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so today i’m going to talk about the 20

signs that you have

too much stress now the first thing i

want to mention is that in practice

i had a machine that measured

internally what’s going on with the

autonomic nervous system specifically

the flight or fight mechanism which is

everything to do with stress and this

machine was called heart rate

variability it’s a great test and you

could measure what’s going on internally

with the flight or flight mechanism and

also the recovery

mechanism which is called the

parasympathetic nervous system

now some people would come in

really really stressed out

and it didn’t look like they were

massively stressed out on the graph

but they were definitely in the stress

mode yet other people would come in

showing massive

flutter fight stress

yet they were calm able to cope with

stress so i just want to point out one

thing

you have your body and then you have you

you may have been endowed with a

incredible ability to tolerate stress

and you can cope with stress very well

so regardless of what’s happening in

your body

you might not feel stressed too much yet

other people just have a poor ability to

handle stress so that’s a little bit of

a variable that makes things a little

complex because it’s not just always

about what’s happening to your adrenal

glands so if you go get a saliva test

and it says that you’re in stress but

you don’t feel stress it just means you

yourself are able to handle stress very

well so i don’t want to invalidate that

but i do want to mention that i’m going

to give you a lot of things to help

cope with stress better and also

strengthen your body’s ability to cope

with stress on that note let’s start

with the brain and how stress affects

the brain and i’m talking primarily

about cortisol

now our bodies were not designed yet to

handle

chronic stress

acute stress yes but not chronic stress

the stress that an average person

endures right now um is just way way

over the top especially because it’s

chronic stress okay people are basically

living in a stress bucket 24 7. so the

way that it affects the brain

is that

it puts you in

problem

solving mode 24 7. you just can’t not

solve problems in fact you’re fixated on

certain problems and it’s very hard to

unfixate on those problems so you might

have a great day and you come home and

you’re just constantly thinking of this

one problem over and over and over

despite maybe 98 of the things went

right in your life

your attention goes to that thing that

went wrong so one of the things with the

adrenals and

cortisol is that you can’t do anything

else but

solve problems 24 7. the other aspect

about this is the tolerance to stress

your ability to cope with stress as your

stress starts building and your adrenal

system gets weaker uh you just don’t

tolerate stress anymore and this can be

um in complete overwhelm where you just

break down and start crying or it could

be in a severe irritability or anger

when you experience

things that are too much stress and so

if you look at the adrenal glands as a

survival gland anything that is opposite

to that is going to be a stress like

anything that is illogical like if you

have people around you that are logical

incompetent insane boy that just really

uh just jacks up your adrenals but if

you’re an environment that’s sane

logical

everyone’s competent everyone’s

supportive

you’ll do much better so one really

common thing is like slow drivers

i guess that would be considered

incompetent drivers if they’re driving

like two miles an hour and they’re right

ahead of you boy that just will just

raise your blood pressure so i guess the

best term would be

how much patience you have right or

don’t have that’s a real good index of

your adrenal function and your ability

to cope with stress and another point

about the adrenals is that it puts you

in a state of um flight or fight where

you’re thinking really really fast so

sometimes when you’re talking to someone

that’s talking very slow that can bug

you you’re already done with the

conversation you already know what

they’re going to say and sometimes you

might complete their senses which can

create some problems and also your

ability to

focus on maybe one thing might be very

difficult with adrenal issues so you

might be a little bit dispersed

thinking about this doing that

multitasking is what i’m talking about

the problem is you don’t really feel

productive because

you have a lot of incomplete things and

projects that are going on which then

adds more stress all right the next

point is you’re not a morning person

i used to be not a morning person in

fact it took me until like 11 o’clock in

the morning before i could wake up now i

am definitely a morning person that’s

the best time of the day i’m most

creative i’m most awake that’s when i’m

doing videos like right now but if

there’s an adrenal issue and you have a

lot of stress

the morning is going to be difficult

you’re going to have a hard time getting

out of bed you’re going to even need

this thing called

coffee and in large amounts you know

what’s interesting about caffeine

is it doesn’t necessarily boost your

energy per se

it gets rid of the things that are

making you tired

so it’s getting rid of this these

factors that help you sleep

so

if you minus those you’re just going to

feel very very awake but in the long run

when you drink too much coffee caffeine

you’re going to be burning those

adrenals out like myself

in fact i was drinking

pots of coffee in college um

not just any coffee like cuban coffee so

i burnt my adrenals out early on all

right next one is your your sleep cycles

are going to be not very good you’re

going to be a poor sleeper

a real um good indicator of

a spike in cortisol is at two o’clock or

2 30 in the middle of night you’re very

awake you’re more awake than than you

are during the day during the day you

have brain fog but you’re very very

awake at two o’clock that was me for

many many years now i think um

the best way to test your adrenals is

with an hiv heart rate variability a

test

which you just have to find someone to

do that test because when you do a blood

test your adrenals have to be literally

like 90

dysfunctional before it even shows up

but you can also do a 24 hour saliva

test it’s kind of a pain in the butt

because you have to

get up to the night you have to

spit into these little tubes and then

send them off for a test but that’s also

a good way to measure cortisol

the heart rate variability test measures

the flight or fight mechanism more than

it does cortisol but just another way to

to measure your adrenals and they have a

lot of different new apps coming out on

your cell phone i think attachments that

you can measure heart rate variability

to give you some indication what’s going

on with your

your stress level but unfortunately the

one that i used um

years ago they don’t sell anymore that

was a real easy test to measure your

adrenals but sleep is going to suck if

you have too much stress and then not

enough sleep then makes you more

stressed and also affects your blood

sugars next thing is blood sugars

themselves the adrenal hormone called

cortisol is called a glucocorticoid it’s

a hormone that releases blood sugar from

your muscles and your liver

as well as

turning

non-carbohydrate things like

protein and fat into sugar so when you

go through stress you’re basically like

eating candy bars without eating candy

bars so

that can elevate the blood sugars and

you can even become a diabetic

by having high levels of cortisol or

even taking cortisol in the form of

prednisone which i’ve

seen several people turn into diabetics

just from that so with the high blood

glucose then you have high cholesterol

then you have more fat which i’m going

to get to in a second and you also get a

fatty liver all right next point is

you’re going to get more visceral fat

that’s fat in your belly okay you’re

gonna have belly fat a sagging belly

that is high levels of cortisol but it’s

really what cortisol is doing to your

insulin levels because it’s raising your

blood sugar and then following from that

you have this spike of insulin so we

have a combination of high cortisol and

high insulin and you get this belly fat

at the same time your body is

dissolving or eating up it’s called a

catabolic effect on your muscles so your

body is robbing your muscles from your

legs okay your thighs

and the glutamas maximus muscle so

chronic stress puts you in this

this body shape of a sagging belly

with stick legs and

no butt all right the next point about

excess stress would be heavy legs when

you’re going up a hill or incline or

stairs

and you’re out of breath easily so

that’s an indication that

your body can’t cope with stress because

you’re going up an incline okay or if

you stand up from a seated position or

lying down you get really dizzy really

fast that’s another indication that your

body can’t cope with stress

there’s a really good

test is called a raglans test if you

check your blood pressure

while you’re lying down and then when

you’re standing

normally your blood pressure should go

up

by about six points

if it goes up by 20 points or it goes

down it kind of gives you an idea of

what’s happening to the adrenals whether

your body is overreacting to stress or

under-reacting and can’t cope i mean

some people get up too fast and they

actually

faint so that’s a severe adrenal problem

all right the next point is

about inflammation cortisol is a natural

anti-inflammatory so when you have high

levels of stress in cortisol the

receptor for cortisol starts to become

resistant

very similar to insulin resistance so it

doesn’t work anymore so despite having

high cortisol you don’t get the effects

of cortisol so we have a lack of

anti-inflammatories so you get

inflammation so you have arthritis

bursitis tendinitis you have pain

so this is why a common

treatment for inflammation and pain is

prednisone which is a synthetic version

of cortisol

not good though i had over probably 15

rounds of

heavy steroids from poison ivy

in my 20s and 30s and that’s really what

pushed me over the edge

because it stopped working so i

cannot have any more steroids all right

the next thing about excessive stress

and adrenal overdrive is a loss of

electrolytes specifically potassium you

lose potassium with stress

so that shows up in elevated blood

pressure it shows up in heart

arrhythmias it shows up in

you can’t relax because potassium is a

physiological relaxer helps calm you

down so without potassium everything

kind of goes up with heart rate and a

lot of things and then also you get leg

cramps

and then you have your ratios of sodium

going up and your potassium going down

and that’s where you get edema swelling

in the legs this is why it’s really good

for an adrenal case or someone going

through a lot of stress to consume

high amounts of potassium

try to get it from the salads large

salads or a good electrolyte but

potassium it definitely affects many

different things including energy all

right next thing is salt cravings why

because the adrenals

need salt to help them function so many

times like after a stressful day you may

even crave salt and then consume salt

and sometimes sugar

because the way that what’s happening to

the adrenals and you may just feel

i can breathe better i feel better i

have more energy from that salt um if

you’re deficient in salt you’ll feel

weaker so the more stress you experience

the more salt you need but don’t forget

to add the potassium to that because we

need at least twice as much potassium as

sodium all right the next point

susceptibility to getting sick or having

an infection

the adrenal gland hormone specifically

cortisol is an immune suppressive

hormone so it suppresses the immune

system that’s why they give it to people

with

overactive immune systems allergies

autoimmune diseases where there’s a lot

of inflammation uh they give you

prednisone which is a type of cortisol

and what that’s doing it’s suppressing

your immune system it’s turning it off

it’s turning off this over reaction same

thing with the cytokine storm

they give people prednisone to turn off

that overreaction of your immune system

well when you go through a lot of stress

or a shock to the system like a sudden

loss of a loved one for example

a lot of things can happen to your

immune system it just basically shuts

off and you can develop an autoimmune

disease in fact

when i was in practice i asked people

that had autoimmune diseases when did it

start

i’m not kidding like in like probably 98

of the time maybe 99 of the time it was

after a loss of a loved one or a major

divorce so that adrenal stress can shut

down the

immune system to the point where all

sorts of things can happen like viral

infections things going haywire all

right next point is autoimmune i just

mentioned that autoimmune

diseases are connected to stress and

also

gut permeability issues okay because

that’s your barrier to

your immune system so when you have a

gut issue um you can have certain things

invade and cross through the barrier and

start creating these immune reactions on

top of stress

it’s just a deadly combination

all right acne

why because

part of the adrenal hormones are

androgens so if you’re pumping out too

many androgens you can get an enlarged

sebaceous gland in excess oil and have

acne and not to mention

what cortisol does to

insulin it raises insulin okay and

too much insulin will then make more

androgens especially in females and

that’s called polycystic ovarian

syndrome so

you can

develop that from too many carbs or too

much stress

next point i want to talk about is

asthma the medication for asthma is

bronchocorticoid steroid inhalers okay

again cortisol because cortisol is a

vasodilator it helps you breathe it

helps open up the coronary artery as

well as well as the bronchial tubes

asthma is

kind of just a weakness within the

adrenal glands

you know one really cool thing about

vitamin d

vitamin d is kind of a natural

uh form of cortisol without the side

effects it’s really a hormone it acts

very similar to cortisol so this is why

if you have asthma or any of these

symptoms you should be taking more

vitamin d because it can definitely help

especially with asthma okay next thing

is allergies i’ve kind of mentioned that

with the immune system if you have a lot

of allergies it could be a weakness

within the adrenal system and allergies

tend to get worse under stress and so

another indication you have to mistress

is allergies and i already talked about

asthma but i do want to mention one

point about that i mean think about what

happens with asthma especially when

you’re with your breathing your

breathing is not calm you’re constantly

trying to get air

and i did a video on this i’m going to

put it down below if you haven’t seen

this you should watch it because

when you try to get too much oxygen

um you then have an imbalance with co2

and i’m not going to get into it in this

video but the point is that breathing

too much

will stop the absorption of oxygen in

your lungs

and this is why um people that are in

panic attacks should be breathing in a

bag to increase their co2 not the oxygen

so then they can then breathe better but

try to think about what happens when you

um blow up a balloon or hyperventilate

you literally pass out so

watch that video if you haven’t seen it

on you know it’s on panic attacks and

also asthma all right sinus is

definitely adrenal issues because

cortisol resistance

affects the

sinus passages and they basically swell

up that’s why sleep apnea and sinus

issues are related to high levels of

cortisol which then develops cortisol

resistance

which is too much cortisol

chronically all right i already

mentioned sleep apnea osteoporosis

after menopause

um what happens during menopause is the

adrenal glands

now have to back up the ovaries that are

going in retirement if there’s

weaknesses within the adrenal system

going into menopause

what happens is it causes a

a problem with

a spike in cortisol and that spike

can start to affect not just hot flashes

but

osteopenia and osteoporosis

because cortisol isn’t is a catabolic

hormone it breaks down

protein and a part of

bone is protein so we’re basically

thinning the bones i remembered one

dentist that came in to see me

right during menopause now all day long

she’s like hovering over people but she

found right when she went through

menopause her entire spine going up into

her neck started to collapse

and she just

she lost height in her spine her body

shrank and she’s just like hunchback

right now so

that was that spike in cortisol it’s

very destructive

and so that’s why it’s so important to

strengthen your adrenals before you go

through menopause all right another one

is acid reflux

and gastritis

when you go through stress it can

elevate the amount of acid in your

stomach and also one little side note

which is kind of interesting

you lose

h plus the hydrogen ion

if you know anything about chemistry

it’s well it affects the ph but you lose

that with um

with the high levels of cortisol

and so when you go through more stress

you lose the h plus which really is your

acids so then you’re not going to have

enough acid and then the body is going

to overcompensate by producing more acid

and also you’re not going to be able to

close the valve on the top of the

stomach and that leads to gerd and the

solution is to add more acid like

betaine hydrochloride

to the stomach not to add in antacid

because that is going to make things

worse all right and the last thing is

gallstones cortisol can create a

deficiency of bile and it’s a lack of

bile and an excess amount of cholesterol

that can then develop into stones all

right so those are all the indications

that you’re going through too much

stress so now what can we do about it

number one you need to force yourself

to shift

your attention to solving other problems

that are more mild so take up things

like

putting puzzles together okay or maybe

um playing chess with someone or some

type of craft where you’re actually

working with something with your hands

and so you’re kind of getting yourself

out of your head and your problems are

shifting to other things like a really

good activity would be something like

bird watching where you’re just taking

your attention off all these problems

and you’re focusing on something else

very very therapeutic all right next

step is to start hanging out with people

that support you there’s two types of

people people that bring you up and

people that bring you down now even

within the youtube channels there’s

always going to be haters and if you

have a youtube channel this can be very

very stressful and upsetting if you’re

reading all these comments of people

hating you all that long but if your

adrenal glands are good and you can cope

with stress it doesn’t it’s not going to

bother you but with some people it’s

very very devastating now with me i have

the ability to delete those people and

block those people which is very very

nice and they don’t bother me anymore

because i have so many people that

support me which i that’s you right

there watching and i really really

appreciate it so it’s interesting the

different channels out there i mean like

what is the goal is it to help people to

provide information or is it just to i

don’t know entertain people by

criticizing them i mean that doesn’t

make sense to me but the point is that

you just need to start hanging out with

people that only support you and

don’t hang out with anyone that doesn’t

support you all right number three

vitamin b1 b1 b1 nutritional yeast has

the natural b vitamins well if you

haven’t ever tried this vitamin b1 in

the form of nutritional yeast make sure

it’s non fortified with synthetics okay

because they put they use petroleum it’s

not a good

thing when they put that in nutritional

yeast whether it’s in tablets or a

powder when you take nutritional yeast

within about three to four minutes

you’re going to feel like

stress relief because stress depletes b1

and vitamin b1 will just take the stress

right out of your body and you’ll feel

relaxed you’ll feel less

internal tension it’s dramatic

and it works like nearly 100 of the time

next thing that you want to do is start

eating more foods high in potassium

because potassium is lost with high

levels of stress you can also do a

potassium supplement but you want to

make sure that you have sufficient

potassium as well as sodium or or sea

salt all right regular exercise or

physical work

very very important

the more physical work you do the less

stress you’re going to have you’re

giving a lot of oxygen and you are

getting rid of stress

by physical activity

the worst thing to do is go through the

whole day get stressed out and go right

to bed i mean you haven’t gotten rid of

the stress you have to actively

do something to get rid of stress

because all stress is accumulative our

bodies are a bucket of stress

all right number six

you need to do a detox from the news

the news is extremely stressful so you

don’t want to watch the news for a long

time and guess what you’re going to feel

much better all right last point is a

low-carb diet high carbs will make you

more stress

it’s a fact that when you go on low

carbs

your mood is going to be elevated

so if you’ve had anxiety before you’re

not going to have anxiety you’re going

to feel better if you add intermittent

fasting as well so i have a lot of

videos on that topic now i have another

video that you need to watch

it’s an actual technique that i walk you

through

how to do acupressure on different parts

of your body to extract accumulated

stress it’s taken me a long time to

figure this out and i’m going to teach

you how to do it to yourself

and for some of these maneuvers you

might need someone else to do it on you

but it’s very very awesome check it out

i put it right here

you