Harnessing Hormesis To Heal And Thrive

In today's episode we kick off the new year by reframing your 2026 health goals around using hormesis to build resilience and explain how controlled, short stressors can strengthen immunity, mood, cellular repair, & more! We share practical ways to use cold, heat, fasting, and exercise to build a body and mind that bend without breaking.

• defining resilience as stable function under stress
• links between stress resilience, cancer risk, and longevity
• overview of hormesis and adaptive benefits
• list of benefits including immune, mood, sleep, inflammation
• cold exposure methods and safety basics
• heat exposure, sauna timing, and repair pathways
• fasting windows, autophagy, and seasonal fasts
• exercise choices that drive adaptation
• practical micro-challenges to push comfort zones

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Chapters

• 0:00 New Year, New Focus On Resilience
• 2:30 What Resilience Really Means
• 5:00 Stress, Cancer Risk, And Longevity
• 7:30 Hormesis: The Body’s Adaptive Engine
• 10:20 Benefits Of Hormetic Stress
• 13:10 Cold Exposure: How And Why
• 16:20 Heat Exposure And Sauna Insights