High Performance Health

High Performance Health

A Hot Take on Stress

It's not the stress directly that kills you, it's your perception of it.

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Fran Kilinski
Oct 13, 2023
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Good Morning.

Everything we know about stress (and associated with the word) usually has a negative connotation.

Cortisol.

Underlying disease.

Anxiety.

As far as we’ve been told, the best thing we can do with stress is avoid it.

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But that’s impossible — stress is a natural part of our DNA. To avoid it would be depriving ourselves of the joy we feel when w…

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