Chronic Stress Literally Destroys Immunity
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 13 June 2020
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In this podcast, we’re going to talk about how stress affects your health. Chronic stress can literally destroy your immune system.
Cortisol is activated by stress.
Lymphoid tissue is an area where you have a lot of immune reactions to keep pathogens away from different organs. High cortisol will divert amino acids from the lymphoid tissue, basically shrinking this tissue. It makes your immune system smaller.
Antibodies are produced by the immune system, and they help develop immunity. They don’t necessarily kill pathogens, but they put a tag on them for other immune cells to kill them. If you have enough antibodies in your system, you are protected. But, with high cortisol, you can have a decrease in overall antibody production.
You also have various barriers of immune defense. But, high cortisol can create a break down in your cellular barriers, which can raise your susceptibility to viral and bacterial infections.
Keeping your immune system strong isn’t just about good nutrition; it’s also about keeping your stress as low as possible.
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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 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | 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 weight. |
| 0:44.7 | Hi, guys. In this video, we're going to talk about how chronic stress literally destroys your immune |
| 0:50.5 | system. |
| 0:50.9 | And this is very interesting. |
| 0:51.9 | I'm taking this little section out of this book |
| 0:54.3 | right here. Sibah Collection of Medical Illustrations, Endocrine System, and Selected Metabolic |
| 1:00.3 | Diseases by Frank Netter, MD. Page 84. Under this section on cortisol, okay? He's talking about |
| 1:09.0 | the function of cortisol and what happens if you have too much |
| 1:14.1 | cortisol, which is activated by stress. So I wrote down the board exactly what it says, |
| 1:19.4 | diverts amino acids from lymphoid tissue leading to a marked reduction in size and to actual |
| 1:26.9 | lysis of the nodes. Now let me explain what this means. |
| 1:30.7 | So lymphoid tissue is your lymphatic system. You have lymph nodes and the lymphotic system |
| 1:36.1 | is, you can look at it like an extension of your circulatory system, where you have the heart |
| 1:41.7 | that pumps the blood. And so part of that blood gets absorbed in the |
| 1:46.1 | tissues and turns into lymph that then goes to what's called a lymphatic system. Now, you don't have a |
| 1:52.4 | pump to push this system. So you want to look at it like a drainage system. And so all this limp comes up |
| 1:58.8 | through the body and it gets dumped back into the vascular system. |
| 2:03.6 | Without this system, you could have a lot of edema in the tissues. |
| 2:07.6 | But it also is an area where you have a lot of immune reactions to keep these pathogens away from different organs. |
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