Couch Talk W/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

Dr. Wingo is trained as a Ph.D. scientist and has done extensive research on a topic that I feel really touches just about everyone, and that topic is living with – and surviving the ill effects from – chronic stress. In her studies Dr. Wingo initially focused on the physiological aspects of stress: what was going on at the genomic level, what was happening within the body’s cells, tissue and organ functioning. She also focused on the nervous system, endocrine system and immune system’s responses and interactions to the stressors and to each other. Along with the biology, she wanted to study the interactions of people with their environment and each other - the psychological aspects - that so often resulted in stress. She also has looked extensively at how the consequences of all this stress affect our society, our economics and even our political system. In 2014 she immigrated to Ecuador, a tiny country in South America. There, living in a very different society than the one she grew up in here in the US, sh