Why You’re Tired: How Stress Drains Your Cells - Dr. Martin Picard

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FlightStory

Business, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 2 July 2026

⏱️ 163 minutes

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The Mitochondria Scientist Dr Martin Picard reveals why stress is secretly burning 60% of your daily energy, the science behind reversing grey hair, and why your mitochondria - not your genes - determine how fast you age! Dr Martin Picard is a Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Director of the Mitochondrial Psychobiology Group, who specialises in how stress, emotions and lived experiences affect your mitochondria. He recently published the world's first map of mitochondria in the human brain and is also the author of the upcoming book, ‘Energy’. He explains: ◼️Why depression is really an energy problem, not just in your head ◼️Why eating more food won't give you more energy, and what actually will ◼️How training for a marathon can double the mitochondria in your muscles ◼️Why people with a strong sense of purpose have more powerful mitochondria ◼️Why cancer cells abandon their mitochondria, and what it means for treating them Follow Dr Martin: Website - https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/BqY0OhF Substack - https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/4aOc0rk Metabolic Psychiatry and Ketogenic Diet - https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/GexHJoI X - https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/Fs8WGvj Instagram - https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/BsNZ7vH You can find out more about Dr Martin’s upcoming book, ‘Energy’, here: https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/5jW5yUA The Diary Of A CEO: ◼ Join DOAC circle here - https://doaccircle.com/ ◼ Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook ◼ The 1% Diary is back - limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt ◼ The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards: https://linkly.link/2hm7r ◼ Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt ◼ Follow Steven - https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb Sponsors: Cometeer - https://cometeer.com/DOAC use code DOAC for $20 off Bon Charge: https://boncharge.com/DOAC for 20% off

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1:01.6	This is incontrovertible evidence that grain of hair is reversible, and it can be pretty fast.
1:06.8	Wow.
1:07.4	And there's more.
1:08.2	So we all walk around with our biological history encoded in your hair.
1:12.0	Like, for example, if you have marijuana six months ago, it's going to be in your hair.
1:15.7	I just got a haircut.
1:17.7	Joking.
1:19.2	So my research lab had the idea that if we could find what was happening in this person's life,
1:24.2	when this young hair become old, then we could understand the mechanism of the aging
1:28.0	process. So what is the secret to anti-aging? It's the proper allocation of energy.
1:34.1	Can you, can you, what's the simplest way you can explain that to me? So first, energy is real.
1:39.1	And it's the difference between feeling like you can change a world or feeling completely
1:42.9	drained. And a lot of people live on that end of the spectrum.
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