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Why Stress Ages Us Prematurely
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Transcript
Introduction to Stress and Aging
00:00:43
chrisyzen
Hi, it's Christian, you're old enough. Today we'll discuss why stress ages us and why why does it do that? like this is the When you understand the mechanisms, I think people will kind of understand why stress is so harmful, why it causes disease or it accelerates disease progression. Or it can impede healing when we're trying to restore our health from whatever health issues we are experiencing. And that's what we're going to tackle today. So to begin with from my book, how to actually live longer volume one in the first chapter, I kind of
00:01:27
chrisyzen
describe stress as one of the primary drivers of aging and dysfunction, right? And
00:01:38
chrisyzen
I ah go on to say that I'm not exaggerating when I say that stress can quite literally make you fat and give you diabetes, cause you to get sick more often or develop thrush or candida overgrowth, accelerate osteoporosis, which is bone loss, sarcopenia, which is muscle loss and weakness.
Stress and Mental Health
00:02:05
chrisyzen
It can precipitate cognitive decline and contribute to dementia. It can make you depressed. It can cause high blood pressure and contribute to heart disease independently of whether you eat a lot of meat or saturated fat or cholesterol or whatever whatever your cholesterol levels may be. And in extreme cases, it can even trigger psychosis.
00:02:27
chrisyzen
All of these things have been well documented in the scientific literature that stress can cause, contribute to, precipitate. okay um But why? Why? That's kind of the question we want to answer today because again if you understand why chronic stress ages you and degenerates your body and you know makes you more susceptible to disease and shortens your life literally, then I am sure once you understand that
Reducing Physical Stress
00:03:00
chrisyzen
you're more likely to take significant measures to reduce your stressors, right? um Personally, and with my clients, what we do is we are fairly aggressive in terms of reducing stress hormones physically, like with with like supplements and like dietary nutritional strategies. and some other stuff right depending on how how far a person wants to take it how much stress they're under how much time they can devote to these things but personally just i' i'm going to talk for myself personally for me i've just over the years i've learned
00:03:46
chrisyzen
how how to do it, how to physically lower like um cholesterol. You don't want to lower your cholesterol. You want to increase it, if anything. um ah How to physically lower my cortisol or oppose cortisol in the body with certain supplement supplementary strategies so that I mitigate the that stress response that I would explain what it does with basically just this to generate your body. And the reason I do this, the reason I feel like it's so important is because i I just know enough from all my research over the years, you know, tens of thousands of hours of research. I've and understood, for example, why are toxins so bad? What are the mechanisms? That's why people are like, you're a little bit too crazy with the clean eating and the, you know, reducing toxic exposure and stuff like that. I'm like, no, I'm i'm not a little bit too crazy. I'm just, I know more than most people.
00:04:43
chrisyzen
And it's freaking terrifying.
Corporate Responsibility and Stress
00:04:45
chrisyzen
And if you knew what I know, you may fall into a deep depression for a while. And I'm sure if I had that those stages where it's kind of, you know, you reach that stage where you're like, oh, my God, this this world is what has what has happened to this world, you know? And then, of course, we are blamed for it, even though it's not us. It's a bunch of corporations really spearheading all of this. But that's a whole topic for another day. So back to the stress thing. it The reason i
Personal Stress Experiences
00:05:15
chrisyzen
I really focus on it is because I had a pretty stressful childhood. i'm a very ah I was always a pretty stress-prone individual, so I kind of never really had um very good coping mechanisms for stress. As I discussed in my the first volume of my book, How to Actually Live Longer, you know ah in my 20s, late teens and 20s, drinking, smoking, partying.
00:05:43
chrisyzen
a lot of very unproductive behaviors, very poor diets. So I figured out that a lot of my tendencies to gravitate towards those substances and whatever else was, it's it was just coping mechanisms for the various sort of stresses that you know I think we all have these stresses growing up. so it's it's it's really Everybody really, depending on the whole milieu of the environment and and the upbringing and the birth and all that stuff, yeah develops better or worse coping strategies. But at the end of the day, all we are doing when when it's like some kind of
00:06:27
chrisyzen
either addictive or self injurious behaviour or unproductive behaviour, we're just doing our best to cope with stress or trauma, right? So I figured out, finally, strategies to not to basically to keep the hormone, the the sort of the biochemistry balance in the body, such that you don't feel you need to, you know, gravitate towards whatever. And ah A big factor there is keeping cortisol low and not letting it you know be chronically elevated. right
00:07:03
chrisyzen
um So where the hell do we start? This is such a big topic. So many so
Cortisol's Role in Stress Response
00:07:09
chrisyzen
many different things to discuss. Just to make sure you get the the basics of what cortisol does in the body. right So a couple of primary roles. A major role is to keep your blood sugar at a certain level. So if it drops, cortisol kicks in. And if you are under stress, let's say you have to run, fight, flee, whatever, um it its job is to you know raise your blood sugar so you can muster up an energetic response to whatever challenge faces you. So it does that by signaling to our lean tissues to break down. So the cells,
00:07:53
chrisyzen
get the signal to dismantle which means and the the types the types of cells are the lean tissue so muscle, bone, parts of organs, parts of the brain in in very sort of end stage situations, a lot of chronic stress, parts of the brain will be broken down. ah glands like so like I said organs the thymus gland right that's one of the first to kind of start getting um atrophied and when you hear atrophy atrophy means the body is like breaking the thing down it's because it it's usually getting turned gonna get a bunch of it is gonna get turned into glucose and then like I said bone bone has like 35% collagen protein in it and And the amino acids there, some of them can be turned into um glucose, others can be turned into ketones, so that's a really good, when I say good, and not in a good way, but it's ah it's a great reserve of potential energy.
00:08:48
chrisyzen
potential fuel in the bones um but it's not good because it's good for and and um a true emergency the problem is a lot of us are living as if we're in a war or a famine a lot of the time and the problem is yes if your muscles got get broken down over a while you lose a bunch of muscle mass you'll be like okay something is wrong i need to you know work on my stress or read more or whatever but with your bones especially like for women we know um you own For many women and just many, many people in general, they only cop on that they have osteoporosis or osteoporosis or osteopenia when they have some kind of you know stress fracture or something like that, you know or the they break of hip. That's way, way, way too late. So these are this is my whole sort of ah strategy around health and everything is to increase longevity right so we don't want that to happen we want to be proactive about not allowing these stress
Immune Suppression and Aging
00:09:58
chrisyzen
hormones to run rampant in our body
00:10:00
chrisyzen
because they disintegrate our body, they liquefy our tissue to be turned into glucose and and adrenaline, that's that's another one of these kind of ah sympathetic system hormones that that's more to do with like um breaking down fatty tissue and a lot of ah a lot of people in the biohacking and fitness community they they seem to like say oh that's a good thing because you if you liberate the fat from the tissues it's gonna get burned so that's a good thing so let's do some ice baths and some fasted cardio and whatever other PS they're doing um but it's pretty sort of short-sighted because the that stress response
00:10:46
chrisyzen
It suppresses the immune system. that's and That's the second role cortisol has really, it's an anti-inflammatory. So if you if you have a lot of inflammation, your cortisol will also be high because it suppresses the immune system and that lowers inflammation. That's why we have a lot of glucocorticoid drugs, which are cortisol mimi mimicking chemicals. um So, but yeah, so the adrenaline and the cortisol, they suppress the immune system and the the thymus gland, which plays a big role there, that will get disintegrated, the atrophied. And you know if you if your immune system is suppressed, that's a very good environment for fungal overgrowth, for bacteria, sort of opportunistic bacteria to run rampant and cause you problems, further inflammation, more stress, more cortisol, more immune suppression.
00:11:38
chrisyzen
Because the body's just trying to keep some some semblance of balance and homeostasis so not Excuse me, not really good um Not not not a really good environment for optimal health for longevity for restoring our health for healing our gut and And just for being a calm, positive person, because we know very well the these stress hormones make us feel like crap. Cortisol is always high in depression very often, right? And worst case scenario, like I said, if this stress is chronic, even parts of the brain will be atrophied, okay? So that's cortisol's role in the body, and and adrenaline is another stress hormone, right? so
00:12:20
chrisyzen
um
00:12:23
chrisyzen
I just wanted to add, so why why is it misguided that if we liberate a lot of fat, we're going to burn a lot of fat? Well, liberating fat is one part of the equation, burning the fat is another part of the equation. We have very limited capacity in the body for fat oxidation or or burning fat, right? So ah a lot of what happens is a lot of ah if you liberate a lot of this fat that puts a massive burden on your liver to repackage the fat to you know it can um oxidize the fat it can in some cases it can even
00:13:01
chrisyzen
um bind it to glucuronic acid in in the case of certain fats and that those can actually be peed out, they can be excreted almost like a toxin, right? So the polyunsaturated fats, which could be very damaging otherwise in the body. so the liberating a lot of fat is very misguided because again you have limited capacity to burn fat anything that's not burned will have to be repackaged and a lot of that actually can get stored in the liver and
00:13:34
chrisyzen
What's a big, but big phenomenon at the moment? It's about a quarter of adults in the USA have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. And then there's a bunch, a few more percentage points of like non-alcoholic steatohepatosis. Then there's like alcoholic fatty liver disease. So liver disease is a massive, like a third, possibly more of Americans have fatty liver disease. Like I said, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a quarter already, if not more now. So it's um it's clear that that's not a good thing. In fact, that there was one paper that I cited in my book ah that they they say that even normal under normal circumstances,
00:14:20
chrisyzen
we liberate twice as much fat as we have capacity to burn the body. So that that fat, let's say it's liberated from the fat cells in your, let's say abdomen. It will get into the bloodstream, circulate around, go to the liver. If it's deemed not necessary you know today to be to be used for energy or other purposes, it it has other fat has other purposes, of course. If none of those uses are deemed necessary, it will get repackaged into triglycerides and they'll have to get stored. other Either they'll be shipped back out to the bloodstream or
00:15:01
chrisyzen
the liver will store them, which is one of the easiest things. And that's how you develop a fatty liver. So stress can can cause this. And then ah in a separate episode, I've discussed how stress can cause insulin resistance, which can also cause diabetes. And stress-induced diabetes is a recognized condition.
00:15:25
chrisyzen
So that's another that's another reason why stress causes disease and ages us. But I think the biggest reason why why stress ages us is, again, going back to the cortisol, which is probably the main topic of the of the conversation. Cortisol, like I said, it signals to non-essential cells to break down this mantle so they can be turned into glucose and other parts of them are going to be used for other purposes, sure. ah So where do we have a lot of tissue?
00:16:02
chrisyzen
ah with Where is where are is there a lot of amino acids which is the building blocks of proteins that can be turned into glucose? Well, like I said already earlier, collagen protein has a lot of amino acids that can be turned into fuel, glucose and and even ketones.
Cognitive Impact and Appearance
00:16:21
chrisyzen
which we can burn or oxidize as um as an energy source when we're in ketosis. So but what where are other places where we have a lot of collagen? Our joints, our skin, right? Our skin has a ton of collagen.
00:16:47
chrisyzen
So if you're chronically stressed and you don't do anything to oppose that stress, and you don't provide your body with the sufficient nutrition required to rebuild, repair, and then have some extra to not just maintain um nice to have functions like whatever your skin, your hair, you know your eyesight, good eyesight, that's also nice to have, right? you don't have to have really good eyesight to to survive
00:17:23
chrisyzen
um there's a tunnel You don't have to have great skin to survive. you don't have Your joints don't have to really be very bouncy and supple. that you don't have You don't have to have a lot of muscle mass. Your bones don't have to be mega super strong. So all of this structure in your body gets disintegrated by cortisol when it's chronically elevated. That is why if you look at a person that
00:17:56
chrisyzen
has experienced a lot of stress. They have more, let's say, more wrinkles. They just, in general, they don't look good. They might have dark circles under the eyes, especially if they're not sleeping. That's another way to raise your cortisol, keep your stress stress um hormones elevated. so And then, of course, not to mention that stress shuts down long-range thinking, long-term thinking and planning, because it's all about survival. so you Those fun cognitive functions are somewhat shut down a creativity joy you know stress people stressed people you might this is i made i made this mistake so many times where i see i ah kind of throw in a lot of kind of jibs and jabs and jokes.
00:18:44
chrisyzen
and I kind of Sometimes it would land on a very stressed person and the response would be fairly, you know, we Should should have just like moved on not not even kind of engaged with that person that look there's and you you realize in hindsight in hindsight How stressed they are and when you're stressed, you just don't not bother with jokes or like little things smelling the roses all the stuff and then there's a reason because but The body has priorities and survival is its number one priority. kidding but um yes so if you look Just as an example, to use myself in it as an example, um I saw a picture of myself before we had our daughter and then a picture of myself three years later and
00:19:37
chrisyzen
uh i was like oh my god how much i've aged right so that because it was a stressful period my um It was just myself and my wife for a lot of that time because our families live in different countries. And it was stressful. It was stressful anyway. Anyway, you kind of cut it. It's always stressful, but when you you're on your own for a lot of that time, just
00:20:09
chrisyzen
You know You two and the and the kid it it can be even more stressful. We had a nanny that will come for a few hours Two three times a week after a while so that that took a little bit of pressure off But you know I had work and my wife wanted to get back to work and a bunch of other stuff going on so and the Kobe thing and all that crazy bullshit and So, but it's it's very visible that the stress of all of that had had aged me a little bit more rapidly than I would have liked because also my diet kind of took a hit during ah for some of that time. ah a lot A lot of different factors play play the role and that's the case with
00:20:55
chrisyzen
with a lot of people that um that I kind of ah see, I see someone that's clearly a aged prematurely. They might be in their 40s, but they look like in their 50s or they might be in their 20s, look like in their 30s. And here is, here is the part where a lot of people kind of start to push back when we start calling out what is actually stress, what is stressful, right? People, can accept that psychological stress is bad, right? So when you have let's say a relationship, or you know, a lot of family demands, you have maybe three kids, or maybe your job, your business, this kind of stuff is very that can be very stressful, some kind of conflict in the family or with people close to you, we understand those are stressful things. However, a lot of people
00:21:55
chrisyzen
have this sort of fairy tale notion in their head that a lot of exercise like fast fasting or a lot of exercise or fasted cardio, going to the gym without having breakfast, oh doing a low carb diet, keto diet, and then exercising on top of that. they they somehow They somehow believe that those things are okay because it's a good stress
00:22:26
chrisyzen
because the body will adapt to that and stuff like that but listen let's we're not children here let me just tell you like an adult adult to adult that is straight up bs right those things are very stressful not eating starving yourself or fasting if you want to use the magical fairy tale language to to disguise the fact what fasting is straight up starvation never nobody ever thought starvation is good but somehow fasting is good um because you clean up and the autophagy autophagy right
00:23:04
chrisyzen
and exercise. i and And I don't think, I think with folks over 40, most people kind of come to their senses and they're like, ah, I don't want to push myself. And it's a sensible thing. It's not that like that you're lazy or you're not motivated to push yourself and exercise. You don't want to push yourself and exercise because you likely have other stress going on in your body. in its infinite wisdom, knows that you it doesn't want to push itself further to add ah additional stress to your stress bucket. However, when we're younger, like when I was in my 20s and early 30s, we, a lot of us, we can push ourselves a lot because we have a lot of
00:23:52
chrisyzen
this adaptive reserve a lot of this resilience to stress so we have our cortisol levels excuse me our cortisol levels are not either not as high or we can just produce more of the protective steroid hormones like progesterone, testosterone, pregnant alone, DHEA and stuff like that so we are able to meet stress with a protective hormone response however over time as the as we accumulate wear and tear in the body we start to produce less of these protective hormones and or more cortisol and adrenaline kind of just we're it's more the
00:24:36
chrisyzen
ah the The stress hormone system remains the same whereas the adaptive the the kind of the resilience protective side of things that diminishes in capacity and a lot of it a lot of it really has to do with just the toxicity of the environment. people's um lack of education about how to protect themselves, how to you know to're right excuse me eat the right food, supplement their diet because that is super, super necessary and so on.
Genetic Factors in Stress
00:25:03
chrisyzen
So over time, we are less and less resilient to stress. But when we're in our 20s and 30s, we can go crazy. Like when I when i turned 30,
00:25:12
chrisyzen
or just as I was about to turn 30 a couple of months before that I so i signed up to a Thai boxing gym and on day one I went there it was January I was still kind of getting over my hangovers from New Year's celebrations and whatnot and I went in to the gym ah the Thai Muay Thai gym and I ah a guy started talking to me, welcoming me. Turns out that was the coach and I told him, yeah, I wanna do a fight this year. So I just turned 30 a couple of months later and I also decided to go plant-based for that entire year to prove a point to God knows even who, right? So I was gonna do a Thai boxing fight, my first one on a plant-based diet and I did it and I was training.
00:26:05
chrisyzen
I went from not not training just kind of partying drinking all that stuff smoking cigarettes and whatever else and I went to like plant-based and training six eight times a week running sprints plyometrics hard sparring and I managed to get to to that fight it was like I think it was in December that year and I got there but in hindsight Now I'm thinking, oh, dear God, how much damage I inflicted on myself because I was drinking soy protein shakes. You know, we were still like on a Saturday, we would do sparring and ah kind of like circuit training sessions. And then we would go go to the pub after that. That was next to the gym. And just this was in Ireland and Dublin. We were just like drink pints of beer until like 11 in the evening.
00:27:02
chrisyzen
When you'd be dead by then, and maybe have a meal or two or a snack or two all that time. ah Jesus Christ, how much damage I inflicted on myself. And so, so many of us, we have so much reserve that we just wear the be Jesus out of ourselves. because we feel like we have we we have to push ourselves and all this exercise is good for us or you know whatever other stressor pick your stressor but then women have the added sort of stress of bearing children and then breastfeeding and then for years waking up at night and kind of that's really stressful right
00:27:47
chrisyzen
So I think we have so many stressors. And again, what what what happens at the end of the day, cortisol
00:27:58
chrisyzen
cuts puts the brakes on higher cognitive functions it it liquefies our muscle bone organs joints skin degenerates our it degenerates our tissues you know and they were just in my in my book um i cite a couple of studies right there's ah There's a thing called perceived age, right? And i'm I'm quoting the study here. So perceived age, which is widely used by clinicians as a general indication of a patient's health.
00:28:33
chrisyzen
is a robust biomarker of aging that predicts survival amongst among those age 70 and over and correlates with important functional and molecular aging phenotypes. Very um simply said, if you look younger than your age, you probably are healthier than someone who looks their age or older than their age. and the the the older you get the more this seems to have validity and apparently
00:29:11
chrisyzen
Another study I cite in the book is that research so researchers have found that higher cortisol levels were associated with a higher perceived age. but So they were looking at people and they they would um score their perceived age and then they would obviously of course at the same time they they would have measured their cortisol levels and the folks with the higher cortisol levels in the study Were those ones were associated with a higher perceived age? Isn't that interesting? So just reducing your stress and I've had clients tell me you know once we do the the stress reduction protocol side of the program They say my yeah I look like I have less wrinkles um People are telling me giving me you know compliments about my appearance. I feel I I feel younger, I look younger, and people and people are saying it's not just you kind of having a better mood now because you're less stressed and seeing yourself in a different way. Other people see us. And by the way, a lot of it seems like a lot of these steroid hormones
00:30:24
chrisyzen
or at least some of them they're also pheromones right so we actually exude them out of our body or out of our skin and people they literally just they smell them and They they kind of they that forms a part of the field Through which they perceive us. It's not just appearance not just what we say those sound waves, right? It's also the
00:30:57
chrisyzen
levels of certain chemicals hormones and whatnot neuro steroids in our in our body that also has a perception or plays a part in the perception ah that people have of us right so you know so um you know how like when you sometimes you walk into a room And you can feel the tension. It's a similar thing or if if someone is really tense and and stressed out and ah for just as an example, like I sometimes ah walk into the room and my daughter is being like crazy toddler and my wife is like a little bit stressed. I just walk in and
00:31:38
chrisyzen
I um might ah might not even have made eye contact with my wife and I can almost like sense, like a sixth sense or something that she's a little bit stressed. don't make Don't make shitty comments, don't make shitty jokes, dad jokes and whatnot. So very, very interesting, right? and then there was another study that those that that that perceived age quote that I started with in the section that was a study of 1826 almost 2000 twins
00:32:14
chrisyzen
Basically, the bigger the difference in the perceived age of the twins, the higher the likelihood was that the older twin would die first. And I i go on to say in the book, what that tells us is that if you keep stress low, you're likely to age more slowly, and if you look younger naturally, naturally, you're likely going to live longer because it indicates your overall state of health is in decent shape. And then, look, the the I kind of started with this side of things. I also have another quote. There's actually a lot of research on this side of things. The quote from the study was another study. It was, psychosocial psychosocial stress, especially when chronic
00:33:02
chrisyzen
Excessive or occurring early in life has been associated with accelerated Aging and increased disease risk. Okay, so early life stress This is I really believe this place a big part in kind of addiction and stuff like that by the way something I forgot to mention with my my personal addictive tendencies I know I have this kind of addictive personality. I've done genetic testing and um I do have certain
00:33:34
chrisyzen
genetic traits or certain genes that seem to play a role in this kind of phenotype, if you if you want to call it that, right or this kind of set of traits. It has to do with the dopamine genes. the genes There's one gene, COMT, which is involved in breaking down catecholamines, like dopamine is a catecholamine. so actually that gene I don't have a polymorphism in but it
00:34:10
chrisyzen
The fact that I don't have a polymorphism in it means the gene works really well, or rather the um enzyme that it expresses works really efficiently. So it could be, my my theory is that because the enzyme, there's no polymorphisms that slow it down, it perhaps breaks dopamine down a little bit too fast. So then when I kind of, when my dopamine levels would have ah dipped back in the day, that, that would have caused this kind of behavior, right? that That that's, that's a big mechanism. I believe in the kind of also, also like ADHD, I believe this ADD type behavior. And
Genetic Testing for Health
00:34:53
chrisyzen
I noticed back in the day, I would have that behave, this kind of ADD moving from this and that and project to project, you know, what I've noticed.
00:35:03
chrisyzen
is when I use an amino acid dopamine precursor called tyrosine with my morning coffee in the morning and I do this consistently, I definitely notice a difference. Like my focus is better. I don't shoot from task to task. So I really think there's a lot of there's a lot of benefit even though the the genetic side of things is not really all that advanced and so much money has been plowed into it that yeah oh you're almost like what kind of money laundering operation has this been over the past 25 years whatever um even though we're so basic and the body's so complex i i believe even with those let's say 2030 maybe 50 up to 50 60 g's that we have decent research on
00:35:53
chrisyzen
I think we can just not doing that test once, having that data, investing it at one time in your life is actually really valuable because because then you will know for life what to do nutritionally and certain environmental and lifestyle strategies. to mitigate any potential risks that those genes may confer on you. Just a simple example, the MTHFR gene that probably most people have heard if you're in the health kind of stuff. So the MTHFR gene, methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase. So I have the, I'm homozygous for the C6770 variant.
00:36:38
chrisyzen
And um that means I just don't create methyl folate very well, right? which and And the thing is the MTHFR gene has been associated with a lot of stuff, atherosclerosis, depression, um miscarriage, and a few other things. That actually running my family that we have not not that they run in my family But we have people in in in my family that are have been fact affected those conditions. Okay, so Six seven years ago when I kind of got into that and ah Understood what genes I have?
00:37:24
chrisyzen
I was at first, I was like, oh my God, oh my God, I have this, this is the worst variant of the empty MTHFR6770. At first I was like, oh my God, this is bad. But then you're like, no, this is not bad. Now I know what to do about it because all of pretty much all of them, unless they're like really bad inborn areas of metabolism, like usually don't even survive past like a year or old or whatever, with a lot of these like very serious genetic mutations. We're talking about things that can be, um Ameliorated or addressed with dietary and supplementation strategies so just Just putting it out there because you know if you if you are interested in this kind of stuff I do offer these kinds of tests and analysis. This is more for advanced ah clients once we get obviously the gut working well a lot of the the kind of the major health complaints are addressed then there's a lot of
00:38:22
chrisyzen
further things. This is a journey. It's a game. It's not a race. It's not a sprint. And if it were a race, it would be a marathon. you know ah But it's not it's not even ah it's not even a race. I don't see it as a race anymore. It's a game with infinite levels. And it's up to you how far you want to progress in the game.
Foundational vs. Advanced Health Techniques
00:38:41
chrisyzen
um So just putting that out there that we can do this kind of much more advanced stuff if you feel you are there yet, you know, obviously, there's a lot of other stuff that has to be dialed in for this stuff to truly matter. And this is the kind of like the one to the last few percentage points where we kind of are thinking, okay, we've done all the good work.
00:39:09
chrisyzen
weve with the body's working well now, metabolically speaking, we've done the metabolomics tests, those two tests and all that good stuff, with lowered inflammation, what can we do next? How can we make how can we start making decisions now that they're not about making an impact today, tomorrow, next month? But we're talking about making an impact over decades into the future, but where you make one decision to, let's say, to do something, and it's it's not like you're going to feel a big difference in energy or whatever else, or you might, you never know, but it's not about that. It's about something that you are, it's like almost like insurance, you're mitigating risk,
00:39:57
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of something that will take decades to to manifest, to develop into a problem.
Interconnection of Physical and Emotional Health
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So we're just long-term thinking with with our greatest asset, which is our obviously our vehicle, our body, our health, um ah physical and and so so and emotional health, because the tour The two are really intertwined. You can't have can can't really tell me there's a person that's really physically ill, sick, that is an amazing, let's say, writer, author, poet, scientist, researcher. It's just nice nice to be hanging around with. If someone is sick physically, their mind will not be optimal.
Root Causes of Stress
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you know And um if someone is very physically fit and and healthy but their mind is deranged for whatever for for whatever reason, a lot of that actually that can be traced back to like certain hormone levels and neurotransmitters and stuff like that. So it it does actually, again, um it usually can be traced back to the body, right, to some kind of stress hormone imbalances and or but potentially even genetic polymorphisms and there's some kind of interplay there, potentially with with some a lot of stress or trauma growing up. but
00:41:18
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Now we're getting a little bit way off topic, I apologize. ah you know i I can start rambling about all kinds of things. To sum up, stress ages us and causes disease because it cortisol shuts down shuts down a lot of these nice to have functions like rebuilding, repairing, because you're just in survival mode.
Comprehensive Stress Reduction Strategies
00:41:46
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and it liquefies or causes our body to liquefy itself and consume itself as an energy source and ah Unfortunately a lot of the the nice to have tissues like nice skin not having wrinkles Good joints, you know all that good stuff that will go way way upfront in terms of
00:42:11
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How quickly that sacrificed for the what the body perceives as the greater good which is short-term survival so we have to really work hard to reduce our stressors and then use that dietary and supplemental strategies to Mitigate the stress with in today's world with today's fast-paced stressful environment We have to be what I like to say very aggressive about stress reduction. You can't just Oh, you know, I'm gonna do a little bit of maybe some breathing exercise. I'll meditate for that. It does help. It's awesome. If you do that and get into the habit, but I'm talking we need like biochemical level stress reduction at the biochemical
Engagement Invitation
00:42:55
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level. And there's two ways to learn more about that. If you haven't got my book, get the heart, make sure you get the heart cover. It's how to actually live long, how to actually live longer volume one.
00:43:05
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get the hardcover, spend the extra five bucks, all goes to Jeff Bezos, I just want you to have the hardcover because this you're going to extend your life so much just by this one first volume being in your library that you you want it to be you know more resilient because you you'll be around for longer but anyway that's the one way to do that and then the other one is to to become a client and then you can get the volume two three four and five which are mostly in my head i just haven't had the time to probably you know sit down and create them because it's a massive massive ordeal creating a book so if you want the rest of the goods if with volume one
00:43:52
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ah you know if you like Volume 1 you're gonna love working with me as a client so check out the episode description on more details on how to kind of get that process started if you if you want to kind of talk to me and we can see if we're a good fit to work together and we can see where which program is right for you um yeah that's it thank you so much for tuning into this episode and I'll see you on the next one