What Cortisol Actually Does to Your Brain

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]As your cortisol levels increase, as the amygdala starts to become activated, the threat detector of the brain, you literally shut down the frontal lobe, the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for logic and planning and and being able to make rational decisions, the part of the brain that happens on a standardized test. In psychology, there's actually a name for this. It's called emotional hijacking.

[00:00:24]We all have these moments, but the question becomes when is this chronic?

[00:00:27]How often are we letting other stressors become our stressors? I call it surrogate stressors. Do any of you stress about other people's stress? Like some of you are stressed that the water spilled out of THIS CUP. YOU ARE. I FELT IT. AS SOON AS THE WATER DRIPPED, SOME OF YOU WERE LIKE,