Interview - Building Resilience: The Key to Better Health | A Conversation With Dr. Tara Narula

**Mosheh Oinounou** (0:00)
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**Mosheh Oinounou** (2:19)
Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Mo News podcast. It's Moshe Oinounou here with a very important conversation for you all. Resilience is one of those words we hear about all the time. We talk about being resilient after setbacks, during uncertainty, through health challenges, career challenges, family challenges. But what does resilience actually mean? Is it something you're born with or something you can build? For the answer to all of that, I turn to a former colleague, a friend, Dr. Tara Narula. She's the chief medical correspondent over at ABC News. We worked together for a number of years at CBS News, and she is out with a new book called Healing Power of Resilience. It explores the science behind how we respond to adversity and why resilience may be one of the most important predictors of both our physical and mental health. She's a cardiologist with years of experience and of course does regular media appearances now at ABC News, though she has spent time at, as I mentioned, CBS, CNN and other networks. And I found her new book here to be extremely informative, extremely helpful and is such an important read in this day and age. She has an incredible wealth of experience, but also personal experience. In fact, she writes about, and we'll talk in this edition about her health scare during medical school that raised the possibility that she might have multiple sclerosis. So suddenly this future doctor becomes a patient living with uncertainty. And we talk about what it taught her about bedside manner and the doctor that she would soon come to be. Now she's a cardiologist, so we talk about heart health as well. But the larger science here of resilience and the connection between stress and physical health, loneliness, and even faith and religion when it comes to your physical health. The headline for me, 80% of cardiovascular disease is preventable. And so we talk about all of that in today's conversation, navigating uncertainty, anxiety, and the nonstop pressures of modern life and building that resilience over time. We also talk about how she went from opening a smoothie bar to becoming a cardiologist, a fun personal journey for her as well. So I think you'll really enjoy this conversation. She's an incredible public health communicator, medical communicator, and I highly recommend her new book, The Healing Power of Resilience. With that, my conversation with Dr. Tara Narula.