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Mental & Emotional Health

As many of you have heard me discuss, longevity is a balance of lifespan (living longer) and healthspan (living better). I want to take a moment to focus specifically on one of the key elements of living better: emotional health.

While this is a bit of a nebulous concept, to me it encompasses happiness, emotional resilience and distress tolerance, mindfulness, stillness, and fulfillment, among others. It touches on our sense of individual purpose, as well as our ability to engage in meaningful and supportive relationships with those we love.

Below is a collection of past articles and podcasts discussing the topic of mental and emotional health. My hope is this past content can serve as helpful resources to dive deeper into this topic.

“I don’t fundamentally believe that one can know oneself without knowing oneself in relationship to others.” —Esther Perel

“It turns out that behavioral states that mammals have, they can be cleanly broken apart into these features, and we could show that with optogenetics.” —Karl Deisseroth

“Trauma changes the instrument that we use to understand our trauma. It’s changing our brain.” —Paul Conti

Accepting the limits of personal control

This episode of The Qualys is from podcast: Tim Ferriss: depression, psychedelics, and emotional resilience. Subscribe on: APPLE PODCASTS | RSS | GOOGLE…

“Today the opioid crisis is a heroin and fentanyl crisis… absent Oxycontin, we might not be where we are today.” —Patrick Radden Keefe

“That guy needed to die and a new guy needed to come around.” —Lance Armstrong

A few things worth checking out: 08/22/2021

Considerations for drug use and treatment

MDMA-assisted therapy gets one step closer to its projected 2023 FDA approval

The psychedelic drug goes head-to-head with Lexapro in a recent trial

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