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hey dr. burger in this video we’re going

to talk about the cognitive effects of

your adrenal glands your adrenal glands

are the stress glands and you may have

heard of the adrenals involved with

something called the flight or fight

mechanism basically that’s a stress

state where you’re actively fighting or

fleeing running away and so you have

heightened awareness and you have all

sorts of reactions that occur to prepare

your body for stress so I want to show

you something in civic collection of

medical illustrations endocrinology

Frank knitter and page 84 it talks about

the effects of one of the adrenal

hormones under stress States says

increase neural excitability now what

does that mean it means that on a

cognitive function you are increasing

your your thinking this a lot so you’re

always thinking thinking thinking

thinking the thoughts no longer become

more linear they’re more like popcorn

they kind of come in kind of dispersed

so that’s the first thing that occurs

under stress so we have that and then we

get into this excessive problem-solving

thing now what the body is trying to do

is it’s it’s putting you in a stress

state to solve problems relating to

survival so you’re constantly every

second of the day you’re solving

problems and even solving non-existent

problems just in case they might occur

so a lot of Plan B’s a lot of plan C’s

so that’s what’s happening and the

problem is that it won’t turn off

because even when you’re sleeping you

got this thing running constantly going

going going even if you’re talking to

someone you’re already done with the

conversation ready to move on to the

next thing and then as it progresses

you’re you’re going to find that your

tolerance to stress is going to go way

way way down people might get on your

nerves a little bit

so especially to anything that’s non

survival like incompetent people people

that make mistakes people that make

errors slow people stupid things that

people do will really upset you and also

things that out of order so you may even

look at go in a room

and spot that one little piece of paper

on the floor that no one else can see

and you have to pick it up and clean it

up because your environment has to be

very very orderly so your attention goes

to the nonsurvival thing the thing

that’s out of order more than anything

else so that’s one stage right here and

I’m not saying that just because you do

that you have an adrenal problem okay

that’s my disclaimer but this could

potential potentially happen under

stress states over a long period of time

so because certain personalities they’re

they’re cleaners and I’m not saying

that’s adrenal problem so you have to

differentiate you two now later when it

gets really bad you start having memory

problems and that has to do with the GPS

in the brain there’s actually a GPS in

the brain birds have this structure in

the brain I’m not going to give you the

name because it’s kind of a medical term

but that’s how they’re able to locate

their self in time and space to fly back

to the south during the winter months we

have a GPS that helps us locate

ourselves in time and space so the

connection to that gps becomes inhibited

with high levels of adrenal stress and

so you start having a lag time of

finding out what you were talking about

like you might be talking like okay what

am I thinking about or where are we

going again or have to backtrack when

you go downstairs or where do we park

okay so that could even happen with

adrenal stress as well so again in

summary there are many cognitive effects

that can happen with adrenals that are

all related to stress dates

this is dr. Berg I hope this was

informative