Ep.15 Why Stress Is Your Superpower, And How To Cut Out The Bad Bits - The Science-Backed Method with Physiologist Oli Patrick
Working Hard with Grace Beverley
sophie@grace-beverley.com
4.2 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Oliver Patrick is a leading physiologist, entrepreneur, and expert in lifestyle management who is on a mission to teach others the skills required to build stress resilience. A multiple business owner, Oliver is both co-founder of the world’s most advanced health evaluation service Viavi and founder of the first lifestyle medicine gym, Viavi:be. He is also an admirable public and keynote speaker for functional and lifestyle medicine, for which he has extensive clinical experience.
Prior to entrepreneurship, Oliver was Head of Physiology at Nuffield Health, where he helped to set up the largest team of applied physiologists, well-being advisors and nutritionists in the UK. So far Oliver has already completely revolutionised the concept of traditional health screening frameworks - his primary aim to contemporise the delivery of well-being services within the corporate and hospitality marketplace for all levels of access.
In Oliver’s words as a society we are in the midst of a stress epidemic, and though largely considered a psychological problem, unknowingly, prolonged cognitive strain is one of the most significant contributors to ill physical health. Oliver suggests that our ability to mentally flourish lies in our lifestyle choices and the personal routes we take – on reflection this episode communicates a powerful message that I personally consider very important, making it a gracious addition to my podcast.
Topics:
- Early career, experiences and education.
- How he helped to develop the World's Most Advanced Health Evaluation Service.
- The Fight vs Flight response to stress.
- Hustle culture and stress at work
- When does stress become detrimental to our health?
- A lesson on how to reset and recalibrate.
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| 0:29.6 | The human is born out of the need for stress. When we have no stress, we have no incentive to performance. |
| 0:38.1 | You grow by doing something you can't quite do. |
| 0:40.3 | And in that moment, that stress exceeds your ability to cope and you grow as a result. |
| 0:44.6 | Meditation is a pill to drive my body out of a state of stimulus into a state of calm. |
| 0:49.6 | No one has ever lived in the world we live in today. |
| 0:52.1 | The biggest single factor in creating a culture |
| 0:55.2 | of inability to switch off would be something like 24-hour news. If every guest could change three |
| 1:00.6 | things to make their lives less stressful, what would they be? Today's episode is going to change your life. I'm genuinely serious about that. I |
| 1:20.8 | have spoken to Oli Patrick today, who is a world leading physiologist, and we spoke so much about just small actionable things that you can |
| 1:29.8 | change to bring your physiology and your well-being and your stress levels from good to great |
| 1:35.2 | and I learned so much in such a short period of time so keep listening it's a really good one. |
| 1:54.5 | Olly Patrick is a world leading physiologist, co-founder of the world's most advanced health evaluation service on Harley Street and founder of the world's first lifestyle medicine |
| 1:59.1 | gym. Prior to his current roles, he was head of |
| 2:01.7 | physiology at Nuffield Hospitals, where he co-founded and led the largest team of applied physiologists, |
| 2:07.1 | well-being advisors and nutritionists in the UK. In Ollie's words, we as a society are in the |
| 2:12.3 | midst of a stress epidemic and his mission is to teach the skills required to build stress resilience |
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