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was a really great tea that you could

consume on a regular basis in fact you

only need to drink a half a glass of it

per day to create some really

significant effects especially on

cortisol as you may already know

cortisol is the main stress hormone and

a lot of people are being exposed to a

chronic amount of high level cortisol

and here’s the problem when you’re

exposed to cortisol over a long period

of time it’s like being exposed to

insulin over a long period of time your

body starts developing cortisol

resistance just like insulin resistance

and that’s a situation where there’s a

feedback loop problem so in other words

the receptor is blocked so the signals

don’t get back to turn off things and so

the cell actually is suffering from a

cortisol deficiency and so then the

adrenals just start pumping up more and

more and more and more so you have a

situation where you have a lot of

cortisol in the body yet it’s not

working so you have all sorts of

problems inflammatory problems stress

problems weight problems

etc etc

but this problem can actually come from

two different ways one is through stress

but the other is not through stress but

just by having a genetic problem with

that enzyme you can either have two

situations one is that the enzyme is

turned up too much so just the tiniest

bit of stress you get this high level of

cortisol and a lot of problems that are

connected to it on the flip side if you

have this enzyme turned down because of

some genetic weakness or whatever

then it could be the opposite right you

go through stress but you don’t get the

benefit of cortisol so it’s kind of like

having cortisol resistance so both of

these problems really give you the same

bad problems the where I got this

information is I was recently

um for fun reading this book called

natural products and their drug

Discovery it’s a textbook of all sorts

of research on how they develop drugs

and what’s interesting is about 50 to 70

percent of drugs that were developed

were derived from plant compounds and so

I was looking in the area of stress and

I found this one phytonutrient that had

some significant

potent effects and so some of the

comments in the book were like this

could be a therapeutic Target

to replace some drugs that do this with

virtually no side effects and of course

it’s not going to happen because there’s

no money in it and you can’t patent this

but I’m going to make you aware of this

one phytonutrient that can potently help

you reduce cortisol I first want to just

mention all the effects that can happen

if you have too much cortisol in the

body whether you’re experiencing stress

or have a problem with this Gene so

number one you could experience

depression

anxiety you can also experience more

belly fat okay because these receptors

for cortisol are in the belly as well so

you could be just pumping out all this

cortisol and getting fat the medical

term for a cortisol is called

glucocorticoids it’s because it’s

involved with glucose so when you’re in

a state of stress your body is not going

to be running on fat it’s going to be

running on glucose like quick energy

cognitive problems relating to your

focus memory concentration and this also

is related to metabolic syndrome and

that’s a combination of midsection fat

high blood sugars which is kind of

diabetes or pre-diabetes and then also

hypertension and then also High lipids

like LDL cholesterol things like that

all of that coming from high cortisol

and high sugar another one polycystic

ovarian syndrome okay which is an

androgen problem in females where

they’re getting facial hair and

midsection weight in a deeper voice is

really coming from high levels of

cortisol

could come from a diet Problem by

consuming too many carbs or experiencing

too much stress okay now another problem

that’s actually quite common is bone

loss after you go through menopause and

that could come from either this genetic

problem or high levels of cortisol

cortisol is very destructive to your

bones so that’s going to put the person

at risk for fractures and of course the

person also is going to develop insulin

resistance not necessarily from sugar

but from the stress so

what is this phytonutrient okay well it

is e g c g in green tea okay now that

run so green tea is what you need to

start drinking on a regular basis you

just need a little bit but consistently

just drink it every day and it’s an

inexpensive thing it’s easy to do and it

can greatly help you reduce cortisol in

a potent way there are a few other

things they mentioned in this book that

can also inhibit and that enzyme called

11 beta hydroxy steroid

dehydrogenase type 1. now you can sound

very very smart at a party but here are

the other things you could actually do

licorice curcumin which is good for just

about everything and also emotein in

Japanese not wheat so there you have it

some really great information on a

natural way to lower cortisol without

all the side effects if you have not

seen my video on the acupressure

technique to lower cortisol you have to

check that one on mix and I put that

video up right here