Episode 023 - The Strengthen Breakdown: Repair, Defense, and Why Your Body Gets ‘Stuck’ in Maintenance
Description
Recovery that takes too long. Injuries that linger. Feeling fragile without a diagnosis.
In this episode, Brandon maps the **Strengthen** domain—your body’s repair, defense, and resilience systems—and why they drift when Nurture and Energize are already off. You’ll learn how telomere attrition, cellular senescence, and stem cell exhaustion quietly erode your ability to bounce back—and exactly how to rebuild it.
What we cover:
• Telomeres: your DNA’s “shoelace caps”—what shortens them and how to slow the fray
• Cellular senescence: the “zombie cell” problem and the SASP noise it creates
• Stem cell exhaustion: why regeneration stalls (and how to re-signal growth)
• Rebuild toolkit: sleep architecture, blood-sugar stability, polyphenols/omega-3s/curcumin, gentle hormesis, NAD+ precursors, mitochondrial nutrients
• Nervous-system inputs that say “it’s safe to repair”
• Early signs of Strengthen drift—and the Compass checks to course-correct
🎯 Take the Drift Quiz: https://www.themetaboliccompass.com/quiz
➡️ Next: Episode 024 — The Withdraw Breakdown: Autophagy, Epigenetics, and Cellular Static
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