LONGEVITY with Nathalie Niddam #397: STRESS: The Silent Accelerator of Aging (10 Free Hacks Rewiring Your Longevity) | Calm Amid Chaos With Nat Niddam
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Dec 19, 2025 Chronic stress can secretly accelerate aging and harm your healthspan. Discover ten free strategies to combat stress, like prioritizing nature time, practicing gratitude, and regular exercise. Learn how social connections and volunteering can buffer stress, while avoiding doom-scrolling protects your resilience. Breathwork techniques and vagus nerve hacks offer simple ways to calm your nervous system. Remember: small changes can lead to significant improvements in your well-being—start with one today!
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Start With One Small Lever
- Pick one small stress-reduction practice and commit to it rather than trying all ten at once.
- Add another practice only after you sustain the first for a week or more.
Stress Shortens Your Healthspan
- Chronic stress silently accelerates aging by shortening telomeres and driving inflammation.
- High cortisol weakens immune function and fuels a damaging inflammation loop that worsens healthspan.
Bioregulator Study Highlighted Stress Limits
- Nathalie recounts a telomere study where most participants lengthened telomeres after bioregulators.
- Three participants showed no telomere gains, and stress was the likely reason their treatment stalled.