Are You Aging Faster Than You Should? - Dr. Kristen Holmes
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Dr. Gabrielle Lyon discusses with Dr. Kristen Holmes how aging may be influenced more by the nervous system and stress than by time.
Most of what we call "aging" may not be about time at all. It may be a nervous system stuck in stress, quietly draining your sleep, your recovery, and your long-term health. In this episode, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon sits down with Dr. Kristen Holmes to discuss: Why the hallmarks of aging- inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, cellular decline may be symptoms of a dysregulated autonomic nervous system, and how much of your HRV (47–65%) is genetic versus trainable How your sleep is decided during the day , not at night, and why perceiving your day as "threatening" keeps your HRV suppressed and robs you of deep, restorative sleep The circadian "amplitude" formula for bright days and dark nights that predicts everything from menopause symptom severity to longevity, plus the ~90 minutes of natural light almost no one gets Why late-night eating rivals alcohol for damaging your resting physiology, and how a simple 12-hour eating window gets you most of the way there Why the fittest people sleep less , and how all-day movement and "exercise snacks" beat a single gym block When you understand that your nervous system sits underneath your sleep, energy, and pace of aging, you stop chasing…
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