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The Dr. Hyman Show

Finding Your Purpose Through Happiness, Intention and Surrender

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.59.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Our internal dialogue is intimately connected to our physical body, and our mitochondria are always eavesdropping on our thoughts. In fact, our mindset can be one of our strongest guiding forces. The overwhelming stresses in today’s world can create enormous strain on our nervous system, leading to burnout and breakdown. Through working on our mindset, we can lessen our reactions to stress. But it takes practice and loyalty to our intentions to make our good mindset habitual. Your thoughts have real and measurable effects on your overall health and wellbeing. Feeling we have a purpose in life and sharing our unique gifts with the world allows us to tap into more joyful living. And a major part of pursuing a sense of purpose is identifying what makes you feel your best. I’ve explored this topic with a number of my guests on this podcast. This mini-episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy includes portions of my past conversations on this podcast with Bulletproof founder and CEO, Dave Asprey and Reverend Michael Beckwith, Founder and Spiritual Director of the Agape International Spiritual Center.

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0:00.0

Coming up on this episode of the Doctors Pharmacy,

0:02.8

you said something that are very, you know, hopefuls we can actually

0:06.8

change our mitochondria by changing our thoughts that our thoughts actually are being

0:12.4

eavesdropped on by our mitochondria. Hi, I'm Dr. Mark Heimann and today my team and I are

0:18.0

excited to share with you a special mini episode of the Doctors Pharmacy. Creating balance in

0:23.1

our lives is something that affects us down to a cellular level and the overwhelming stresses

0:28.0

in today's world can create enormous strain on our nervous system, leading to burnout and breakdown.

0:33.7

This is something I've had the opportunity to discuss with my good friend and bulletproof

0:37.4

founder and CEO Dave Asprey. You can do big things and still be happy. In fact, my next book,

0:43.7

one of the big themes in it is that you can only do big things if you work on happiness first.

0:50.4

I see so many CEOs who, well, you know, I'm running my company, I just flew to Japan and back and

0:55.5

I'm going to do an Iron Man Traathlon and I'm like, let me guess your dreamtels are shot.

0:59.3

Yeah, you can't sleep. You have no sex drive. Your joints hurt all the time and like, how did you

1:05.1

know? It's like, well, here's what happens when you don't recover enough. Hormones crash,

1:09.5

a dreamtels crash, testosterone goes down, women oftentimes get monthly hormone problems.

1:14.1

So the over exercise year, sex life goes to pot. It really does. And also, if you're constantly

1:19.8

stimulating instead of recovering, it just doesn't work. So our job is to actually be masters of

1:25.2

recovery, which means small amounts of targeted stimulation. Great news. That takes less time.

1:30.8

And then recovery. And recovery means you sleep. It also means that if you're in a toxic relationship,

1:36.7

that you fix it, it means that if you have a lot of emotional stress, old trauma, PTSD,

1:43.0

substance abuse problems, eating disorders, you deal with that stuff because if you have chronic

1:46.5

stress from just being unhappy, that's enough stress, even without exercise. And if you have lots of

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