Lucas
The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Rewrites Your Memory
- Published
- July 7, 2026
- Duration
- 7:27
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 2, 2026
Discusses Episode 98 of The Burnout Podcast examines a lesser-known symptom of chronic workplace stress: how b…
Summary
Episode 98 of The Burnout Podcast examines a lesser-known symptom of chronic workplace stress: how burnout alters your memory. Lucas and Luna unpack a 2024 study from the University of California, Berkeley, which found that elevated cortisol levels in burned-out professionals shrink the hippocampus by up to 3 percent a year — comparable to mild cognitive …
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Episode 98 of The Burnout Podcast examines a lesser-known symptom of chronic workplace stress: how burnout alters your memory. Lucas and Luna unpack a 2024 study from the University of California, Berkeley, which found that elevated cortisol levels in burned-out professionals shrink the hippocampus by up to 3 percent a year — comparable to mild cognitive impairment. They discuss why you might forget meetings, struggle to recall what you read an hour ago, or feel like your brain is 'leaking.' The