Dr. Elissa Epel
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 23 Jun
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Aesthetics is another aspect, or the level of green, parks and trees is another thing we measure in neighborhoods.
And in some studies, that's starting to be measured and being related to cellular aging.
So this study that I love in Hong Kong, they compared the suburbs of Hong Kong, which were like literally...
green hills and a tremendous amount of natural land versus this very dense urban area.
And they looked at city dwellers and they controlled for social economic status, like at the individual level, like education and income, and found that there were significantly longer telomeres in the people that lived in the green area versus the urban area.
And of course, there's many studies on urbanization in the brain, the stress response showing that the amygdala is more
hyper-responsive in people who live in urban areas.
I really admire people who leave their phone in a different room or even a different floor.
most people are looking at their phone and it we use the screen for so many things that it's very easy to have excuses and then to flip right to social media and to scrolling and there's no question that even if it's rewarding in the short term and it feels good and it fills time it's activating threat responses we're just bombarded by so much information uh
exponentially more information than our brains are used to even 10 years ago, just the amount of stimulus.
So clearly having this protected period, as you described, two hours is wonderful when you can do that, where you are shutting down
the doing mode from work, maybe making a to-do list of what you need to do the next day, not talking about work with people at home, having less blue light, so less screens.
And then what you do with that time, that ritual,
is so individual and personal.
And so I can list off ideas and some of the things I do, but really just having one or two things that your body is conditioned to do is the trick because
when our body gets the signals, sensory signals, lighting signals, where we are in our house, it starts that wind down process.
Like the nervous system is absolutely sensitive to routine order and conditioning.
So for example, I will come into our bedroom and set it up by creating a...
A change in lighting, I will put on a aromatherapy diffuser, lavender or, you know, different mixes, but lavender is clearly one of the more relaxing aromatherapy interventions.
And music.
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