Incorporating appropriate doses of discomfort can help regain health benefits lost due to modern comfort.

“basically we are in a comfort crisis we are way too comfortable now and this comfort we live in a world where we're never hungry we're never cold we're never hot we're never bored it's got really negative outcomes on our mental health and our physical health the question is how can you exploit that information the suggestion here is not well based on that let's go back to being hunter-gatherers and be uncomfortable 24 7 because that came with its own problems but the question is what can you do in your comfortable world to get appropriate doses of things that are uncomfortable to recoup some of the benefits”