This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and Athletic Greens.\nTaking 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).\nIn today\u2019s episode of my series I\u2019m calling Health Bites, I share my strategies for prioritizing self-care for a healthy mind and spirit.\nThis episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and Athletic Greens.\nBiOptimizers is offering my listeners 10% off Sleep Breakthrough. If you buy two or more you\u2019ll get a free bottle of Magnesium Breakthrough. This is a limited-time offer. Go to sleepbreakthrough.com/hyman and use the code hyman10.\nAG1 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.\nHere are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):\n\nLearnings from the Blue Zones (4:00 / 1:10)\xa0\n\nHow your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs impact your health (4:44 / 1:55)\xa0\n\nThe health benefits of self-compassion and social connections (6:43 / 3:54)\xa0\n\nThe importance of mindset and having a sense of purpose (8:35 / 5:48)\xa0\n\nSimple ways to prioritize self-care and reset our stress response (12:23 / 9:39) \n\n\n \nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices