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Break the Cycle: How Confusion Fuels Inflammation

6 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk by Dr. Tabatha Barber linking psychological confusion to physiological stress responses. The speaker argues that indecision or mental confusion (e.g., conflicted goals like wanting to lose weight) triggers cortisol and adrenaline release, producing internal stress that drives inflammation and disease — a self-reinforcing vicious cycle. The content frames confusion as a causal driver of chronic stress and inflammation and emphasizes breaking that cycle.

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How our mind is thinking of things is how our subconscious is either going to allow us to move toward that or to, you know, shrink and run away from that. And so it might be that when we say we want to lose weight, it just causes confusion. And the other clarity I had was confusion causes inflammation because confusion creates stress internally. So when our mind is confused and can't make a decision and move forward on something, the cortisol starts pumping, the adrenaline starts pumping, and all of that confusion creates stress, and that stress creates inflammation and disease. And so that is literally the vicious cycle that we are staying in.