STOP OVERTHINKING 24/7

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today, I’m going to tell you how to stop overthinking! Overthinking can trigger cortisol, which equals more stress. Stress hormones will continue to stress you out, leaving you trapped in a vicious cycle of anxious thoughts that can be very difficult to break out of.

Most of the time, anxiety and overthinking can be fixed by addressing nutritional imbalances, but people are often prescribed SSRIs. These drugs block the reabsorption of serotonin and come with several side effects. They can downgrade the receptor for serotonin, which can cause a major deficiency in serotonin.

Drugs, chronic stress, junk food, lack of sun, and vitamin D can deplete your serotonin and dopamine. Many people get the blues during the winter months because of a lack of vitamin D from the sun.

Vitamin D deficiency can lead to anxiety and depression. Research has shown that vitamin D may produce the same results as a medication for depression without the side effects!

The health of your microbiome directly affects your mental health. The microbes that help increase serotonin are very sensitive to broad-spectrum antibiotics.

To stop overthinking and improve your mental health, you’ll want to take at least 10,000 IU of vitamin D each day. You also need the microbes that make serotonin!

L. reuteri affects serotonin more than any other microbe, yet over 96% of the population is deficient! The best way to fix this problem is to make your own probiotic yogurt using L. reuteri. This microbe can help decrease anxiety, increase oxytocin, and significantly reduce cortisol.

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0:00.0	Today we're going to talk about the number one vitamin that controls your mental health.
0:03.7	Thinking is a good thing, right? I mean, that's a very positive thing. But overthinking,
0:08.0	especially too long, especially when you're trying to go to bed at night, can prevent you
0:12.9	from sleeping. When your thoughts dominate your mind and you can't turn it off because you're
0:18.3	solving the problems of the world, it becomes a problem, which will also
0:21.4	then trigger cortisol, which is more stress. Thinking about stress will activate your physical
0:27.3	hormones that will put your body into a stress state. So the question is, are the hormones causing
0:33.2	you to do that? Or is it your mind causing the hormones to be activated? Well, I think both can affect
0:37.8	each other. But a lot of times people are stuck in this loop thinking and thinking. They're very,
0:42.9	very focused on a certain problem or a certain thought that they can't seem to unfixate their
0:49.3	attention off that one thing. And they end up, you know, looking at different scenarios,
0:55.7	different ways of solving something, speculating, sometimes creating stress that's not even there, which in itself is like
1:01.2	the definition of a problem. It's an unresolved thing. And then you get into this paralysis of analysis.
1:07.2	Another name for that is you're just stuck in your head. The reason of bringing this up is that
1:10.4	that would be the definition of anxiety worry feeling nervous and i want to talk about the
1:17.0	nutritional imbalance involved in this there is a major deficiency of a certain nutrient that can
1:23.7	cause you to obsessively think and kind of be too stuck in your head.
1:28.3	And unfortunately, one of the ways that people address this is they're put on usually in SSRI.
1:34.3	That's a fancy name for a drug that blocks the reabsorption of serotonin.
1:39.3	So it basically kind of keeps the serotonin that you have in your body so it doesn't go away.
1:46.4	But it comes with a big package. And the package is a lot of side effects, as well as the
1:52.0	downgrade of the receptor for serotonin. So now you're extremely deficient in serotonin,
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