Dr. Elissa Epel
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2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 23 Jun
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When we change our story and when we focus on changing our attention, right?
Focusing on releasing stress in the body, getting into sensory experiences, getting into nature, focusing on gratitude or joy.
But this power of reappraisal that you've brought up, it's never too late.
to change our narrative, to look at things in a different way, to bring the light of curiosity to the situation, to look at
What good could have come from this as well?
What good can still come?
So all of those beautiful, open thoughts that we can bring to a stressful situation can happen years later as well, right?
Because we hold onto stories and we hold onto stress.
So this reappraisal, yes, try to do it before the stressor, definitely try to do it right after, but also be willing to look at the big stories that we carry around about,
those difficult life situations that we have that take up a lot of mental real estate and that cause us a lot of rumination and in a sense, extra stress.
Thank you so much, Rangan.
It's really such a pleasure.
And thank you for helping so many people and let it bless your life and your day.
So sleep is when we're repairing the powers of both the mind and the body. Sleep is when we reduce inflammation, repair tissues. The discovery of the glymphatic system in 2012, 2013 is this passive channel that runs alongside our arteries and veins in the brain that fills with fluid when we're in deep sleep and allows a washing out of debris we may have accumulated during the day.
So all those bad thoughts get washed out. Well, not the bad thoughts. Well, the bad thoughts, no, but the amyloid plaque, that sticky plaque that we secrete in response to inflammation or injury, if it accumulates, of course, it can damage surrounding neurons and is associated with neurodegenerative disease and Alzheimer's disease.
It's definitely playing a role. And this concept of bidirectionality, we know that sleep disruption, circadian rhythm disruption, sleep apnea is present in two-thirds of people with insulin resistance, prediabetes, diabetes. And it is a chicken and the egg thing. It is driving the bus. We used to think, well, you get the sleep apnea because you have insulin resistance and gain weight.
But if you have disrupted sleep, your insulins are higher, your cortisol's are higher, your glucose is higher, you're looking for highly processed, quick, energy dense foods and less able to resist them.
Absolutely.
And cancer. And dementia. And flares of autoimmune conditions.
And chronic pain. Yeah. And fibromyalgia. And anxiety and depression. I mean, it really affects everything.
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