What Aimie Apigian has said about Stress response and adrenaline
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 23, 2026
Aimie Apigian, Physician and trauma expert, author of The Biology of Trauma and founder of Trauma Healing Accelerated, has been quoted on Stress response and adrenaline 2 times in 1 episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, most recently on October 23, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Apigian contends that adrenaline, not cortisol, is the primary driver of the stress response.
“People like to say that cortisol is the stress hormone. No, no, no, no. Adrenaline is the real hero of the stress response”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Disease | Here’s How to Heal Now! | Dr. Aimie Apigian (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 9:50
Apigian says chronic procrastinators often have a trauma-related functional freeze and use the adrenaline of deadlines to act.
“So people who procrastinate, they're often the ones who have this functional freeze in our story and trauma because they need the adrenaline”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Disease | Here’s How to Heal Now! | Dr. Aimie Apigian (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 24:15
Episodes
Re-Air: Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Disease | Here’s How to Heal Now! | Dr. Aimie ApigianMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Oct 23, 2026 · 2 h 13 min
Physician Aimie Apigian tells Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen how unresolved trauma affects cells, the nervous system, and chronic diseases, and how somatic work can help.
Aimie Apigian on other topics
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- Autoimmune disease · 2 quotes
- Somatic experiencing · 2 quotes
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- Menopause · 1 quote
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