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hey dr berg here i’m back with the civic

collection i want to just explain a

couple things out of this uh book by

frank netter md incredible book um just

kind of puts everything together a lot

of people are walking around with

problems with their adrenals and they

don’t know it

and they associate all these symptoms

separately but i just want to kind of go

through and tell you a little bit about

what

cortisol does cortisol is a stress

hormone and it does a lot of things it

helps you survive but if there’s too

much of it you will drain out your

anti-inflammatory hormones so in other

words the cortisol is normally an

anti-inflammatory but if you have

sustained stress over many years

the cortisol becomes depleted and you

start running out of your inflammation

your anti-inflammatory so you can end up

with inflammation chronic pain

and soreness and we call that

fibromyalgia fibromyalgia is simply a

severe lack of the anti-inflammatory

hormone cortisol is the main

the one of the only things in your body

that gets rid of inflammation now you

might say well wait a second

i don’t want it because it’s going to

create belly fat

and then why do i have belly fat and i

have high levels of inflammation and

also fibromyalgia which is soreness

through the entire body well it’s kind

of like insulin when you have a lot of

you could have a lot of hormone in your

body but it’s not effective it’s not

getting received in the receptors so

it’s kind of like if you were to have a

bunch of telemarketers call you

every day for a year eventually you’re

not going to pick up so that you’re not

going to receive the communication same

thing with cortisol when you have high

levels of stress for many years

your body downgrades the receptors for

cortisol thereby not letting you absorb

them so they’re high in the in the blood

or the saliva and that’s why the belly’s

fat but they don’t but it doesn’t work

for other things like

anti-inflammatories and especially

anti-allergic you can have you have

sinus allergies lots of people with

adrenal problems have sinus allergies or

they’re all year round where the sinuses

start getting really thick and they

might have sleep apnea which is could be

the sinuses as well

so one of the things to counter that

would be vitamin a uh the kale shake

that i have on my website you go to dr

berg.com and

watch me make the cal shakes it’s very

high in vitamin a which is essential for

the sinuses and different allergies

so those are some of the things that

occur there’s a couple other things

number one increased neural excitability

that’s the thinking and thinking and

thinking essentially you can’t turn off

there’s a problem with muscle wasting

your muscles you lose tone there’s a

problem with

craving for salt

there’s a problem with bone there’s a

problem with belly fat and there’s also

a problem with hypertension specifically

the top number that’s called the

systolic versus the diastolic and

there’s also a problem with sleeping

other than that the person is perfectly

fine