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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Can Stress Cause an Infection?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Can stress increase your risk of a severe infection? Check out this data.

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DATA:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341916/

https://gut.bmj.com/content/60/3/307


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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weights. Now this is an interesting topic that stress can actually activate mostly viruses but some

0:30.3

bacteria and induce an infection.

0:33.7

Okay, so we have TB, which is triggered by stress.

0:40.8

Herpesymplex like an colesore, which is triggered by stress. Herpes simplex, like in a colesore,

0:47.9

which is very common. In fact, I think from that mistaken, 90% of the population has that virus.

0:55.9

Shingles, which comes out during stress, which is caused by a virus.

1:00.6

It hangs out in a dormant stage and it's activated when you go through stress.

1:03.8

H. pylori, which can trigger an ulcer.

1:07.8

This is why when you go through stress, sometimes stress can cause an ulcer.

1:09.4

And then the common cold.

1:12.3

In fact, there's an interesting study,

1:18.1

which I'll put down below, that is the activation of a cold and the severity is directly related to the proportion of stress that a person can go through. Now, not everyone who gets stress

1:23.7

gets the cold, but it's very common that you get stressed and then you get the cold,

1:29.1

which mostly comes from a rhinovirus, which affects the upper respiratory system, and even

1:34.2

move to the lower respiratory system. Then you have HIV, which is not caused by stress,

1:39.4

but it can actually trigger HIV going into AIDS, which is a condition where you have no more immune

1:46.4

system. So you get all sorts of complications. Now, just from an observation standpoint, being a

1:53.0

practice for 30 years, I'm going to venture to say that nearly 100% of the time, when you ask

2:00.8

someone, when did you start noticing this infection,

2:05.4

it was nearly always right after a stress event, which is interesting.

2:10.8

So stress tends to lower your resistance.

2:14.7

It makes you more susceptible to pulling in an infection. So you have acute stress and

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