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let’s talk about how your stress can

affect your immune system now when we’re

talking about stress we’re talking about

the hormone cortisol cortisol based on

Civic collection of medical

illustrations volume four of the

endocrine system under the section

cortisol dr. Frank nadir talks about the

relationship to the immune system

cortisol has a purpose of suppressing

the white blood cell your white blood

cells are basically the army of your

immune system so cortisol suppresses

that function it inhibits that function

and this is why if you go to the doctor

and you’re sick whether you have I don’t

know allergies

some skin reaction some autoimmune

disease they’ll give you prednisone

which is cortisol it’s a synthetic

version and that will clear up the skin

reaction the allergy or even the poison

ivy and it will also get rid of

inflammation so it’s suppressing this

over-reactive

immune system that’s what cortisol does

and stress activates cortisol now if you

think about that stress should improve

your immune system right I’m going to

explain there’s two types of stress

there’s a cute stress and then there’s

chronic stress and this is the one that

really is behind so many health problems

because when you chronically elevator

through years of stress or months of

stress or even a sudden overwhelming

shock of some stress you could create

what’s called cortisol resistance okay

very similar to insulin resistance in

that this amount of cortisol that’s

coming up through the body may even look

normal in your blood but it’s not

effective it’s the cells are not

sensitive to cortisol anymore they’re

not connecting

so cortisol is not working despite

what’s going on the blood and that means

it’s not going to have a good effect on

your immune system it’s actually going

to either create

spikin white blood cells which could

increase your risk for all sorts of

issues like heart disease or it’s going

to cause you to lose your immune

protection it’s going to make you more

susceptible to getting sick especially

pulling in microbes so when you get sick

whether it’s from a virus or a bacteria

there’s usually always something that

happens before you get sick it’s some

type of factor that lowers your immune

system that makes you susceptible it

could be a combination of stress and a

nutrient deficiency or just stress

itself but this is something that a lot

of people will talk about but if you

reflect back on last time you got sick

you’re gonna remember there was a stress

right before that fact working with

thousands of patients over 29 years I

ran into this over and over and over the

people that are getting sick are in a

stress environment and then they get

sick so stress is a really big part of

it

not quite emphasized and then you have

the nutrient deficiencies that are also

there as well and when you get an

infection and I did a video on this

recently the virus for example will

cause a nutrient deficiency it might

block vitamin D okay so having infection

now creates a nutritional deficiency

which keeps the infection there because

the microbes want to survive too so they

will do all sorts of things to weaken

your system and my last point is this if

you want more information on how to

reduce stress check out the videos on

this page thanks for watching