This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and Athletic Greens.Taking care of yourself, practicing self-love and self-compassion, working on a growth mindset, building relationships and community, and having a sense of purpose are all crucial to living a fulfilling, long, healthy life. Your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs are all transmuted into biological signals that change your gene expression, impacting your immune function, hormones, microbiome, neurotransmitters, neuroplasticity, mitochondria, and more. Yet many of us tend to put self-care last on our list of to-dos (I certainly have for much of my life, to the detriment of my own health).In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I share my strategies for prioritizing self-care for a healthy mind and spirit.This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and Athletic Greens.BiOptimizers is offering my listeners 10% off Sleep Breakthrough. If you buy two or more you’ll get a free bottle of Magnesium Breakthrough. This is a limited-time offer. Go to sleepbreakthrough.com/hyman and use the code hyman10.AG1 contains 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to support your entire body. Right now, Athletic Greens is offering 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):Learnings from the Blue Zones (4:00 / 1:10) How your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs impact your health (4:44 / 1:55) The health benefits of self-compassion and social connections (6:43 / 3:54) The importance of mindset and having a sense of purpose (8:35 / 5:48) Simple ways to prioritize self-care and reset our stress response (12:23 / 9:39) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.