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CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Stop Glorifying the Grind

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast I explain the dangers of glorifying working long hours, what it does to your brain and body, and how to correct + protect your health and peace.


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Mess.

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Increased Stress, Anxiety, Lower back pain, high blood pressure.

0:46.0

If you've been working in long hours at the office or at home,

0:49.0

then you might be intimately acquainted with some of the ways that overwork can have an impact on your health.

0:53.2

In fact research shows that working 55 hours or more per week is associated with an

0:58.8

estimated 35% higher risk of a stroke and a 17% higher risk of dying from a

1:04.0

chemic heart disease compared to working 35 to 40 hours a week.

1:08.0

Well in today's podcast I'm going to discuss how we can

1:12.0

potentially reduce our work hours to be aware of this and

1:15.4

what you can start doing to change this to try and get your work hours down to 35 to 40 hours a week.

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