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Elissa Epel

@elissa.epel

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UCSF Professor
Director of AME Center, UCSF
Author: The Stress Prescription & The Telomere Effect

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I’m so looking forward to gathering at @kripalucenter later this month for Deep Rest, Rejuvenation, and Resilience.I’m excited to share that @anuguptany and @justinsenense_ will be joining the faculty for a special PAUSE™ experience integrating movement, meditation, music, reflection, and contemplative wisdom. Their work beautifully complements the spirit of this weekend and the practices we’ll be exploring together.I’m also delighted that @elissa.epel will be joining us for two special live sessions via Zoom, sharing her latest insights on the science of stress, resilience, and healthy longevity.Together, we’ll explore how deep rest, mindful movement, breath, meditation, and contemplative practice can help cultivate resilience, vitality, and greater well-being.I can’t wait to practice, learn, and connect with all of you.There’s still time to join us—I would love to see you there.Link in bio by @elissa.epel

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Explore with us: Emotional resilience, nervous system regulation, and an immersive sound bath by zoom or at Spirit Rock, Marin, CA @evevenus @kathryncorinne by @elissa.epel

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☀️Summer Aliveness: Contemplative Practices for Joy, Emotional Balance, and Deep Resiliencewith Elissa Epel, PhD and Eve Ekman, PhD📅 Saturday, July 11, 2026🕙 10:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m. PT🏞️On-land or Online via Zoom🔗Link in bio. by @elissa.epel

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Announcing Dr. Elissa Epel, PhD × Onix.⁠⁠The researcher who changed how the world understands stress and aging is now your personal guide on Onix.⁠⁠Stanford and Yale-trained. UCSF professor. Co-author of the landmark research linking stress to cellular aging, conducted alongside Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn. NYT bestselling author of The Telomere Effect and The Stress Prescription. Top 0.1% most cited researchers in the world.⁠⁠Her finding: aging isn't just something that happens to you over time. How you respond to stress, how you sleep, how connected you feel, all of it is actively shaping your cells right now.⁠⁠Most advice on stress and aging is generic. Dr. Epel's entire career has been built on making the science personal and actionable.⁠⁠Expert Led, Expert Owned.⁠Download Onix to start Your Journey.⁠#Onix #PersonalIntelligence #ElissaEpel #StressAndAging #Longevity by @elissa.epel

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Do you think rest is valued enough in your country? I’d love to hear your thoughts and where you’re from!👇🏾This is something I find myself thinking about more and more. The culture we live in, the beliefs we share, the values we collectively prioritise... these are the most important levers in determining whether we are a healthy country or a sick one.In this week’s NEW episode of my ‘Feel Better, Live More’ podcast, I’m joined by one of the world’s leading stress researchers Dr @elissa.epel . We explore what chronic stress is really doing to our biology, and the habits that can help us reverse it.Whether you struggle with overwhelm, or you suspect you’re more stressed than you realise, I know this conversation has advice you’ll want to take on board.Tune in to episode 668, OUT NOW in all the usual places 🎧 by @elissa.epel

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Tag that person who should have a siesta!💤Leading stress researcher Dr @elissa.epel calls our lack of rest the hidden epidemic. And I think she’s right.I think in many ways we have lost a culture where leisure is a regular and valued part of the day. And the cost of that, at a cellular level, is far greater than most of us realise.For this conversation, I’m joined by health psychologist, Dr Elissa Epel, a professor of psychiatry and world-leading researcher on wellbeing and optimal ageing. Her research shows that chronic stress can age our immune systems by as much as 10 years, but crucially, that damage is not permanent. The right habits can activate the repair mechanisms that slow and even reverse biological ageing. And they start with decent rest.In this week’s NEW episode of my ‘Feel Better, Live More’ podcast, Elissa shares the science of deep rest and why it may be the most powerful and most overlooked tool we have for slowing biological ageing. Tune in to episode 668 🎧If you’d like to receive a direct link, simply comment “REST”👇🏾 by @elissa.epel

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Looking back at our evening in San Francisco.Dr. Dave Rabin, Dr. Krista Ramonas, and Dr. Elissa Epel sat down with our founders, David Bennahum and Nicholas Nadeau, to talk honestly about what it means to bring real expertise into your life, privately and personally.Three world-class experts. Honest conversation. No slides.Their voice, their reasoning, their care, available to you privately on Onix right now.This is what Personal Intelligence® looks like in practice.New York City is next. June 23rd.DM us to be invited! by @elissa.epel

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Jack and I left the Oslo Freedom Forum filled with inspiration and gratitude. Here we are with our wonderful friend Elissa Epel, the neuroscience researcher and author who taught a workshop with me. One of the many smart things that the Human Rights Foundation does at the Oslo conference is mix in some music, art, comedy and fun to balance the challenging work on human rights abuses and corruption in autocracies. This evening, we stood up with human rights defenders, technologists, artists and freedom fellows. We were all wearing aprons standing in front of tables covered with paper where platters of food were brought out — to eat with our hands! There were no forks or knives or spoons at the table. The menu said that in Norway, people eat the dishes seved with their hands, although i do wonder, was it a fun joke? Tell me if you’ve heard of this!#oslo #norway #oslofreedomforum2026 #humanrightsfoundation by @elissa.epel

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We are seeking postdoctoral fellows interested in health psychology, sleep, psychedelic therapy responses, polycrisis resilience, and data science methods for frontiers in the biology of emotional well being. https://healthpsychology.ucsf.edu/description-our-postdoctoral-training-program by @elissa.epel

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The internet has plenty of sleep advice. None of it knows you.Ask your guide to generate a sleep protocol, built around your life, not a generic checklist.Journey Cards. Now in your app. by @elissa.epel

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Last week I spoke alongside @elissa.epel at @humantechweek in San Francisco.It was an incredible opportunity to connect with founders, scientists, technologists, and leaders exploring one of the most important questions of our time:How do we ensure technology helps us become more human, not less?Thank you to everyone who attended, connected, and contributed to such thoughtful discussions. by @elissa.epel

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It's no surprise Americans are stressed, but what many of us are concerned about seems to have escalated and changed. We still have the usual stressors like money, caretaking, and jobs ... but pressing social challenges like political division and the uncertain economy are reshaping people's mental health."The Strain of Stress" is a Call to Mind special — which you can now listen to both on your local public radio station AND in your favorite podcast app — that examines stress from all angles. Join host @angeladavismpr as she talks with experts about the impact of stress on our mental health and how we can manage the strain. We also hear from people about their experiences with stress and why they feel overwhelmed. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! And be sure to subscribe to Call to Mind in your feed so you don't miss future specials.Experts & Research Featured Include: - Dr. Arthur Evans (@drarthurcevans) of @apa_org- Dr. Elissa Epel (@elissa.epel) of @ucsf- Dr. Joshua Coleman (@dr.josh.coleman)- Dennis P. Stolle, JD, Ph.D. of @apa_org by @elissa.epel

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