Understanding Stress and Its Impact

What if your chronic fatigue, pain, or post-viral exhaustion isn’t a mystery illness, but the body’s way of protecting you after too much stress for too long? Drawing from Robert Sapolsky’s research and the Huberman Lab podcast, this article explains the science of stress, allostatic load, and how it links to invisible illnesses like CFS and fibromyalgia—and what you can do about it.