Dr. Elissa Epel
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2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 23 Jun
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The nice thing about these wearables is that they're moving more toward longer term monitoring so that we're really focused on what's our trajectory.
Are we in a high risk zone with the way we've been sleeping and with the way our nervous system has been working over the last weeks or months?
So for example, Aura has a measure called cumulative stress that has been trained on
the measure of burnout and chronic stress by people's lived experience.
So they've trained this metric of cumulative stress based on people who are experiencing high levels of chronic stress and burnout.
So that's a very valuable and meaningful metric.
And we want to try to monitor that in a monthly fashion to make sure that we're staying in a lower risk zone.
We've been very interested in using mindfulness and mindful eating to help people right before they're eating, when they're starting to feel cravings and hungry, to bring in
the ability to determine, is this real hunger?
Is this craving about boredom or sadness?
Or is it that I really need calories right now and I should have a meal?
So just that check-in, interoceptive awareness, really, about true hunger versus emotions disguised with hunger.
We can easily
feel cravings and feelings of hunger when we're stressed.
And even sadness can increase cravings and hunger.
So we really get mixed signals.
They're very tied up together, stress and eating.
For many people, especially if we have excess weight, stress triggers feelings of
desire to eat, but it's not true physiological hunger.
And so how do we get below that?
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