Could Stress Actually Be Good for You?
For years, we've been taught to avoid stress, viewing it as a threat to our health. However,The Stress Paradox reveals that our culture of convenience and comfort may be undermining our health and happiness. Backed by rigorous science and clinical experience, Dr. Sharon Bergquist challenges the conventional wisdom about stress, showing a surprising truth: our bodies need "good" stress to thrive.
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Praise for
The Stress Paradox
The Stress Paradox beautifully shows how our marvelously complex bodies need good stress. It is an essential guide for anyone seeking to realign their lifestyle with how we’re naturally hardwired for resilience...
- Dan Buettner, Blue Zones Founder and 5x New York Times Bestselling Author
In The Stress Paradox, Dr. Sharon Bergquist is changing the game and redefining our relationship with stress...This is a must-read for vibrant health and longevity.
- Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, New York Times bestselling author of Fiber Fueled
The Stress Paradox equips us with the essential tools to thrive in an increasingly toxic world. From harnessing the power of phytochemicals in food, to understanding how good stress influences your gut microbiome, this is powerful medicine!
- Dr. Robynne Chutkan, gastroenterologist, author, and host of The Gutbliss Podcast.
The Stress Paradox will forever shift your perception of stress while guiding you on a path towards health, happiness, and longevity...Actionable and thoroughly researched, this book is a complete game-changer.
- Dr. Heather Sandison, ND New York Times bestselling author of Reversing Alzheimers
Dr. Sharon Bergquist expertly explains the counterintuitive benefits of stress, offering practical insights that can enhance our well-being and long-term health. This thought-provoking book...provides a fresh perspective on how we can best thrive.
- Dr. Amy Shah, author of I’m So Effing Hungry
This excellent book focuses on the power of the human body to turn on coordinated stress responses that can be more powerful than drugs.
Dr. Valter Longo, Director of the Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California and author of The Longevity Diet
We all know that muscles must be stressed to grow. Dr. Bergquist extends this critical consideration to all of health, creating an 'anti-fragility' prescription for optimal vitality. Novel, important, and illuminating.
- David L. Katz, MD, MPH, Past President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine
What If We’ve Gotten Stress Wrong?
about the book
In reading The Stress Paradox, you’ll get…
✔ A new framework about stress that explains how good stress renews, recharges, and regenerates our cells to improve the foundation of our mental and physical health.
✔ The science behind why comfort is making us sick and medicated and how we can use good stress as an antidote to the chronic stress that is ever-present in our daily lives.
✔ Ten key phytochemicals that activate our body’s antioxidant defenses, reduce inflammation, repair DNA and proteins, recharge our energy by improving metabolic health, and help us grow stronger.
✔ Exercise protocols designed to optimize energy and health by powering up our mitochondria, the powerhouse of our cells.
✔ How to use cold and heat therapy as stressors to improve mental resilience, metabolic and cardiovascular health, and enhance aging defenses.
✔ Steps to optimize your circadian rhythm through meal timing.
✔ An understanding of why we shouldn’t fear stress and how to differentiate between good mental and emotional stress and harmful chronic stress.
✔ Mindset tips to help you step out of your comfort zone.
✔ Ten easy-to-obtain tests to assess your cellular health.
✔ A customizable protocol for incorporating good stress, in the right amount, followed by strategic recover, to age better, fight illness, live happier, and maximize your potential.
✔ Ten recipe templates you can personalize to build a hormetic kitchen.
✔ Over thirty good stress recipes that will nourish your body by activating your healing systems.
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- The Resilience Reset Guide
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- The Good Stress Conversation Guide
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Sharon is a physician, researcher, and internationally recognized leader in lifestyle medicine. For decades, she has tackled the root causes of chronic illness, helping to lead clinical trials with $61 million in funding to evaluate lifestyle interventions and identify early disease biomarkers.
A dedicated clinician, Sharon has won over forty patient care awards, including recognition as one of Atlanta’s Top Doctors. She serves on advisory boards and global health committees advancing nutrition, exercise, and resiliency, and has consulted at the White House on healthcare reform. Her TED-Ed video, How Stress Affects Your Body, has over eight million views and is translated into thirty-five languages.
Sharon graduated with highest honors in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale and earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She completed her internal medicine training at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
