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#331 David Robson- The Cutting-Edge Science of How Our Mindset Holds The Keys to Unlocking a Better You

What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

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The Expectation Effect Just Blows My Mind

The Expectation Effect is a new book that explores how we can expand our lives by between seven and eight years. It's based on lots of different longitudinal studies that had essentially asked people in young age, middle age kind of what do you think is going to happen as you get older. People with the negative attitude to aging show a steady increase in cortisol which is the stress hormone after middle age whereas people with the positive view of aging actually show a decrease. The greater stress can do things like trigger greater inflammation  in the body low-grade chronic inflammation causes wear and tear-and-art issues but also contributes to illness.

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