Bioresilience

Develop resilience and longevity at the most fundamental level in this guide to giving your body the right kind of stress for long-term health, healing, and vitality.

What if everything you were taught about stress was wrong? What if the key to your overall health, longevity, and well-being wasn't about eliminating stress—but rather deliberately exposing your body to certain types of stressors to make it stronger, more resilient, and more energized?

Ari Whitten, M.S., renowned functional health practitioner and founder of the Energy Blueprint, dives into your body's key mechanism for slowing aging and having a longer lifespan: hormesis. Hormesis is the process by which temporary exposure to certain types of stress—including exercise, holding your breath, sunlight, fasting, cold, or heat—stimulates the body to adapt and be able to withstand greater amounts of that stressor plus develop greater resilience overall.

Brimming with the latest scientific research, Whitten shares:

• Hidden reasons we become easily overwhelmed
• Forces that determine our body's resilience and how fast we age
• Actionable strategies to prevent disease, enhance physical health, and bolster brain performance

With Whitten's guidance, you'll learn to expose your body intentionally and systematically to the right hormetic stressors in the right amounts in order to live your fullest life.Introduction
 
PART 1: BUILDING HEALTH
 
Chapter 1: Becoming Unbreakable
 
Chapter 2: The Real Reason You Die
 
Chapter 3: Challenge. Adapt. Thrive.
 
Chapter 4: “Stress” for Strength


PART 2: ANCESTRAL CHALLENGES
 
Chapter 5: Muscular Challenges (Adaptations of Strength)
 
Chapter 6: Endurance Challenges (Adaptations of Endurance)
 
Chapter 7: Movement Challenges (Adaptations of Mobility, Agility, and Balance)
 
Chapter 8: Thermal Challenges (Adaptations of Heat Tolerance)
 
Chapter 9: Cold Challenges (Adaptations of Cold Tolerance)
 
Chapter 10: Cognitive Challenges and Psychological Stress (Adaptations of Cognitive Reserve Capacity, Knowledge/Expertise, and Psychological Resilience)
 
Chapter 11: Famine and Food Shortage Challenges (Adaptation of Metabolic Flexibility
 
Chapter 12: Hypoxia/Hypercapnia Challenges (Adaptations of Tolerance to Low Oxygen States)
 
Chapter 13: Ultraviolet (UV) Light, Blue Light, and Red/Near-Infrared Light Challenges (Adaptation of Cellular Detoxification and Antioxidant Defense Systems)
 
Chapter 14: Phytochemical Challenges (Adaptation of Inborn Antioxidant Defense and Detox Systems)
 
Chapter 15: Microbes, Infections, and other Immune System Challenges (Adaptation of Immune Systems and Immune Memory)
 
Chapter 16: Fear Challenges (Adaptation of Courage)
 
Chapter 17: Stress, Discomfort, and Doing Difficult Things (Adaptations of Willpower, and Mental and Physical Toughness)
 
Conclusion
 
APPENDIX: Unbreakable Reserve Capacity Metrics
Ari Whitten, M.S., is the founder of the Energy Blueprint and the author of Eat for Energy and The Ultimate Guide to Red Light Therapy. He holds a B.S. in kinesiology and an M.S. in human nutrition and functional medicine. He has been studying and teaching health science for over 25 years. You can find his work at www.theenergyblueprint.com.

Alex Leaf, M.S., holds a master's degree in nutrition from Bastyr University and has been writing about the science of nutrition, health, and fitness for over a decade. Currently, Alex is a content creator and research writer alongside Ari Whitten at the Energy Blueprint. You can visit him online at alexleaf.com.