Chronic stress is not just in your head. It shows up in your DNA, your inflammation levels and how much energy your cells can actually make.

Dr Andreia Luis is a biomedical scientist with a PhD from the Medical University of Vienna, and her research examined how the body responds to extreme physical stress, the same process that plays out slowly in burnout.

She walks through what is measurably happening inside the body, and she also talks about burning out during her own PhD, and the signs she did not recognise until years afterwards, despite studying exactly this.

• What chronic stress does inside the body, from DNA to cellular energy
• Missing her own burnout while researching how cells respond to stress
• Why recovery turned rest into prevention rather than repair

Season 2, Episode 4

Dr Andreia is building Longevity Hub Austria, a community focused on science, innovation and lifestyle for long term health.

Connect with Dr Andreia Luis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreiavluis/ and https://longevityhub.at/

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