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The impact of stress on our physical and emotional health | Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D. (#51 rebroadcast)

The Peter Attia Drive

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How Meditation Can Help You Lower Blood Pressure

meditation is by far the best tool I have ever found to even approximate getting this under control but it's still hard. We don't have a pill to fix hypercorticylemia and yet as you've described eloquently it's also so innately wired into us and we have this miserable midbrain that's just killing us. You can't do your stress management on the weekends kind of thing it needs to be a regular sort of thing with all sorts of interventions. 20 or 30 minute blocks is a minimum to start getting the cardiovascular benefits from aerobic exercise.

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