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Fighting Stress: Why the 5 Factors of Health Are Our Best Weapon

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May 16, 2025
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About This Episode

We’ve got a short guide to a big subject: how stress affects our health and why the five factors of health are crucial in building resilience against it.

We explore the difference between good stress (eustress) and chronic stress, while uncovering how our modern environment impacts our stress response.

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  • Understanding the two types of stress: acute (beneficial) vs. chronic (harmful)

  • How our body's stress response system affects cellular function and immune health

  • The role of perception in stress management and why modern stressors feel like survival threats


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Big Ideas

  • The Five Factors as Stress Defense

  • Cellular Response to Environmental Signals

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