Episode 2624: Vinnie Tortorich speaks to Dr. Sharon Bergquist about resilience, our culture clashing with biology, using stress for growth, and more.
Culture Clashing with Biology
- Dr. Sharon Bergquist is an internal medicine physician ( you can find her online at https://drsharonbergquist.com/) and has a new book you can purchase through Vinnie’s Book Club: The Stress Paradox book https://amzn.to/4hMi9wc(2:15)
- It’s necessary to challenge yourself for physical strength and resilience.
- Our current lifestyle has weakened over several generations. (7:00)
- Today’s lifestyle has phased out needs and behaviors that years ago were relied upon for strength and resiliency. (9:00)
- This has contributed to poor health and decreased longevity.
- Our bodies are supposed to be interconnected with nature and the environment (15:00).
- Vinnie gives an example of a recent climb he did where another climber was missing out on the beauty of the surroundings.
- The Industrial Revolution started much of the culture change. (23:00)
- Many inventions have helped improve life; however, many have changed how we challenge ourselves.
- Reintroducing some of the challenges can help us to achieve better health, both mentally and physically. (26:00)
- Dr. Sharon explains hormesis, which is a form of adaptation. (30:00)
- The leading cause of disability in this country is disuse. (37:50)
- There is a more recent specialty in medicine called “exercise oncology.” It has been shown that exercise can improve cancer outcomes. (38:00)
Stress For Growth
- There are various types of stress; however, too much and too inadequate amounts of stress can both be harmful. (46:00)
- The goal is to find the optimal or “Goldilocks level” of stress.
- A mild or moderate amount should work. There’s no real need to go to extremes to make a difference.
- Vinnie mentions his desire to get back to a “fitness middle class.” (51:00)
- “Stress inoculation” is an idea (not an actual vaccine and not childhood adversity) that exposes kids to small amounts of stress to help childhood development. (55:15)
- Giving kids the tools and the skills to find their way is a good start. (1:00:00)
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