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hey guys dr. Berg here listen I’m going to  talk about what are the symptoms of high cortisol  

versus low cortisol okay cortisol is a stress  hormone it’s there to react and adapt your body  

to action states flight or fight or stress okay so  let’s just take a look at high cortisol you have  

fatigue inflammation blood sugar problems sugar  cravings high blood pressure high cholesterol  

and belly fat the symptoms of low cortisol are  chronic fatigue chronic inflammation blood sugar  

problems sugar cravings high blood pressure high  cholesterol and belly fat if you notice they’re  

identical now the only real difference would be  with low cortisol you have more chronic burnout  

chronic fatigue syndrome chronic inflammatory  issues like fibromyalgia which you’re hurting  

all over this is more a shorter term okay so now  there is a condition where you have low cortisol  

but that’s more of a disease condition where you  have it’s called Addison’s in Addison’s that’s more  

autoimmune where your body is attacking itself  where you have very low immunity because the  

cortisol hormone controls your white blood cells  you have weight loss so you’re very very thin okay  

now with this situation you have high cortisol  it’s got belly fat and if you go too low you  

don’t just get thin what caused the low is the  high cortisol that then burns this out over time  

this condition is completely a different thing  it’s usually triggered by stress but it’s mainly  

like you’re thin vitiligo Michael Jackson had  it worth the you have the loss of pigment in these  

little white specks on your skin from stress  autoimmune issues because the immune system is  

involved also a darker pigment on the skin so your  skin becomes a little bit darker so basically I’m  

not talking about that situation I’m talking about  where you are high and then you end up low and the  

reason is it’s very similar to in what happens  with insulin you get insulin resistance you can  

have cortisol resistance so look at this you  have high cortisol jamming into the receptors okay  

if you have too much of this hormone that’s going  the receptors of a period of time your body adapts  

to it because too much cortisol is unhealthy and  it starts to resist or downgrade the receptor okay  

so now we have cortisol resistance or cortisol  receptor resistance or the name name  

of this if you really want to know if you want  to look do some research I’ll put some links  

down below it’s called glucocorticoid receptor  resistance okay not that you need to know that  

but but anyway that’s what it’s called there’s not  a lot of research on it there’s some but I believe  

it’s more common than it’s being promoted but you  have cortisol resistance and then what happens  

inside the cell you have this cell that’s starving  of cortisol so you’re going to get inflammation  

you’re going to have all sorts of issues  because you need a certain amount of cortisol  

you don’t need too much so you lose the benefit of  cortisol which is immune control anti-inflammatory  

regulation of blood sugar all these other things  and things get out of control so the signal comes  

right back here to the adrenal the signal of  low cortisol because it’s on a feedback loop  

it’s kind of like talking to your child and he’s  he or she is ignoring you and so you’re going to  

with earplugs you’re going to shout so the adrenal  is going to make more communication more hormone  

to get it connected so with cortisol resistance  you have situation where you have high cortisol  

symptoms and low cortisol symptoms that’s what  I think that’s going on because it’s very very  

difficult to distinguish one from the other so now  what happens when you’re in a state of flight of  

fight or stress over a period of time you go from  here to here or you can start going high cortisol  

then you go low and that’s really what happens  what triggers this is chronic stress our bodies  

have not developed or adapted enough to handle  the amount of mental stress that is put on us  

incredible mental stress so every another 100 you  know million years will adapt but the point is  

that that chronic stress is it’s not short-lived  its long-term that’s really what does it so you  

have to break things up go for long walks you  have to not sit in from the computer 12 hours  

a day you have to change your environment get into  nature a lot more take care of your body take less  

stimulants less caffeine things like that now if  you wanted to support the low cortisol this is  

what I have for that is called adrenal fatigue  advanced formula this is mainly for the chronic  

inflammatory condition let’s see of autoimmune  you want to support it maybe some skin issues  

allergies asthma but you’re really tired no  patience no tolerance was just that’s this  

over here this one this is called cortisol adrenal  cortisol relief is more for high cortisol this is  

the more common one that I would recommend because  maybe you haven’t developed a chronic inflammatory  

condition yet you’re not chronically fatigued  you have energy sometimes then you you would  

need some of this to support that okay so I just  wanted to kind of differentiate either or just to  

give you a picture because it is confusing and  people don’t know do they have low cortisol or  

high cortisol alright put your comments below  tell me what you think hey you probably already  

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