Chronic Stress Ages You. Here's How To De-Stress for Longevity. | Elissa Epel
Episode description
How to reduce negative thoughts, get deep rest, and improve cellular health.
Elissa Epel, Ph.D., is an international expert on stress, well-being, and optimal aging and a best-selling author of The Telomere Effect, and The Stress Prescription. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, at the University of California, San Francisco, where she is Vice Chair of Psychology and directs the Aging Metabolism Emotions Center.
In this episode we talk about:
- What telomeres are
- Why chronic stress accelerates our rate of aging – and how to reverse it
- How we have way more control over aging than we think
- Small, consistent lifestyle changes we can make to promote longer telomeres
- The role of existential stress
- Meditation retreats as a reset for the nervous system
- How even 5-minutes of daily meditation can help
- Breathing practices that increase vagal tone
- Deep rest, and other states of mind that are crucial for cellular repair and growth
- How to counteract the impacts of stress eating
- How to reframe stress as a challenge
- And much more
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