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what emotion triggers adrenaline can you guess

fear fear triggers adrenaline  so does exercise excitement  

physical threat and hypoglycemia low blood  sugar can all trigger adrenaline now let’s  

take a look at what adrenaline does it increases  your heart rate sweating vasodilation of both the  

lung tissue so you can breathe better as well  as the heart the coronary artery vasodilates  

when there’s adrenaline getting more oxygen and  blood to the heart muscle tissue this is one of  

the reasons why you probably have seen movies  where they’ve injected someone into the heart  

with adrenaline to revive them adrenaline makes  your body stronger more alert because it’s part  

of the flight or fight mechanism you’re being  chased by a tiger right it releases glucose from  

your liver and your muscles for quick energy  and it triggers this other hormone right here  

which relates to something called the hpa axis  the hypothalamus pituitary and adrenal axis  

this is a little different mechanism where  you’re increasing cortisol which is the other  

stress hormone so both adrenaline and cortisol  are preparing the body for a stress state  

the difference is adrenaline is is what within  seconds cortisol takes a few minutes to kick in  

cortisol is more long-lasting adrenaline is  more short-lived now i’ll never forget when  

i was in wrestling i wrestled in 9th grade 10th  grade 11th grade 12th grade in the first year  

of college until i fractured my neck but  in high school i wrestled at 185 pounds  

which by the way that’s actually my weight  right now but there’s only one more weight  

class above this which is heavyweight so when  we had a meet i would literally have to wait for  

all these wrestlers to wrestle before it was my  opportunity and so there was a lot of excitement  

there was a lot of fear going on i remember trying  to relax and rest underneath the bleachers before  

the match because i literally had to wait probably  i don’t know an hour and a half before i wrestled  

and so i was laying there and i felt my heart rate  beating through my chest just boom boom boom boom  

i was sweating i had a lot of energy flowing  through my body so i was not about to take a nap  

i was not about to feel calm i was basically in  an adrenaline mode for about an hour and a half  

and so what happened that drained my energy  so by the time i was ready to wrestle i was  

completely exhausted but somehow i pushed  through it so short-term adrenaline is good  

chronic exposure to too much adrenaline is very  very bad because it burns you out it can burn out  

the adrenals it can affect the heart it can affect  your mood you can actually have a lower tolerance  

for stress it can actually prevent you from going  into a relaxing sleep if there’s a little too much  

adrenaline flowing through your body here’s the  thing with adrenaline adrenaline is made by the  

inside of your adrenals called the adrenal medulla  and this adrenaline which is a neurotransmitter  

it’s like a hormone but it travels through the  nervous system is part of the sympathetic nervous  

system it’s kind of like the on switch to stress  the off switch which is called the parasympathetic  

is not in the adrenals so the unique thing about  the adrenals it’s 100% sympathetic nervous system  

and there’s no parasympathetic innervation in the  inside of the adrenal in other words there’s no  

off switch and so if you chronically stimulate the  adrenals with any of these over a period of time  

the adrenals tend to stay on and they don’t turn  off that well and so here you are you can’t sleep  

you can’t relax you feel stress all the time and  then that’s going to activate more cortisol and  

then you get belly fat so the question is what can  you do about it this is really not a nutritional  

problem this is a stress problem so you need to  disconnect from the stress or somehow handle the  

stress whatever that stress is if it’s certain  groups of people or a person you need to handle  

that that includes turning off the tv so you’re  not watching the news every night changing your  

environment sleeping more there’s some really good  important nutritional things you can do to help  

but without handling this right here these really  won’t create a big impact but vitamin b1 is at the  

top of the list if you take b1 or nutritional  yeast you’re going to feel a sense of relief  

vitamin d vitally important and vitamin  c because your adrenals need vitamin c  

both adrenaline and cortisol without vitamin c  your adrenal glands do not work but let me come  

back to this little point right here hypoglycemia  and what causes hypoglycemia what has the capacity  

to push your blood sugars down and the answer  to that is insulin and what triggers that you  

guessed it a high carbohydrate diet being on a  high carbohydrate diet keeps your body in flight  

or fight mode activating adrenaline and creating  a situation where it’s going to be really hard  

to lose weight so just by changing your diet going  on a low carb diet guess what can happen you can  

help to restore normal levels of adrenaline  and this is why when people do the keto diet  

they feel calmer they feel less stressed if  you’re new to my channel i put a link down below  

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