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now this video is going to greatly help

those who are

going through

stress

and i want to make this as simple as

possible

you’re just going to be drinking one cup

of this

thing i’m going to tell you

in a few minutes daily to bring down

your stress

to zero but i first want to explain

why it works now i do want to say that

reducing your stress to zero is not

healthy for a long period of time in

fact you can’t

live without some stress stress is

actually healthy as long as it’s not

sustained our bodies become

stronger when we put our body through

stress like exercise for example right

if you

sit on the couch no stress

did nothing you would waste away

the problem is sustained stress burns

out a lot of your organs and i want to

just go through that fairly rapidly

number one the immune system okay

stress high levels of cortisol this hpa

stands for hypothalamus pituitary

adrenal

so

when you perceive stress through your

brain

it goes through these different levels

and then it comes out as cortisol and so

now your body can start adapting to

stress with the help of cortisol so

cortisol kind of goes through these

organs and adjusts the organs to deal

with this stress

but with the immune system

it basically turns off and that makes

you very susceptible to viral infections

and all sorts of things i mean think

about what happens um when people get

stressed out a lot of times they get

sick right

and so

um stress is suppresses the immune

system so that’s not a good thing

sustained stress can create atrophy to

your lymph nodes actually shrink your

lymph nodes shrink the spleen

and the thymus that’s your immune system

okay so

stress is very bad for the immune system

okay so now the stomach you can actually

develop an ulcer

you can have the acid start splashing up

causing gerd there’s more gastric acid

increase in the stomach that’s why you

might get gastritis

the entire digestive system is

controlled by the

parasympathetic that’s the

rest in digest that’s the opposite of

this stress mechanism right here so

stress pretty much

turns off the digestive system try to

digest when you’re under stress it just

doesn’t work now as a side note stress

also depletes you of vitamin b1 calcium

potassium

and this thing right here h plus

that’s a hydrogen ion now what does that

mean what does how does that relate to

anything

well when you’re going through stress

you lose

the hydrogen ion

what is the hydrogen ion well you know

what you’ve heard of ph before right

ph that’s the power of the hydrogen ion

so basically this is

an acid so when you go through stress

you’re jacking up cortisol

you’re losing

your acids and guess what you become

too alkaline

so you would think that stress makes you

acid no it doesn’t it makes you

excessively too alkaline and the

symptoms of alkalosis are muscle

twitching

hyperventilation

cramping anxiety

interesting

now stress affects the heart by

increasing the blood pressure the heart

rate and creating a constriction of the

coronary artery stress affects the blood

sugars by turning

things into sugar okay your fat in the

sugar protein in the sugar ketones in

the sugar

and this is why

high levels of stress can even make a

person a diabetic

okay so even though you’re not eating

sugar your body is producing sugar out

of other things

by having too much stress because

another name for this is a

glucocorticoid

now all this sugar that’s generated is

basically making us fat so if you have

too much cortisol you start developing

fat specifically around your gut because

the liver is becoming fatty and then it

spills over into the gut so you’ll have

belly fat now the tone of the muscles

become very very rigid and tight

so you get muscle spasms the lung has a

problem

when you have high levels of cortisol

you hyperventilate right

you think you’re not getting enough

oxygen but you’re getting too much

oxygen i did a whole video on this it’s

very counter-intuitive it’s very

interesting i mean think about this if

you were to hyperventilate right now

what would happen you would get too much

oxygen and you would pass out

too much oxygen

and not enough co2 actually locks up the

ability to absorb this oxygen in the

tissues

and what happens is you basically starve

of oxygen so

there’s some really great data on this

that i did on a video i’ll put the link

down below you can watch that later but

the point is that stress

throws off your lung

and causes an inability to breathe i

mean think about asthma think about

people during panic attacks people have

anxiety they’re they’re trying to get

more oxygen and that’s making things

worse you should basically just breathe

through your nose calm your breath down

and then you’ll get more oxygen like

really slowly

now the brain this is

the last part of this puzzle stress

both destroys certain parts of the brain

that’s why it affects your sleep your

circadian rhythms with sleep but the

perception of stress

coming through the brain

that’s activating the cortisol

is controlled by this neurotransmitter

called gaba okay gaba

is

like a turn off switch it’s like the

brake pads

50 of all the little

synapses in your brain are a combination

of glutamate and gaba receptors okay and

only five percent

are dopamine and serotonin

so all you need to know for this example

is gaba

is very very very important in

relationship to cortisol it controls

this excessive amount of cortisol so

when people go through excessive amount

of stress over a period of time

they don’t necessarily burn out the

adrenals

they’re burning out this

neurotransmitter right here

so

this remedy i’m going to talk about

inhibits

gaba it blocks the enzyme that slows

down the degradation of gaba thus

increasing gaba

which turns off cortisol

so these little hormones that are coming

out of hypothalamus pituitary

down to here are all turned off when you

increase

gaba okay and that remedy is

lemon balm

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tea

that’s right you wanted to start

drinking on a regular basis lemon balm

tea it’s very very simple you have one

in the morning maybe one in the

afternoon maybe one a little bit later

and

this has certain phytonutrients to

increase gaba one of the big effects

that lemon balm has over your body is it

increases tranquility right that’s a

really cool word tranquility what does

it mean it means peaceful serene

unshaken

unworried

so it increases your tolerance to stress

it helps you to be calm

it has properties of anti-anxiety

anti-depression

it increases and elevates your mood it

does a lot of other things but it’s

really really good for reducing

cortisol so in one study lemon balm

which is in the mint family as a plant

created a full remission of anxiety in

70 percent of people who took it and it

also showed significant sleep

improvements for those people who had

insomnia and 85

of the people who took it now there’s

many things you can do for stress but

lemon balm tea is one of my favorite

things it’s simple you’ll feel quick

effects right away it’s very inexpensive

and it has a lot of additional health

benefits as well that go way beyond just

the stress reduction now if you have not

seen my video on how to do acupressure

for stress you definitely need to check

that out i put it up right here check it

out