Physiological Resilience and the Impact on Health

Jennifer Klinedinst, N.; Hackney, Alisha

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04555-5_6

N. Jennifer Klinedinst⁴ &
Alisha Hackney⁴

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Abstract

Resilience in aging is the ability to recover from or adapt to stress and maintain or restore one’s physical, psychological, or emotional equilibrium. While psychological resilience has been much of the focus in aging, increasing evidence suggests resilience in aging is a biopsychosocial phenomenon. The human lifespan is fraught with environmental, physical, and psychosocial challenges that result in a physiological response. This chapter presents biological aspects of resilience including a discussion of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis, neurochemicals, genetic, genomic and epigenetic influences, inflammation, oxidative stress, microbiome and immunity. Interventions to increase physiological resilience in aging include regular physical exercise, a low calorie high nutrient diet, prebiotics and probiotics and at the core, psychological and environmental stress reduction throughout the lifespan.

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