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hi guys in this video we’re going to

talk about two opposing hormones

serotonin and cortisol

okay these kind of do the opposites

cortisol is a stress hormone we need it

to cope with stress but then serotonin

is the anti stress hormone gives you the

state of well-being calmness so here’s

here’s some things that can trigger

let’s start with cortisol right here

overtraining when you’re exercising okay

doing too much and not letting yourself

recover will elevate cortisol stress in

general mental stress physical stress

worry losses all this will activate in

cortisol negativity you know watching

the wrong TV programs the news being

around people that are negative that can

really wear you down and activate

cortisol stimulants too much of like

coffee or certain appetite suppressors

which are stimulants diet pills too much

chocolate that can also stimulate

cortisol injury actually will increase

cortisol surgery’s if you ever looked at

someone who had a series of surgeries

over a period of time it really wears

out the adrenals because when you get

surgery the adrenal glands are still

activated so you’re asleep but the

adrenal glands are still going that’s

one of the reasons why they have to give

you a potassium IV because you dump a

lot of potassium because the adrenals

get so stressed so cortisol will elevate

after a series of surgeries okay sugar

will definitely activate cortisol and

then cortisol will activate high levels

of sugar and then increase insulin as

well so they both work together and then

insomnia so if you’re not sleeping Korso

will start to increase you’ll get hungry

you’ll feel stressed out so that’s

cortisol okay now how do we increase

serotonin number one get quality sleep

get more sleep get sufficient sleep it’s

probably one of the biggest things to

counter the cortisol is the sleep that’s

when you heal Sun will increase

serotonin and vitamin D fun having fun

will increase serotonin exercise okay

but you have to make sure you don’t over

train so it has to have enough recovery

it has to be enough but not too much for

your fitness level okay music so you can

exercise and have fun in the Sun you can

listen to music exercise and have you

fun right so they all can tend to fit

together but listen to music can

increase serotonin laughter laugh while

you’re listening to music and while

you’re exercising how about that just

combine these all together

B vitamins especially

niacin which actually turns in the

tryptophan which tryptophan itself as a

protein must be taken an empty stomach

will actually increase your serotonin as

well

90% of all your serotonin works within

your digestive system to help the

peristalsis or the pumping action and

make mucus so if there’s digestive

problems IBS irritable bowel syndrome

any type of constipation that can

greatly inhibit how you feel because of

this hormone serotonin isn’t altered so

really the intermittent fasting is

really good to increase serotonin

because you’re not eating you’re giving

your digestive system a chance to reset

okay and you’re cutting out sugar so the

combination of a lot of videos that I’ve

done in the past stress anti stress

techniques really will help you

understand what to do to actually

counter this but I would say the big

ones are to get more sleep do the right

amount of exercise without overtraining

change your environment so get rid of

all the negativity as much as you can do

acupressure on the old injuries and

change the diet so you don’t have too

much sugar and you’ll be able to shift

more to serotonin and less cortisol

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