8 Realistic Healthy Habits That Make a Huge Difference

Today, you are getting the 8 science-backed hacks to lower your stress, amplify your happiness, and make you healthier.

Harvard’s Dr. Aditi Nerurkar is here to show you exactly how you can get back on track.

If you’ve ever wanted to know exactly how a Harvard doctor grocery shops, meditates, exercises, eats, and even commutes, you’re getting all of that and more today.

You’ll love this research-packed episode because every habit that Dr. Aditi shares is simple, easy to apply, and makes you feel better right away.

Dr. Aditi Nerurkar is a medical doctor, researcher, and world-renowned expert in stress and public health.

She's a lecturer at Harvard Medical School and was the medical director of Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital's integrative medicine program, where she developed an enormous clinical practice in stress management using evidence-based integrative approaches to help her patients feel better.

Today, she is going to give you evidence-based integrative approaches that are easy, simple, and proven to make you feel better, calmer, and healthier.

If you like this inspiring episode, and want to better understand what it is you truly want and how to work towards it you should listen to this one next: How to Figure Out What You Really Want: Use This Life-Changing Hack

Connect with Mel:

• Get Mel’s brand new free 26-page workbook, What Do You Really Want, to finally answer that question and redefine your future!
• Watch the episodes on YouTube‍
• Follow Mel on Instagram ‍
• The Mel Robbins Podcast Instagram‍
• Mel's TikTok ‍
• Sign up for Mel’s personal letter ‍
• Disclaimer

In this episode:

• 06:45: Shop this way in the grocery store and you may lower your cholesterol.
• 09:30: Are supplements really necessary?
• 12:20: If you think you’re too old for positive change, listen to this.
• 12:50: This is what sitting all day does to you, according to science.
• 15:50: How your work commute can actually benefit your mindset.
• 21:40: Why you may want to turn your camera off during your next Zoom call.
• 23:30: Try mono-tasking instead of multitasking to improve your brain.
• 26:40: How does a doctor at Harvard get her exercise?
• 29:30: Stop thinking about exercise in such a big way.
• 36:00: Focus on this part of your body while you walk.
• 36:30: Here’s why 6-pack abs and a “bikini butt” are not motivating.
• 38:10: How long does it take for changes to become new habits?
• 40:15: Six elements of a good life. Start adding them today.
• 44:00: Two kinds of happiness. Make sure you’ve got both in your life.

Dr. Aditi:

• Dr. Aditi’s book, The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience
• Dr. Aditi’s website.
• Dr. Aditi’s at Harvard.
• Dr. Aditi’s Instagram.

Additional Resources:

• Psychology Today: Why trying to relax can make you more anxious.
• CNBC: 7 toxic signs of someone addicted to drama
• Psych Central: Are you addicted to stress?
• The New York Times: The ‘busy’ trap.
• Scientific American: Why your brain needs more downtime.
• Harvard Health: Exercising to relax.
• PBS News Hour: The human brain never stops growing neurons
• Current Obesity Reports: The effects of chronic social stress on obesity
• Nutrients: Magnesium status and stress
• American Psychological Association: Making mindset science work in the real world
• The New Yorker: The Surprising Psychology Of Names And Labels
• The New York Times: Where We Are Shapes Who We Are
• Psychology Today: Strange Truths About How We Perceive Time
• The Atlantic: How Nature Resets Our Minds And Bodies
• American Psychological Association: The Dark Side of Screen Time
• Association For Psychological Science: Investigating The Irresistible
• Harvard Medical School: Screen Time and the Brain
• National Institute on Drug Abuse: Can Too Much Screen Time Harm You?
• Forbes: 7 signs of perfectionistic overfunctioning
• Harvard Business Review: A guide to setting better boundaries
• American Psychological Association: How stress affects your health
• Forbes: 7 unhealthy coping mechanisms
• The Wall Street Journal: Fix burnout - without blowing up your life