Elissa Epel, PhD, professor and vice chair in the department of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco, and director of UCSF’s Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center. She is author of The Stress Prescription: Seven Days to More Joy and Ease. AMECenter.UCSF.edu
Stress gets a bad rap. We’re often warned that stress is a killer, increasing our risk for heart disease, obesity,…