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hey guys listen I wanted to talk about

stress and your immune system the

connection between the two now it is

true that there’s a lot of your immune

system rather to your gut and its

influence on the integrity of the lining

of the colon and and what you eat okay

but what I’m going to talk about is

another thing I’m going to talk about

how stress influences your immune system

in general because if you take any

person with a chronic health problem

nearly a hundred percent the time it

originated with some type of a stressful

event I did my live show last Friday and

I had a lady call in and talk about

health problems in chronic health

problems she had digestive problems and

allergies and sleep problems and she

didn’t have a way problem but she had

all sorts of digestive issues and this

has been going on for years and years

and years and she was eating better but

it wasn’t getting well so I asked her I

said when exactly did it all start okay

she couldn’t really remember so I I said

well when were you doing well and she

gave me a date I think it was like a

when she was 30 years old and then 31

that’s when things started going

downhill and I wanted to find out what

was the change what happened and she

told me a massive stress situation which

I already knew because I’ve been doing

this for 29 years and this is what comes

up over and over and over it’s this

underlying stress thing so what I want

to talk about is how stress can

predispose you to getting sick okay

because what it does to the adrenal

hormone called cortisol cortisol is a

type of hormone that is intimately

involved in the immune response it

actually suppresses the white blood cell

it suppresses the t-cells for example

which are involved in training the

immune system and getting them to learn

how to fight off infections it actually

lowers the immune barrier then allows

the viruses to innervate the cells

that’s why people get virus infections

when they get stressed shingles herpes

things like that it actually will

increase the platelets which then can

set you up for clotting factors okay

increases neutrophils which then lead to

inflammation so there’s a whole immune

thing going on when that stress is

activated in fact take any autoimmune

disease and stress is definitely

involved in those conditions think about

the typical treatment is prednisone what

is that it’s a synthetic type of

cortisol because the adrenal hormones

will decrease inflammation and decrease

immune function and so if there’s an

allergy involved or high levels of

histamine people take prednisone or

cortisone okay because it has that

function so basically when the stress

goes to high we have an alteration in

course all and adrenal function and this

leads to a drop in the defense mechanism

now there’s many different types of

stress you have physical trauma you have

surgery you have being involved in a

relationship with someone who is

stressing you out 24/7 but I think the

biggest stress is

losses okay a loss of a loved one loss

of a job that can really hit somewhat

hard core and that’s the health - starts

going downhill and of course there’s all

sorts of things that you can do you know

go for long walks being sunshine to get

more vitamin D which is all gonna help

the immune system you know remove

yourself from the stress go on a

vacation take B vitamins get more sleep

and of course you already know this but

what I want to talk about is what to do

with the stress that’s stuck in your

body you have to realize that all the

stress that you experience kind of gets

stuck in the body like a sponge thus

saying that time heals all no it doesn’t

it actually makes things get worse we’re

letting to stress because all the stress

tends to build up in certain parts of

your body so there is a way to help

someone with the accumulation of stress

and I developed an acupressure technique

I’ve put some links down below of all

the different techniques that you can

use there’s different parts of your body

that are involved in the flight or fight

mechanism that’s called a sympathetic

nervous system and then there’s also the

opposite system called the

parasympathetic switch counter the

stress and this is part of the nervous

system that is throughout the body so

there is a way to tap into that too

least that stress the one of the most

powerful ones is working on the neck

points because up in the top part of the

neck there is certain center that

controls the parasympathetic nervous

system this is kind of like the off

switch this is the system that relaxes

you

so I found when you apply pressure to

these points it can really help people

get into a relaxed State the next points

are in the mid-back okay these are part

of the sympathetic nervous system points

which can also be released to relax the

flight or fight mechanism then you have

points in the abdomen area which can

indirectly influence the actual adrenal

glands which are located deep inside now

you’re not actually working on the

adrenal glands you’re working on the

acupressure points that are connected to

the adrenal gland you take any person

that’s stressed out they’re bound to

have a lot of tension in the abdomen and

the muscles around the adrenal glands

now this technique can be done two ways

you can do it on someone else or you can

use a massage tool to do it on yourself

okay I show you both ways

on the video so if you don’t have

someone you can get the tool and do it

on yourself alright so I put some links

down below definitely try this out I

think it can really help you especially

if you’ve been a pin cushion for stress

your entire life

hey you know what I just want to say

something only thirty percent of the

people that watching this video actually

make it this far and you did so I really

appreciate you thank you so much