Dr. Elissa Epel
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631 appearances
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2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 23 Jun
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It's cultural.
I mean, there are definitely societies that still keep the siesta and have a healthier relationship with time and with how much they value social and leisure time.
But in general, we tend to commoditize time
We view time as money.
We pack in as much as we can of doing an achievement into our minutes and our day.
And so physiologically, we are really deficient in the natural and normal flow of the diurnal rhythm's need for rest, right?
We should, in the afternoon, when we're low energy, be allowing ourselves to have that
nadir of activity in the day.
And many people, of course, don't have the degrees of freedom to have that.
But like you said, controlling the weekends more, controlling the bookends of the day more can make a tremendous difference.
So the socioeconomic status of
absolutely patterns the amount of not just chronic stressors, but danger signals.
In neighborhoods, noise, crime, the lower levels of kind of trust of neighbors, knowing neighbors and social capital, those all matter so much for individual health.
So knowing someone's zip code helps you predict things like
their weight, their body mass index, so level of obesity, but also telomere length.
We know that neighborhoods actually are a predictor of how short our telomeres become in adulthood and mid adulthood.
So these studies are fascinating on neighborhoods.
Things that matter that come to the top are feelings of safety,
the what we call deprivation, neighborhood deprivation.
So these measures of how much a neighborhood has things like grocery stores and community resources versus not having these resources.
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