Dr. Olivia Lesslar is a physician, researcher, and expert in psychoneuroimmunology - helping people understand how chronic stress, trauma, and environmental overwhelm affect the body at a cellular level. She’s one of the rare voices bridging medicine, mindset, and nervous system science.

In this episode, Olivia breaks down how modern life mimics ancient survival threats and why your symptoms are often protection, not dysfunction. From mitochondria to mirror neurons, quantum biology to ancestral trauma - this conversation is a deep dive into how we heal, think, and reconnect with the body’s wisdom.

Expect to learn:

What psychoneuroimmunology is—and why it’s the future of medicine

How stress lives in the body: skin, joints, hormones, and breath

Why anxiety, fatigue, and shame are often survival signals

How ancient threats like plague, exile, and famine still affect you

Why your nervous system needs coherence—not control

What slow movement, mirror work, and barefoot grounding can do

And how to move from hypervigilance to healing—without losing your edge

⏱ Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Intro: You’ve slept in a toxic bed—what else are you missing?

00:04:11 – What medicine gets wrong about chronic stress and burnout

00:08:23 – Your brain, your eyes, your environment—rewiring happens fast

00:12:35 – Nervous system healing vs just managing symptoms

00:16:46 – How trauma hides in layers—and what to do about it

00:20:58 – The 9 survival threats and how your body still reacts

00:25:10 – Why shame, anxiety, and behavior are biology—not character flaws

00:29:21 – Skin, intuition, and decoding physical signs of trauma

00:33:33 – How ancestral famine and plague live in your stress patterns

00:37:45 – Why the body protects with symptoms—not to sabotage you

00:41:56 – Teaching emotional safety: language, posture, and space

00:46:08 – Free energy, mitochondria, and how cells sense safety

00:50:20 – Why you are apex—and what that means for healing

00:54:32 – Deep work, awareness, and releasing protection patterns

00:58:43 – Screens, survival mode, and why your phone is a stressor

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