Chronicstress can dampen the immune system and promote inflammation, heart disease and premature aging.
,” Dr. Chatterjee explores the many ways that persistent stress can lead to disease, along with strategies to protect against its toxic effects. Some of his techniques are easy to adopt, like simple breathing exercises and calming morning routines. Others require significant lifestyle changes, like optimizing sleep and diet, cutting back on smartphone and social media use, and fostering friendships and purpose to build resiliency.
,” featured him visiting overweight and chronically ill people in their homes and transforming their diets, exercise and relationships. “They’d be motivated for one or two weeks, but it turned out that their sugar or alcohol consumption was their way of coping with all the stress in their lives,” Dr. Chatterjee said. “Unless we tackled the stress, they were always going to revert back to what they were doing.”
“Now more than ever before, we’re starting to recognize that we’re leading these lives where we can never switch off,” Dr. Chatterjee said. “There’s always something to do. I’m not pro or anti technology, but I think for many of us we’re using it in ways that are harming us.”
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