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Stress: What’s the Solve? with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

Stress: What’s the Solve? with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

Smart Girl Dumb Questions

January 27, 20261h 2m

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Show Notes

Do you think your phone is breaking your brain? Is the stress of the news cycle rewiring our physiology? And why do we feel so behind our Jan 1 resolutions … only 3 weeks in? Nayeema asks the Qs we all have to stress expert Dr. Aditi Nerurkar — a physician on faculty at Harvard Medical School and the author of the book: The Five Resets.


They get into the science of neuroplasticity (yes, your brain is changing every day), why your brain needs time to build new circuits, and why multitasking is basically “task-switching” in a trench coat — weakening attention, memory, and cognition.


Plus: the case for 10-second breaks, an explanation of “revenge bedtime procrastination”and why stress can turn into emotional eating (hi, amygdala).


Note: this conversation was taped in December.


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