Dr. Sharon Bergquist
Sharon Horesh Bergquist, MD, is a Yale and Harvard-trained physician, scientist, and author renowned for her groundbreaking work on stress resilience, disease prevention, and longevity.
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Healthspan and Longevity Physician & Scientist, Author of The Stress Paradox
Professions: Internal Medicine Physician, Physician, Researcher
Specialties: Alzheimer’s Disease, Lab Testing, Longevity, Medical Research
Sharon Horesh Bergquist, MD, is a practicing internal medicine physician, scientist, and author renowned for her groundbreaking work on stress resilience, disease prevention, and longevity through precision lifestyle medicine. She is an associate professor at Emory School of Medicine and has helped lead numerous clinical trials, including the Emory Healthy Aging Study and the NIH-funded Emory Healthy Brain Study.
Dr. Bergquist is widely published in peer-reviewed journals and has contributed to over 300 podcasts and news segments, including Good Morning America, CNN, ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR. She is the author of Plantology: The Science of Plant-Based Eating (2023) and The Stress Paradox: Why You Need Stress to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier (HarperCollins, March 2025). Her popular Ted-Ed video on how stress affects the body has been viewed over nine million times and translated into 35 languages.
She received her Bachelor of Science from Yale College, her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Harvard’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital.