How to Turn Your Stress to Zero

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we're going to talk about the different factors that can contribute to anxiety and how they affect our bodies.

Anxiety is defined as worrying about something that may or may not happen. It can be triggered by speculation, sensationalism, or conjecture.

Speculation is when we are concerned about things not based on facts or knowledge, while sensationalism is the use of shocking words or exaggerated stories to grab attention. A conjecture, on the other hand, is an opinion based on guessing rather than the truth.

These triggers can cause anxiety that, if left unchecked, may become chronic and affect our adrenal glands. This, in turn, encourages the release of adrenaline and cortisol, weakening our immune system and accelerating the aging process.

Limiting exposure to stress through activities such as exercise and spending time in nature is essential to break this cycle. It’s also best to avoid negative messages and sensationalized news that provoke these anxious thoughts.

Additionally, incorporating adaptogens into our diet, such as vitamin B1 and ashwagandha, helps to strengthen our ability to cope with daily stress.

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0:00.0	Today I'm going to talk about anxiety and stress and I'm going to use one of my favorite books,
0:09.2	a dictionary.
0:10.2	This is it right here.
0:11.2	Look at this.
0:12.4	Oxford Advanced Learners English to Chinese Dictionary 7th Edition.
0:18.0	I have like five of these.
0:20.0	Now, why do I have this?
0:22.0	Is this about me learning Chinese? No, no, no, I love words and you can
0:27.8	discover all sorts of things about the derivation of words and the meanings of words. Now what's cool about this dictionary is that
0:35.1	it's for Chinese students learning English so the definitions are really good.
0:39.4	They're very simple versus other dictionaries that you have to, you know, literally look up words within definitions
0:47.7	and then more words within those definitions.
0:50.0	So this is a really good dictionary just to give you the meaning of the word.
0:54.2	And so what we want to do today is kind of take you through various definitions of words, okay,
1:00.3	in relationship to anxiety and stress. And I'm going to show you something that's
1:05.4	really interesting about this because we can learn a lot about this. The first
1:08.8	word we're going to look up is this definition of anxiety. What does anxiety mean?
1:14.8	Okay, anxiety is the state of feeling nervous or worried about something bad is going to happen.
1:21.6	So basically anxiety is you're worried about something. We better look up the word worry. Okay,
1:27.3	worry to keep thinking about unpleasant things that might happen or about problems that you have.
1:36.5	So when you're worrying you're really thinking about things that may or may not happen
1:46.7	and usually you're not worried about good things, they're unpleasant things, and they're usually related to a problem. So when you're in this anxiety state,
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