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Naturally Nourished

Episode 251: The Stress Imprint and Adrenal Updates

Naturally Nourished

Ali Miller RD

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

If the past 1.5 years have had a dynamic impact on your day to day stress, you’re not alone! We know that chronic, unresolved stress can drive serious bodily damage and we now know that it can impact us to the level of our genetic expression. Tune in to hear Ali and Becki discuss the imprint of stress on neuroendocrine, cardiovascular and emotional response and how you can stop stress in its tracks using diet, lifestyle and supplement interventions.    In this episode, Ali and Becki unpack common symptoms of HPA-axis imbalance and adrenal dysfunction, from digestive distress to elevated blood sugar and difficulty achieving ketosis to chronic inflammation and beyond. Beyond driving chronic disease expression, stress can halt fertility, hinder weight loss, and even drive increased susceptibility to illness via its impact on the immune system. Learn how to harness your body’s stress response using yummy food as medicine interventions like our Maca Walnut Caramels and Sweet Potato Avocado Toast, how supplementation can ebb and flow based on current stressors and why you may want to reconsider your morning coffee!    Also in this episode:  12 Week Food As Medicine Ketosis Program NOW AVAILABLE as an archive for $99!  Adrenal Rehab Program just $99 with code ADRENAL99 Episode 158: How to Rebound your Adrenals Episode 129: Are You Running on Adrenaline  Episode 222: Depression Immune Connection Apply to Become a Naturally Nourished Ambassador Symptoms of HPA Axis ImbalanceNeurohormone Panel Episode 92: DHEA the Fountain of Youth Episode 184: Harnessing the HPA Axis The Immune and Cortisol ConnectionSleep Support The Anti-Anxiety Diet The Anti-Anxiety Diet Cookbook How Stress Impacts Epigenetics and Your DNA Food As Medicine for Rebounding Your AdrenalsVitamin CBio-C Plus Redmond Real Salt use code ALIMILLERRD AdaptogensCalm and Clear Maca Walnut Caramels Wild Foods Cocotropics use code ALIMILLERRD Nori Salmon Roll Ups Sweet Potato Avocado Toast Reduce or Eliminate CoffeeWild Foods Decaf Coffee and Matcha use code ALIMILLERRD Add Santa Cruz Medicinals CBD to coffee if continuing to drink! Use code ALIMILLERRD  Supplements to Support Adrenal Rebound Bundle Stress Manager Bundle Relax and Regulate Calm and Clear Adaptogen Boost Adrenal Support ReferencesPeters A, McEwen BS, Friston K. Uncertainty and stress: why it causes diseases and how it is mastered by the brain. Prog Neurobiol. 2017;156:164-188. doi:10.1016/j.pneurobio.2017.05.004. Leonard BE, Song C. Stress, depression, and the role of cytokines. In: Dantzer R, Wollman EE, Yirmiya R, eds. Cytokines, Stress, and Depression. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Volume 461. Boston, MA: Springer; 1999:251-265. doi:10.1007/978-0-585-37970-8_14. Stankiewicz AM, Swiergiel AH, Lisowski P. Epigenetics of stress adaptations in the brain. Brain Res Bull. 2013;98:76-92. doi:10.1016/j.brainresbull.2013.07.003. Glad CA, Andersson-Assarsson JC, Berglund P, Bergthorsdottir R, Ragnarsson O, Johannsson G. Reduced DNA methylation and psychopathology following endogenous hypercortisolism – a genome-wide study. Sci Rep. 2017;7:44445. doi:10.1038/srep44445. Garland EL, Hanley AW, Baker AK, Howard MO. Biobehavioral mechanisms of mindfulness as a treatment for chronic stress: an RDoC perspective. Chronic Stress. 2017;1:1-14. doi:10.1177/2470547017711912. Creswell JD, Irwin MR, Burklund LJ, et al. Mindfulness-based stress reduction training reduces loneliness and pro-inflammatory gene expression in older adults: a small randomized controlled trial. Brain Behav Immun. 2012;26(7):1095-1101. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2012.07.006. Slavich GM, Cole SW. The emerging field of human social genomics. Clin Psychol Sci. 2013;1(3):331-348. Mason R. 200 mg of zen: l-theanine boosts alpha waves, promotes alert relaxation. Alternative and Complementary Therapies. 2001;7(2):91-95. Hidese S, Ota M, Wakabayashi C, Noda T, Ozawa H, Okubo T, Kunugi H. Effects of chronic l-theanine administration in patie

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast that delivers cutting-edge food is medicine solutions for optimal health.

0:12.7

Ali Miller is a nutrition expert sought up by the media in America's top medical institutes

0:18.3

for her revolutionary functional medicine interventions.

0:22.6

From disease treatment to prevention, every episode will empower you with ways to put yourself

0:28.3

back in control of your health. Please know, the topics discussed are for educational purposes

0:35.1

only. Now welcome, Integrative Dietitians, Allie Miller, and her co-host, Becky You.

0:43.9

Welcome to episode 251 of the Naturally Nourished Podcast.

0:48.0

Today, you are joining us for an important episode on the imprint of stress and adrenal

0:54.0

updates. And I feel like it's been a minute since we've

0:56.6

talked about this. Yes, but not many minutes that have been stress-free. I mean, these past two

1:02.6

years have really taken quite the toll or burden on many, where stress maybe in past years was a

1:10.5

transient visitor. You know, you had a deadline or

1:13.0

a party to plan or a wedding or some blip in the radar. But now we're starting to see over

1:19.7

these past two years this chronic unresolved impact of stress that can drive some serious bodily damage. And Becky and I both as functional

1:31.2

medicine practitioners have witnessed it not only personally, trying to ride the waves, if you will,

1:37.1

or survive the burden of many of the unknowns from lockdown and loss of personal freedoms to

1:43.7

uncertainty of a novel virus, to all of the

1:48.3

drama that has hit us from 2020 onbound.

1:53.2

But we're truly seeing as practitioners this influence of chronic stress hitting neuroendocrine

1:58.7

disorders, so neurological diseases, autoimmune conditions,

2:03.4

hormone imbalance, cardiovascular episodes, more and more clients dealing with blood pressure

2:09.7

and arrhythmia, seeing emotional responses that have become overactivated, disturbing

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