Welcome back to another episode of health hacks

as I continue talking about stress and how it impacts your

health and your lifespan. And today, I want to talk about the

fact that living in a place of chronic stress accelerates

aging, and nobody wants that. And the reality is is that all

you have to do is look at the our world leaders, and look at

what they look like when they go into office, and then look at

what they look like when they come out of office. You know,

look at whether it's, you know, the Canadian Prime Minister, US

presidents, British Prime Minister, Australian Prime

Minister, any of our world leaders, they have very

stressful jobs, and you look at their aging over the course of

time that they're in office, and you'll see that they age

significantly. And this is happening because stress speeds

up the aging process by shortening our telomeres, which

are like the protective caps on a on shoes laces. Well, there

are protective caps on the ends of our chromosomes, and high

stress will shorten those and so much research has come out in

the last 20 years about longevity and increasing our

health span and the importance for longer telomeres in order to

do that, and stress does the exact opposite. So what can you

do? Well, a really fun way that I love reducing my stress level

is to turn on either really calming music and just chilling

out and allowing that music to come over my body and almost

Envelop me in the music, as I just allow my nervous system to

calm or to put on some really uplifting music and dance it out

and just shift the energy. Dance it out, move my body. Because,

of course, movement can help lower our stress. So whichever

way you want to do it, whether it's calming, whether it's

uplifting, it might be different from day to day, depending

what's going on for you, but it's a really powerful way to

reduce the stress that you have in your life and bring some joy

back to your life and and then slow your aging process. In the

process, and I'm sure you want to slow your aging process,

don't we all.