Welcome to the Cambrian podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. The term stress typically conjures negative associations. But what if I told you that not all stress is bad and there are actually benefits

to both physiological and psychological stressors? So I'm currently writing a book and we'll release a course under the title good stress, which explores a variety of self-imposed, acute, health-conferring

stress protocols. As I've been developing this project, I reconnected with my dear old friend,

the award-winning chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and wellness leader, Seamus Mullen.

Seamus was somewhat serendipitously also diving into the adaptive applications of stress.

So we've ironically leveraged our mutual obsession with stress to rekindle our friendship

and share our learnings,

which includes this podcast. So in our conversation, Shamus and I stress the importance

of cultivating balance or homeostasis and how experiencing adversity, especially when we

choose the adversity, helps us with this project.

Now we distinguish chronic stress, which is modern and ongoing, from acute short-term stress,

and how the dosage and frequency of deliberate stressors can impact our overall well-being.

We talk about how challenges and stressors, when appropriately managed, lead to increased

resilience and activate longevity pathways and growth over time.

We talk about how short-term discomfort can have long-term benefits, while the excessive

comforts of our on-demand world can lead to a lack of distress tolerance and adaptability to

adversity. And we also dive into the mismatch between the slow pace of evolution and the

rapid changes in modern culture and how that phenomenon has led to evolutionary mismatches

and various health issues and a decline in resilience at the species level. And we also share the myriad practices that we have

both adopted to intentionally expose ourselves to stress and in turn become more adapted to an

increasingly chaotic world. So if you're interested in registering for my course titled Good Stress, you can do so at

onecommon.com slash good stress.

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