Dr. Jeffrey GladdenFounder & CEO of Gladden Longevity

Uncover Hidden Stress with a 5-Minute Neuro Check 🧠🕦

1 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment Dr. Jeffrey Gladden introduces a brief, wrist‑clipped neuro assessment that records autonomic and neurohormonal activity in about five minutes and displays the results on a laptop. The test quantifies sympathetic tone, parasympathetic tone, and neurohormonal stress markers, providing an objective snapshot of a person’s physiological stress state. Dr. Gladden explains that many individuals are poor judges of their own stress levels; they may report feeling calm while the device shows elevated sympathetic activity and depressed parasympathetic function, indicating hidden stress. He uses the metaphor of a lifelong backpack that becomes invisible to the wearer to illustrate how chronic stress can go unnoticed. The overall message is that this quick, data‑driven check can reveal hidden stress that self‑report alone misses.

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You can actually, you can also, they have a neuro check that you clip up to people's wrists. It's like a 5-minute measurement with a readout on a laptop that tells you sympathetic, parasympathetic, breaks it down, neurohormonal stress, et cetera. So you can get a real feel of where somebody's starting, right? And what we found is that people are not very reliable at actually knowing where they are. What I mean by that is that people will come in and they're very calm and they appear, my life is great, right? And yet you, when you talk to them and when you do this test, you see that things are not really that right. They're like, they're really, really heavily stressed. Their parasympathetic is really depressed. Sympathetic nervous system is, you know, pegging the meter, so to speak. And yet they say, I don't feel stressed. And yet we know that they are. And so it's a little bit like an analogy that I use for people is that it's kind of like if you've been carrying a backpack your whole life, you don't know that the backpack's on your back anymore.