Podcast appearances and mentions of elissa epel phd

The Weather Network host Kim MacDonald waged a public battle against breast cancer. She talks with Amy Sweezey about her decision to share her diagnosis and treatment.

In this episode of the MGC podcast, I talk to Dr. Elissa Epel, an international expert on stress, well-being, and optimal aging. Dr. Epel is the co-author of the New York Times best-seller “The Telomere Effect: A revolutionary approach to living younger, longer” with Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, and the author of the new “Stress Prescription,” an independent bookstore best seller. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, at the University of California, San Francisco, where she is Vice Chair of Psychology and directs the Aging Metabolism Emotions Center. She studies the environmental, psychological, behavioral, and social factors that impact cellular aging such as telomeres, inflammation, and mitochondria. Her research interests include how self-care practices such as meditation and positive stress can promote psychological and physiological thriving and is interested in large-scale interventions for communal well-being and health equity. Here are some of the topics we address in this episode: 1) Why chronic stress is toxic to the body 2) The relationship between chronic stress, telomer shortening and aging 3) The different physiological stages of stress 4) How to become stress resilient 5) What are lifespan, health span and disease span Follow Dr. Mayer: https://linktr.ee/emayer⁠

In this episode of the MGC podcast, I talk to Dr. Elissa Epel, an international expert on stress, well-being, and optimal aging. Dr. Epel is the co-author of the New York Times best-seller “The Telomere Effect: A revolutionary approach to living younger, longer” with Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, and the author of the new “Stress Prescription,” an independent bookstore best seller. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, at the University of California, San Francisco, where she is Vice Chair of Psychology and directs the Aging Metabolism Emotions Center. She studies the environmental, psychological, behavioral, and social factors that impact cellular aging such as telomeres, inflammation, and mitochondria. Her research interests include how self-care practices such as meditation and positive stress can promote psychological and physiological thriving and is interested in large-scale interventions for communal well-being and health equity. Here are some of the topics we address in this episode: 1) Why chronic stress is toxic to the body 2) The relationship between chronic stress, telomer shortening and aging 3) The different physiological stages of stress 4) How to become stress resilient 5) What are lifespan, health span and disease span Follow Dr. Mayer: https://linktr.ee/emayer⁠

World-renowned psychologist and best selling author Elissa Epel on embracing stress and transforming it.  Stress is a part of life.   It's ubiquitous. It is the ocean we swim in. We can't avoid it. But we can learn to live well with it.  Humans have a stress response for a reason. It prepares our mind and body for what we need to do in the moment and in the moments ahead. Even our negative thoughts can trigger our bodies stress response, so we rarely experience periods of ease and deep restoration.  Humans are exquisitely built to handle stress. In fact we need it.  And in the right dosage and frequency, it helps keep our cells young and vital.  SUPPORT THE SHOW, SHOW YOUR LOVE Become a patron on Patreon.com and join exisiting memebers who contribute towards our monthly goal of $500.  Make a one-time donation in any amount to say “Thank you!” Rate or write a review FULL SHOW NOTES www.authenticparenting.com/podcast HOW TO WORK WITH ANNA I would be thrilled to support you in your parenting journey! All listeners get 10% off on my services. Private Coaching Online courses and classes GET IN TOUCH Comments, questions, feedback, and love notes  USA listeners call 732-763-2576 and leave a voicemail. International listeners use the FREE Speak Pipe tool on my website Email: info@authenticparenting.com STAY CONNECTED Instagram Facebook Group-Authentic Parenting Community Thank you for listening!  With gratitude, Anna Seewald Parent Educator, Keynote Speaker, Author www.authenticparenting.com    

Stress adds up in our bodies. We wake up with it, we carry it with us, and we pile on more throughout each day. It's often a challenge to handle the daily hassles of life. According to Dr. Elissa Epel, we don't have to live this way. She offers a prescription to living with more joy and ease. Dr. Epel is an internationally renowned health psychologist who is focusing on how to live well and thrive with stress, despite the challenges we face personally and globally. She is a professor at UCSF and the director of UCSF's Aging, Metabolism, and Emotion Center. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, past president of Academy of Behavioral Medicine, and serves on scientific advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Epel has received awards from Stanford University, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the American Psychological Association. She is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Telomere Effect. Her new book is The Stress Prescription: Seven Days to More Joy and Ease. Music: www.purple-planet.com Show site: www.cyacyl.com

Today's podcast interview is a little different from the first two. Although, like the others, this interview was done for my last documentary project, My Year of Living Mindfully, it isn't with someone who's specifically a mindfulness researcher.   It's with a scientist at the forefront of understanding the connection between our mind, body and health. If you've seen my first documentary, The Connection, you'll know that is a topic I'm really committed to understanding more.    I did this interview while I was still setting-up my ridiculously elaborate, hare brained experiment to see what would happen to my health and wellbeing if I meditated every day for a year.    It meant having to take a plane from my home in Sydney, Australia to the other side of the world, then taking another plane and yet another plane. Eventually I arrived at the Global Wellness Summit in Palm Beach, Florida, where Professor Elissa Epel, the Director of the Aging, Metabolism and Emotion Center at University of California San Francisco Medical School, was giving a key note speech about her research investigating how chronic stress can impact our health and biological ageing, and how activities like mindfulness may slow or even reverse those effects.   I knew the journey would be worth it because although Elissa and I hadn't met before, she had already made a big impression on how my own lifestyle was influencing my health. Among many other things, she co-authored a best-selling book called The Telomere Effect, with the Nobel prize winning molecular biologist, Elizabeth Blackburn.   Elissa's influential research demonstrating that mind-body activities like mindfulness training can slow down the rate at which our cells age, was the reason I'd enlisted the help of Associate Professor, Hilda Picket, from Sydney University's Children's Medical Research Institute. Hilda had already measured my telomeres from two control blood samples taken before I began meditating daily. I really wanted to know whether doing something with my mind could have downstream effects throughout my body, and impact my physical health.  

Are you living a telomere-friendly lifestyle? Telomere length is a measure of longevity and predisposition for degenerative disease. The good news is that we can help protect our telomeres by the way we choose to live our lives. In this week's episode, Elissa Epel, co author of 'The Telomere Effect', shares her groundbreaking research on the effects of stress and psychology on telomere length. She describes what is detrimental to our telomeres, but also all the positive things we can do to protect and, indeed, lengthen them. We talk about the importance of maternal physical and psychological health and the role it plays in the telomere length of the offspring. A topic that has huge socioeconomic and psychosocial implications. Elissa lets us in on her current research on various methods to harness the power of positive stress, such as Wim Hoff breathing techniques. She also describes the effects of banning sugared drinks and how these results should encourage activism at the local level to create meaningful change.For more information go to Amecenter.ucsf.edu. And Twitter: @Dr_EpelSee Elissa Epel and Elizabeth Blackburn Live in Paris, September 2019. Info at guerisoncorpsetame.weebly.comBecome a London Heal Insider and receive extended show notes at LondonHeal.com

Elissa Epel PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry ; Asst Director Center for Health and Community; Director, Center for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment - University of California San Francisco Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 28572]

Elissa Epel PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry ; Asst Director Center for Health and Community; Director, Center for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment - University of California San Francisco Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 28572]

Elissa Epel PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry ; Asst Director Center for Health and Community; Director, Center for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment - University of California San Francisco Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 28572]

Elissa Epel PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry ; Asst Director Center for Health and Community; Director, Center for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment - University of California San Francisco Series: "UCSF Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 28572]