The medical implications of stress

Hi, my name is Stuart Alsop and this is my podcast, Crazy Wisdom, where I interview creative people about how they work with and manage the stress that is inherent in creative work. What I've realized over the past 10 years of my research is that anybody who is creating something of value that is significantly different from what has come before is considered crazy. Most of us have a fear, an ingrained fear of going crazy. So what I'm saying is grab onto that fear, realize that it's there and just go with it. Because the problems we're going to be facing over the next 20 years require crazy people in order to solve them.

Thanks for inviting me. First of all. Hello everyone. So I'm Lavinia Ionita. I am a medical doctor. I am doing, I'm a general practitioner, but, well, I'm dealing mostly with functional medicine and I'm trying to do personalized medicine as much as it's possible nowadays in the clinical practice. And I am also an entrepreneur. My startup is called aceo and it's built around we want to solve stress management and, well, solve, it's a big word, but we want to help people to better understand their stress and to help them to deal better with the negative side of stress.

Yeah, before we were speaking, you were talking about essentially that stress is this amorphous concept for most people. It's a huge nebulous concept and it's what's really important that each person define stress for themselves. Can you talk a little bit more about that? Why is it so important that people kind of figure out their own definition of stress rather than kind of take this, other definitions?