Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2024-02 to 2026-07.

The people on the most episodes about this topic over the trailing three months, excluding their own shows — ordered by VoiceRank, their score across the whole corpus. The chart tracks each one’s episodes month by month.

Not enough disagreement in the transcripts to form camps. These are the positions taken by people with demonstrated expertise on this topic first, then by how many people heard them on it, then by VoiceRank.

Robert Sapolskyguestexpertise93

Robert Sapolsky maintains that humans are uniquely prone to stress-related diseases because they activate ancient physiological stress responses for purely psychological reasons.

“we are capable of turning on the exact same vertebrae stress responses the dinosaur did but we turn it on chronically for purely psychological reasons”

The Rest Is Politics · Feb 2024 · 1 episode · 522K views on this topic

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Martin PicardguestUnrated

It is not the presence of stress but the individual's response to it that depletes energy and damages health.

“So, it's not the stress that burns us down, it's the response to stress.”

The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2026 · 1 episode · 6.3M views on this topic

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