Dr. Srini Pillay, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and brain researcher, makes the case that mental and physical health were never separate, explains what intrinsic capacity measures, and shares a five-step method for getting out of a stress spiral.
Show Notes & Chapters
Most health advice aims at feeling a little less bad. Dr. Srini Pillay thinks that target is set too low. Dave and Luke sit down with the Harvard-trained psychiatrist, brain researcher, and author to talk about why treating the mental as separate from the rest of the body was always a mistake.
Real health, he argues, is not the absence of disease. It is intrinsic capacity, vitality, and living like you are actually alive. Along the way he covers the right dose of stress, the difference between hope and possibility thinking, and a five-step method for getting yourself out of a stress spiral.