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so I’m driving my tractor

carrying a bale of hay and the bell of

hay weighs about two thousand pounds

right and I had it on What’s called the

front loader the front part of the

tractor I’m going down the hill and

there’s nothing flat where I my farm is

everything’s on angles steep angles

Cliffs things like that

so I’m driving

down this pathway

to this Paddock and of course my wife

said you probably should let someone

else do that you know you’re not very

experienced in a tractor I’m like I can

do it I’m driving down and I have too

much weight too high on the front of

this tractor driving on a hillside which

is not very stable

so the tractor started to tip over okay

at that moment

um I had what they call a stress event

okay this is called flight or fight

now

in flight or fight you know you have two

options you can fight or you can fly get

the heck out of there so I chose the

flight part get off the tractor real

fast try not to kill yourself

as the tractor went through the electric

fence and off the cliff so I experienced

stress so today we’re going to dig into

this and I’m just using myself as an

example I was under some severe shock

stress and what happens in that mode you

have the flight or fight mechanism kick

in that’s part of What’s called the

autonomic nervous system

so the word autonomic uh means

involuntary okay it happens

automatically without your control or

will

okay and that’s the key point is this

word

control you’re going to be stressed out

as much as you are out of control in a

situation and you’ll be less stressed

the more you’re in control so there are

stress States like exercise you’re

stressing your body or a Jacuzzi or a

cold bath those are all stresses very

positive stress it’s going to help you

but any stress that you are out of

control

um puts you in a bad place but in my

situation I had this sudden burst of

adrenaline massive adrenaline that

stayed in my bloodstream all day as well

as cortisol I was in a state of panic

I was hyperventilate I was breathing

really fast at the time so my blood

pressure went up my pulse rate went up I

was sweating that’s what happens when

you have the stress event because the

autonomic nervous system kicks in there

as a survival mechanism and it starts to

alter your physiology uh and your

Anatomy to deal with this stress first

of all I wanted just to really Define

the differentiating factor

of this thing that happens when you get

stressed out and that is

whether you’re in control or out of

control and that can be with a situation

a condition a relationship with a person

it can also be in a relationship where

you don’t seem to have a lot of control

over the situation you’re really stuck

in that relationship and you’re not

controlling it it’s controlling you so

in a stress State you have a lot of

these involuntary glandular secretions

and reactions occurring that are below

your control now there are two

organs in your body that have both

involuntary as well as voluntary control

and the first one is called the

diaphragm

okay that’s the muscle underneath your

lungs that allows you to breathe and if

you are aware when you’re in a stress

mode you’re usually hyperventilating or

your breathing is always off it’s like

could be doing that or you can be

hyperventilating and what’s interesting

it’s really the imbalance in oxygen and

CO2 that’s the problem when you get too

much oxygen and not enough CO2 the

oxygen cannot be absorbed this is why in

a panic attack where if you have asthma

you breathe in a paper bag

you’re breathing in more carbon dioxide

which automatically releases the

absorption of oxygen which is

interesting so anytime you are in a

panic attack or a stress event or trying

to sleep because you’re too stressed out

you should start to do controlled

breathing where you’re under

photo voluntary breathing control okay

slow your breath down

breathe in

breathe out maybe at a count of four

seconds okay you just focus on that that

is very very powerful to put back in the

control over this whole system and pull

yourself out of this

reactive

lighter fight mode okay it’s called the

sympathetic nervous system and that’s

what I did when uh during this tractor

event I just as I walked home because I

had nothing to drive home I

slowly worked on my breathing in and out

to pull myself out of this shock and the

second organ which is really the

skeletal muscles of your body the

skeletal muscles have reflexes in them

that respond to various things for

example if you touch a hot stove or like

in my case an electric fence to see if

it was alive or not

I didn’t have to think about taking the

hand off it’s just an automatic reflex

so that would be an involuntary uh

skeletal muscle reflex but you can also

voluntarily control your muscles right

so this is another thing I would highly

recommend when you’re in a stress event

you use your muscles you either exercise

okay where you’re controlling your body

and or go for a long walk which is also

exercise you can go for a long walk and

you start moving your muscles flushing

out the adrenaline the cortisol so those

two things I think are going to be very

very important to quickly pull yourself

out of any stress State okay

now the origin of

this autonomic nervous system which is

the flight or fight is actually in the

brain and it’s in the brain stem that’s

the part underneath the rest of the

brain and also it’s in the limbic system

that’s connected to certain emotions so

of course when you’re experiencing

stress you experience different emotions

too like fear anger that type of thing

but in the brain okay the limbic system

and especially the brain stem are highly

susceptible to a vitamin B1 thymine

deficiency so what does that mean it

means that if you are deficient in B1

uh for any reason those two areas of

your brain will suffer okay and the

tissue can even break down now it’s

reversible but it can break down so if

you’re deficient in B1 the effects that

can happen because of this problem in

the brain stem and the limbic system

is almost identical to hypoxia that is a

condition where you’re lacking oxygen

there’s something about oxygen that is

uh really good right I mean breathing is

really good so when you are suffocating

or let’s say you’re under water and you

can’t seem to get above water because

and you can’t breathe you will

automatically trigger the sympathetic

nervous system or the stress reflexes

well guess what a B1 deficiency can

mimic a mild version of that of hypoxia

and they call it pseudo-hypoxia and also

what comes along with that is difficulty

breathing and the reason I’m bringing

this up is because I want to emphasize

the importance of this B1

in pulling yourself out of a stress date

and preventing stress especially with

your breathing especially with your your

nervous system even the condition called

SIDS sudden infant death syndrome is

linked to a B1 deficiency and that’s a

situation where an infant can die in the

crib because they stop breathing so B1

keeps the oxygen High it keeps you

breathing it keeps you out of the stress

mode so those are the three things that

you should focus on when dealing with

stress I’m just reminding you of this

because you probably already know this

but I wanted to emphasize it but there’s

a lot of things you can do with stress

but when we’re talking about a B1

deficiency you should really know all of

the factors that can create a deficiency

and for that information you should

watch this video right here