Hello, Trial Seeker, and welcome to another exciting episode, The Learn True Health Podcast.

You're in for a real treat today. We have back on the show, Dr. Alan Christensen.

This is his fourth time on the show, and listeners have shared with me that he has been one of

their favorite guests, so I'm so happy to have him back. You can go back and check out

previous episodes with him, episode 307, 324, and 465, where he shares about how to heal the

thyroid and heal your metabolism using the latest science that we understand about food and holistic

medicine. Now, today he comes to share about a topic that's near and dear to my heart because I

suffered for many years from chronic adrenal fatigue, and I believe that a great percentage of

population and a great percentage of people listening today, so it might be you are suffering

unknowingly from some degree of adrenal fatigue. Now, one study he cites in this interview today,

you're really, your ears are going to perk up because he talks about this massive study where

they followed a large group of people for their entire lifespan. And what they discovered was that

the number one, now the number two contributing factor to early death was smoking, that makes sense.

But there was something that was even more powerful, an even more powerful indicator to

contribute to early death and disease, and that was your stress levels. So cortisol levels,

and that's what we're talking about today. Now, you can't feel it when you're stressed out,

and this is something we discuss in the interview, but there are things that you can do in your

lifestyle, daily, small habits that you can bring into your life that will significantly extend

the length of your life and make sure that the last 20 to 30 years of your life are blissful ones.

If you think about some people you know who are older, they're not doing so well.

You don't want to be in your 70s, not doing so well. You want to be like one of my doctor mentors

that I met back in 2009, 2009, it was Dr. Jenny Ross Wilkinson, who's amazing, she was in the

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