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Dr. Tara Swart

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first: 2023-09-25
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“Basically, cortisol causes inflammation in the body. So inflammation of your vascular system, inflammation around your heart, and everything else, gut and other things, but particularly around that time, we were seeing a lot of heart attacks caused by stress. This was in the absence of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking. It was all stress.”
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
“The understanding that stress, so everything that you're experiencing mentally and emotionally that's challenging, and things like a lot of travel, which is challenging if your body, that that raises levels of the hormone cortisol, which comes from your adrenal glands, and that cortisol courses around your blood through your entire body and brain, and the brain has receptors for understanding what's going on in terms of threat to your survival. So in a twenty-four hour cycle, depending on your age and your gender, there's a normal range for cortisol. So it can go up and down like this. If something challenging happens, we need to adapt and rise to meet that challenge. But when that level is above the top range all the time, these receptors in your brain basically think that there's an imminent threat to your survival. So there's this whole cascade of hormones.”
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
“asked me to work more in my capacity as a former medical doctor to help with the physical stuff, and I said I can't do that if we don't address the mental and emotional peace because that's what's causing this, and they just could not get 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
“Their body was just the vehicle that was moving their brain around from meeting to meeting. And both disrespecting their physical health, but also not understanding that what they were actually really being paid for was to use their brain, and they weren't creating the best conditions for that brain to operate in. And I'm talking about really basic things like sleep and a good diet and hydration and not being sedentary, managing your stress, etc. So, you know, this tiny organ, if it's not in an environment that is giving it the best chance of doing its job, it's not going to and a crack's going to appear somewhere. And the first time I really kind of had a big conference with a bank was when people were dropping dead on the trading floor of heart attacks and they”
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 the first thing I came up against'cause this was around the time of the financial crisis was the lack of understanding of the brain body connection. So these high performing executives were kind of acting like”
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
“Brain is actively growing and changing till we're about 25. From 25 to 65. If you do things that are intense enough to force your brain to change, you will actually improve the highest functions of the brain. Things like regulate your emotions better, solve complex problems, think flexibly, override any unconscious biases that you may have.”
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
“Belly fat that's really hard to shift. There's another rabbit hole you could go down about social contagion. So there are statistics that show that you meet people who are at a similar psychological level to you. For example, if someone gets divorced, you're more likely to get divorced in the next year. Your own brain can play tricks on 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
“So, cortisol is the main stress hormone, and it will leak out of our sweat about this far around us, go into the skin of everybody else, and it's going to impact them. And as a survival mechanism, it will help you to store fat around your abdomen.”
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
“Did you know there's a really fascinating experiment done on weightlifters? They lifted no weights for two weeks. They just sat there and they visualize themselves lifting weights. They had a 13% increase in muscle mass. People should realize how much potential they have in their brains.”
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