Why Small Stressors Can Actually Be Good For Us

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Medicine, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Why Small Stressors Can Actually Be Good For Us | This episode is sponsored by Uqora We know that chronic, long-term stress can wreak havoc on our health. However, short-term and/or mild stressors can have the exact opposite effect. For instance, when you practice resistance training by lifting heavy weights and inflicting damage on your muscles, your body responds by repairing the damaged fibers, thus creating bigger and stronger muscles. This is called hormesis, a phenomenon that demonstrates the beneficial effects of low-level stressors. A similar process called xenohormesis also occurs in plants, making them stronger and richer in phytochemicals that are good for us. Dr. Hyman recently spoke about these topics in his conversations with Ben Greenfield and Dr. Frank Lipman. Ben Greenfield is a human performance consultant, speaker, and New York Times bestselling author of 13 books, including the wildly popular titles, Beyond Training and Boundless. A former collegiate tennis, water polo, and volleyball player, as well as a bodybuilder, 13-time Ironman triathlete, and professional obstacle course racer, Ben has been voted by the NSCA as America’s top Personal Trainer and by Greatist as one of the top 100 Most Influential People In Health and Fitness. Ben hosts the highly popular fitness, nutrition, and wellness website bengreenfieldfitness.com, a site with over a million monthly visitors, featuring articles, podcasts, and product reviews. His latest book, Boundless, is all about creating more energy to live the life of optimal health and happiness you deserve. Dr. Frank Lipman is recognized as a vocal pioneer of integrative and Functional Medicine (or what he calls “good medicine”). Dr. Lipman is the founder of Eleven Eleven Wellness Center and the Chief Medical Officer at The Well. He is a sought-after international speaker and the best-selling author of six books—How to Be Well, The New Health Rules, Young & Slim for Life, Revive and Total Renewal—and his newest book, The New Rules of Aging Well: A Simple Program for Immune Resilience, Strength, and Vitality. This episode is sponsored by Uqora. If you’ve struggled with urinary tract infections, check out Uqora’s potent line of products to promote better urinary health. Right now they’re offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners 30% off when you go to uqora.com/doctor Find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Ben Greenfield, “How To Have Boundless Energy” here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/BenGreenfield Find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Dr. Frank Lipman, “The Keys To Aging Well” here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/DrFrankLipman

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:02.6	Small amounts of cold, good, large amounts as anyone knows,
0:05.6	who's maybe not dressed right for a day as king, it could be stressful.
0:10.4	You know, heat, same thing.
0:11.6	Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark. I think we can all agree that we're thinking a lot about immunity
0:16.0	disease, but the pandemic aside, I regularly see so many patients who struggle with recurrent infections.
0:21.8	One of the most common is urinary tract infections.
0:24.8	They're actually the second most common infection in the United States, especially in women.
0:29.5	Now there can be a lot of reason someone might constantly be fighting infections like a UTI,
0:33.8	but most of us have been overprescribed antibiotics at some point in their lives.
0:37.6	We made too much sugar, we stressed out too much, and all these things can upset our microbiome,
0:42.8	and that directly impacts the balance of bacteria in the urinary tract and the rest of our immune system.
0:47.9	But a lot of women I talked to were doing the right things to try to avoid these recurrent
0:51.2	infections, but without any luck. They tried cranberry extract and they make sure to pee after sex,
0:56.0	among other things, but they still get frequent bladder infections. So I was really intrigued
1:01.4	to hear about a product my team recently discovered called Ucora. They were completely blown away
1:06.8	by the results. Two of them who constantly struggled with frequent UTIs hadn't had a single symptom
1:11.5	since trying Ucora. Ucora's unique target drink mix blends easily with water and it's just like the
1:17.6	pink lemonade you could like when you're a kid, but without the added sugar. It flushes and cleans
1:22.6	the urinary tract with well researched ingredients like D-manos and also boosts your immune system
1:26.8	with things like vitamin C and B6. Ucora also makes a supplement called Control to cleanse the
1:32.6	biofilm from the urinary tract and a vaginal probiotic called Promote to promote the growth of
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