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I'm Dr.

Aviva with the next episode of Natural MD Radio and I'm actually here rocking out to some of my favorite music.

I've got my boy band mix on which is the Clash, the English beat, the kinks, and a couple of other great boy bands.

I just love rocking out, but I'm going to shut it right now and hang out with you. So rocking out to boy band music is actually one of my biggest

decompressors. It's one of my favorite things to do. I get like some pretty good

action going on there with the head bopping and banging and all that stuff.

Not like banging into walls or anything, but it's one of my favorite things to do anytime.

And you know what, it's really interesting because it's a great cortisol release studies show

that doing things to move our bodies listen to music and then anytime we can decompress

for five minutes or ten minutes or fifteen minutes it

actually resets our cortisol what is cortisol well it's one of the topics of

what we're going to be talking about today cortisol is a hormone that's produced by two little glands

that sit one on top of each of your kidneys,

called the adrenal glands.

And they are sort of the dispatch station for the chemicals and hormones you need

when your body goes into survival mode.

Survival mode is a system of ancient reactions and cascades of chemicals that happen that create all these

different actions in our body to protect us from all kinds of hazards that we are sort of evolutionarily programmed to respond to.

So for example, when you get into a stressful situation your fight or flight response gets kicked in.

It's the same, it's kind of, that's the common name for what we call for the feelings that

we get and the reactivity we get when this reaction gets kicked into place.

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