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CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Podcast 455: The best "stress fitness” routine to help you better metabolize stress and promote healthier emotional responses.

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk to Dr. Elisa Epel, bestselling author and Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. We talk about stress management and the mind, why telomeres are so important, how sex and marriage impacts our stress levels, and so much more!


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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

4:40 Elisa’s amazing work on the mind-body connection

5:45 The power of understanding our own narratives

7:00, 20:05 Telomeres, stress & aging

10:25 Mind management, aging & telomeres

10:52 The difference between biological & chronological age

14:47 What stress is & how we can learn to manage it

21:30 Why our perception of stress is so powerful

25:00 How chronic stress affects the mind, brain & body

33:30, 40:08 Ways we can better manage stress & improve our health and longevity


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*DISCLAIMER: This podcast and blog are for educational purposes only and are not intended as medical advice. We always encourage each person to make the decision that seems best for their situation with the guidance of a medical professional.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Cleaning at the Mental Mace Today. I am so excited. I mean, I really barely

0:08.7

can contain myself. I'm going to be interviewing one of my heroes, one of my people that I

0:13.6

have admired for years. And this is a tremendous honor. Dr. Elisa Eppel is one of the leading

0:21.6

global scientists when it comes to telemary research and stress research. She inspired

0:27.3

my research. Elisa, you inspired my research. It was your work on telomeres that I thought,

0:31.8

hey, we need to start including telomeres in our clinical trials and we found some such

0:35.5

interesting findings, but you are the leader in this field. And I'm just so honored to have

0:41.7

you join me today. And before you start, I just have to let people know how amazing you are.

0:46.3

If you want guys, you need to go to Dr. Eppel's website. We'll be putting that in the

0:50.0

comment section. And really, there's so much more than I'm going to say now, this woman

0:54.7

is so accomplished and such an incredible scientist and has made such a contribution to the world

0:59.0

when it comes to stress management. So Dr. Elisa Eppel is a PhD, an international expert

1:04.1

on stress wellbeing and optimal aging and a best-selling author. She's a professor in

1:08.9

the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California,

1:12.4

San Francisco, where she's vice-chair of psychology and directs the aging metabolism

1:17.3

emotion center. She studies the environment, psychological, behavioral and social factors

1:22.0

that impact cellular aging, such as telomeres, inflammation and mitochondria. And is also

1:27.2

focusing on climate wellness. Love this. I'm really so excited to interview you. And today

1:32.2

we're going to talk about a lot of things and just a couple of highlights. Elisa worked

1:36.9

with Elizabeth Blackburn, who's the first woman Australian to win an Nobel Prize and

1:42.0

Elisa worked 10 years ago. I think you started working with her on your research on telomeres.

1:46.2

18 years ago. 18 years ago. She's the telomerase lady. You're going to

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