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let’s talk about the biggest barrier to

recovery in actual healing and that is

stress and the activation of the flight

or fight mechanism it’s called the

sympathetic nervous system and a person

is in sympathetic dominance and you have

high levels of cortisol and high levels

of adrenaline both produced by the

adrenal gland the activation of the

sympathetic nervous system and the

activation of cortisol really wasn’t

designed to go more than 90 seconds

problem is nowadays it’s just all day

long our environments our life is filled

with things that keep us in stress mode

when the body is in flight-or-fight it’s

preparing for emergency survival running

away from something or fighting and you

will not heal a hundred percent if

you’re in this mode many people have the

switch turn on and they just can’t turn

it off and this prevents the sleep which

has an entire cascade of additional

things that can happen I did a whole

video on that it also release glucose

okay your body has a stored glucose as

glycogen it’s gonna release glucose when

you have high levels of cortisol I mean

even another name for cortisol is

glucocorticoid it’s a glucose

controlling hormone and it will activate

insulin that’s why a lot of times people

become diabetic when they have stress

for too long so you’re not gonna be able

to recover your digestion is not gonna

work that well the speed of wound

healing is less you retain sodium and

you’ll dump potassium the more stress

you have the more that you just will

lose potassium chronic stress destroys

something your brain called the

hippocampus and hippocampus has to do

with memory learning and locating

yourself in time and space so you’re

like okay we’re gonna do with those keys

where did I park you’re studying

something but it’s just not quite going

in it could be from the stress affecting

this brain structure also stress is the

main activator

or disease and especially infection it’s

almost impossible to get sick if you’re

stress-free it’s virtually impossible to

have a disease if you don’t have any

stress you take a look at anyone who had

a disease or an infection and they had

stress right before that happening

chronic stress then causes cortisol to

be resistant very similar to insulin

resistance you can have cortisol

resistance so your body is pumping out

more cortisol but it’s not really

working and because cortisol is an

anti-inflammatory that function doesn’t

work anymore and you just become one big

ball of inflammation being in the flight

of fight mode too long can increase your

risk of heart attacks and it can even

cause a loss of bone formation I had a

patient when I was in practice come in

the office and she was postmenopausal

she her entire spine collapsed where

she’s now she’s like a hunchback and the

bones are literally caved in on each

other it was really really weird so I

sent her out to get tested and her

cortisol was off the charts

so cortisol can definitely affect bone

formation as well as caused a loss of

College information now what part of

your body is collagen ligament tendons

and cartilage so your joints so the

joints become a big problem plus they’re

gonna be inflamed but other than that

you’re gonna be good to go and the

biggest symptom to know if you’re in

this situation is to look at your

tolerance to stress you may find that

you have a great difficulty in

babysitting my five kids for more than

eight hours that might get on your

nerves you have low patience for very

slow drivers in front of you but it is

your ability to have patience which is

the best indicator for strength of your

adrenal gland your ability to be calm in

chaos that would be a very strong

adrenal all right so here are a few

things you can do the more stress that

you have the more your inflow fight the

more you should exercise this is a

really good therapy for a lot of people

walking hardcore exercise just

more exercise of course diet I’m talking

about healthy Kido talking about fasting

it’s very very important acupressure put

some links down below that will really

put you in a state of relaxation b1 the

most important nutrient to take for this

condition nutritional yeast take a lot

of it potassium very very important it’s

a physiological relaxer it calms the

nervous system down magnesium very

important and then we have breathing

there’s a great technique to actually

affect your nervous system so when

someone’s in a state of stress they

breathe like this their exhalation is

very fast or shortened so what you want

to do is you want to breathe in slowly

and breathe out slowly at the same rate

whether it’s three or four seconds in

it’s going to be probably four or five

seconds in and then four or five seconds

out if you practice that you it’ll

actually pull you out of the flutter

fight mechanism the keishon that is very

very therapeutic you need to find a

desert island where you can go by

yourself for three months I actually

said that another video and a lady that

I met recently told me she heard that

advice and she did go on a vacation for

two months in Italy and she’d lost all

this weight and she did great so this is

very good therapy if you can do it don’t

take things so serious people that are

in stress mode are very very serious you

need to be the opposite of serious you

need to be playful you need to be

carefree you need to be relaxed you need

to pull yourself out of this excessive

worry and thinking and analyzing and

solving problems 24/7 anyway I have some

additional videos that you definitely

need to check out on stress on this page

check it out