Dr. Elissa Epel

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631 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 23 Jun

Dr. Elissa Epel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Now it's time to restore and repair.

And so that happens at night when we sleep.

And that needs to happen more in the day.

I think we've lost the siesta.

We've lost a culture where it's okay to lie down in the middle of the day or have leisure time be a regular part of the day.

And so we're in a...

In a sense, this grind culture is grinding down our telomeres more quickly as well.

When we rest, we turn on telomerase, the enzyme that repairs telomeres.

We also turn on other restorative mechanisms, such as DNA repair mechanisms and the cleanup crew in the cell that cleans up junk, repairs proteins.

And we also turn on the anabolic hormones, the sex hormones, the steroids that actually create growth and maintenance.

That's heartbreaking.

And that was his normal default mode.

It became what he was used to.

If we are living a lifestyle of chronic stress, we tend to become numb to the feelings and thoughts of stress and to the body signals.

We don't read them anymore because it's our default mode.

And so...

I think we're, as a society in general, living with an epidemic of chronic stress.

The baseline level of arousal for people is not, let's say, normal.

It's not a resting state.

It is a...

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