A short conversation between Robert Whitfield MD and another speaker about how external stress translates into internal physiological stress, which can cause disease. Whitfield references his book 'Sharp' and frames surgery (the surgeon and the operation) as a major source of stress/cortisol; the dialogue emphasizes preparing patients and managing stress to improve recovery.
External stress causes internal stress, internal stress causes disease. And if we don't start paying attention to the normal function of our body and keeping our stress level low internally and externally, that's where we see problems.
So one thing that most of my listeners, and if you're an established listener, you know, we talk about Sharp, which is my book regarding much of what Dr. Pingles is talking about that underlies what's going on. And at this point, I want to help people recover extremely well. So everything we do is to prepare people for surgery, because the number one stressor or cortisol maker in this conversation is me, because I operate on people.
