Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Are You Always On Edge_ The Hidden Stress You Don't Realize | Is Your Exhaustion Actually Stress?

3 Mar 2025 · 0 min

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A brief conversational clip from a YouTube video featuring Aaron Hartman, MD discussing how people can remain physiologically 'revved up' long after an emotional trigger — indicating an overactive sympathetic nervous system — and noting that genetic factors (e.g., a COMT SNP) may contribute to this tendency.

Beyond normal.
Emotional response. Yeah.
Yeah. So are you still thinking about it, you know, hours and hours later? I think that's something that a lot of people don't realize who live, like, good lives and have good families and all that kind of stuff, but they don't realize that, you know, when they get revved up and they can't kind of bring it down, that's actually their. Their sympathetic nervous system is always kind of, like, on edge.
Yeah.
That could also.
Be genetic. That could be a comt gene. Snp.
True.
Because if they can't break down catecholamines, then they're kind of stuck in that hyperadrenaline, hypercortisolemic state.