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Your Body in the World: Adapting to Your Next Big Adventure
edX MOOC / Non-credit 0

Your Body in the World: Adapting to Your Next Big Adventure

About this course

We are excited that you want to explore your body's response to the world. Your body is an amazing machine that is equipped with the capacity to deal with the world's great stressors. Through video adventure stories, studio lectures and interviews with experts, you will learn how your body copes with cold, heat, aging, stress, altitude and variable pressure both in the short- and long-term. You will also gain practical tips on how to optimize your performance in those stressful environments. This course was designed to make learning fun, so we hope you enjoy the journey. Note: This class is self-paced, so despite the "One Session Start Date" below, you can start any day you are ready. We look forward to seeing you online.

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What you'll learn

  • understand how the body copes with environmental stressors
  • gain practical tips for optimizing performance in stressful conditions
  • learn about the body's long-term and short-term responses to various stressors
Public Health #stress management #performance optimization #health and wellness #human physiology #environmental adaptation #cold exposure #heat response #altitude acclimatization #aging effects #stress resilience
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