471: How to Hack Stress for Better Health and Longevity | Sharon Horesh Bergquist, MD
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Dr. Sharon Horesh Berquist is a board-certified internal medicine physician, lifestyle medicine expert, and author of The Stress Paradox, specializing in the science of resilience and healthy aging.
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| 0:00.0 | What up team? It's episode 471 of the Genius Live. Let's go. |
| 0:05.0 | What's going on? What's going on everybody? |
| 0:24.2 | Welcome back to another episode of the show. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm your host, Max Lugavir. |
| 0:28.1 | And today we are flipping the script on stress. |
| 0:31.6 | We've all heard that stress is the enemy, right? |
| 0:34.3 | Bad for your heart, bad for your brain, bad for your longevity. |
| 0:36.9 | But what if I told |
| 0:37.8 | you that stress, when harnessed correctly, can actually improve your health? Well, my guest |
| 0:44.4 | today is Dr. Sharon Huresh Berkwist, a board-certified internal medicine physician, lifestyle |
| 0:49.9 | medicine expert, and author of The Stress Paradox, specializing in the science of resilience |
| 0:55.2 | and healthy aging. |
| 0:57.1 | She's here to break down why not all stress is created equal. |
| 1:00.3 | Chronic stress, bad. |
| 1:01.8 | But the right kind of stress, like exercise, time restricted eating, and even certain |
| 1:06.3 | dietary challenges, well, they can actually boost resilience and metabolic health. |
| 1:10.7 | We also get |
| 1:11.3 | into why when you eat might be just as important as what you eat. Dr. Berkowitz shares how |
| 1:16.0 | shifting most of your calories to earlier in the day can be a game changer for your metabolism. |
| 1:20.6 | And most importantly, she offers practical, sustainable ways to embrace good stress to optimize |
| 1:25.6 | your health without extreme lifestyle overhauls. |
| 1:28.7 | Listen all the way through, you're not going to want to miss a beat. |
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