why would the brain and the immune system talk to one another?

But just believe me for right now that they do, the brain can pick up the red phone,

call the immune system, tell it to turn on when it needs to turn on.

And the immune system can do a bunch of things that we really care about. And we primarily

care about the immune system because what we found is that more than 50% of deaths worldwide

today involve inflammation. So most people today, everybody on this call, you likely

won't die, hopefully, from a communicable disease. You're more likely to die from an immune or

an inflammatory related chronic disease. And so that's the part about why we care about the

immune system. And of course, a lot of these disorders are stress related. And so putting together

the psychology of our experience with the neuroscience of how we experience and appraise stressors

together with the immunology that we know drives disease is a perfect combination to try to

understand how things that we experience in daily life actually impact our our our behavior in our

longevity.

Hello and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, family physician and former

CrossFit Games athlete. Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap

between fitness and medicine and support your journey toward your healthy yourself.

This episode is a replay of a monthly webinar I hosted on behalf of CrossFit Health with Dr.

George Slavage. We talk about stress and well-being. He's been on the podcast previously but here we

spend more time delving into just how psychological stress can translate into physical illness

and answer some great questions from the audience. You can join us live for next month's webinar

on February 17th at 11am Eastern 8 Pacific Professor Stephen Rolnek on motivational

interviewing for behavior change. Just keep an eye out in the CrossFit email of the day and

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