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Power of Exercise on Stress | Dr. Rhonda Patrick

17 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Dr. Rhonda Patrick explains how chronic stress accelerates aging at the molecular level, sharing a personal anecdote about feeling she aged twenty years after becoming a mother due to the constant worry and stress. She emphasizes that while stress is largely unavoidable, exercise serves as a powerful buffer, improving mental happiness, resilience, and overall mental health. Exercise is presented as a practical strategy to counteract the negative physiological and psychological effects of stress.

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Stress that ages us. I mean, I feel like I aged like 20 years after I became a mom. It was like, oh yeah, for sure. Not like the lack of sleep, but just the stress of the worry, the worry of everything. And stress accelerates aging on like a molecular level where it's just not good. But I do like the exercise makes me mentally more happy, stronger, and I just think it's a big part of mental health for sure. And buffering, countering those negative effects that stress does have because there's lots of things that are out of your control and you have you have to find a way to buffer that. And exercise is one of those ways that does buffer it, for sure.