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hi guys today we’re gonna talk about

adrenal insufficiency and a low cortisol

I have a lot of videos on the adrenal

gland and cortisol I put some links down

below there’s a lot of information on

this but I’m going to talk about a

condition called Addison’s which is an

autoimmune condition and what causes

that now the interesting thing about

this condition is that the gland the

outside the glad you have the dream you

have two adrenals you have an outside

and an inside and the outside of the

gland has to be about 90% destroyed

before you really start seeing the major

complications so by the time you have a

full-blown Addison’s that gland is

pretty well destroyed and you’re not

able to output cortisol and several

other hormones so there are a lot of

different symptoms but the main are

fatigue weakness weight loss okay when

you have high cortisol

you’ll actually gain weight low cortisol

you actually lose weight you can’t sleep

salt cravings like crazy if you have low

cortisol adrenal insufficiency you need

to be consuming a lot of sea salt and

you don’t want to be consuming a lot of

potassium especially if you’re not

taking enough sea salt you need some

potassium but the more potassium you

have the less sodium you’re gonna have

because they work on kind of a

teeter-totter so if you take potassium

you better be taking sea salt as well

also you have no tolerance to stress

you’re highly irritable and your body

just doesn’t have that cortisol to

counter stress cortisol is a fascinating

hormone it helps the body to respond to

stress all stress states it has like 200

different functions but this is one of

them right here in different organs and

different situations also it helps your

blood pressure when the cortisol is low

your blood pressure will go low when the

cortisol is high your blood pressure

tends to go high it also will slow the

immune response so it’s an a good

anti-inflammatory it suppresses

the white blood cell and this is why in

autoimmune conditions in factions and

all types of pain and arthritis itching

allergies they use prednisone or

cortisone shots because that suppresses

the immune system and the next one

encounters insulin so think about this

right here okay so we have our blood

sugars right here we eat some food okay

insulin kicks in right here and pushes

down the blood sugars now it’s not

really good to have excessively low

blood sugars so chorus all comes in

there to help your survival because that

would be a stress and will start to

elevate this pledge sugar to keep it up

through here by releasing sugar and

turning protein into sugar that’s what

it does so it actually prevents

encounters hypoglycemia it brings the

blood sugars back here the problem if

it’s too high okay it’ll actually raise

your blood Sugar’s way over here and

kind of nullify insulin to some degree

and keep your Sugar’s high and then

creates more insulin production and you

go become a diabetic but when you have a

low cortisol you don’t have this

countering effect so you can end up with

hypoglycemia so you have a lot of

problems with that now what causes

Addison’s

well several things number one is TB

tuberculosis okay that’s a big one I

don’t know if you knew this but 25

percent of the population has TB and 90

percent of them actually have no

symptoms this bacteria lies dormant and

it can kind of be getting reactivated

later in life so only ten percent of

this group have the symptoms and the

most common symptoms chronic cough blood

in the mucus fever night sweats weight

loss and the primary target for TB is

the lungs but it can also go in other

places as well in fact the number one

cause of death from infections is from

TB when you have TB you usually are

always have low vitamin D so taking

vitamin D is one of the best remedies to

deal with TB and I would recommend

taking at least 20,000 IU’s maybe 30,000

maybe even 40,000 that would be a very

good thing to do also when you have

honest UNS you’re also gonna have low

vitamin d2 so vitamin D can act like

cortisol so it’s not even really

considered a vitamin it has hormone

qualities and it acts like cortisol so

vitamin D is really vital for anyone

with an adrenal insufficiency or a

little chorus all situation also taking

B vitamins especially b1 very important

for stress and that brings up another

cause of Addison’s is stress or trauma

could be physical it could be mental

stress a sudden loss but it’s usually

some type of huge shock to the system

where the adrenal glands can shut down

now the other thing is when you’re

taking prednisone over a long period of

time that weakens the gland and then you

can actually end up with with that

condition also if you are taking

prednisone or cortisone for a period of

time and you stop taking - suddenly that

can actually induce this condition -

funguses can also cause honest ins and

the last thing I want to mention if you

have adrenal insufficiency or low

cortisol you need to be consuming a lot

more sea salts okay way more than an

average person because you’re losing the

salt and you’re always craving salt

because you need to solve to keep the

volume the fluid there you need to salt

for your electrolytes and your body

there’s many many purposes for that

alright and the last thing I want to

show you is a great technique and I’m

going to teach you that can help you

with your stress so let’s kind of roll

right into it

alright we saved the best for last okay

so what we’re going to do these points

are a problem for everyone the adrenal

glands are deep very deep on top of the

kidney deep in the abdomen okay so we’re

not we there’s no way we can contact the

adrenals however there’s a lot of

acupressure points around this there’s a

lot of nerve points around the adrenals

in this area and in Chinese medicine

there’s acupressure points

go right along the side we’re gonna be

kind of tapping into that and releasing

a lot of the stress in this area around

the adrenals so her belly button is

right here okay so we’re gonna just go

right to the right of it her right and

down about an inch and we’re gonna press

down in here now this is I’m showing you

how to do it on someone else but we’re

going to show you how to do it on

yourself so I like to take my thumb in

my middle finger again I’m not flipping

you off and I’m gonna press down in here

to her tolerance and I’m actually trying

to find some tenderness this isn’t too

bad

so if I don’t feel any tender so I’m

going to kind of sneak up a little bit

and I’m gonna do all these points up on

this line about an inch off the midline

okay so we’re gonna come in here press

in here and I’m going to go to the left

and to the right a little bit just to

kind of find these stress pockets you

can’t see them if I can find these yeah

there’s a couple right here and then

once I find it I’ll just hold it for a

little bit until it releases and what

I’m doing is I’m extracting stress from

this area of your body and this produces

some really cool effects relaxation

sleep like I’ve had people had the best

sleep in their life so this is a really

important area of the body that like no

one works on so now as I’m coming up to

the right side you do have the

gallbladder on the right side but that’s

kind of tucked through this area

you’re not going to it’s not going to be

a problem when you press on that you

just have to press to the tolerance of

the person so you’re not going too deep

because it could be sore again work

that’s why I’d like to have you do this

on yourself so you can adjust the

pressure so you’re not you know going

too deep so some people say well is it

dangerous to press in your abdomen I’m

like no why would it be was it dangerous

to press in your muscle in your thigh I

mean you have a layer of fat okay and

you also have I didn’t mean to say that

everyone has like a layer of fat and

then organs are tucked in there with a

lot of connected to

and I’ve been doing this for like 29

years and it’s not a problem it’s pretty

safe get in there but like you massage

your muscles but how many times do you

work on the the muscles in the urine and

your in your abdomen like rarely and

some of the organ like the kidneys and

the liver points I mean people never

work on these points but I’m coming

through here right up through in here on

this side and I do find some some

tension I’m just going to press on that

a little bit until it releases and of

course I’m going a little bit faster

than I normally would because sometimes

I’ll spend maybe two or three minutes

just on the right side how does that

feel does it feel uncomfortable yeah

okay good so now I’m going to go to the

opposite side and press on that now if

the person has low back pain what you do

is you press on the exact opposite side

on the front BAM gone so you want to

find out where it’s hurting on the back

like just draw a line right through it

and press in the front it gets rid of a

little back pain like that so on every

one you’re gonna find like one or two

points that are really really tight and

then you’ll work on those more

aggressively so I’m gonna press in here

and just kind of work that out and and

some people it would be very very tender

so you want to go kind of light on them

some people have a lot up they have a

huge belly you can still do this but you

will because you’re working on the

superficial points more than anything

that connect because an acupressure

point you know an acupressure point is

okay an acupressure point is an area on

the surface of the skin that kind of

connects on the inside you have all

these electrical circuits so it’s kind

of like a switchboard I can press this

point and it can affect inside does that

make sense

are you sure

are you good so it’s working so so a lot

of these are nerve points kind of you

could look at like nerve points because

they really are so acupressure points

our communication channels if you if you

take a look at the nervous system being

the freeway the acupressure points are

the side roads so they’re just other

forms of communication that you can

affect like right through and here this

is a good one and you if you think about

that last time you were stressed I will

guarantee you have a lot of tension in

your abdomen after that and you’ll feel

like why is it so hard on them because

you have the adrenaline the adrenals

pumping a lot of hormones and then it

tightens up all the muscles you start

working on that it gets rid of stress so

what we’re doing now is we’re handling

she’s sleeping now we’re handling

physical stress that is stuck in your

body for years I mean probably what 30

years 35 years now you have some people

that have never experienced stress in

their life and I’m like if you live on

planet Earth and other people have

experienced a tremendous amount but if I

keep doing this and I’m just holding

these pressure points like I’m trying to

keep a broad content I’m not like

digging it like like looking how wide my

thumb is okay I have huge thumbs so that

comes in handy

so but if you have this little tiny

thumb that could be it’s like sticking a

little thing and there it’s gonna could

irritate the area so you want to keep a

broad contact almost like take your two

fingers and kind of separate them out

and press in there and okay good good so

now you ready for a nap okay good so

let’s bring the next person up thank you

very much

okay so just relax your arms right here

where’s your belly button right there

okay so we’re gonna just start and again

one inch off the midline taking my two

fingers and you can use your thumb or

several fingers to equal the size of the

thumb if you even if you don’t have a

thumb like mine and come right in there

and we’re just gonna work out he has

some tension in here have you ever

experienced trust before okay it’s a new

concept for people but right through

there so we’re just gonna press in there

and again I’m watching the eyeballs

to make sure they don’t pop out cuz I

don’t want to press too hard and then so

each time I do this I might do it a

couple times a week or maybe once a week

each time I do this I’m gonna feel like

less and less tension to the point where

I go right in there and like there’s

nothing there’s no resistance so that’s

the goal so it if you can do it on

yourself I would do it every night

before you go to bed I’m going fast for

time but I wanted to see if there’s any

let’s see right through in there that’s

a ton of a tight spot right there okay

now I’m gonna do the opposite side if

the right side is not sore chances are

the opposite side will be sore it’s

always going to be one or the other so

if you find that there’s like one or two

points that’s all that you find that’s

constantly sorted those are the points

that you’re going to focus on so that’s

this kind of an example now let’s say he

was going to do it to himself he’d used

this torture I mean treatment device and

it has these longer prongs and the

shorter ones you want to use the long

one you’d want to have him grab the tool

and now we’re going to position this

this little thing right on this point

okay so I want you to kind of press just

like like I like you felt me doing it

and tell me if you can feel the same

kind of pressure yeah feel that well

yeah just start start with one point and

just press in in there does it feel

similar yeah okay and the reason why it

feels similar is because I developed

this tool after my thumb for myself

because like I was the last guy to get

treatments I never got treatment so I’m

like I’m gonna do it myself so I

developed this device that mimics my

hand because we’re gonna show you the

neck points as well and we just come in

here and then he would before it goes to

the bed right he’s in his bed he puts

this point on there let’s and try to

actually get through all of it without

falling asleep but by the time he gets

all the way to the top I mean so many

times I’ll wake up and I’m like oh wow

where’s that device it’s right next to

me I almost rolled on it like I

literally fall asleep but while I’m

doing this because it’s releasing a lot

of stress is it creating any effect on

you yet yeah yeah it’s interesting how

it gives people so much relief I get I

think because you have a kidneys in

there you have the solar plexus which

are all these nerve connections you have

all these connections to the adrenal

points you have the gall bladder the

digestion you probably have you heard of

the flight or fight mode have you heard

of the fight okay

it’s called the sympathetic nervous

system that’s like this stress mode then

you have another system and I’m going to

give you this big word it’s called in

Tareq and that’s part of the system

that’s below your awareness that

actually runs all your digestion and

that’s really another system that we’re

tapping into right now we’re actually

stimulating it to relax a lot of stuff

that’s going on in your gut nerve wise

can affect your head like if you ate the

wrong thing and you feel bloated you’re

gonna feel funky in the head how many of

you experienced it yeah so your

digestion can affect your mood

big-time there’s a connection so when

you release the tension in your gut

especially if you have like IBS or

irritable bowel syndrome or inflammation

that creates like spasms it gives you a

lot of relief in the head now when we

come up to these points right through in

here like on his right side it’s a

little sore right yeah so now you just

the pressure so it’s just right for you

he’s hitting something called the

phrenic nerve that goes right to his

diaphragm up to the right neck he’s

gonna release all the right neck tension

so the more he does this point here he’s

going to have like less tension on the

right side up here even like headaches

will go away on the right side shoulder

stuff so anything right here will

remember side right here if he does the

other side he’ll actually rule that

releases the other side here okay how

does that feeling really good okay good

so now he’ll do the other side here take

your belly button and just go right to

the side of it and you want to go see

how I’m rocking left and right and you

just find the spot find the sweet spot

where it’s like ooh that’s a little

thing that’s smarts and you just now

don’t do this with a knife okay don’t do

that with a sharp object use it the

massage tool that I’m just joking

delayed humor here but you know you want

to use something that’s kind of like a

dull point and okay and then you just

kind of inch up a little bit

little sore so this is something he

would need to do every single night and

to the point where there’s no soreness

and he would find that his ability to

relax like recently I saw this so I was

watching this movie it was Lincoln I

mean here’s a guy who his dad beat him

growing up his mom died I think his

sister and his brother died and then his

first why our first love died and then

his several of his kids died I mean like

can you imagine how many losses this guy

had right and then he becomes the

president which is a no-stress job I

mean he was I think I’m 53 he was like

53 he looked like a grandfather he was

look old so stress believe it or not

does age you I’m gonna put some years

give you some gray hairs especially if

you have kids

so this basically kind of pulls the

stress out so you can go back in the

life and recharge and start over again

because you don’t want to just keep

carrying the stress around your home

life might as well kind of have a blank

slate clean it out because our bodies

are sponges and we’d pick up stress I

think he’s actually asleep did you fall

asleep did you fall asleep yeah see it

worked and he did it to himself I didn’t

do anything yeah so this is a really

amazing so a lot of you guys watching

already have the tool because I actually

hear the success if you don’t have this

tool you need to get it because I fly

everywhere I go I travel I bring it with

me and the plane I do my neck points

because you sit on these these these

little I mean you flew to California

right and you’re trying to lift your

neck get this thing out sit back and

just kind of just like I love it

people like where did you get that can I

borrow that and like now

I’m like I’m gonna keep it on my neck so

it’s good for that and also for jet lag

because you can actually work on these

points and kind of rejuvenate yourself

okay then we come to this point come to

this point right go right through in

here got a little sore yeah yeah and

then he’s gonna work on that and then

what’ll happen is you’re gonna feel like

you’re gonna take layers of this stuff

off and it could take a while and if you

had like a fight with your spouse you

could find that you can like put the

stress back in but at least you have the

tool to pull it out no you have the tool

as not as a weapon but as a therapy to

help yourself

so you can sleep so you’re not thinking

about it all night long or you can throw

it in - yeah it’s plastic it won’t break

don’t worry about it I’m just kidding

you don’t want to throw it on your

spouse okay good so now tell me just sit

up for me for a second face the camera

how do you feel a little light-headed

but I feel a lot better

yeah do you feel like stress more

stress-free yeah a little more relaxed

yes that is the goal thank you we did it

okay appreciate it

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