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David Sinclair says he was bad at handling stress until he was 50 years old. He has spent 25 years at Harvard Medical School, and he splits stress into two kinds that do opposite things. Biological stress is the useful kind. Fasting, exercise, a sauna, a cold plunge. These switch on your defenses against adversity, and a little of it makes you stronger. Psychological stress is the other kind: “That is psychological stress that will age you faster. We know that, mostly because the hormones that come out of your system are causing accelerated aging.” His point is that this one is fixable fast. Cortisol answers to breathing within minutes, which he calls step one. The harder fix took him decades. He says he was hard on himself, always asking why he had not done better, and calls that destructive. What he does now is let the worry arrive and then push it away, telling himself he believes in himself and can only control his own part. At 57 his resting heart rate sits in the 40s and his HRV in the 90s. He credits the practice, not the training. — David Sinclair on Raj Shamani's (@rajshamani) Figuring Out podcast