doctor rita ng, doctor ng, thanks for coming in. >> thank you so much, krista. i'm so excited to be here. speaking about a topic that i'm very passionate about, i know, i know, you're here in person with us, and this conference is going to be in person this year, right? >> is that the first time since the pandemic? >> first time since the pandemic? we've had a bunch of virtual conferences that have been very well received. and this is our keynote marquee event of the year gathering many, many women from across the state and across the nation, right? >> i mean, i saw the lineup. i know it's exciting, and we're going to ask you about that, right, to talk about the event. i know that's why you're here to rep that, but i really want to just talk about you for a moment just so our viewers know about you. okay, graduated from phi phi beta kappa from stanford med school residency at ucsf. chief cardiology fellow at cedars-sinai heart institute, and now physician in chief for kaiser permanente oakland and on the kp board. can i just say this is the level of the women wh

on what this means and what you can do to stay healthy, we are joined by kaiser permanente doctor rita ngcenter physician in chief. this is great because it's a apparently stress awareness month here in april. >> stress awareness month. >> stress is all around us, i know, and it's not just april. it seems like every month it could be considered stress awareness month. but talk about the importance here because it's how you react to stress is really important in how it affects your health. >> absolutely. so i'm a cardiologist by training and i love to talk about this topic because i have a lot of patients that come into my office not knowing if something's wrong with their heart or if they're just completely stressed out. so i love to actually go back a little bit. right. so our bodies are kind of amazing. it's from millions of years of evolution. so back in the caveman days when there was a wooly mammoth coming to try to get you, you had to decide fight or flight and so our bodies evolved to release these neuroendocrine hormones adrenaline, cortisol, to get our body revved up. whether it'