Welcome to the commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno. Okay, today I am featuring an excerpt from the audio version of my new book, Good Stress, the Health Benefits of Doing Hard Things.

This book distills the hundreds of interviews I've done here on the podcast

and a whole lot of me search into a consolidated guide for well-being. My simple thesis is this.

Our culture has hijacked our biology and it's making us sick, but there is an answer. Good stress. Yes, in order to realign with our biology

and thrive, we must self-impose the right dosage of deliberate stress. In my book, I outlined the

protocols and benefits of 10 use stress practices from fasting and cold therapy to how to have stressful conversations.

There's also a good amount of philosophy as I bridge the medical with the mystical.

If you like what you hear today and are inclined to support my work, well, I'd be very appreciative.

The audio version of good stress is available on Audible, and you can listen to it

for free as part of your premium Spotify membership. That's pretty good. So if you prefer the

old school analog option, you can purchase that at Goodstress.com and get a bunch of additional

goodies thrown in, including $900 worth of courses

with some of my biggest influences, including Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Zach Bush, and Dr. Gabor Maté.

These specific excerpts from chapters four and five are a two-part journey through the Tao of Health, where I dive into

two profound and transformational principles, impermanent and interdependence. Now, first, I

explore the truth that your body is not a fixed object, but a living flame, a dynamic process,

ever-changing moment to moment. Then I unraveled the radical idea

that your health is not yours alone, but woven into a vast web of connection from your

thoughts to your microbes to the food you eat and the world around you. So today's excerpts

underscore this essential concept.

We are always changing in relationship to our environment.

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