Lucas
The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Body
- Published
- July 18, 2026
- Duration
- 9:42
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 2, 2026
Discusses Lucas and Luna explore a lesser-known symptom of burnout: the disconnect from physical sensation. Lu…
Summary
Lucas and Luna explore a lesser-known symptom of burnout: the disconnect from physical sensation. Lucas shares how chronic stress can suppress interoception—the brain's ability to read hunger, fatigue, and pain cues—citing a 2023 study from the University of Zurich that found burned-out participants showed 40% lower accuracy in heartbeat detection tasks. …
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Lucas and Luna explore a lesser-known symptom of burnout: the disconnect from physical sensation. Lucas shares how chronic stress can suppress interoception—the brain's ability to read hunger, fatigue, and pain cues—citing a 2023 study from the University of Zurich that found burned-out participants showed 40% lower accuracy in heartbeat detection tasks. Luna offers a personal example of forgetting to eat for 10 hours during a high-pressure project. They discuss practical strategies like body sc