Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

What is the Elephant in the room?

29 May 2023 · 1 min

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This YouTube video (speaker: Aaron Hartman, MD) identifies chronic stress as the "elephant in the room," links stress to higher rates of cancer, heart disease, reduced medication effectiveness, anxiety/depression, and worse COVID outcomes, and promises to present 13 evidence-based interventions to reduce stress and improve longevity.

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What is the elephant in the room that people just aren't talking about? This elephant is associated with an increased incidence of cancer, heart disease. It makes all medications work less. It's associated with anxiety, depression. It's even associated with severe episodes of COVID and long Covid. So what could this be? What is this elephant in the room that we're just not talking about? It's stress. Stress is such a big thing today. And what I'm going to talk about are the top 13 interventions that are shown to lower stress and have evidence based behind them to show these actually are the best interventions for longevity, decreasing risk for cancer and heart disease and improving your overall long term mortality. Which is just a fancy way of saying live longer and healthier.