Relieve Stress Now: Science To Feel Calmer & Happier with Dr. Elissa Epel

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Stress Expert Dr. Elissa Epel discusses stress’ biological impacts, how you can practice radical acceptance to better manage stressful situations, daily practices to increase happiness, hormesis & good stress, and more. Why we get stressed, from a biological perspective How to know when future planning is helping versus hurting you How to figure out exactly what’s in your control (& let go of what isn’t!) What radical acceptance is & how to practice it Why cortisol matters and what to do about it Tactics to increase your ability to respond well to future stress How stress impacts your microbiome (and vice versa) Small, daily practices to increase happiness in major ways How to deal with long term stress of situations like caregiving or climate changing The one thing to do today to decrease your stress levels, according to science What good stress is and how you can incorporate it into your daily life and so much more! For more from Dr. Epel, you can find her on Instagram @elissa.epel and her website www.elissaepel.com. Her latest book, The Stress Prescription, can be purchased from multiple retailers and indie bookstores. To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order my new book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! This episode is sponsored by: ZocDoc: go to ZocDoc.com/LizMoody and download the Zocdoc app for FREE and book a top-rated doctor today. Seed: go to seed.com/lizmoody and use code LIZMOODY for 25% off your first month. AG1: visit drinkag1.com/lizmoody and get your FREE year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs today. Olive and June: visit oliveandjune.com/LIZMOODY for 20% off your first Mani System. The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast.

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0:00.0	Hello friends and welcome back to the Liz Moody podcast. I'm your host Liz Moody and
0:05.8	I'm a best-selling author and longtime journalist. This podcast is all about helping you live
0:10.3	your healthiest, happiest life, whether we're learning how to find our personal
0:13.6	style, getting doctor-approved skin care tips to beat eczema, acne, and
0:17.7	dermatitis, or learning how to make our guts strong to make our immune systems
0:22.2	as robust as possible.
0:24.6	And yes, those are all real episodes, so if any of those topics sound good to you, scroll
0:28.4	on back in the archives.
0:30.6	Today I am so excited to welcome Dr. Alyssa Epple to the podcast.
0:35.0	Dr. Epple is one of the world's top experts on stress.
0:39.0	She is the person leading the research and writing the papers that you see down the line in books
0:44.4	and on the news. Her research has been featured in places like Ted Med the
0:48.8	today show, CBS's Morning Show, 60 Minutes, NPR, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,
0:55.2	Science Documentaries, and many, many more. She is a professor in the
1:00.0	Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California
1:04.1	San Francisco where she directs the Aging Metabolism and Emotion
1:07.8	Center and she co-wrote the New York Times best-selling book, The
1:11.1	Telemyre Effect, a revolutionary approach to living younger, longer.
1:15.8	Her new book is called The Stress Prescription.
1:18.1	It's an independent bookstore bestseller currently being translated into 15 languages.
1:23.8	This is one of those interviews that I have not been able to stop talking about since
1:28.1	I did it.
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