5 simple ways to minimize stress
6/4/202617 min
Need a break? Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, author of The 5 Resets, offers quick, easy ways to minimize stress in your daily life — no lavish vacations or big life changes necessary. This episode originally aired Feb. 6, 2024.
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Marielle Segarra· Host0:19
You're listening to Life Kit [upbeat music] from NPR. Hey, everybody, it's Marielle. We all get stressed, right? And one thing I've learned through our reporting at Life Kit is that while it's really important to ground yourself in these moments, that's not where the work ends. 'Cause if you're constantly having these days where your fight or flight response is triggered, there's probably a reason, some underlying cause of your stress. It could be your health or the health of someone you love, it could be a relationship that's falling apart, or the fact that you can't pay rent, or a fear for your safety.
Aditi Nerurkar· Guest0:54
These are things that never quite go away, so that fight or flight response is always on at a slow hum in the background.
Marielle Segarra· Host1:02
That's Dr. Aditi Nerurkar. She's an internal medicine physician at Harvard, and she wrote a book called The Five Resets.
Aditi Nerurkar· Guest1:09
The Five Resets has been laid out to be a roadmap.
Marielle Segarra· Host1:12
A roadmap to recovering from chronic stress. 'Cause stress doesn't just make us feel terrible in the moment, it can also have ongoing effects on our bodies. It puts us at higher risk for heart disease, high blood pressure, and strokes, and it can also increase inflammation in our bodies and weaken our immune systems.