Today on Gritty, we talk about an insidious, silent killer, a life-sucking force that

people naively and foolishly welcome into their lives, a life-recking force that the fast-changing

modern age has thrust upon the modern human mind. This insidious killer is stress.

Today, I'm joined by the deep-thinking, intense, and amazing Dr. Hillary Lambers. She explains

stress and clinical and colloquial terms. She talks about how our bodies and brains are all that

we really have and how we should treat them. Human beings have evolved to thrive under stress.

We need stress, but today's modern stress is different. It's a different animal from the kind of

stress human beings have evolved to handle. On today's episode, find out these differences

and how to live better. You can learn more from Dr. Hillary's website huntharvesthealth.com.

This is part two of two. If you want to increase your testosterone,

if you want to increase your muscle mass, if you want to decrease your anxiety,

you have to sleep. The research coming out on sleep deprivation is really bad and people

need to sleep and most people are sleep deprived. We know that you secrete all your healthy hormones

at night and your nervous system basically revitalizes itself. It actually cleans itself out at night.

There's this new lymphatic system within that central nervous system called the

glimphatic system that is cleaning your brain out while you sleep.

I have goals for certain things and then I hit those things and they're prioritized and the

stuff that doesn't work, it's just gone. Being able to give myself permission has

been hugely liberating. Now I walk around and go and, uh, yep, I'm just letting it go.

And I'm much more adept at dropping things out of my life that are wonderful things that would add

a lot of value to my life, but I, I guess, can't do it all. I think too, we want to remember that

because we have that cerebral cortex, we have the ability to make choices that can train us

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