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hey guys I’m back in this video we’re gonna talk  about the six natural ways to lower cortisol  

okay now what is cortisol cortisol is a really  important hormone that you really need a certain  

amount of it but we don’t need too much and we  don’t need too little of it if it’s too little  

we’re going to have inflammation a lot of immune  problems if it’s too much we’re gonna have a lot  

of other additional issues including stress  states in the body blood sugar issues high  

blood pressure a whole bunch of other things okay  but cortisol if it’s too high is very destructive  

on the body on the aging process it breaks down  your collagen it makes you look older so we want  

to keep that we want to bring it down to a normal  level a lot of people have too much cortisol and  

it interrupts their sleep so there’s actually six  ways to do it naturally okay we’re going to talk  

about the first part right here where we’re going  to decrease body stress do you realize that all  

the stress that you’ve ever experienced is stuck  in your body to some degree so stress accumulates  

your body is like a sponge and it holds stress  and what I’m going to show you in this next part  

is several key things that you can do to extract  stress using an acupressure device that I created  

so let me just go ahead and go right into it  and show you that right now check it out it’s  

very simple we take the widest part right here  and on your couch you lean back and you put this  

right in the mid part of your neck sit back and  you let gravity push your head back into this  

device and you just before you go to bed for two  minutes we’re going to take the longer portion  

and press it into some points in the abdomen about  an inch to the right of your belly button and then  

we’re going to press directly inwards like this  pressing in right like that and I’m going to hold  

this pressure not so it’s very painful but just  so this pressure for about maybe a minute or so  

and its releasing stress if this takes the lot  of the flight-or-fight stress out of your body  

also in your middle back that’s the second part  that’s where you’re going to hold all the stress  

to because the slider fight mechanism is located  in your mid-back and that’s where you want to  

work on a lot of stress also is contained in the  underneath on the top of the chest and the top  

of the heart so that’s another technique that  we want to do to extract stress to the upper  

upper chest area and then the back of the upper  neck by the skull where it connects to the neck  

that’s another place where you hold stress okay  we’re back to the second thing which is increasing  

the quality of sleep that you have so we have the  quality of sleep and we have the quantity of sleep  

we want to get to the root of it now in the last  section with reducing the body stress of course  

that is going to help you sleep so stress could  stop you from sleeping but there’s other causes  

of sleep issues as well number one your bladder at  night you’re peeing all night long that’s because  

you have insulin resistance or maybe a sleep apnea  and you have one of those machines that’s a sinus  

problem that you have or insulin resistance so  there’s many different things maybe you’re missing  

nutrients okay but if you go through all these  things and apply some of this stuff you’re going  

to start sleeping better and it could be that you  just get up early and you don’t let yourself go  

to sleep so whatever you can do to enhance the  sleep do it even if you have to take naps that’s  

going to reduce cortisol very very important next  one increasing aerobic exercise I’m not talking  

about the aerobic exercise that you would do I’m  talking about the type of exercise which is lots  

of oxygen low stress and that would be walking  a mild version of yoga because they have Power  

Yoga right now which is extremely exhausting I’m  talking about something that’s going to create a  

lot of relaxation I like the long walks will you  get a lot of space that will lower cortisol also  

there’s low intensity workouts like Pilates  very good for cortisol nutrient wise as far  

as vitamins increasing b1 is the key vitamin  for your adrenals and stress b5 is also a key  

B vitamin support the adrenals and recovery and  vitamin D as these vitamins go up cortisol will  

go down okay number five herbal adaptogens you  can use ashwagandha there’s a whole series of  

that you can use I’ll put them I’ll put a link  down below of what I recommend but adaptogens  

can actually lower our cortisol as well and  then increasing the parasympathetic nervous  

system if you haven’t watched my videos before  maybe you’re not familiar with this word but the  

parasympathetic nervous system is that nervous  system that is actively working to calm you down  

it opposes the sympathetic nervous system which  is the flight of fight so it’s in the background  

chilling you out keeping things calm but when  you lose this heart rate goes up stress goes up  

and you’re in a state of flight-or-fight which is  stress so to support this of course all these are  

going to do it and also potassium will do it  and magnesium will do it so you want to start  

consuming more potassium magnesium you could do it  through electrolytes you can do it through greens  

vegetables it just so happens that vegetables have  the highest amount and so if you’re just eating  

pure protein let’s see during the Atkins diet and  you’re not doing enough vegetables you’re going to  

get a lot of phosphorous and not enough minerals  to calm the nervous system down so you’re going to  

actually have hard time sleeping you’re gonna be  more stress if you want to accelerate the nervous  

system especially the flight-or-fight you want to  take phosphorous if you want to chill it out you  

want to take potassium magnesium all right so go  ahead and apply these and put your comments below