We’re living in a constant state of high anxiety. From the fear-driven television news we watch to the alarmism of political bloggers to the fear of missing out that perpetuates our need to update others on our every action and simultaneously look at theirs, so much of our environment is making us twitchy. The trouble is that our body doesn’t know the difference between real and perceived threats when it comes to stress and the negative, multisystemic effects it has on inflammation, the pituitary-adrenal axis, and so much more. As Dave Asprey writes in Head Strong, many of us are in “a
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