How Some Stress Can Actually Improve Health | Dr. Elissa Epel & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Dr. Elissa Epel and Dr. Andrew Huberman discuss the impact of stress on aging, explaining how moderate stress can enhance hippocampal growth and cognitive function, and how a positive mindset towards stress can lead to healthier responses and slower aging.
Elissa Epel, Ph.D., is a professor and vice chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the author of a new book entitled The Stress Prescription. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast.
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[@sadaffarsa6058]

It reminds me of Kelly McGonigal’s TED talk, “How to Make Stress Your Friend.”
Stress itself isn't harmful and can even contribute positively to health and aging.
How we perceive and response to stress can significantly impact our health.

[@fodilamra]

Thank you very helpful

[@PauloWy]

EFT Tapping works also with similar kind of statements.

[@levistrauss5139]

Some types of stress, such as social isolation or financial hardship, can be more detrimental than others.

[@anitahernandez1207]

James 1:2 -4 - "Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you meet with various trials..." (Proverbs 17:22; Matthew 6:33, 34; Ecclesiastes 3:11) 📜

[@DavoinShower-Handel]

How does your body have a different outcome from the same stress response just by reframing your mindset? Are there some different hormones released?

[@lorraine70]

Yes

[@vecernicek2]

I think that looking at the HPA and SAM axes primarily as stress systems is a bit confounding. It makes us see these valuable systems in a negative way, almost as a pathophysiology. We should look at them as energy mobilization systems which prioritize action. When my post-awakening cortisol gets high, it's not stress, it's mobilization of energy after a deep rest.

[@jffjustforfun1782]

Is 07:04 kind of an Archetype in the Carl Jung(ian) sense?

[@sadaffarsa6058]

Maybe the Senex/Sage and then the Hero.

[@KristianGerard]

Cortisol is stress 5:08

[@honobuyonezawa2054]

but alot of stress don't mean good

[@VeryVisionary]

Lol

[@turgut7156]

too much of anything is not good

[@lorraine70]

It depends on how you look at it