Replay: Elissa Epel shares Five Things She's Learned about Stress and Aging
Check out the first five minutes of her recent class.
"I’ll share what I’ve learned about the ways that psychosocial and behavioral factors such positive stress can slow aging. I’ll also discuss the ways that self-care practices like as meditation and mindfulness training promote psychological and physiological thriving."
– Elissa Epel, Five Things I’ve Learned about Stress and Aging
Elissa Epel, Ph.D. is a professor and vice chair at UCSF, and health psychologist who studies stress, aging and metabolism. She is also the celebrated author of The Stress Prescription, which provides a simple, powerful plan to turn stress into strength, reduce unconscious stress, and experience deep rest states. Here’s the first five minutes of our recent 90-minute class in which Elissa’s shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that transforming stress improves health and add years to your life.
Five Things I’ve Learned about Stress and Aging offers a look at what Elissa’s learned from a lifetime of thinking about the ways in which our emotions and behavior shape ongoing good health. Elissa’s conversation with Kris Rebillot is part of our ongoing series, Five Things I’ve Learned about Living Better Longer. These 90-minute sessions share the insights, perspectives, and experiences of renowned researchers and scientists devoted to exploring the ways in which we age and to applying their knowledge to improve our lives.
If you’re eager to discover the insights we need to make the most of the possibilities that await us as we age, this conversation is for you.
Elyssa is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the past President of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and co-chair of the Mind & Life Institute Steering Council. She has also served as a consultant to NIH, CDC, Facebook, Apple, United Health, and UC campus-wide initiatives on stress and health. Elissa's research has been ranked as top one percent globally for citation impact and her work is featured in many science documentaries.
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