How can we build resilience in a world built for convenience?

I'm Jeff Krasno and this is the Commune podcast.

My guest today is Dr. Sharon Berkwist, a Yale and Harvard trained physician and scientist,

specializing in longevity and disease prevention. Her new book, The Stress Paradox,

details how imposing deliberate healthy stress on ourselves can strengthen us physically, emotionally,

and all the way down to the cellular level. Now, for those of you who don't know, I recently

released a book on the same topic called

Good Stress. So this was a long overdue meeting of the minds, a Vulcan mind meld on the

health benefits of doing hard things. We touch on her incredible life story and her explorations

of adversity and how it shapes our human lives.

I realized that I became fascinated with what is it that helps some people just grow stronger and adapt.

We all have this ability to be resilient.

But how do we summon that capability?

As well as the tools and practices to add good stress into your own life.

As always, find me at jeffcrasno.substack.com or email me at jeffKat one commune.com. Okay, let's do this. I was born in Tehran, Iran, and lived there until 1979. So I lived there 46 years ago when the current regime had taken over the day the Shah left Iran.

I distinctly remember.

And for us, it became clear we had to leave.

We're not Muslim.

So for us, we had to leave.

And we were the last plane to leave before Khomeini came.

And I think about this so much because it's, there's a butterfly effect when you think of how your life could be so different with one airplane ride.

And I got the opportunity to come to the United States, to get an education,

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