Cortisol and stress
Subject in Health & Fitness
Cortisol and stress has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Mel Robbins Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Lara BoydNeuroscientist and physical therapist, professor at the University of British Columbia and director of its Brain Behaviour Lab
Boyd explains that cortisol competes with growth factors that enable plasticity, likening it to cars occupying limited parking spots.
“cortisol has this negative effect of blocking the growth factors that allow the brain to be more neuroplastic. So they compete”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: #1 Neuroscientist: After Listening to This, Your Brain Will Not Be the Same (Oct 12, 2026) · Listen from 37:55
Podcasts
- The Mel Robbins Podcast · 1 episode
Episodes
#1 Neuroscientist: After Listening to This, Your Brain Will Not Be the SameThe Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 12, 2026 · 1 h 15 min
Mel Robbins talks with UBC neuroscientist Lara Boyd about neuroplasticity, how struggle, sleep, exercise and stress reduction rewire the brain, and how to make learning stick.