How WORRY Ruins Your Body (HOW TO STOP IT)

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about stress and cortisol. I’ve seen many people get on the right track with their diet and exercise—but they're still stuck in fight-or-flight mode.

Being in fight-or-flight mode, having elevated cortisol and adrenaline, for a long period isn’t healthy.

Chronic stress has been known to negatively affect the body in many ways, including:

• Shrinking your grey matter

• Shrinking your thymus gland

• Creating muscle atrophy

• Decreasing testosterone

• Running the body on sugar (even when you’re not eating sugar)

• Disrupting healthy digestion

• Reducing quality sleep

Chronic worry and stress can also lead to ulcers, inflammation, and disease.

An interesting study measured 39 people’s cortisol levels before and after a 45-minute art therapy session. This study found a significant reduction of cortisol in participants.

I have found that hobbies are a fantastic way to stop the fixation on stress and move your attention to something more positive.

DATA:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

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0:00.0	So I want to share a very important aspect about stress and cortisol that I think a lot of people need to hear about.
0:09.0	Because as I talk to people and evaluate them, they're eating better, they're taking supplements, they're exercising.
0:15.1	But they're still stuck in this fight or flight mode that they can't seem to get out of.
0:19.1	Now if you think about flight or fight, flight is fear, right? And fight is more emotionally, more anger,
0:28.4	antagonism. Being in the stress node, we have elevated cortisol and adrenaline for a long period of time is not
0:34.6	healthy it's been known to shrink your gray matter shrink your thymists the gland that
0:40.5	helps train your T cells, your immune cells.
0:44.4	So stress tends to paralyze the immune system.
0:47.4	Stress tends to create atrophy of your muscles.
0:50.4	It decreases testosterone.
0:52.3	It forces the body to run only on sugar, mobilizing your body proteins turning them into sugar,
0:59.4	even though you're not eating any sugar. It tends to affect our digestion. It shuts on the pancreatic
1:04.0	enzymes. It shuts down the stomach acid production levels of hydrochloric acid,
1:09.6	which basically will cause you to get acid reflux, which can then lead to even gastritis
1:14.8	and the feeling that you have too much acid when in fact you don't have enough.
1:18.8	The stress causes us to produce less bile, so it's harder to digest fats.
1:22.8	Our parestalsis, the pumping action of her colon doesn't seem to push food through so we get
1:27.4	constant patient. And it really affects our sleep as well. But other than that, the person's going to do
1:32.1	just fine, but humans just have not evolved to adapt to the amount of sustained mental stress that we're being put under. I mean, if think about it you can have like 99% of all these wonderful great things that happen in your given day.
1:48.8	But that 1% of something bad that happens, where does your mind go? Your mind will fix it on that,
1:55.5	especially when you're trying to go to sleep at night. Why? Because the mind's purpose is to
1:59.6	solve problems. That's a good thing, right? But there's a big difference between problem
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