India, July 7 -- Have you been under a lot of pressure lately? It could be related to workload, family dynamics, or just some tiff you got into with your friend. But did you know that this stress could harm your brain?

In an Instagram post shared on June 14, Dr Steven Spitz, neurosurgeon, talked about what stress really does to your brain. He discussed the three ways in which stress rewires our brain and suggested 5 ways to help your brain stay sharp. Let's find out what the neurosurgeon suggested:

According to the neurosurgeon, stress leads to:

He stressed that our brain wasn't built for nonstop cortisol. So, when there is an overload of stress, it "shrinks the hippocampus, scrambles focus, and ramps up anxiety." Here's how the above-...