The Good Type Of Stress: Hormesis

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Athletic Greens.

Hormetic stressors are good stressors. These are actions that, in the right dose, have the power to lower inflammation, boost tissue repair and metabolism, and support our mitochondria. It’s like the saying goes: what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Things like exercise and strength training, hot and cold therapies, light therapy, ozone, and others are all mild stressors that jump-start your body into repair and rejuvenation.

In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I dive into how adversity and little stresses to your system (i.e., hormesis) activate longevity pathways. What I’ve discovered has blown my mind and changed the way I approach my own health and the health of my patients. I’ve compiled it all into a new book called Young Forever, which comes out on February 21, 2023. Learn more and preorder the book at youngforeverbook.com.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

What is hormesis? (5:14 / 1:45)
Healing systems that get activated by hormetic stressors (5:49 / 2:16)
The benefits of calorie restriction (7:07 / 3:42)
The benefits of heat therapy (9:37 / 6:08)
The benefits of cold therapy (10:53 / 7:24)
The benefits of exercise (12:18 / 8:48)
Additional types of hormesis (14:30 / 9:53)

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0:00.0	Hi, Dr. Sarmacy Listeners, it's Dr. Mark here.
0:02.9	If you've been following me, you know that I'm obsessed with understanding the latest
0:06.3	research on longevity and how we can apply it to our daily lives.
0:10.0	So I wrote a book about it.
0:11.2	Think of it as a roadmap to optimal aging.
0:13.8	It's called Young Forever and it comes out February 21st, 2023.
0:19.0	It's never too early or too late to take control of your health.
0:22.3	And this book will show you how.
0:24.0	Visit YoungForEverBook.com to learn more and pre-order now.
0:29.4	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:32.8	Whether it's through restricting your food intake or time- restricted eating or exercise
0:37.3	or hot and cold therapies or hypoxia or hyperbaric oxygen, you literally activate these ancient
0:42.9	systems of healing repair, including DNA repair, dramatically reducing inflammation and boosting
0:48.5	your body's antioxidant systems, boosting stem cell production, increasing your brain function.
0:54.2	Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark.
0:58.0	One of the most important tools I have for helping my patients optimize their health is
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1:02.4	And that is why I love what Roop-A-Hell is doing.
1:05.0	Functional medicine testing can require placing orders with lots of different labs and it
1:09.0	can kind of get really complicated for doctors and their patients to easily access results
1:14.0	and keep track of everything.
1:15.7	But Roop-A-Hell has totally streamlined that process.
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