Small, seemingly harmless stressors like hitting snooze or checking emails first thing in the morning accumulate, pushing you closer to your personal stress threshold where things go wrong.

Research from the Flow Research Collective shows it's almost impossible to burn out if you get 7-8 hours of sleep, access a state of flow one to two times a week, and engage in regular active recovery.

Psychologists have identified "Vitamin S" (Social) as a critical social nutrient, suggesting that brief, positive interactions with strangers can fulfill basic needs for connection and appreciation.

Instead of letting negative social interactions ruin your day, you can reframe them as opportunities to learn about yourself by creating a "hero story" for the other person, which empowers you and reduces emotional stress.

Making thousands of choices a day, even on trivial things, acts as a microstress dose, so eliminating unnecessary choice saves cognitive capacity and reduces your stress load.

Many people who believe they are "night owls" are simply living in a way that pushes back melatonin release, such as looking at bright screens late at night, and are not purely genetically predisposed.

Any breathing technique where your out-breath is longer than your in-breath, like the 3-4-5 breath, helps switch off your body's stress response system.

While food plays a role, stress is the number one player in gut problems, which affect up to 80% of UK adults, because the stress response impacts every organ system.