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Abstract: Navigating Stress‘s Impact: Bridging Bench-to-Bedside Knowledge for Health and Performance
Our unique responses to challenging circumstances offer profound insights into our individual life journeys and experiences. The interplay between our genetic makeup, physical features of the environment, history of life events, and even lifestyle choices, such as smoking habits, substantially shapes how we confront stressors. By unraveling these intricate reactions and discernible patterns, a more defined portrait of each individual's stress response profile arises. The aspiration of this lecture is to provide a conceptual framework and strategic targets for further inquiry into mechanisms and conditions possibly useful to optimizing and leveraging the adaptive, and maybe unexpected, attributes of (mainly acute) stress. Additionally, it sets the stage for the development of pharmacological and/or biobehavioral interventions aimed at augmenting health, recovery, and cognitive and physical capabilities across the spectrum of different organisational levels at which stress can be investigated.
