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.
Available 3.25.2025
Available
3.25.2025
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Accolades for Dr. Sharon's previous work
This is the best weight management information I've ever received. Love that it's based on up-to-date science...Knowing the reasons for adapting healthy habits makes it a lot more motivational to do rather than just being told to do healthy things because they're healthy.
- Greeka F., student of Dr. Sharon's Coursera course on Weight Management
Quality seems the best word to describe all aspects of this podcast. Dr. Bergquist is extremely knowledgeable and possesses a modest and approachable style...she's always bringing in exceptional guests, often covering topics not found elsewhere. It is quality to the core!
- 5-Star Review of Dr. Sharon's podcast, The Whole Health Cure
Dr. Bergquist goes above and beyond with the words and advice she gives in order to ensure that our bodies are healed and restored in the most natural ways...
- 5-Star Review of Dr. Sharon's podcast, The Whole Health Cure
A Shift toward whole food, plant-based eating is likely the single greatest investment you can make in the promise of your own longevity and vitality...Plantology expertly, thoroughly, and enticingly provides you the what, the why, and the many delicious details of how.
- David L. Katz, MD, MPH, reviewing Dr. Sharons' first book, Plantology
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.
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.
