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you know you can’t escape stress stress

is everywhere right but really it’s

about the tolerance of stress your

reaction to stress today I’m going to

take you in a completely different

direction I normally talk about

nutrition I talk about exercise I talk

about sleeping but this is a completely

different way of handling your stress

you probably have heard of the adrenal

glands right and cortisol which is a

stress hormone and the flight or fight

mechanism which is part of the autonomic

nervous system as it releases adrenaline

and those two hormones adapt the body to

stress dates so they’re going to

increase your pulse rate they’re going

to actually shift your metabolism to

more quick energy through sugar burning

here you are you know long after the

stress and your body is still in this

stress State what do you do well there’s

some completely new information that you

probably never heard in fact I just

recently learned about this in school I

studied about this hormone called

oxytocin right and oxytocin has

everything to do with pregnancy a mother

bonding with the child lactation uterine

contraction during pregnancy it’s also

involved in the sexual act but overall I

thought it related only to reproduction

in fact the Greek word for oxytocin

comes from two different words which

means Swift childbirth right so if you

have enough oxytocin you can have a baby

very A to B but I didn’t know this and

maybe because they haven’t really

discovered this until fairly recently

but oxytocin is involved in some other

things that can greatly counter your

stress in fact it is the most important

hormone in counteracting cortisol and

the flight or flight mechanism in other

words oxytocin modulates or regulates

the HPA axis and I’m talking about where

these stress hormones come from the

hypothalamus pituitary to the adrenal

and so oxytocin is a major hormone

involved in regulating your mood

specifically anxiety and stress you have

a lot of problems right and you’re

worrying a lot it’s also involved in

Social biology now what is that well

social biology has to do with uh social

helping others and the welfare of others

and they did this experiment on sheep

where they had this baby lamb and they

somehow removed the oxytocin from

another sheep that wasn’t the mother

okay because the actual Mother wasn’t

around and there was no maternal bonding

or helping from this mother sheep to the

lamb until they injected into the

cerebral spinal fluid some oxytocin and

so this female sheep who’s not the

mother

then started taking care of this lamb so

I found that very very interesting now

oxytocin also prevents the atrophy of

the hippocampus now the hippocampus

learned some of my other videos is all

about involving the prevention of

Alzheimer’s and Dementia so it’s

involved in memory focused cognitive

function ability to learn

Etc and so we know that stress shrinks

and causes the hippocampus to atrophy

well oxytocin protects the hippocampus

which is why they sometimes use the

oxytocin nasal spray in Alzheimer’s

patients and other patients that have

anxiety and things like that which is

quite interesting they basically found

this relationship to when someone sprays

oxytocin up into their sinuses Their

Fear goes down and their trust for

others goes up now if you think about

what fear is it’s the opposite of trust

right like like you’re not trusting

anyone right you’re backing away

it’s it’s kind of a survival mechanism

if you happen to see a snake

you’re not going to trust that the snake

is not going to bite you right you’re

going through fear and run away from the

snake so that will keep you alive so

anytime fear goes up you know trust

typically goes down and they found an

oxytocin was involved in lowering fear

and raising trust which is interesting

so that’s all really cool but now how do

we trigger more oxytocin okay so check

this out bonding with other people and

pets very very therapeutic to spike

oxytocin a lot of people will state that

when they hang out with their pets or

bond with other people their stress goes

down considerably another thing they

found to trigger oxytocin was

volunteering which is interesting and

that hormone goes up another thing that

will trigger it is donating right

donating to something interesting

another way to increase oxytocin would

be sharing with another another one is

storytelling actually increased not only

oxytocin but it also decreased cortisol

interesting and even hugging someone

will increase your oxytocin so when you

think about it what if all of these

things have in common helping the

welfare of another which is very

interesting because personally I find

that when I help people

it’s actually a therapy for me in fact

your stress goes down you feel good

about it

um it’s really difficult to have stress

while you’re helping someone and so this

goes beyond just the diet and the

exercise and all that it’s something

that you can do to increase oxytocin to

help your own stress but go ahead and

comment down below if you find that when

you help people you feel better and

you’re less stressed now I’m not

suggesting that you go up to every

single neighbor and start hugging people

but I am suggesting that just the

awareness of all these other social

things that you can do is something that

can lower your stress and help another

now that being said there are a couple

nutritional factors that are also

involved too because they found that

vitamin C helps increase oxytocin this

is why for example your adrenals have a

very large supply of vitamin C magnesium

is also involved in helping make

oxytocin and so you need those two

nutrients okay and then also you need to

have cholesterol okay so cholesterol

also is involved so if you are on a low

cholesterol diet that could be a problem

estrogen also increases the receptor for

oxytocin

so this could explain when a woman goes

through menopause the anxiety goes up

because the estrogen does go down and

then estrogen is needed for oxytocin to

work but anyway I think this is just

fascinating information I’ve never known

these other functions of oxytocin which

relate to just really helping people

that gives us another solution to

staying stress-free now if you have not

seen my webinar on stress doing

acupressure that’s a really good one to

watch because there are physical things

that you can do to extract stress and I

do this every night before I go to bed

and I put that video up right here check

it out