When it comes to survival, this is my favorite quote about instinct: "There are no bad instincts. Only bad environments." Dan Sadler

@kdadkzg8803

Жыл бұрын

That speaks volumes to the point it goes ignored. Gotta love the world right 👍

@c.s.hirstndt9648

Жыл бұрын

😅I can think of many inappropriate things that doesn’t fit in anything acceptable, either way. Sure has nothing to do with the environment

@kdadkzg8803

Жыл бұрын

@@c.s.hirstndt9648 yea like you

I love how calmly he articulates these concepts. A lot of speakers can be really forceful or overly excited about the points they're making. This is a breath of fresh air.

@pane36

Жыл бұрын

He was (and may still be, I'm not sure) a professor. Teaching concepts is kinda his bread and butter, but I agree with what you said all the same.

@Ratswithshivs

Жыл бұрын

I am guilty of getting too excited when people want to hear about the things I’m interested in lol

A few days ago I attended a large protest. Many thousands of people angry, shouting, being irrational. It was the most horrible thing to experience. I distanced myself from the protesters. Put on noise cancelling headphones so I didn't hear the chanting anymore. And listened to a positive ancient book, the Dhammapada. In 10 minutes all the negativity and discomfort was gone. I was more at peace than ever before. It are moments like that when you realize how much control you can have over your feelings by thinking the right things. Since that moment I've been listening to & reading Sapolsky non stop. May we have some calm control over that little which we actually have control over. Such that we can be better beings. Calm. In control. Just. Wise. Rational.

this guy has literally changed my life, I wish his perspective on the brain and living and biology could be given to every single person in the world, it would solve so many problems lol!

Thoughs, feelings, and instincts are the three fundamentals elements of Personality and is mirrored in the brain.

wow every 6 months- a year from now watch this video and you will realize the information you miss and now gained!! very deep

@av47av

2 жыл бұрын

@StraightUpTruth hmh Hm je Hh ju hhhh hhhh ju h hhhh h ju h ju hhh hahhhhh hhhh hhhh hhh hahhhhh hy

Professor Sapolski, I accidentally came upon one of your early lectures a few years ago, and watched a little, then you had me laughing and learning so much that I watched everything you've given us. I love what you do and the way you teach and I'm so glad I get to listen to you some more. I'm delighted that you keep teaching through the years. Thank you.

@jairohernandezgallego7996

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for such great amazing lesson on neurology.

I so wanna hang out with this dude

@captainalkaloid5342

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, but he doesn't want to, he told me that

@juliehopkins6255

4 жыл бұрын

@@captainalkaloid5342 haha 😂😂

@sixuangong5275

4 жыл бұрын

He is absolutely kind!

@NoWay1969

2 жыл бұрын

I don't. This is the last public intellectual that I have unvarnished respect for. Whatever awfulness that there is in his personality, I want to be long dead when it comes out.

@onefuture6

2 жыл бұрын

he's waiting for you at the cafe

I really like this guy, clear explanations, interesting subjects

@zaimahbegum-diamond1660

7 жыл бұрын

Luciano almeida filho try his Standford lectures. so good.

@weishenmejames

6 жыл бұрын

I concur

@Seeds-Of-The-Wayside

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Inspiring.

@psychee1

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's really remarkable when you think about it; Here, explain how the brain functions in 8 minutes or less. Go! Robert Sapolsky: Hold my beer.

@leecoates

2 жыл бұрын

His books are even better.

Gen 1: Need Gen 2: Want Gen 3: Logic

@s.combis2866

2 жыл бұрын

Thnks this is a lot simpler

@tnl-warrior3218

2 жыл бұрын

Gen: 4 Enlightenment and beyond the brain

@john99699

2 жыл бұрын

Layer 1- Instincts, Layer 2- Emotions and Layer 3- Reason

@ashekbuckman4656

2 жыл бұрын

@@tnl-warrior3218 😂

@tothedirtwhenidie1798

2 жыл бұрын

Need want have

I’m going to tell my kids this was Socrates

@aocplusme5676

2 жыл бұрын

Socrates was executed publicly for "corrupting" kids so... yea

@popopop984

2 жыл бұрын

@@aocplusme5676 Oof

@mundanemoon8196

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@snazzysnazzergryphon8550

2 жыл бұрын

@@aocplusme5676 Did he actually corrupt kids or is that just how those people felt.

@aliyankhan8592

2 жыл бұрын

@@aocplusme5676 He didn't corrupt no one. He was too good at asking questions and people got offended becasue they couldn't answer. Something like that.

Best part is "think about" . He could have used the word imagination. We imagine all day long dictating what our next experience will be. The brain gathers everything in its arsenal to make you get what you imagine. The cortext has a job of making you happy even if sadness is your happiness. Become aware of the following and witness for yourself. Continuous brain imaginations: The need to be right, important, serious, criticize, stand out, special, more..more, not enough, victim, perpetrator. These imaginations or thoughts are constantly going through our brains. Ninety-nine percent of people are completely run by their imaginations and have no clue they can witness, imagine the opposite at any given time thus changing the outcome of their experience. Often it is our self telling us to imagine the exact opposite which is what we truly want. It can be used as a guidance system until we understand the brain processes, environment and the human gift we were born with. I hope you're hearing.

@thinkingagain5966

5 жыл бұрын

How would you fix over imagination?

@HeyyItsTylerrr

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this comment.

@nekolevi8452

2 жыл бұрын

@@thinkingagain5966 by the right thinking.

@edwardkenway6467

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@user-rl6gi6gs9z

2 жыл бұрын

@@thinkingagain5966 by mental hygiene. Like not watching TV. Especially ads and news. By being on open air more and less in closed human made space. By not buying smartphones to often. E.t.c.

Omg I love Dr. Sapolsky! His lectures on human behavioral biology are so witty!!! I hope any of my professors are as engaging.

"humans, as civilized as Vulcans when well fed, as barbaric as Klingons when hungry" - some star trek paraphrase I thought of when he mentioned that people judge transgression be more harshley when hungry

@popopop984

2 жыл бұрын

Well we’re animals at our core, if you put us in situations where only animal instincts and cold rational thought can help us survive then yes. Although even in those situations people can do kind acts which is surprising and totally goes against how the survival instinct should work so it is impressive

@Ragnarok540

2 жыл бұрын

Not justifying anything but if everyone on earth had enough food everyday, there would be a lot less crime and violence. Again, is not that simple but that would help.

@Galifamackus

2 жыл бұрын

I once heard “If it feels like you’re angry with everyone, eat something. If it feels like everyone is angry with you, get some sleep.”

@Ali-kb8gr

2 жыл бұрын

Lol 😁 I always appreciate illustrations in star trek lingo. 🖖

@Ali-kb8gr

2 жыл бұрын

@@Galifamackus🤔 I like that saying....

I feel so much more informed after listening to your talk. Thank you so much! Now I'm wondering how going to counseling every week and bringing up those traumatic thoughts is beneficial. Or is it not?

This is amazing. I think this can be useful in terms of recovering from trauma. Besel van der Kolk's best-selling book The Body Keeps the Score discusses how the body can carry trauma at a cellular level that the mind has no memory of making conventional Freudian "talk therapy" not only ineffective but sometimes dangerous. If you are encouraged to engage someone who traumatized you when you were dependent upon them, it could trigger the feelings you felt at the time the trauma originally occurred, which could cause you to shut down or go into fight or flight mode. All 3 of these systems affect one another in subtle and complex ways. Thanks again for this important material. : )

@squamish4244

2 жыл бұрын

We need neuroscientific technologies very desperately too. It is _extremely_ hard to change deeply rooted brain patterns from the outside in.

@kimberknutson831

2 жыл бұрын

@@squamish4244 That is so true. Once I really understood how certain kinds and degrees of traumas can alter a person, I have come to believe that is almost impossible to undo the damage after the fact. The impossible part, unfortunately, seems more likely, and the almost part seems to suggest a sliver of hope. The book I alluded to in the previous post concedes your point. Van der Kolk claims that you cannot negotiate or reason with a traumatized body. The only thing that you can do is to try to quite literally rewire the system, which he says can be done by doing what he refers to as "adult play." A traumatized body is stiff and unyielding because it is always tight and braced for danger. He says that you do not have to remember the details or revisit the original trauma to begin to try to repair the damage. You simply have to be willing to acknowledge that you were traumatized and have a sincere desire to want to do something about it. He says that if you are stuck in survival mode, you are merely existing, which he does not consider actually living. I wholeheartedly agree. Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs posits 5 levels. The first level concerns the basics, you know, food and shelter. The second level solely concerns personal safety. The top 3 levels include imagination, creativity, friendship, intimacy, warmth, kindness, generosity, love, laughter, appreciation for beauty and nature, wisdom, and all of the other potentially positive, constructive, enjoyable aspects of the human experience. Survival is existing, but it is not really being alive. Van der Kolk claims that if you engage in adult play, which includes dancing, laughter, walking, running, swimming, bicycle riding, wiggling, jumping, rolling down a hill on a grassy slope, etc., anything that gets the body moving, you can rewire the body and get it out of its stiff, protective mode. Adult play can convince the body that it is safe in the here and now on this day in this year of 2022, as opposed to every day being the day, month or year in which the body was originally traumatized. By acknowledging that you were traumatized and engaging in "adult play," you are taking responsibility for your own life experience by reprogramming your body to believe that it is safe in the here and now. Apparently, this adult play has a cumulative effect and can eventually rewire your physical apparatus to stop bracing for danger and begin experiencing all the good things that a human life can offer. To recap, fear is a mechanism that we have to alert us to danger. We are not supposed to spend most of our lives in fear. Fear is not a viable, meaningful state of being. This dynamic also applies to animals. My daughter who is now 22 used to volunteer for a no-kill animal shelter when she was in high school that sought healthy adoptive homes for dogs. The owner of the shelter and her husband kept all of the dogs that she and her husband affectionately referred to as "the criminals," who were the dogs that will probably never recover from, say, their previous owners having intentionally thrown them down a flight of stairs.Finally, Van der Kolk was traumatized himself as a child. After several wasted years in conventional psychological therapy, he branched out on his own and discovered these things about trauma and then developed a solution in the form of "adult play." Another doctor to refer to on this subject is Dr. Gabor Mate, who was also traumatized as a child and is himself still engaged in the process of healing and recovery while he also attempts to help others. As you say, it is difficult to change the system from the outside, but I want to and actually do believe that it is possible to change it and ultimately the only thing worth doing if you want to live a life of meaning.

@sonkeschmidt2027

Жыл бұрын

@@squamish4244 it's not hard, just unfamiliar. The techniques are all there, they simply don't get acknowledged yet.

@jamesandrews568

Жыл бұрын

@@kimberknutson831 I guarantee I knew what you were going to say before you said it. Adult play will and does cure even psychopathy and absorbing the hurt that was unfairly put upon their psyche as a child. Helpless as they were....... But who is going to volunteer for that????? Someone who almost doesn't have the option and has 100 mulligans saved up which allows them to forgive and disassociate the violence from the being which after the bitterness and fear is settled will want the best for that person as they saw some hope there. I guarantee I have successfully done this over a 2 year period and my former psychopath/best friend can prove it. Not sociopath....... I mean full on one in a million "I love to see you in pain!" Haha ha haha psycho laugh at the end. Towards the end they

My brain is feeling more enlightened unto itself after hearing this👍 Thanks

Yes, inverse (from the reptilian brain to the cortex) can also be postural. Certain physical postures can have a state-change effect on higher-order cognitive functions. Especially when engaged with a strong visualization, which can create a coherence across the brain. Prompting a State Change.

@duhast43

2 жыл бұрын

so… psychedelics?

@duhast43

2 жыл бұрын

weird thing is… im doing the wim hof method daily, and i use cannabis before the exercises to reach a almost psychedelic state, when i found out that placing a weighted thingy on my chest, it really helps me to breathe deeply and easily.

@pranakhan

2 жыл бұрын

@@duhast43 I have used the same methods in the past, to great results. I experimented with the weights at first, to help guide my mind through the breath inside the body. It has now become a purely mindful process, as I work to integrate the Kundalini breath with the Blessing of the Energy Centers meditation by Dr. Joe Dispenza. Very powerful stuff. Blessings to you in your cultivation

@averageillegalmemesdealer

2 жыл бұрын

@@duhast43 Visualization doesn't mean visuals. It means imagining something, such as you working and succeeding (which prompts your brain to fire transmitters/hormones related to the creation and feeling of success). But psychedelics can give you introspection on this process and let you get a bird's eye perspective on your own behavior. It more easily allows you to realize how fluid your sense of “self” is, thus giving you a bit of leeway on changing behavior. But psychedelics shmyckedelics. They won't do shit if you don't have the mindset to suffer & work for it, so focus more on visualization than visuals hahah

At age 62, I am still performing on a high level just as I did at 47, at 27, 17, and 7 years of age. I'm still excelling at whatever I do. Out performing people half my age, showing them better ways to do a task. Imagine, waking up without any recollection of what took place yesterday, it could have been a terrible day, it a terrific day. And it isn't present today. So what happens when yesterday never happened, last week, last month and so on? Without a past you will not know that you exist. It is in this state that you live in the true state of being a human being. In essence you are living as all species lives in Earth. It is through this state that without trying, without thinking, situations provokes your brain to bring out whatever hidden ability you have to tend to that situation. This is the Mushin state.

@PsychologyFLife

Жыл бұрын

This philosophy >>

When your neuroscientist is a rockstar... XD

@jonbassett9391

2 жыл бұрын

Rick Rubinstein!

@ibperson7765

2 жыл бұрын

Pfff. Good luck employing that “wisdom”. I’ll stick with aristotle etc

@candacesturtevant7139

2 жыл бұрын

He is a biologist. Robert Scapolsky (sp).

@NicoAssaf

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibperson7765 What do you mean? (And I'm asking as a reader of Aristotle.)

@ibperson7765

2 жыл бұрын

@@NicoAssaf Maybe Aristotle wasnt the best choice. I was just saying that all my attempts to benefit from modern psychology and biology and neurochemistry didnt make me thrive. For one thing they keep saying love yourself and “self-esteeem!!” (which Im not against anyone loving themselves but is not a strategy). Ancient wisdom the way to go. First I had to finally escape the impossible and self-contradictory prison of scientific materialism. In fact, I meditate a lot (many retreats etc). And have have profound and transcendent experiences and eventually experienced what I can only call the divine. And there were three united, manifold aspects. Researched the trinity and found it profound. Finally picked up the bible and everything Ive ever been told about it is wrong. It is the most read book in world history by a huge margin for a reason. (One example, I was always told we have no idea what the nt actually said, and it is a translation of a translation through many languages and lost. No, John wrote his gospel in Greek, I have a modern English translation.. but I digress). Also love advaita. Wise. I now view stuff like the above as trite sciency glitter as far as leading an awesome life. Maybe works for some. Never worked for me. Always sounded good, never useful for life.

Mr. Sapolsky is a great teacher. Looking forward to more!

I could listen to Bob Sapolsky for hours….and I do: Stanford’s KZread has many of his lectures available. :)

Absolutely true 1000% true This video is For those males in their 30s and under still searching their purpose in life Are Mature in numbers but still act and think like a teenager and yet wondering why their life is spiraling downwards... Can't focus cause your always too distracted... Can't handle responsibilities or confrontations... not knowing where to start or who to ask ... This video allows you to understand your judgements of the outside world.... And helps you understand why you make certain desitions when your body is addicted to certain chems.... ( Pills,weed,Coke,etc) Very helpful thank you Please watch it may save your life

@renebleu8711

4 жыл бұрын

Moe. S good stuff

"First off I love his hair, remarkable.. Great youtube post!"

I will never cease to confirm my opinion about Gand... ehm mr Sapolsky... he is one of the greatest scientists in that field... a legend.

All mr. Sapolsky videos on this channel were really interesting. Thank you, Big Think!

This is absolutely and utterly beautiful and fascinating!

This guy really knows his stuff and explains it in layman's terms.

@Monkey80llx

2 жыл бұрын

He’s reading prompts

@hansu7474

2 жыл бұрын

@@Monkey80llx You should watch his lectures. There are no prompts there and he talks just as fluidly.

@Dialogos1989

2 жыл бұрын

@@Monkey80llx your mom was reading prompts last night

@roanaya2598

Жыл бұрын

layman's term is an oxymoron bc the word in itself is not simple

Thanks Dr Sapolsky. I'm excited that I found a teacher of a complex subject with a great delivery. I enjoyed his lesson. Nice, I thought learning without political agenda was of the past. I may search for more. Anyone know if he's a professor (where) or surgeon or semi retired? Easy to learn from!

this is so awesome. Some actual study and use of the placebo effect.

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face." -- Mike Tyson

@peteryunge-bateman5807

3 жыл бұрын

The consequences of our irration are punches we, and future generations cannot avoid. Robert is insightful but he has yet to understand how and why the ration and meaning of emotions function within our thought process. Thanks for the laugh,with empathy Pete.

@EdeYOlorDSZs

2 жыл бұрын

This one cracked my up, It's actually relevant to the vid

@kevinbissinger

2 жыл бұрын

@@peteryunge-bateman5807 How many of his college courses have you actually taken, for you to make such a claim? I've taken quite a few, and he has quite a deep understanding...

@briggadoonfallon7976

2 жыл бұрын

pity the fool

@hansu7474

2 жыл бұрын

Fear or response to mortality can change how your cortex process things. So, yeah, it can basically wipe out your rational plan about your fighting strategies.

Gotta get this guy's book. His short interview on JRE was really informative. This guy is great.

This is amazing, everyone interested in brain science should see this, I study neuroscience and I love leraning from Robert Sapolsky!

That sums it all up. Thinking about something does affect our physical conditions.

Enjoy listening to him. I read his text, Behave. Nice book.

Love the video. Thanks for posting.

Never clicked so fast on a video before. Disclaimer: currently watching Sapolsky's Stanford video lectures and reading "Behave" at the moment. The guy is straight up balls-to-the-wall amazing. If you have some spare time do either of these and you will not regret it!

I've seen so many of his lectures, love him! His ability to simplify a complex system as the brain is outstanding. Dr Robert Sapolsky is the GOAT!! (Greatest Of All Times)😎

Hell yeah, even more Sapolsky!

Great vid, got some new perspectives

Thank you, Mr Sapolsky!

Very well articulated, very insightful!

Thank you for this video explanation!

MORE Robert Sapolsky PLEASE!!!

Looking Good. Love your lectures. Thanks so much for all the uploads.

I think of the relationship between the cortex and the limbic system as being like a self driving car and driver. In this case, the cortex being the AI and the limbic system the human driver. If the limbic system trusts the AI to drive, it leaves it to get on with driving our lives. If it doesn't trust us then it takes back control and we end up in a fugue state, helplessly watching ourselves do something we know will just get us into trouble. Adolescents who constantly get into stupid scrapes but can't explain why they do so, aren't being wilfully evasive when they grunt, 'I dunno'. They really don't know why they did it, they were locked out of the system and had no control because the limbic system had taken back control. The limbic system will only trust us to drive if we can demonstrate we can deliver what it wants. As what it wants basically comes down to sex and power, we need to get this right. Puberty for example, the limbic system says, 'Great! Let's bash a woman over the head with a rock and get ourselves laid!' Good scenario is that at this point our cortex steps in and says, 'Whoa! Slow down. I have a plan. It involves graduating, getting an income and a girlfriend etc'. While those unfortunate young men who's limbic system doesn't trust them to deliver, because they've been constantly told they aren't good enough for example, end up with disastrous lives as their limbic system drives in a straight line towards everything it wants. Scattering us pedestrians like skittles until it's forcibly stopped. We need to understand that if we're to help juveniles mature into responsible adults rather than become recidivist criminals.

I honestly needed to hear this today. thank you.

@weishenmejames

6 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@RonnieD1970

6 жыл бұрын

MissRiss he is my favorite educator. I have watched all his Stanford classes, all of his TedX and big think content, have his book and watched all his KZread interviews. He is my teaching hero

@mjjuana

6 жыл бұрын

Marissa Does Things s. 66

Amazingly well-explained! So, important to know this

Prof. Sapolsky, definitely a legend. So calm and so simple in presentation, yet so effective. Clarity like a crystal, calmness of a frozen lake. Divine being.

@jimmio1622

Жыл бұрын

WAAAAY TOO IMPRESSED WITH HIMSELF!!

👍I really like this channel very much. All videos are equally thought-provoking.

Thank you for this talk.

MORE Robert Sapolsky PLEASE!!!

@dannygjk

6 жыл бұрын

One place you can listen to him is in at least one of the Zeitgeist 'movies'.

@Jinsun202

2 жыл бұрын

HIGHLY recommend his books "Monkey Luv" and "Why Zebras Get Ulcers"!

“Thank you, Ancient Reptilian Brain.”

This completely blowed my mind. So many posibilities

This explains so much about ehy my grandma has mood swings, her blood pressure is bad. Though she takes medicines on time, it sometimes overwhelms her.

spot on video, i loved it. there is one issue however, Im not sure if he's a physician or not, but in practice hypertensive patients usually receive treatment because dietary and lifestyle modification usually does not help, thats why we use anti-hypertensive drugs. of course this varies from one patient to another. what i mean is you cant always force your body to just be healthy, its a lot more complicated than that.

Watching his massive lecture series on Stanfords channel. Have 2 of his books I'm crackin into.. that says a lot. I dont read much

This is so important to know all these things. I happened to saw this video coz I was reading what great salesman do.

zach galifianakis is going too far with these skits

@JediNiyte

5 жыл бұрын

LOL!

@1981Antman

4 жыл бұрын

Your response is absolutely hilarious!

@yorocco1

4 жыл бұрын

Meh

@sathwicked619

4 жыл бұрын

When I laid my eyes on this guy.. I knew there would be a funny comment on his resemblance to Zach

@infinitelovetarot6255

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

I love his lectures. He is the best in his field.

Right now I'm blushing and feeling the goosebumps simply because I'm elated for the new knowledge 🥳

Robert Sapolsky is absolutely brilliant. HIGHLY recommend his books "Monkey Luv" and "Why Zebras Get Ulcers"!

@platoscavealum902

2 жыл бұрын

👍

"Happy talking happy talk! Talk about things you'd like to do! You gotta have a dream! If you don't have a dream,, how you gonna have a dream come true? If you never talk happy, and you never have dream - how you gonna have a dream come true?" Rodgers and Hammerstein, "South Pacific".

Thank you for this excellent and understandable explanation, well done !

Thank you! it is very useful!

The last part about cognitive efforts to mitigate or handle physiological states is so stoicist. I find it even highly linked to the buddhist metaphor of the "second arrow", the worst suffering is caused by recursion between cognition and emotions after a painful event, if the cognition intervene in the good way, the suffering can be stop and left only with the initial pain. Yeah, cognition power baby !

Wise words ! Last few lines are very helpful

Thanks

QED 👍. Literally a decade of watching all kinds of videos from philosophy, to quantum mechanics, to heart brain coherence to ___(name it) and he explains it ALL in under 8 minutes!

"And if it's the right "thinknig about" suddenly your heart slows donwn." This is the answer to all our situations we experience. It's to think about the right "thinking about". I feel that we all know what is that right "thinkning about" but a lot of people can't go with it. It's like runing away from true. True self. Idk. Sorry for bad englis.

Well Spoken.Thxs.,Merci.

What a synchronicity !!! Last night I came to know about this from Zen Yoga book of P.J.Seher.

this is brilliant thanks!

Fantastic presentation. The "language" is different, but this is what the science of Yoga (not restricted to aasanaas) has been saying since about 5000y or more!

Kahuna, buddy. I gave my limbic system a name, it's my friend. I look out for it. We sit together at the fire. It's an amazing journey we are on for decades now. I highly recommend to find your very special friend.

Thank you so much! So, the emotional layer is in the middle? Always thought it's the deepest one.

@Chadthefatherbear

4 жыл бұрын

Hima wari the instinctive layer is the deepest. On top of the instinctive layer is the emotive layer (emotions regulate instinct). On top of the emotive layer is the cognitive layer (thought regulates emotion).

@reneeharold7358

3 жыл бұрын

@@Chadthefatherbear If you study eastern mysticism you'll see the limbic system is the seat of the higher self because it's astral/ emotional it's a reflection of the monadic and budhic planes. The limbic system evolved in past lives in the higher animals because we started families not because of sex as a lot western scientists think. You can't control your emotions with logic alone.

Epic explanation!

So I listened through it and yeah, just about everything he said is correct. I just have a problem with that last part. Blood pressure is a tightly controlled involuntary function of the body which obviously can be influenced by conscious thought, but such influences are not long lasting. The problem with hypertension is that your body's set pressure is slowly creeping up over time until it gets to the point it harms the body. No amount of positive thought will save a hypertensive patient. Ideally you wouldn't allow blood pressure to get to clinical high levels by eating a healthy diet and exercising.

thanks for this

Thank you for educating me

honestly this is incredibly good video

Thank you

Very insightful observation.... It helps me a lot thanks

Thank you so much!!

Wow so interesting! I suffer from hyperhydrosis since birth, I'd like to know if applying this method of conscious thinking could help me to overcome these moments when my palms get totally wet? Thank you

@johnnycarcosa5974

6 жыл бұрын

Breathe right and take cold shower bro. It works.

@Lara-yp5oc

5 жыл бұрын

Reda Zaki I've suffered from hyperthyroidism as well. It's horrible left untreated

@JulesBartow

4 жыл бұрын

I met one of you the other day. Surprised when I shook his moist hand. You should wear mittens or gloves, or get a tattoo on you forehead. Very disconcerting for us normal naive folks.

Wonderful explanation

He talks to me sarcastically as if I should already know this information and it really helps me understand it easier for some reason haha chill guy

Thank you!

Fantastic. Only recommendation is please include images and diagrams of the brain while Robert Sapolsky is speaking. Thanks.

@platoscavealum902

2 жыл бұрын

That would have made it even better! You’re absolutely correct.

"think about something incredibly upsetting, some memory that was truly disturbing, think about mortality" :( "think about the happiest day of your life" ... :(

@klarakrass9160

Жыл бұрын

Sick morality

best youtube channel I've found lately

What he is explaining is the Triune Theory of brain development and it has mainly problems and is therefore not referred to by mainstream scientist unless they are loosely using it for air quotes. Read more about it.

Thank you.

Once upon a time in Bali, I observed geckos on a ceiling. They are communicating, intimidating, fighting for the hunting territory closer to lamps, making allies. Looks quite emotional, even drammatic. And the fact that they are able to infer somehow that ceiling lamps a good spot for an ambush, looks even sort of intelligent.

@dennismitchell5276

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking of Crows doing their death ritual. Definitely emotional.

Ok ill buy that

Concise and informative while also engaging

His voice soothes me.

Very simple and to the point.

It's science for everyone! Thanks Big think!

Wow. I have learned so much, and I have learned something that made me think so much.