YOU: Stress Less: The Owner's Manual for Regaining Balance in Your Life
By Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz
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There’s no question that stress can impact just about every part of your life—the way you look, how you feel, how long you live, how well you sleep, what you eat, everything. That’s why it is so important to have a good stress management plan in place, whether you’re used to juggling work, kids, gadgets, gizmos, or any of the hundreds of responsibilities that any of us have every day.
While there are three kinds of stress, you may not know that they aren’t all bad for you; some stress can actually work as a powerful motivator. The problem? When the wrong kinds of stress hammer you (and hammer you and hammer you), it can wear you down and cause lasting physical damage. YOU: Stress Less offers a 360-degree perspective on stress that combines the most up-to-date wisdom from the entire YOU: The Owner’s Manual series. Packed with meditation techniques, food recommendations, and lifestyle evaluation tools, this paperback is an essential guide to reducing your stress levels and improving your life—with some changes that you’ll feel immediately. This portable, comprehensive guide is a perfect investment in your health and your happiness.
Michael F. Roizen
Michael F. Roizen, MD, is the four-time #1 New York Times bestselling author and co-founder and originator of the popular RealAge.com website. He is Chief Wellness Officer and chair of the Wellness Institute of the Cleveland Clinic and Chief Medical Consultant to The Dr. Oz Show. He currently lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
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YOU - Michael F. Roizen
To YOU who feel stressed . . .
May you learn to make stress beneficial and be younger, healthier, and more beautiful inside and out.
The You Docs
Stress Less, Live More
In a world where you have more information, more responsibilities, more electronic devices, and more ways to update your status, it’s no wonder that you also have more stress.
Why? Because in response to all of the increased demands on you, you search for more, too. You want more time, more money, more energy, more sleep, more IT support, more friends to follow, more reality shows to take your minds off the heavy stuff in your lives.
So what’s the result? You may end up on the wrong end of stress’s right hook. And it beats you up. Badly.
The truth is, many people actually misunderstand stress. Many believe that the secret to eliminating stress is, well, eliminating stress. While bubble baths and island living may be the answer for some, stress-elimination isn’t really the goal. You actually need stress—and many stresses are actually good for your health. The secret, then, is figuring out what’s good, what’s bad, and then using that information to minimize the destructive effects of certain stresses, so you can lead a healthy and happy life.
In this book, you’ll find seventy-five of our best Stress Less
secrets culled from the research we did for several of our bestselling books in the YOU: The Owner’s Manual series. Within these pages, you’ll find some big-picture lessons that will help you redefine what stress is, and you’ll come across dozens of nuggets that will help you in a pinch—to sleep better, feel more energized, and be ready to embrace all of the wonderful things that life has to offer.
Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’re off to do some meditation . . . ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Here’s to a healthy and happy YOU,
Michael F. Roizen, MD, and Mehmet C. Oz, MD
STRESS:
THE BIG PICTURE
1. Know the Difference
We tend to think that stress is like a pair of slippers—one size fits all. Either we’re stressed, or we’re not. But the fact is that stress comes in different shapes, sizes, and levels of intensity. Some of us certainly worry more than others, and some of us are much better equipped to cope with exploding dishwashers than others. But the danger is that stress—which often increases as we age—is a major driver of many kinds of health problems. It’s important to know the different kinds of stress you experience. They are:
Ongoing Low-level Stress or Single-event Stress: You work, you have a family, you interact with people who sometimes sneeze without covering their mouths. Life generates a constant hum of stress, no matter who you are or what you do (i.e., your babysitter fails to show up and you have to hustle your kids off to a surprisingly accommodating sister-in-law). To expect that you can eliminate all stress is not only unreasonable but also unhealthy because, as you’ll see in a moment, your ability to respond to stress can make you stronger. You deal with it. Stress over.
Nagging Unfinished Tasks: One of the most influential forms of stress comes in the form of a chisel that chips and chips and chips and chips and chips and chips away at your brain cells a little bit at a time. Until. You. Can’t. Take. It. Any freaking more! Whether it’s a cluttered closet, or cracked bathroom tiles that have been staring at you for years, or weekly paperwork that gnaws at you every Friday, these nagging unfinished tasks (we call them NUTs) are much more destructive than the low levels of stress we expect from life.
Major Life Events: You don’t need us to tell you the kinds of things that fit this category; a divorce, a move, a job change, a death in the family, a sudden serious illness, and bankruptcy aren’t exactly on the same level as a cell-phone battery dying. The stats show that three major life events in a one-year period will make your body feel and act as though it were thirty-two years older in the following year—meaning that it’s especially important to develop coping strategies and support systems to sustain you in times of crisis.
2. Remember, Some Stress Can Be Good
Stress is good. There, we said it. Instead of calling us crazier than a four-headed firefly, hear us out. Stress heightens all of our biological systems so we can deal with an impending threat, be it an enemy, a natural disaster, or the fact that some idiot built the fire too close to the cave. Changes occur inside our body that give us the strength or the sense to fight a predator or hightail it out of there. What happens to your body during high-intensity stress? Your concentration becomes more focused than a microscope, your reaction time