Essentials: Manage Stress & Build Resilience | Dr. Elissa Epel

Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials. Where we revisit past episodes. for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health, physical health, and performance. I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. And now for my discussion with Dr. Alyssa Epple.

Doctor Epple. Welcome. Thank you. So great to have you here. I'd love to just kick off by you explaining a little bit about the different forms of stress. You know, we hear stress, stress is bad, stress can kill us, no one likes to feel stressed, et cetera. But As you and I both know, that's

Not the entire picture. So love for you to just educate us a bit on What stress is and what it isn't, where it can be problematic, and where perhaps it can even be beneficial. So as a stress scientist It is A word I use a lot, but it has to be broken down because It has so many different kind of dimensions and meanings. So there's good and bad stress. There's

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