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Welcome to Stress Navigation's Core Concepts, a series where we get to the core of the latest research on stress and daily life.

I'm your host, Marcos Ros, and if you're someone interested in stress and the technology to measure it, be it a fellow scientist, a student, or someone with a niche for knowledge, this series is for you.

Thanks to the help of stress in action researchers, in 10 to 15 minute episodes, we'll take you on a journey of what these core concepts are, what stress is, why studying it is important, how to measure and analyze its main components, and finally, how all this information can help you live a better life.

In today's episode, we build on what we've discussed so far.

We've talked about how stress relates to cardiometabolic disease, and now it's time to talk about how we measure it.

In this conversation, we've invited Robin Lengton, a postdoctoral researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center, to walk us through the essentials of measuring stress from the biological perspective.

In the next 10 minutes, Robin will show you the different methods currently in use and why measuring how your body responds to cortisol matters just as much as how much of it you produce.

This episode is hosted by Mirtes Schoonmakers.

And this is something I actually got from Evan Rachel Wood when she came on our podcast in regards to her relationship with Marilyn Manson.

She said something, Brian Warner, I should say, that healing is like, you have to know that there's going to be a light at the end of the tunnel and i remember somebody telling that to me early on like i know you're in the thick of it right now but it's going to be okay one day i'll look back at this time and you'll be like wow i've come so far and it's true it's like there's always a light and then with this ptsd stuff then there's often another tunnel and but then you have to remember there's another light and i i loved that metaphor i always experienced my healing in waves like i'm on the beach again and i'm fine and i'm like okay i'm finding my grounding and then boom like a tsunami of Stress and PTSD hits me usually when something new happens in the NXIVM world in the news and people want to talk about it and hear my opinion or like somebody, you know, gets out and is sharing their experience and it's just like a new wave.

But we just have to remember that the waves hit us in different times.

And I just have to say to Nippy, like, I'm not in a good place right now.

Up to 80% of your automatic thoughts, as in your first thought, your first reaction, the first thing that pops into your head when something happens, is untrue.

Did you also know that up to 95% of all illness and disease is stress related? Yeah, wild.

Stress primarily originates in the mind, right? This makes sense.

And this is science, okay? I'm giving you some science.

Your mind is the gatekeeper.