Elissa Epel

That was almost two decades ago now.

And I came to work with Elissa Epel and Liz Blackburn, and they were studying the effects of psychological stress on biological aging.

And the marker they were using was telomere length.

And telomeres are DNA protein complexes that cap the ends of our chromosomes and protect our chromosomes from damage.

[upbeat music] 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. Elissa Epel.

Dr. Epel, welcome.

Thank you.

Welcome to The Science of Perception Box.

This week, our guest is Dr. Elissa Epel.

Dr. Epel's work proves that stress isn't just the situation, it's how we interpret it.

Whether we experience something as a threat or something we can face has less to do with the event itself and more to do with our hidden beliefs.

You know, we can look at our metrics now and see that.

But our sl- protecting our sleep is probably one of the most important parts of stress resilience, as well as exercise and the, the positive stress fitness, getting the positive arousal.

I wanna thank you, Elissa Epel-

Thank you