Jeff Krasno
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350 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Does this physical practice help me move back into some form of physiological homeostasis? Does it actually help me balance blood sugar levels, balance pH balance, balance the seesaw between excitatory neurotransmitters and inhibitory neurotransmitters? Does it balance my circadian rhythm?
Am I secreting cortisol at the right time, melatonin at the right time, glucagon at the right time, insulin at the right time? Am I balanced between growth pathways and anabolic pathways like mTOR and restoration pathways like AMPK, et cetera? So you really can think about your organism and your psychology as just an endless pursuit of sort of dynamic homeostasis and
and then build your protocols on the way you live your life you know, to pursue that goal.
Totally. And what do we really truly want out of life?
Fair enough. But, you know, there is this picture of a life of ease, right? Just collapsed on the couch, binging Netflix in a snuggly 72 degree thermoregulated environment, like, you know, eating some Haagen-Dazs. Okay. You know, sure. That's delicious from time to time. That's not the true ease that we're really looking for in life. We know the true ease when we taste it.
It tastes candidly like the tomato that we grew, not the ethylene gassed one that we bought at the grocery store. And growing that tomato yourself is a little bit inconvenient. You know, you have to enrich the soil. You have to plant the seed. You have to prune the plant just right. You have to water it every day. You have to make sure it's getting enough sun, et cetera.
And so this is really the ease that we're looking for just doesn't really come for free, you know? And we know it when we taste it. We know it when we're in it. I mean, like right now for the last 90 minutes, we've been completely engaged with each other, sort of outside of linear time and space. We're just completely all here.
And that is like a representation of like the life that we're looking for. It's not like some candy-coated thing. It's actually like when we sort of lose sense of linear time. It's like oftentimes we experience that in like collective enterprise or in like some sort of creative endeavor, sometimes in sports.
where we have perfect awareness of our body and space and time, and we might be tired, but boy, we're never going to stop. That's often called flow state. And I think that that is sort of reframing that life that we're looking for. And that life...
is available to us, but not without of leaning in to the edges of our comfort zone and experiencing some forms of discomfort, some health conferring forms.
No, that's it. I mean, I was fortunate enough to scoop up goodstress.com. There you go. That's a good domain name. I know. So you can check it out there. And, you know, really, you know, this book is a distillation of a lot of wisdom from other people. And, you know, you and I have spent a lot of time together over the years. I've been able to
really mine the mental gladstones of so many incredible doctors, a lot of amazing female doctors who have been so generous with me. And, you know, I have the honor of being able to platform many of them on Commune. And so, you know, for people that aren't familiar with it, it is essentially a masterclass platform for wellbeing. You can go there and find
all sorts of information and courses on integrative and functional medicine, but yoga and mindfulness and Qi Gong and Tai Chi and even regenerative farming and essentially everything you need to be holistically well. And, um, and that's, you know, really the, you know, the, the work of my life right now. And so I, I encourage people if they're interested, go to one commune.com.
That's L N E commune.com. And yeah, if you're inclined to support my work, you know, buy my book. I, you know, I love to write and I will always write a tremendous amount for free, but in order to write a lot for free that I think, um, helps to contribute to people's wellbeing, uh, every once in a while I have to sell something. So help me out.
Thanks a lot, Drew. I appreciate you.
We so often associate health with downward spirals, but upward spirals are completely possible. In this day and age, we're largely choosing the way we die with very, very little thoughtfulness. We essentially evolved for a certain amount of stress, but we've engineered our lives at every single turn, often in the name of profit for ease and convenience.
Doing hard things has incredible benefits, and it also makes doing other hard things easier. It really doesn't take that long for your body to gain momentum and it is available to people. Health exists along this dynamic spectrum. We have a certain amount of jurisdiction over our trajectory on that spectrum. Sort of embracing this idea that I am process and not product.
I'm not even close to the same person than I was when I began this conversation.
Yeah. Great to be here with you, Andre. I so appreciate it. And obviously I was thinking about you over the last couple of weeks as our greater community here in Los Angeles has been grappling and enduring these fires. And, um, yeah, I mean, fortunately, of course we were, we were, our locations were spared. Um, and, uh,
Yeah, I mean, I have a bit of survivor's guilt associated with it because obviously we both have communities that have lost a tremendous amount. And, you know, when the fires first started, I really surrendered to our place, Commune Topanga. potentially being reduced to ash. And this was a moment kind of where the spiritual rubber sort of meets the hard, unforgiving reality, right?
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