Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

These are things that never quite go away.

So that fight or flight response is always on at a slow hum in the background.

Rest and recovery are not just nice to have luxuries.

They are essential for our brains and bodies and particularly for the biological features of our brains and bodies to thrive.

Wes is a single dad of three.

He works two jobs, and his doctors had told him that it's important for him to lose weight because he has high blood pressure, is slowly starting to develop high cholesterol, and...

may develop diabetes down the road.

He would wake up early in the morning, take care of his children, which was his first priority.

He would rush out the door.

He would get to his first job.

Then, between jobs, he needed to eat.

And it was easy, fast, and cheap.

Then he would go on to his next job and he would finish that and he would come home exhausted, fatigued.

Having done the best he possibly could, he would go to sleep, he would wake up, and he would do it all over again.

MOST is an acronym, M-O-S-T.

Studies have found that when you focus on what matters to you most, it can help you increase your sense of self-efficacy.

And self-efficacy is your sense and ability to feel like, hey, I can do that.

Like buying healthier foods at the grocery store and... When he was packing his three children's lunch the night before, he would do the same for himself.

That 20-minute walk helped him so much in terms of creating a habit of daily movement.

He was able to decrease his stress.