New Science of Stress: Why We Need Stress to Thrive and How The Right Stress Improves Health, Increases Life Span & Can Cut Your Cancer Risk in Half

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Guess what? You actually need stress to stay healthy! The key is understanding the difference between good stress and bad stress. Sharon Horesh Bergquist, MD, award-winning physician & researcher on lifestyle as medicine reveals the 5 crucial stressors you need to embrace today to slow down your aging and boost your immune system. Want to feel more energized, fight disease, and improve your mental health immediately? Discover how the right stress can actually help you build resilience, add 10-15 years to your lifespan, and reduce your cancer risk by 50%! Plus, learn why avoiding stress could make you more vulnerable to illness, and why acknowledging fear is the first step toward massive personal growth. These simple practices could help you reduce anxiety, reduce bad stress, and keep you feeling positive and motivated. Don’t miss these game-changing habits that will put you on the path towards wellness and a healthier lifestyle today!

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0:00.0	right now 93% of America has poor metabolic health. It is not a coincidence that when people
0:07.5	get older, they feel, oh, they've slowed down. Their cognitive capacity isn't what it used to be.
0:12.8	Or, oh, gee, now I'm developing all these health problems. Our body works in a use it or lose it way.
0:19.3	You can almost double your human potential by repeat,
0:24.6	challenging yourself and recovering. So we can use stressors to build resilience against the very
0:32.4	stressors that we have been taught to fear. We need these stressors to become more stress resilient. Our goal is not to
0:42.8	cure stress or get rid of it out of our lives. It's to optimize it. And that has implications
0:49.7	not just for our mental well-being, but our physical health for how we age.
0:55.9	The stress biology is actually different depending on the stressors, and we can choose
1:03.6	certain forms of stress that have these healing hormones, and they not just counteract
1:10.7	the potential damage, but they strengthen us and
1:13.8	enrich us. That's the new stress management. So at the end of the day, health really happens
1:20.5	outside the doctor's office.
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