What if we knew how to repair cellular damage from stress and trauma? Stem cells are your body's repair system—replacing 50-70 billion cells every day. But chronic inflammation from trauma creates what Dr. Dan Pardi calls a "noisy neighborhood" where repair signals can't get through.
Dr. Pardi is the Chief Health Officer at Qualia Life Sciences, where he researches what actually allows cellular healing to happen. In this episode, we explore why trauma accelerates biological aging and what creates the conditions for repair.
In This Episode You'll Learn:
(01:00) Why understanding the Biology of Trauma® matters for cellular health
(03:00) What "capacity" actually means—and how resilience changes across the lifespan
(08:00) How Dan's own injury led him to study health optimization
(15:30) Why Dean Ornish's lifestyle intervention worked when single interventions fail
(19:30) What's missing from healthcare for trauma recovery
(24:00) How stem cells function as the body's repair mechanism
(28:00) Why inflammation from trauma blocks stem cell activity
(32:00) How sleep and biological rhythms affect stem cell repair
(36:00) Why college athletes needed 5.5 months to recover from extreme fatigue
(43:00) What makes trauma recovery take longer than we expect
(47:00) How to support stem cell health naturally
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