{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6596ba75d414f00016c8a9bd/67065fafed8ff5205e2cba38?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"NuCalm’s Jim Poole on anxiety: Why the brain ‘knows how to heal’","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6596ba75d414f00016c8a9bd/1763648730031-feec5978-187c-4d65-b8d2-6cb88332125a.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Evgeny Lebedev is joined by Jim Poole, chairman, president and chief executive of neuroscience company Solace Life Sciences.</p><p>The company owns NuCalm, a technology designed to reduce stress and improve sleep without recourse to drugs.</p><p>You may have even spotted the Duchess of Sussex wearing one of their stress relief patches.</p><p>In this episode, Evgeny and Jim explore the evolution of the human brain, anxiety and how to deregulate the amygdala, a small, almond-shaped part of the brain that plays a central role, which Jim says ‘feeds on fear’.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong><u>In this episode:</u></strong></p><ul><li>The current state of brain understanding</li><li>Brain psychology and its evolution</li><li>The autonomic nervous system and how it shapes everything from stress to relaxation</li><li>Ho to control anxious thoughts</li><li>How to downregulate the amygdala, the part of the brain that triggers intense fear responses</li><li>Different frequencies in the brain and how they influence mental states</li><li>Why “the Western world may be leading the cause” of anxiety</li></ul>","author_name":"Evening Standard"}