Most of us carry more stress than we realize. The problem is we rarely put it down. In this conversation, Dr. Esther Sternberg introduces a concept that reframes how we think about the weight of daily stress: allostatic load. Here's how Dr. Sternberg describes it; Imagine starting every morning with an empty sack on your back. Every stressful event you encounter goes into that sack. By the end of the day, you're carrying something heavy, and over time, that cumulative load does real damage. It wears down your chromosomes. It impairs your immune system. And it predisposes you to conditions like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. The good news is that the load isn't fixed. To the extent that you can remove stressors from your environment, you lighten what you're carrying. The question worth asking: what's still in your sack that doesn't need to be there? Tune into the full conversation, out now on all major streaming platforms. ▶️ youtube.com/@The.Living.Room.Podcast #TheLIVINGRoomPodcast - @the.living.room.pod