A paradigm-shifting approach to wellness that reveals how the right levels of stress are
actually good for you and how stress can help you unlock the body's natural ability to stave
off aging prevent disease and improve metabolic health. What if we've gotten stress wrong?
There's a breakthrough happening in the study of cellular health wellness and longevity. We
know that excessive stress can be toxic but emerging new research reveals that too little
stress is just as bad for you as too much. Dr. Sharon Bergquist a pioneering physician and
leading stress researcher is at the forefront of this movement. In The Stress Paradox she
explains that our bodies are designed to heal and repair themselves but we need the right
amount and type of hormetic stress to rejuvenate at a cellular level. Many modern comforts have
inadvertently increased our risk of mental and physical illness by causing us to underutilize
our inherited response to challenges. Our need for stress is so deeply embedded in our genes
that you can't achieve good health without it! Dr. Bergquist reveals how to optimize five key
stressors to maximize mental emotional and physical resilience and reap a host of health
benefits from staving off dementia to increasing the years of your life. These simple
lifestyle medicine changes can keep your mind sharp improve your mood increase energy and
metabolism support a healthy gut maintain a healthy weight and decrease your risk of serious
diseases like cancer heart disease type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's. Eating more plant
"toxins" in foods like vegetables dark chocolate and spices Exercising with intermittent
bursts of intense movement Engaging in heat and cold therapy to awaken your body's ancient
healing pathways Fasting most effectively for your circadian biology Challenging yourself
mentally and emotionally while managing unhealthy stress levels Rooted in cutting-edge science
and complete with customizable protocols workouts and recipe templates The Stress Paradox is
an accessible life-changing roadmap for using hormesis to dramatically increase health
happiness and longevity.
