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I’m gonna talk about recovery and how

you can determine your recovery rate now

there’s a lot of different tests that

you can do if you’re an athlete to

determine your recovery

there’s heart rate recovery testing I

did a video on that you can check it out

below there’s a test called heart rate

variability which measures the

sympathetic and parasympathetic part of

the nervous system which is the

autonomic nervous system it did that

test in my office for many many years

it’s very accurate and it can tell you

how much sympathetic or flutter fight

that your body is stuck in versus how

much parasympathetic or recovery you

have left and a lot of times you would

see people like normally the sympathetic

should be right here so you would

normally see it like way up here people

stuck in that flight or flight mode yet

the recovery that should be way over

here is like way over here so they had

very low recovery with high amount of

stress so if you don’t have access to a

test like this

you can go by other factors so I want to

differentiate two things you have your

body recovery rate and then you have the

beings recovery rate so let’s say for

example you have this really tough guy

he’s six years old mentally he’s still

18 but physically he’s 60 or maybe a

little bit older okay and in his mind

he’s like I can do CrossFit so he gets

out there and does this intense exercise

and ends up almost having a heart attack

so you do have the person themself and

their attitude towards stress in life

and then you have the body’s recovery

which is basically two different things

body recovery has to do with your

ability to repair and there are repair

proteins or enzymes in your body that do

the work of repairing damage at the DNA

level and your body is constantly

repairing those breaks in DNA and the

damage that occurs to different parts of

the machinery in your cells and they

definitely require nutrients like zinc

folic acid vitamin C vitamin E and these

repair proteins you definitely require

nutrients or they don’t work that well

the body tends to relegate or ration out

certain nutrients if it’s deficient in a

nutrient it will ration out that

nutrient to just the most important

functions and it can neglect the

longevity proteins and some of these

repair proteins and then you have your

adrenals your adrenal glands deal with

stress they help you adapt to stress and

if you have a lot of stress in your life

it accumulates and it builds up and the

less adrenals will function and there’s

a lot of things you can do to improve it

this video is not about that but I put a

link down below of some things that you

can do one of the most important thing

is to get your sleep corrected and by

the way a lot of people that think

they’re getting enough sleep are not

really getting enough sleep stay tuned

for a video in that I’m going to cover

that very soon but the question is how

do you adapt to stress okay

one good way is through the heart rate

and there’s a real simple test I put a

link down below you can check it out you

can do this test you just exercise for

one minute and I go through exactly how

to evaluate that this is really

important if you are into exercise also

let’s say for example you workout okay

a good workout and you can’t sleep then

that night that is an indication that

you’re overtraining and that you’re

stress tolerance is low or let’s say

your blood pressure goes way too high

for many hours after you workout and it

doesn’t

rebound so you have the heart rate and

blood pressure or even your mood or a

stress reaction how long does it take

for you to bounce back from stress

mentally that’s a good question because

if your adrenals are weak it’s gonna be

hard to bounce back from stress quickly

but I want to show you a couple things

that you can do to strengthen your

ability to repair and even the the genes

and the proteins that help you repair

okay it’s called hormesis or meeseeks is

a term to describe beneficial stress now

they found that stress free bacteria do

not thrive well

they don’t do well same thing with us if

we take a person and put them in a

completely stress-free environment and

they never have to do anything they

don’t do well so we thrive on a certain

amount of stress our bodies become

stronger I mean even take a look at some

of the real successful people they’ve

been through incredibly hard times and

they bounce back from it and it became

stronger of course if the stress didn’t

kill you first I think there’s a song

about that but hormesis would involve

many things one would be in a minute

fasting so when you do intermittent

fasting you’re actually mimicking

starvation which is a stress and your

body rebounds by turning on certain

genes that become stronger you actually

get younger when you starve but not too

much just kind of a moderate amount of

starvation fascinating exercise the same

thing when you exercise in the correct

quantity and the correct intensity with

the correct recovery you can become much

more fit and stronger cold therapy it’s

called cryotherapy can actually

stimulate certain proteins that become

stronger heat therapy like a sauna or

infrared sauna therapy very powerful

oxygen therapy hyperbaric oxygen therapy

I’m doing this right now I love it and

you’re creating a hormetic effect of

spiking oxygen and then bringing it down

and you’re actually in a chamber

simulating deep-sea diving so it’s quite

an interesting effect on stimulating

stem cells and your bone and stimulating

stem cells in your brain you have

there’s certain light therapy laser

therapy UV light just going out the Sun

a small amount of radiation can be very

beneficial because your body can rebound

and become stronger even final nutrients

which are considered toxins in plants

can actually help build up our own

body’s defenses against these toxins so

I have a question for you on a scale

from one to ten ten being very high

recovery where do you think you are zero

being no recovery give me a number down

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