oxytocin than a woman has they have more testosterone
of testosterone during stress and
this is going to reduce the effects
of oxytocin
so what we find is that the men in the
room may not
feel like they need to reach out when
they're stressed they may
also think so biologically they don't
feel that strong
but socially they've been programmed to
think man up
be a man suck it up don't cry men don't cry
cry
there's for generations been all this
pressure on men to not feel their
emotions to not react emotionally
to not be stressed to be the rock for a
family and never show weakness
um that's what it means to be a man and
so not only physical
physiologically are they kind of like i
don't really want to reach out as much
um but socially they've been programmed
to think don't reach out
we need to fight that men need to think
when you're stressed
reach out for help you are not alone you
are loved and the best thing that you
can do for the situation
is reach out and talk to someone and
connect with those people that love you
uh and so it's just something you're
gonna have to remind yourself it's
almost like you know cbt in a way you're
trying to reprocess the way that you think
think
in these stressful situations okay so
this is like the first step has to do
with all of this alarm and if we were to
draw it out
the general general adapt at adaptation syndrome
syndrome
we would go like this and we put stress
resistance over here
we go down here and this is going to be
like you know progression of time
and we are going to break it down into
three stages the first
is alarm the second is resistance
and the third is exhaustion and so we
find that something
happens uh our stress resistance goes
down because we freak out this is new
that i don't know what to do i don't
have any resources what am i gonna do
what am i gonna do
and then all of a sudden we start
tapping into those resources and we come
up with a plan and we think we're gonna
fight it
i think the resistance i think about
like star wars and stuff
the fighters we are going to fight
against this but we can only stay
there for so long until we burn out we
go into his job
exhaustion so you can see how this is
just a general
kind of way of understanding the stress response
response
uh so the second step what i just said
was resistance
resistance is if stress continues the
body is going to
rebound to a phase of increased
resistance uh physiological arousal is
you have this outpouring of stress hormones
think about cortisol we're going to talk
people use a variety of coping methods
you know if all of a sudden you think
you're going to lose your job well i'm
not going to lose my job freak out freak
out for you
okay but now okay i'm going to i'm not
going to sleep i'm going to sacrifice in
my sleep i'm sacrificing my family time
i'm going to stay here i'm going to
prove that i'm a valuable asset to the team
team
i'm not going to lose my job i'm going
to stay in one fight but eventually you
can't fight anymore and you go into exhaustion
exhaustion
your body's resistance can only last so long
so right now sometimes students are
going into fight mode
they're fighting they're working harder
they're not sleeping they're studying
they're trying to do quizzes and exams
and they study sage to try to recover
their grade and then they show up finals
week and everyone's sick
it's it's what always happens uh just
because the general way we deal with stress
stress
uh we push ourselves too far and then we
break resistance can only last so long
before exhaustion sets in
to serious illness and we get those
outcomes of this phase
we get uh uh diseases of adaptation
asthma ulcers high blood pressure i
talked about that in another video
um so sometimes we wonder why on earth
does the uh immune system
eventually shut down because when we
first get stressed
the immune system goes into hyperdrive
but then all of a sudden it stops
and so it's why why does it stop and one
of the arguments that i've heard and i
post a video on this that's not by me
that's by someone else
is that if you keep your immune system uh
uh
activated too much for too long your
body always has your back and it's
always trying to bring us back to a
level of homeostasis
and it's thinking this is too activated
the immune system has been active for
too long we must be developing
an autoimmune disorder like arthritis or
these different disorders where the
immune system is too strong it's
fighting against the body itself kind of thing
thing
um and so we think oh my gosh autoimmune
disorder the body thinks that
shut down the stress response it's been
activated too long
and so then all of a sudden this the
immune system sorry shut down the immune
system it's been activated too long so
then we don't have any kind of immune system
system
it shuts itself down it's kind of like
darn it body
now the detail stress response we're
almost there i have eight minutes to go
in detail you don't need to write that okay
okay
detail first the cerebral cortex
is going to interpret a stressor
we know that this is a part of the brain
that makes us us you know cortex means
bark if you all see a picture of a
little dog
barking on the uh on the exam you know
that i'm talking about the cerebral
cortex it's the fanciest part of the
brain it's that outer fancy layer that
makes us
incredible so our cerebral cortex us
that's kind of almost where we are
we interpret the stressor the next thing
that happens is
y'all what's the master of the uh
endocrine system pituitary gland
okay and what's the master of the
pituitary gland the
hippocampus or hypothalamus you got it
there remember the hippocampus is like
an elephant that has to do the memory
you got it good the hypothalamus is
going to be the master of that endocrine
system so the hypothalamus this is a
test question on its m2
activates our sam system
the sam system is the first part of our
stress response
and then the hpa
axis the second part of our stress
response they work together to increase
arousal and energy levels to deal with stress
stress
so let's break this down the first one
the sam system
what does sam stand for if you know what
sam stands for gives you the answer to a
lot of stuff
uh for these questions sympatho adrino medjulari
now what does and i guess i won't write
that yet
okay so we're just dealing with the sam
system sympatho adreno
medullary we are going to talk about the
adrenal glands the adrenal glands sit on
the kidneys like little santa claus hats
that's in that lecture that uh that lady
gives that i posted for you guys i think
it's so cute
i always think now i look at the kidneys
those little adrenal glands are sitting
like little santa claus hats
um and so the adrenal glands are what
we're interested in here they're part of
the endocrine system
but the part of the adrenal gland that's
that's used in the sam system doesn't
act like a true
endocrine gland it acts more like the
sympathetic nervous system
so think sympathetic is fast responding
it's going to be the first thing that's
if someone jumps up behind you you're
going to get scared that sympathetic
nervous system is going to engage
rapid acting
stress response involving the
the sympathetic nervous system
stimulates the adrenal medulla which is
going to release norepinephrine and
epinephrine so the medulla or the
how do other people say medulla i see
him do a lot uh the medulla is think
about just like with the brain
um it was like more of the inner part of
the brain
it wasn't well something's happening
but y'all can still hear me
technology issues today can you also
yeah we can hear you okay and
disconnected but somehow it didn't
okay uh sympathetic nervous system and
the adrenal medulla so the medulla is
the inner part
uh whereas the cortex is that outer bark
so we're gonna talk about the adrenal
cortex versus the adrenal medulla the
medulla is the inner part
it acts more like a sympathetic kind of
response and it's going to release
this you can basically think sometimes
they call it just adrenaline and
noradrenaline like it's the same thing adrenaline
adrenaline
nor adrenaline these are confusing
um but it releases that and so we know
like epinephrine and we know adrenaline
like you get a shot of adrenaline you
have all this energy
or you think about somebody who's like
dying and they shoot them with an epi pen
pen
um or they're having an allergic
reaction they shoot them with an epipen
to jump start the system
so this is fast acting and we're going
to see heart rate increases as does
blood pressure respiration and muscle tension
tension
heart rate blood pressure respiration
we're going to see digestion on the
digestion decreases there's a brain gut connection
connection
it's really strong um you know maybe
uh it shuts down and then the colon
starts to spasm so somebody gets really
stressed and they have to go to the
bathroom or maybe they can't go to the
bathroom so you end up with constipation
and diarrhea issues
because of stress there's this really strong
strong
connection there because we don't need
when we're combating something
we don't need digestion that's wasted
energy so it's like get everything out
of here so that we don't do that
or just shut everything down and keep
everything inside it's like get in or
get out
and we're done with digestion we have
more important things going on
get that heart pumping get the person
breathing get their muscles active get
them energized with oxygenated blood
um so the activation is going to
eventually be shut down once the
stressors are removed
but we see that the key things i need
you all to know
uh rapid acting stress response
sympathetic nervous system the adrenal medulla
medulla
releases norepinephrine and epinephrine
now the other
part of our stress response the hpa axis
we're almost done
this stands for hypothalamic pituitary
adrenocortical
your answer is in that
we now know we're talking about ah the
pituitary means making more endocrine system
system
uh not so much sympathetic system and so
it's going to be slower
and then i think oh the cortex that's
going to release cortisol cortisol looks
so much like cortical
or you know these uh what are they uh glucocorticoids
glucocorticoids
um and so it all the answers are all
there in the
uh real word for hpa axis okay so this
is our body's
delayed stress response
i don't need to write it out the
pituitary gland and the adrenal cortex
so the pituitary glands would activate
that one that you see on all the
commercials do you have a belly fat and
it could be cortisol causing it
uh cortisol a lot of people know this is
stress hormone
and so cortisol is going to increase metabolism
metabolism
leading to increased energy
once the stress has been removed the
rising levels of cortisol signal the
brain to shut down the fight-or-flight
response of the sam system while other hpa
hpa
chemical resp uh message messages are
sent to the pituitary gland to restore
the body to its baseline state of homeostasis
homeostasis
so after all of this we get back to homeostasis
homeostasis
to maintain a relatively balanced
and stable internal state
such as a constant internal
temperature think about
uh home
your home is your secure base where it
should be
balanced and things are stable that's
your dream home
and so students have said home homeo is
where i stasis
um you want to always go back to this
baseline level of functioning go back home
home
get out of all of that and go back home
it's going to be okay
okay so that sounds complicated there
are a lot
of questions on this on the exam but
like i said with
the sam system we need the initial rapid
acting we need sympathetic nervous
system we need the adrenal medulla we need
need
epinephrine norepinephrine with hpa axis
we need um the pituitary gland
uh the adrenal cortex glucocorticoids
including cortisol
and this is our delayed stress response
so i want you all to know the difference
between those two
um and you'll you'll practice that on
the quizzes once you get to that section
okay that is everything for stress we
did it and thank you guys for being
understanding and sticking
around longer i'm going to go ahead and
stop this recording and then say goodbye
to everyone
but bye to everyone that's watching this
later message me if you have any questions
questions goodbye
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