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🗓️ 7 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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0:00.0 | If you're like most people, you've been told that stress is the enemy, that it's something |
0:05.4 | to reduce, manage, eliminate. |
0:08.0 | We associate stress with burnout, inflammation, illness, and being overwhelmed. |
0:14.1 | And sure, the wrong kind of stress can wear us down. |
0:17.5 | But what if we've misunderstood the whole concept from the start? |
0:21.8 | What if stress isn't the villain, but actually the secret weapon we're overlooking? |
0:29.8 | This is Smart People Podcast, a podcast for Smart People, where we talk to smart people, but not necessarily done by smart people. |
0:43.4 | In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Sharon Bergquist, a physician, scientist, and longevity |
0:48.7 | expert who's been studying the body at its most fundamental level, the cell. She is also the author of the new book, |
0:56.3 | The Stress Paradox, Why You Need Stress to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier, |
1:01.7 | an essential stress management companion with a mind-body soul approach. And what she's |
1:07.4 | uncovered is nothing short of a paradigm shift. According to Dr. Bergquist, |
1:12.3 | not only is stress, not always bad, but certain kinds of stress, when done right, what she |
1:18.1 | calls good stress, are actually essential to healing. They build resilience and they are necessary |
1:24.3 | for long-term health. Now, today, we're not talking about your basic, like, oh, you work out and that's stressful. |
1:29.9 | We all know that. |
1:30.9 | We're going to dig into what that means at the biological level. |
1:34.6 | How does stress impact our cells? |
1:36.9 | How does it influence everything from aging to energy to immune function? |
1:42.0 | And then what we can do starting today to tap into this incredible |
1:46.5 | internal capability. So if you've ever wondered why your body feels off, even when your labs |
1:52.0 | say everything is normal, or why modern healthcare seems better at managing disease than |
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