Dr. Mario Alonso Puig - ¿Qué pasa realmente en tu cerebro cuando estás bajo estrés?

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

¿Por qué, en situaciones que no suponen un peligro real, sentimos como si estuviéramos ante una amenaza? ¿Por qué el cuerpo se tensa, la mente se bloquea y nos cuesta pensar con claridad?En esta conversación con mi querido amigo Alberto, profundizamos en lo que sucede en nuestro sistema nervioso cuando vivimos momentos de tensión o miedo.Hablamos sobre el estrés, la ansiedad, y cómo el organismo reacciona —incluso sin que haya un peligro objetivo— activando circuitos automáticos de protección.Exploramos también la teoría polivagal, el papel del nervio vago y cómo, a través de ciertas prácticas cotidianas, podemos regresar a un estado de mayor calma y seguridad interior.Comprender lo que nos pasa no solo alivia. Nos da herramientas. Y, sobre todo, nos devuelve el poder de responder con más serenidad y consciencia.¿Qué haces tú cuando sientes que el estrés empieza a apoderarse de ti?Quizá tu forma de gestionarlo pueda inspirar a alguien más. Os leo en comentarios.🌐⁠⁠Página Web⁠⁠📷⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠▶️⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠📲⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎟️⁠Entradas a la nueva conferencia 2025

There are people who think that they're a little, that have a little capacity, that are a little intelligent, that not can't have exit in the life, for a lack of resources. And not they're in account that what they is activated the vago posterior, with what they're constantly paralyzed.

This is very important to know how to super it, because it's one of the reactions extreme that has the organism for the changes that their physiology in the fusion of your body is to be dangerous

all the practices of meditation all the practices of meditaph, all the practices of quietude, the oration, etc., etc., has demonstrated that they've been the power to make a better our capacity

of defense to front of the infections. I don't know if you have passed that in a moment of a much stress you've had been

a sort of paralysis like if it was a incapacity total to take a decision. Naturally that is.

Naturally, unfortunately, never me has passed in the exercise professional, but if

me has passed, me passed, in the cellba when we took a encounter

with a hauar, I kept paralyzed you, you can be paralyzed in

certain situations. And this is very important to know and know how

superar it, because it's one of the reactions extreme that

has the organism human, and not only the organism human, this, although it's that, even if it's a minute, it's of the reptiles, and that, in them is very useful, but the paralysis is very useful in a reptile, because

it's a permit that not has detected, but in a human, for the changes that produce in the physiology, in the functioning of your body, is a little bit of a lot. Interesting. Imagine us that, within

our body, we're going to I mean, some cables that connect our Cerebrose, with almost all, with the heart, with the pulmones, the stomach. Much of the cases, I feel that in function, what happens to our around, those cables,

of those that I believe information distinct. And that information makes that the organs, that our body so, we're doing different. That is absolutely

so. We know, we have two different systems. What's called the system nervios sympathetic, and what

called the system irisciplatic. The two are constantly interactuando, we're not conscientious of it,

with the medium that we're because are destined fundamentally to protect the life.

If we we're we're not we're not we're one that we're one that is

we're going to the people imagine not so let's 150,

000 a man the man of the Cueva,

looking a food, and he's encounter with a little

a dientes of the thing that he's a way to do an

way to do it to get a manmuth in the car of the manmuth.

Well, has a power to to be a animal

that was a little that's there there's in those

he have to he really you would you

would be a constantly passed of revolutions in a moment in that you want to

that's you're a lot of you're another system that's the system

parasimpatic whose the main is the name nervio vago the word vago

not mean that's not but it's very curious he's very says the nervio vaguely

he's not he's done a lot he's done he's of he's the thing vago

he's he's the grand viager is the grand vi because is a

nerve that is a whole, the body, for all the thing, for all the cavity thoracic,

the heart, the pulmones, the esophage, for the stomach, intestine, colon, so what

what we when we we can relaxer, when we can't we can't try,

the nerve vago active all the systems of recuperation. Mintras that if

we are constantly in alert, constantly in situation perceived as a danger, the nerve vaguely,

the nerve vago, no In fact, in that moment, if one of the members of that reunion is catarred, it's more easy that I'm accatarrer. Because when the system nervoso is sympathetic, it's active, no, it's no. What he's important is that you're not to come, a depredator. And you're saying, but if there's a reunion,

yes, but it's actuant like in that reunion, there would a component more than a reunion while when a person can be relaxed then the system parasympatic favorce that the system

of defense is much more effective for that all the practices of meditation all the practices of quietude the oration etc etc

has demonstrated that they have the power to make our our capacity defense and the

way physiologic is the way of the system nervous parasypatic which is the proper of the relaxation, the proper of the recuperation.

So, so it's a lot, it's a theory polyvagal, no? If the theory polyvagal is a creation of a grand scientific North American, Stephen Porges, of the University of Carolina in North,

that, in some way, he started something very difficult to investigate, that are precisely the dimensions of the system nervous

that's that's that's a course of the time. Since

many years, there's there's two divisions, the system nervous sympathetic,

is the that's we have to get to get to spabiled, not say, that's

a car, a bus, you know, you're in a place

a little dangerous, you have to you're in a situation

in a situation of this, but it's the system nervous paris

sympathetic, that's the that's the recuperate. The grand, the grand allriac of the professor Porges, not was the theme of the system

of the Sympathic, because that is very known, especially the time of Walter Cannon, of Hansel, etc. Sino, the discovery that that in that system of recuperation, the system

arrebioso parasympathic, there are two grand divisions. One, which is what is the nerve-vago-anterior, that fundamentally manda, he, manda his projections,

his prolongations, innerva the the corasone, and the nerve vago posterior, that is the that fundamentally give information

and, and so, what importance to this? Muchis. Because he did the point of the when a

person when a person is connected with the when one person is a salvo, when a person no has or not to be ridiculized,

or not to be reclassed, but that's in an entombed, affable, and familiar, the ramma, which is a supratian, the ram anterior, of the nerve of vago, the nerve of vago,

and, it's active a way particular. This activation of the nerve of vago anterior, of the, of the,

of the cora, produce various effects. In first in the first place, the clarity mental. In

second place, it produces the liberation of hormones that they're

to help them in third place, it the function

the system of the system of the while

when a person intu a situation of a

problem we we're not of a a problem

that you want vago anterior, no is active and can activate two nerves different.

Or the system nervous is sympathetic, which is the that we have to protect to the problem, or the

vago the other ram of the bago, what is the that makes that you get you

get blocked? What is the that is the that is the most dangerous?

It's is the more. It's is much better. Movert to,

enter in the action than to get you paralyzed.

So, this is all the great... It's that is that is that it's movements

instinctive. Is that is a say, it's like, to be in a system or

other, react to one or another? This is a question very important

that is the professor Porches. So, we we're we

think that what's a system of a system of deuropes. imagine that we had we had some antennas

that we're not that they're out of the and that they're in some way observing the world exterior and they were able to capture

gestures subtiles in the other, changes in the tonality of the other etc and according what they're

they're saying in torno secure or in torno so if they're in torno so then it's a

system nervios, is sympathetic, what is what we do us make us use to start out of corriending, or enter the

parasympatic posterior, that what is paralyzarn us. But if what he says, the system of neuroception,

those antennas, is an torno, it's sure, but it's sure, here could have connection,

here could have an then, then it's active the vago anterior. The nerve vago an

is so important in in its activation that is associated a not only only of the longevity, but of the quality of the of the life. For that is the

wonderful professor Don Alfonso Lopez Kintas is a of an encounter. For so the human, when he looks the encounter with the

when they when it's to unar points of the view, the entire, the The reason enter in coherence cardiac,

a betteral the function of cerebral, so liberate hormones that are the life. So the human is a of a certain

of the conflict, all the confrontments, what they're they're doing, the system nervous is sympathetic,

then you put very aggressive or you do this no want to talk and you do this,

or act the ram posterior of the wagon then you get you paralyzed you, you

you get in shock, you get you're blocked and it's very important Albert

to say that this situation can maintain much time.

There are people who believe that they're that they have a capacity, that are

little intelligent, that they can't have success in the life,

um, for the resources, and not they're they're they're

not even the vago posterior, with what they are constantly

paralyzed those. The question I have been trying to hear that

those that that you know, not they're not they're not they're not so there's a question of

whether it's not a lot of our nerve and our system If it's aubre, the form very ample, I'm quite,

what the part of that's information enter the system of interpretation. And the system of interpretation can do effectively

that that information is a malinterpreted. And in the other the vago anterior that

invita the encounter, the the rama the rama the rama the rame or the

system nervios, sympathetic. So, for so the entorno cultural pesa in these things, because

yeah not the world that we know, it's how we can't how we see, and

for that one of the things more important and that I most propong, is that

the way that we explore that we don't do it that

something is like we something we're that we're of the entry

not it's that's so how times times about in

intonors multicultural the signals that receive a culture are

interpreted a form completely singular for other culture

I I know in the and in the

you have you have you have to have some because

if if if not you don't you the

interpretation automatic is like a like a species of a desprecue. So,

if one, of a repent, imagineate, that somebody did a target in Japan and you let's direct in the bolsillo,

that is a person. If in that moment, you see that the person can put in a car

rara, you don't reactions with the same car rara. You ask, I'm the

I'm a sensation of what I've done something or I know

something. I don't know the culture. I'm you can you're what I

do what I've done to learn and what rare is that the other person say, ah, well, you know, you'd have to have been learned, normally, is that here in Japan, if you're in grand part of the orient,

if you're a lot of the target, it's, in a way, a gesture of respect, subjectar it with the two hands and mirroar it with a certain detainment, not to metaslo directly in the bolstillo. So, what's the past?

That's what we're doing, we're doing that system for interpretations that we do and for that's the, So that is so essential to to substitute a culture that judga for a culture that wants to understand, that

he wants to ask with humility, with a very desire of understand. And then, in that moment, one is, you know, is, a preciation more, more, more adjusted to the reality. Now, fichate that you

you're talking about Japan, of a reality that you know, that you can't find with many gestures that you can malinterpreted. But if we identify us that

our nervous nervous our system is not working correctly, we're putting a solution to that. What we have to do we need to

identify those elements of the day-a-day that can be disparators of the stress for that we know, things cotidianas

that are that are that's identified, and that if those identify that we can make to make a

to a point to a state of in the that after we'll we'll be to do you

have to much about about much about that at the final the habit

is that's a custom that it's that's that's so important to have a disposition

explorator and not get us in a world of the world of where we're

that our reality is the only vision. I'd say that a point of a

sense the means the point. So, since how's

many can see the things this this this this

this this I've seen to a place that I had I had I'm a lot of

and I've had been to say, I've been to say something that you're to say a question,

I'm going to say, I'm interested about you. Well, yeah, well, I'm, well,

I'm, and much times, in the place of a disanciation what you

can't be a reconnection because you you valoras much that a person want to know,

your culture. Not simply that the injuice that's of the sui. So, it's clear,

the magic of the theory polyvagal is, essentially the question, if you

look as the encounter with the other, if you intents to get a side the

juicios, and intents really to know the person and you have that disposition

humild to let's to learn and to learn, then then it

active the ram anterior of the vago and when it's active the ram anterior of the vago

and the the heart that's that's coherence cardiac is like a

kind of a full-beneficious a like an energy beneficious that gets to

the brain that the brain that gets to different

organs of the the body that that the function

the system immune what the the theory of porches

has us has facilited to understand, has been because the encounter the encounter between the human, the cordiality, the desire to know us, the desire to help us,

has demonstrated that has a impact that great in the health, and why the confrontations, the conflicts, no resueltos, the prepotency, the suburbia, has a effect that negative, because it has a system immune, because it's the tension arterial, because it

favor of the apparition of arrhythias. This is a theory that, for first first time in what I know in the camp of the medicine, has done

an explanation of why really the person human when he's the encounter, not only only does it

only does the and how when when when it's in a situation of attack, defense or

blocker, not only only is a person, but that also, that's, daign the relation with the

other for that's the most for you when I'm talking when I'm talking about I'm taking the other the other day

with the nerve bag or activated. How do you? But it's but it's but it's so I think that

all the world is conscientious that when is talking with a person cordial

amable and sympathetic that that's a carcajament determined etc

etc because physically is physically is better It's, I mean, it's it's almost

of perugrugr, but at times the science us have to demonstrate for that we know, to give us

of what is obvious and evident. I'm for that it quite a good little good, there's

there's with, in fin, with any, with a, with a companyer,

there's there, there's when you know to know to give the person that you have

presented, some, the, in fin, I don't it was related with the ram anterior of the Nervio Vago

but now now, now, after being the implication of now, I think that all our

people are that all our separation that we see us the processes mental, spiritual

and physical, is a, is a separation illusory. When a person has that one person has

that desire to connect with the when there when there that is a generosity in action,

then also has a repercussion physical. And when a person is a person is

a person to find to the people, or want to be the person more

more that's a person has a function of the human is a

human is a man is a man is a man is a conflict for that sometimes

when when we we're in a manner conflictive we we're

being in a manner anti-natural. That delicious to talk

with you a Abrace, Furt, Mario. A great a great brother.