How Love and Oxytocin Promote Longevity with Dr. Molly Maloof

<p dir="ltr">Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, we discuss how oxytocin is the key to unlocking longevity with Dr. Molly Maloof. Her book The Spark Factor is a riveting display of the effect that love and community have on your body. Dr. Maloof deconstructs how loneliness and stress affect your health and deplete your lifespan. </p> <p dir="ltr">To fully understand how external stress affects your body, Dr. Maloof teaches you the importance of tracking your cycle because your period is a vital sign. If your period becomes irregular, it is a sign that you need to slow down and be kind to your mind and body. In this episode, Dr. Maloof shares her biohacking protocol for reframing stress from a destructive force to a transformational tool.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">KEY TAKEAWAYS</p> <p dir="ltr">[2:00] Ensuring longevity by optimizing your organ reserve while your young </p> <p dir="ltr">[3:45] How a stressful environment can deplete energy and cause hormonal imbalance</p> <p dir="ltr">[6:00] Your period is a vital sign and a window into your overall health </p> <p dir="ltr">[10:30] Knowing the difference between good stress and bad stress </p> <p dir="ltr">[12:00] Cognitive reappraisal and becoming your own performance coach </p> <p dir="ltr">[16:25] Sitting in the satisfaction of what you have achieved and celebrating yourself</p> <p dir="ltr">[18:30] Reframing your mindset to act with joy to improve your attitude and cortisol levels</p> <p dir="ltr">[20:00] How love and oxytocin give life meaning and promote vitality and longevity</p> <p dir="ltr">[23:00] How isolation stress from a lack of community causes phycological diseases </p> <p dir="ltr">[26:30] The role of mitochondrial dysfunction in inflammation </p> <p dir="ltr">[29:00] The physiology of isolation and the challenge of cortisol testing</p> <p dir="ltr">[35:00] Hypertonic muscles and how you can train your body to relax </p> <p dir="ltr">[39:30] The effect community has on your oxytocin levels </p> <p dir="ltr">[41:00] What is the spark f