Ep. 449 Good Stress and Hormesis: Keys to Better Health with Jeff Krasno

Everyday Wellness with Cynthia Thurlow ™

Cynthia Thurlow

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Science, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Today, I am thrilled to welcome Jeff Krasno, the Co-founder and CEO of the Commune well-being master class platform and the author of Good Stress, as my guest. Jeff also hosts the Commune podcast, where he has interviewed various luminaries, and writes a weekly personal essay called Commusings to explore spirituality, wellness, and culture. In today’s discussion, we discuss the marginal decades, contrasting the allopathic and integrative medicine approaches, looking at the advantages of hormesis and intentional stress, the idea of balance, and the Goldilocks zone. We also dive into the effects of cold and heat therapies on emotional and thermal regulation, the role of heat shock proteins, the impact of distraction and dopamine foraging, the importance of relationships, and the benefits of xenohormetics, polyphenols, and more. This conversation with Jeff Krasno is incredibly insightful, and his book is well-written and beautiful to read. IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: How the high prevalence of chronic diseases in the U.S. impacts individual and societal health The astronomical cost of chronic disease treatments in the U.S. How the chronic disease epidemic connects to political, invective, and societal issues How medical treatment has evolved from acute injuries to chronic diseases Why addressing chronic diseases in your 30s and 40s leads to better health outcomes How modern conveniences can affect people’s health What are the benefits of hormesis? How dopamine foraging impacts concentration Why it’s essential to be present and pay attention in all social interactions The role of polyphenols in stressed plants and their benefits for human health The importance of nutrition for maintaining health and preventing chronic diseases Bio: Jeff Krasno is the co-founder and CEO of Commune, a masterclass platform for personal and societal well-being. He hosts the Commune podcast, interviewing a wide variety of luminaries from Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson to Matthew McConaughey and Gabor Maté. Jeff pens a personal weekly essay titled “Commusings” that explores spirituality, wellness, and culture and is distributed to over one million subscribers every Sunday. Jeff is the author of Good Stress, a collection of protocols he created to counteract the "chronic ease" that created our modern epidemic of dis-ease. Good Stress is available March 25, 2025, wherever books are sold. Connect with Cynthia Thurlow Follow on Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Check out Cynthia’s website Submit your questions to [email protected] Connect with Jeff Krasno On his website Instagram The Commune platform Jeff’s book, Good Stress

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0:00.0	Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast.
0:04.2	I'm your host, nurse practitioner, Cynthia Thurlow.
0:07.5	This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.
0:13.9	My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the health and wellness industry each week and impact
0:22.1	over a million lives.
0:28.9	And I had the honor of connecting with friend and colleague Jeff Krasno. He's the co-founder
0:34.3	and CEO of Commune, a masterclass platform for personal and societal well-being.
0:39.6	He also hosts the Commune podcast and is interviewed a variety of luminaries.
0:44.3	He also pens a personal weekly essay titled Comusings that explore spirituality, wellness, and culture.
0:51.1	And he's the author of the book Good Stress.
0:56.3	Today we spoke about the marginal decades, the impact of alopathic versus integrative medicine approaches, the role of
1:02.4	choramesis and deliberate stress, and the concept of balance, as well as the Goldilocks zone,
1:08.4	the impact of cold therapy and heat therapies, including emotional
1:12.4	regulation, thermoregulation, the role of heat shock proteins and more, the impact of distraction
1:18.8	and dopamine foraging, the value of relationships, xenohormetics, polyphenols, and more.
1:25.6	I know you will find this to be an invaluable conversation,
1:28.1	and Jeff's book is so beautifully well written. Well, really initiating the conversation today,
1:38.3	talking about what is the state of health here in the United States? You bring up some staggering
1:43.5	statistics in the book, talking about, you know, between 2014 and
1:48.3	2021, the life expectancy declined 2.8 years from 78.9 to 76.1.
1:55.3	And certainly as a clinician over the past 25 years, I keep reminding people, like, in 1997 versus 2025, which is
2:05.5	where we are now, I've been privy to watching an evolution and a de-evolution in many ways.
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