It’s not chronic disease that’s killing us — it’s chronic ease.
Our ancestors evolved with a certain amount of paleolithic stress, and the human body developed adaptive mechanisms as a result. But the way we live now has hijacked our biology. Our lifestyle has turned our evolutionary advantages against us.
As a means to be well, we need to self-impose short-term “good stress.”
This course gives you 10 simple, natural methods to challenge yourself and become healthier and stronger - both physically and mentally.
When you align your lifestyle with your body’s natural intelligence, it’s amazing how quickly it comes into balance. Brain fog and fatigue vanish. Extra weight falls away. Your metabolism heals itself. This is the magic of “hormesis” or “eustress” — i.e. good stress.
Learn why each of these protocols work — and how you can do them, too:
- Fasting: A spiritual practice that applies not only to food … but to Instagram, shopping, wine and any unconscious habit.
- Exercise & Resistance Training: How the tearing and rebuilding of muscle fibers can reverse diabetes.
- Light Therapy: Sadly, Larry David is an endocrine disruptor … if you watch him at night.
- Deliberate Cold Therapy: As far as dopamine goes, the wicked cold is better than drugs!
- Deliberate Heat Therapy: Getting uncomfortably hot makes your brain work better.
- Training the Mind & Breath: Cultivating the ability to merge thought and action is the key to happiness.
- Social Fitness & Stressful Conversations: How (25) Zoom calls with people that hate me built my psychological immune system and changed my life (and brain).
- Eating Stressed Plants: How humans benefit from the stress of plants.
- Reconnecting with Nature: Walking barefoot makes you more negative … in a positive way.
Day 1: Good Stress Defined & Fasting Protocols
Day 2: Deliberate Cold Therapy
Day 3: Deliberate Heat Therapy
Day 4: Aerobic & Resistance Training
Day 5: Light Therapy & Sleep
Day 6: The Attention Economy, Breath, and The Autonomic Nervous System
Day 7: Resilience and Your Psychological Immune System
Day 8: Eating Stressed Plants
Day 9: Loneliness, Disease, and Social Fitness
Day 10: Primal Movement and Rewilding Yourself
