Stress response and adrenaline
Subject in Life Sciences
Stress response and adrenaline has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Mayim Bialik's Breakdown. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Aimie ApigianPhysician and trauma expert, author of The Biology of Trauma and founder of Trauma Healing Accelerated
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
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
Podcasts
- Mayim Bialik's Breakdown · 1 episode
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.