How Stress Impacts Your Immune System
Mark Hyman
Sep 2, 2024
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Consume stressed plants to activate healing systems
Eating plants that have been stressed by their environment is like consuming a little bit of adversity, which in turn activates your body's own healing and defense systems.
Incorporate five-minute walks every hour to boost vitality over gym sessions
For sedentary office workers, getting up to walk for five minutes every hour was found to be more beneficial for vitality and mood than a single 30-minute gym session.
Address blocked lymphatics to prevent heart disease
Early heart transplant patients developed rapidly aging arteries, a phenomenon later linked in animal studies to blocked lymphatic vessels, which are crucial for clearing cholesterol from the arterial wall.
Balance exercise intensity to optimize immunity
Immunity follows a J-curve with exercise, where being sedentary is bad, moderate exercise is optimal for building strength, and extreme exercise like ultramarathons can be harmful.
Hug more to boost protection against colds
In a controlled study, people who hugged more were better protected from developing a cold, even when directly inoculated with a cold virus.
Practice gratitude journaling to enhance heart function
A study found that patients with congestive heart failure who practiced gratitude journaling for six weeks showed improved ventricular function, meaning their hearts pumped better.
Stimulate chest lymphatic flow through foot massage
Massaging your feet can stimulate lymphatic flow in your chest's thoracic duct, a connection that traditional Chinese medicine utilizes but is not well understood by Western models.
Utilize Himalayan Tartary Buckwheat to reverse biological age
Preliminary data on Himalayan Tartary Buckwheat, which contains over 132 unique phytochemicals, has shown it can reverse biological age by rejuvenating the immune system.
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