How STRESS Robs You of These Vitamins

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Let’s talk about stress and how to take care of your body during chronic stress. Stress can cause deficiencies—these deficiencies can then alter your ability to react to and recover from stress. Chronic stress can be very dangerous to your health. Too much stress can lead to: • Ulcers • Heart attack • Osteoporosis • High blood pressure • Anxiety • Depression • Poor immunity Deficiencies caused by stress can include: 1. Magnesium 2. Zinc 3. Thiamine (vitamin B1) 4. Potassium 5. Vitamin B5 6. Amino acids 7. Calcium 8. Vitamin D 9. Vitamin C When you go through stress, it’s easy to reach for junk foods. But it’s crucial you avoid sweets and junk food, even when you’re stressed. It’s also important to avoid foods high in sodium when you’re feeling stressed. The more stress you go through, the healthier you need to eat. Consuming red meat and a big leafy green salad would be a great meal to consume when you go through stress. An HRV (heart rate variability) device is a fantastic tool to help you measure your stress and how you respond to stress. This device can also help you better understand what type of exercise and nutrition your body needs at different times. The best ways to take care of your body during stress: • Stick to a very healthy diet (Healthy Keto®) • Get quality sleep • Exercise

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0:00.0	Very unfortunately, we all go through stress, we can't avoid it. So today I'm going to talk about how stress can rob you of certain nutrition.
0:10.0	Now, of course, we all know that junk foods will do it, a lack of eating, the right foods will do it,
0:16.0	but stress also will deplete you of many different nutrients.
0:19.0	I'm going to discuss that so you can avoid that because once you're deficient in certain nutrients the
0:26.5	deficiency itself can alter your ability to react to stress and recover from stress.
0:34.0	First let's dive into the deficiencies that can be created from stress.
0:40.0	And I think you already know that stress can also cause disease too, right?
0:43.4	It can cause ulcers, heart attacks, it can cause osteoporosis.
0:47.6	It can cause high blood pressure.
0:49.3	It can cause anxiety, depression, all sorts of mood problems, and it can also suppress your immune system to the point
0:56.7	where you develop infections, or maybe a virus that was in remission comes out of remission.
1:03.0	Then when people are under stress, a lot of times they'll take a medication that deals with anxiety or depression.
1:09.0	Well, like if you take an SSRI, that alone can create a deficiency of certain nutrients, specifically
1:15.9	vitamin B2 and co-anzyme Q10.
1:19.3	And other mood altering medications can deplete you of item B6.
1:24.0	So here you are trying to take something to handle the mood when it creates more of a deficiency
1:28.0	which gives you more of that mood problem.
1:31.2	So this video is more about the person who is under this sustained chronic
1:37.5	mental stress. The top two or actually three nutrients that will be deficient.
1:43.2	Magnesium number one, zinc number two
1:46.8	and number three is B1, thiamine. The effects that magnesium and zinc and B1 can give you are anti-anxiety and anti-stress.
1:57.0	Now when we're dealing with stress, we're really dealing with the adrenal gland and the two main stress
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