Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

Did you realize that chronic stress destroys your ability to experience pleasure?

Now, when you experience short-term stress, your cortisol spikes,

and there's a hormone called dopamine that will increase initially.

Dopamine is involved with pleasure.

And in this case, it can act as a protective counter-effect from the stress.

When you go through stress over a long period of time,

you're constantly triggering dopamine to the point where the receptors for dopamine start downgrading

to the point where it doesn't work anymore.

The same thing happens with chronic consumption of sugar, drugs, certain medications will do the same thing.

With stress and high cortisol over a long period of time,

you may notice that it's more difficult to experience pleasure.

You're less motivated.

You're less awake or an alert.

And you basically just have more stress because there's no more counter-formal to kind of buffer that.

What can you do about that?

Let's give you a couple things to do.

Number one, you need to get more sleep, a lot more sleep.

Sleep is one of the best things to counter stress.

If you can't sleep the whole night, then try to figure out a way that you can take a nap through the day.

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