Health Check Podcast: IMH CEO wants to wage war on stress
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In this podcast, ST senior health correspondent Joyce Teo and chief executive officer of Institute of Mental Health (IMH) Prof Daniel Fung, take a deep dive into stress.
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Does having the genes for a mental illness mean that we cannot avoid becoming mentally ill? What can be done on the population level?
In this episode, ST senior health correspondent Joyce Teo take a deep dive into stress with the chief executive officer of Institute of Mental Health (IMH), Prof Daniel Fung.
Highlights (click/tap above):
03:30 What is allostatic overload, that refers to the cumulative burden of chronic stress and life events?
06:50 Bad stress indicators and how adverse childhood experiences are predictors
10:19 Epigenetics: Studying how your behaviour and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work
13:55 How IMH wants to help people help themselves, and manage stresses of life
16:40 Prof Fung on the 3Rs to help combat stress before it overwhelms