanism exists. Now we don't need that mechanism now, but it's still wired into the way that we operate. So those sex steroid hormones like estrogen and progesterone, they leak out of our sweat about this far around us, and that's why if you're living with another woman or if you're sitting across the desk every day, then particles of hormone from my sweat would go into the through the skin of the other woman.”
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“So if he was going to be away for months, and he couldn't, you know, there weren't men there to defend the women from predators, maybe there was going to be a spell of the ice age and they would all freeze to death or they wouldn't have food”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we started by setting the scene with the fact that women who interact with each other physically closely they synchronize their menstrual cycles. And so whenever I want to explain something that's complex or I don't actually know the current neuroscience, I always take it back to what happened in ancient times. So when we were living in the cave, the men hunted and gathered and lived quite nomadically. So sometimes they would go away for months at a time and actually if they went far enough away and were closer to another cave of the same tribe they would actually just stay there and never return to the original cave. Mostly they would leave for weeks or months and then return to the original cave. In those days the most fundamental important thing for the survival of the human species was that the alpha male must pass on his genes.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so yeah, going through something not necessarily traumatic but that's highly emotional, that is very bonding as well. So we see this a lot on the reality shows where people are like, oh, we're going to be friends for life. You know, if you do something like a skydive or a bungee jump in a group, then you do feel more bonded to those people. But they're not as practical as the just the little things that you can do every day.”
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“Eye contact and touch are the main ones. Laughing together is another one and then not to do with another person but if you take a bath rather than a shower then you'll release more oxytocin massage helps well you're immersed in warm water so it feels like a hug”
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“It's definitely extra and you see this in a lot of kind of more ancient cultures that there is more of a handshake than what we do, which seems it's just one hand and it's quite brief and stuff. So yeah, the more of that kind of physical touch that you can get, the better. So, you know, everyone that I've met since I've come in this morning, I've either shaken hands with them or hugged them. And I would not not do that.”
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“Encourage bonding. So physical interaction Knowing the appropriateness of it, minimum handshake, maybe a hug, maybe a kiss on the cheek, you know, depending on what situation you're in.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, we've laughed about a few things before we've come on air. Those are the sorts of things that create like higher levels of the bonding hormone oxytocin. So you're more likely to lower your guard, trust the person, take a healthy risk. So yeah, I mean, like I said, I know that stuff. So I live my life like that.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“emotional resonance loop that's part of how the mother and the baby bond. So that right eye to left eye contact is the most bonding eye contact that you can have with someone. Now you could say, oh, but my mum was left-handed or you could be left-handed, but, you know, if I'm taking a chance on trying to build that bond with someone, that's the statistically most likely one to create good resonance between you.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We'll park that. It's related. When a baby is born, one of the ways that it learns what emotion the mum's experiencing, how it understands its own emotions, everything that grows over childhood and teenage into pro-social behavior starts off mostly with eye contact with the mum. So at first they can hardly see anything. They can just kind of see two blobs and then they start to understand more about like microfacial expression changes and stuff. But eye contact with the mum is hugely important. So most people are right-handed, so they'll be holding their baby in their left arm so they can still use their dominant hand to do stuff. And that means that when you gaze at your baby, your right eye is looking into their left eye. And then that interaction from the optic nerve is going around the brain. It's impacting the amygdala where emotions come from. And it's creating this.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so you know the feeling. So I'll tell you how it works physiologically. I'm going to start with something else to build you up to this story. So did you know that women who live together or work closely together will synchronize their menstrual periods within two or three months?”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, I will tell you the answer to that, but I'm going to ask you a question first. Have you ever walked into a room with someone? And by the time you've left that meeting with them, you just feel so drained.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I would define stress as when the load that you perceive on you physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually is too much for you to bear, so yes it is subjective. When I moved into business and leadership people would use the terms good stress and bad stress and I found that really difficult having been a psychiatrist and seeing people actually break down to think that there's any such thing as good stress. But what I have, you know, the way that I've adapted that over the last 10 or 15 years is that there's an adaptive response which is a healthy response to a challenge. And we have that for a reason. We need that and that can be a good thing. But that should be a spike. It should go up and it should go back down again. If it stays high all the time, that's not good.”
2023-09-25 · The Diary of a CEO · No.1 Neuroscientist: Why You Should Always Look Into Someone’s Left Eye! & How Stress Leaks Through Skin, Is Contagious & Gives You Belly Fat! Dr. Tara Swart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT