Chronic Stress Ages You. Here's How To De-Stress for Longevity. | Elissa Epel

Chronic Stress Ages You. Here's How To De-Stress for Longevity. | Elissa Epel

How to reduce negative thoughts, get deep rest, and improve cellular health.

Elissa Epel, Ph.D., is an international expert on stress, well-being, and optimal aging and a best-selling author of The Telomere Effect, and The Stress Prescription. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, at the University of California, San Francisco, where she is Vice Chair of Psychology and directs the Aging Metabolism Emotions Center.

In this episode we talk about:

  • What telomeres are
  • Why chronic stress  accelerates our rate of aging – and how to reverse it
  •  How we have way more control over aging than we think
  • Small, consistent lifestyle changes we can make to promote longer telomeres
  • The role of existential stress
  • Meditation retreats as a reset for the nervous system
  • How even 5-minutes of daily meditation can help
  • Breathing practices that increase vagal tone
  • Deep rest, and other states of mind that are crucial for cellular repair and growth
  • How to counteract the impacts of stress eating
  • How to reframe stress as a challenge
  • And much more



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