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- Differences in learned helplessness
- Changes in diet and relaxation techniques.
- Truth and mental health go hand and hand. Stay in the present.
- Maintain social connections 100%

Managing stress
- Some personalities deal better with stress. But everyone can
- Aging — avoid damaging hippocampus.
- Figure out how to displace stress to another locus. Something that can be managed.

- If a male baboon can’t tell the difference between a threat and not one, they’ll respond with an overactive response, etc. males who are passive have higher gluc. Males most likely to go deal by using violence, are those with lower gluc. Men coping best have outlets and are successful.
- Proactive effects of friendship and social networks to lower stress

The response of the amygdala to stress is important to aging.
When stress is prolonged, memory declines, as retrieval is interrupted.
Because the attention energy is diverted elsewhere. Unclear if dementia is driven by this, chicken and egg issue.
We also use glucocorticoids fo treatments like for rash or AIDS, or immune diseases and that could accelerate the memory issues.

how do neurons and neurosynapses communicate? And how do we improve the connections to improve long term memory.
Stress interrupts this by interrupting the hippocampus’s trigger to code to long term. By increasing glucose to the brain, but helps you remember the experience. Stress means you become more sensitive to stimulant.

HM and epilepsy and hippocampus on its severing of the lobes because he can learn but not remember.

Stress and memory — stress can disrupt memory if long term. But better to short term depending on the need, and on short or long term functionality. Explicit and implicit procedural memory (rote).
When you think too hard about an implicit memory (walking) you make it explicit and almost impossible.

Stress and sex — we have to circumvent infertility because we’ve made it impossible to keep going. Even the mildest stressor don’t necessarily shut down reproduction. Somehow still survive…
Study in concentration camps - ended menstruation. But most stopped before it was before they had starved. But only half actually lost reproductively. Men rarely stopped.

Stress reduces erections and release
Women not supposed to have as many cycles as they have in western culture — endometriosis?
Also impacts female libido.

Stress diverts energy from cells, messes with insulin resistance/use and increases LDL.