Hans Selye

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this was done by a Canadian scientist, Hans Selye.

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localized signaling by these hormones interrupts the growth pattern is what happened okay so again We go back to the field that we discuss a lot, which is called psychoneuroimmunology.

So, you know, I was looking for a study, and don't worry, I found one, that talks about the stress response.

So Hans Seelye, who's like the father of modern stress, he kind of talks about this Seelye, S-E-L-Y-E.

I don't know how to say that, but he's kind of the father of stress.

And I actually did my whole PhD on the inflammatory response.

I want eustress, eustress.

As Hans Selye taught, stress is what builds you.

It creates muscles.

It creates the ability to have more choices than yes, no, this way or that way, realizing that there are are infinite directions you can go in.

And in other ways, they're stereotypic because we're still an organism that has stereotypic reactions to life.

Let's call it Hans Selye, right? The stress of life.

And so we then see with patients as we start to engage, the engagement pieces is important.

So as we start to talk, you start to watch like, well, how are they responding? To what degree are they responding? What's their posture? What's their breath? And that's the starting place.

Get up.

This work was born out of Hans Selye.

He talked about the stress of life.

And he asked the question, does stress affect the body? And so he took rats, put them in a container and tied them down.

Yeah, it's not in our notes to talk about, but maybe we should just say something about Bruce, who unfortunately passed away pretty suddenly, I guess, six and a half years ago or so now, just prior to the pandemic.

But he was a very successful researcher that really was very inspiring, right? And sort of the many people that are called like Hans Selye, the father of stress, but he would be, I don't know, like a, I don't know, an uncle of stress or something, right?

Yeah, Hans Selye was based in Montreal where I'm at.

Oh, really? Why

did I not know that? He

Let's start with stress itself, because it has a bit of an image problem.

The modern scientific idea of stress owes a lot to a Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist named Hans Selye.

In the 1930s, Selye was injecting rats with various substances and noticed something odd.

No matter what he injected, the rats showed a similar set of responses.

Let's look at where we've been.

We started with stress, which isn't the villain of the story, just a force that becomes harmful when it never lets up.

We met Hans Selye and his rats, Yerkes and Dodson and their upside-down you.

We traced the word burnout to a psychologist who recognized it in himself, and we learned its three dimensions.

What is that? It is the most jarring and stress-inducing energy that you could produce and feed human beings.

How insane is that? What is that? Stress? Look at Hans Selye, the original pioneer in the entire field of understanding of how stress induces acidification of the body temple.

And it's the

acid that burns.

And, you know, I use, you know, when I talk about the 28% study, I use this as an example.

But, you know, Selye, remember Selye, who did ease and dis-ease stress? Oh, yeah.

The original researcher back in the 60s on stress.

And, you know...