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now you would think if you went through surgery and had anesthesia

that that numbing effect would keep your stress and cortisol levels low

because your body wouldn’t be able to feel

the pain or injury but that’s not the case when you go through surgery

you might not feel it but your body is definitely going to

feel it and react to it there’s all sorts of interesting research

on the post operative cognitive dysfunction

that occurs after surgery now there’s a lot of

post-operation symptoms in general or side effects that can occur that

have nothing to do with cognitive but we’ll talk about that

what you need to know is that this effect correlates with

the severity of your surgery i had two major surgeries both were from

a broken arm i fractured my shoulder and i fractured

my elbow in another accident and that was actually a major

surgery i think it was like three hours they had to put together my elbow with

30 different pieces of screws and things like that

and you can come out of it like you’ve been traumatized the second time

of course it was necessary but there are some things that you need to know about

and do to minimize the potential side effects

from getting a surgery now it really depends on how

invasive the surgery is but what happens when you go through

surgery you have to look at it like another

trauma a stress response you’re activating

the adrenals not just the outside of the adrenal which is the

cortisol response but also the inside the adrenaline so you’re gonna you’re

gonna really raise your adrenaline and your sympathetic nervous system

and when you raise cortisol okay you can also lose your potassium and

this is why many times they will give you a

potassium iv through surgery to make sure that your

potassium doesn’t drop down too far because it can affect the the heart also

when cortisol increases you get more gluconeogenesis so your body is

actually making more sugar it’s just like making more sugar and

it’s going to affect your blood sugars and

come down because then you spike insulin and then you get

sodium retention as well so there’s various things that can happen after

surgery it can affect your memory your ability to learn your inflammation

levels they can go up your immune system when you increase

cortisol your immune system actually gets suppressed so

this could leave you open to developing even an autoimmune disease

if it’s too much of a shock to the body there’s some interesting data i’ll put

it the link down below of people developing gilliam beret

syndrome after a surgery this is an autoimmune

disease when you have high cortisol you can also

increase the catabolic effect on your body when your body is breaking down

more protein than it should muscle hair skin joints

also there’s some data on decreased wound healing after the surgery

your overall mood goes down like you might get depression or anxiety

and have electrolyte imbalances so what should you do if you know you’re

going into surgery and you can prepare for it

i highly recommend that you do intermittent fasting

and then you fast the day before going in what is that going to do

that is going to automatically strengthen your adrenals it’s going to

give you some stress resistance it’ll increase

your ability to deal with oxidative stress

it will increase your ability to make antioxidants

and your recovery time as well so you go through surgery

and then you do some fasting after the surgery too that would be very very

beneficial and then when you eat make sure it’s the

healthy version of keto because ketones in general are

anti-inflammatory and also your brain loves ketones

if given the choice the brain will always pick ketones

over glucose and that automatically will help your mood

so doing healthy keto and intermittent fasting

improves your cognitive function as well as your mood

as well as dropping inflammation and improving the immune system you can

even stimulate stem cells if you do periodic prolonged

fasting and lastly if you’re going into a

surgery i would make sure that you take a good amount of electrolytes maybe

a few weeks or a week before you go through surgery

and after you go through surgery because of the stress response depleting

potassium you want to keep that potassium in there

as well as other minerals so the point about this video is just to increase

your awareness of the connection between surgery and

stress and being aware that surgery is a major

major stress that can contribute to things

so you can now prepare for a surgery if you happen to have one coming up and

minimize the damage control and not to mention what they feed you at

the hospital after the surgery if you have to be in

in a hospital for a period of time it’s going to be refined carbohydrates

so i would do whatever i could to bring my own food or do fasting

and not consume that hospital food thanks for watching before you go

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