Dr. Mithu Storoni is a Cambridge-educated physician, researcher and author, interested in chronic stress and its implications on mental well-being, decision-making, performance, and brain health.  In her latest book STRESS PROOF – the scientific solution to protect your brain and body and be more resilient every day, she takes cutting-edge research findings from over 500 published studies and distills them into hundreds of lifestyle-based tricks to help our brains achieve improved mental clarity, increased tranquility, sharper focus, and heightened performance.

In our conversation, Mitthu shares with us:

• The physical symptoms of stress
• Tips to improve your emotional regulation
• The perils of rumination and how to overcome it
• The physiological differences between acute and chronic stress
• The benefits of different kinds of meditation (mindfulness, open-monitoring, etc.)
• The research on how lifestyle interventions (ie. The mind diet, cognitive training) can be used to treat chronic stress

Links: 

You can find Mithu’s book Stress Proof on Amazon.

Follow Mithu on Twitter @StoroniMithu.