What actually happens to your brain when you get ill? Turns out, far more than just feeling rubbish.
In this episode, Adam and Andy are joined again by Hannah Warner Swann – to break down the neuroscience of illness, inflammation, and emergence. We get into why inflammation can cross the blood-brain barrier and shut your thinking down, what sickness behaviours are and why your body forces them on you, and why pain isn't technically a real thing – it's your brain making a very educated guess.
We also get into consciousness as a controlled hallucination, depression as a biological defence mechanism, evolution and why you're not actually built for efficiency, and why diversity is one of the greatest strengths of the human species.
Yah, it's a big one.
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Chapters
00:00 - Clip
00:37 - Intro (ft. Hannah's back & talking slower)
01:23 - What is emergence? Mind, body & brain explained
04:13 - How neuroscience has changed in one lifetime
05:01 - The topic: what illness does to your brain
05:58 - Inflammation – your body's hand grenade
07:28 - How inflammation crosses into the brain
08:28 - Sickness behaviours – why you go quiet & withdraw
13:57 - Self-compassion & listening to your body
16:30 - Body and brain are the same thing
17:17 - Consciousness as a controlled hallucination
18:25 - Pain isn't real – it's a prediction!
19:02 - Depression as a defence mechanism
22:00 - Why we don't understand our own bodies
26:39 - You are a survival machine
27:03 - Evolution isn't about efficiency
28:43 - The two cavemen & stress
30:24 - Neurodiversity – everyone's brain is different
31:34 - Outro
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This podcast will change your life, if you let it.
Welcome to One Brain At A Time, an Action Your Potential podcast.
At the top of your neck you have the most powerful processing device in the known universe. But no-one's ever told you how it works... until now.
Each Monday, Action Your Potential consultants Adam Wright and Andy Feist strip away the jargon and break down the neuroscience into practical tools you can apply straight away.
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One Brain At A Time is written and presented by Adam Wright & Andy Feist. Production from Adam Wright and Andy Feist. Intro Music: “Happy Life” by Fredji (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvQ-5RCt9xs&list=PLfP6i5T0-DkK-1uhfhicxlQ2FJwbuA7uU&index=26). One Brain At A Time is an Action Your Potential production.
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