E132 - Jeff Krasno: “Comfort is Killing You” - Know THIS about Stress & Anxiety
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Krasno, the visionary founder of Commune, shares how to unlock your human potential in our modern world.
He and André reflect on the transformative power of surrender, particularly during the harrowing LA fires. Jeff shares his insights on navigating adversity and the importance of embracing "good stress" through practices like cold plunges, exercise, and meditation.
As they delve deeper, Jeff discusses the pursuit of health in a world often plagued by illness. He shares his thoughts on unlocking human potential and the practices that can lead to optimal wellness.
Whether you’re seeking to improve your physical health, enhance your mental well-being, or deepen your spiritual connection, this episode is filled with valuable insights that can inspire and motivate you on your journey.
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0:00 Intro
2:17 LA Fires: Surrendering in the Chaos
12:23 Why We Need Good Stress
20:14 Modern Living Contradicts our Biology
27:43 Ad: BetterHelp
29:21 The Tao of Health: Reclaim Your Sovereignty
43:19 Attaining Homeostasis in the Body
49:07 Impermanence & Interdependance
1:00:08 What Nature Teaches Us
1:06:42 Working With Wim Hoff & Unlocking Human Potential
1:14:52 Mortality and Health Span
1:25:44 Power of Mindfulness
1:33:34 Conclusion
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Jeff is the co-founder and CEO of Commune, a masterclass platform for personal and societal well-being. He hosts the Commune podcast, interviewing a wide variety of health experts and luminaries from Andrew Huberman and Marianne Williamson to Matthew McConaughey and Gabor Maté. Jeff pens a personal weekly essay titled “Commusings” that explores spirituality, wellness and culture and is distributed to over one million subscribers every Sunday.
Jeff is the author of Good Stress, a collection of wellness protocols that he developed to reverse his diabetes, lose 60 pounds and reclaim his health at age 50.
Jeff and his better three-quarters, Schuyler Grant, own and operate Commune Topanga, a 10-acre wellness center and production lab where they host regular retreats together featuring yoga, cold plunging, sauna bathing, lectures and story-telling. Jeff & Schuyler have three beautiful daughters, Phoebe, Lolli and Micah. They currently live in Los Angeles, California.
Pre-order New Book “Good Stress”: https://www.onecommune.com/goodstressbook#preorder
Website: https://www.jeffkrasno.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffkrasno/
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| 0:00.0 | We so often associate health with downward spirals, but upward spirals are completely possible. |
| 0:07.8 | In this day and age, we're largely choosing the way we die with very, very little thoughtfulness. |
| 0:14.2 | We essentially evolved for a certain amount of stress, but we've engineered our lives at every single turn, often in the name |
| 0:22.0 | of profit, for ease and convenience. Doing hard things has incredible benefits, and it also makes |
| 0:29.9 | doing other hard things easier. It really doesn't take that long for your body to gain momentum, |
| 0:37.3 | and it is available to people. |
| 0:39.3 | Health exists along this dynamic spectrum. |
| 0:43.3 | We have a certain amount of jurisdiction over our trajectory on that spectrum. |
| 0:48.3 | Sort of embracing this idea that I am process and not product. |
| 0:53.3 | I'm not even close to the same person than I was when I began this conversation. |
| 1:04.2 | Hey everyone. |
| 1:05.3 | Welcome back to Know Thyself. |
| 1:07.3 | It's been an interesting past couple weeks just hopping back on the podcast saddle. |
| 1:13.6 | And I missed you guys. |
| 1:15.7 | I'm joined today with a dear friend Jeff Krasno, who is creator, founder of One Commune, |
| 1:23.1 | which is an amazing, really pioneering organization community podcast. |
| 1:30.0 | He also is a co-creator of Wonderless, which was a series and is a series of global wellness |
| 1:34.9 | events. |
| 1:35.6 | And he also lives in the same town as I did, which we were just talking beforehand about |
| 1:41.0 | the wild journey of these LA fires and them encroaching, you know, in my case, |
| 1:47.0 | a few houses away very close to him as well in the canyon where we live. And, you know, |
| 1:52.5 | there's going to be a lot of themes, I'm sure that'll show up throughout this podcast about |
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