The #1 Barrier to Healing and Recovery is…
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 8 May 2020
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I want to talk about the biggest barrier to recovery and health, which is stress.
In particular, we’re going to talk about the activation of the “fight or flight” mechanism. The sympathetic nervous system’s primary function is to stimulate your body’s fight-or-flight response.
When your body is in a fight or flight state, your adrenal glands are activated, which sharply increases your levels of cortisol and adrenaline.
Our bodies aren’t made to endure long periods of time in fight or flight mode—you can endure 90 seconds or less without a problem. However, today’s environments at work and in daily activities promote the fight or flight system to work endlessly, which just isn’t healthy.
The problem is, when you get stressed, you cannot heal or recover. When fight-or-flight mode is always activated, you…
• Are unable to get good sleep
• Cannot heal
• Release glucose
• Can’t recover
• Can experience poor digestion
• Have poor wound healing
• Retain sodium
• Excrete potassium
• May cause damage to your hippocampus
• Have added risk of disease and infection
• Experience chronic inflammation
• Experience an increased risk of heart disease
• Experience bone loss
• Experience a loss of collagen formation
You can help reduce your stress levels with these simple things:
• Exercise:
• Diet
• Fasting
• Acupressure
• Vitamin B1, potassium, and magnesium
• Breathing exercises
• Vacation/taking time off
• Not taking things so seriously
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program |
| 0:09.1 | or we have a question about a product, call one of our keto consultants. |
| 0:12.3 | They'll be able to help you. Call 540299-1557. That's 540299-1557. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Kito and Intermediate fasting podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level. |
| 0:34.0 | Dr Eric Berg. |
| 0:35.0 | Let's talk about the biggest barrier to recovery |
| 0:40.0 | and actual healing. |
| 0:42.0 | And that is stress and the activation of the flight or fight mechanism. |
| 0:48.6 | It's called the sympathetic nervous system and a person is in sympathetic dominance and you have |
| 0:55.2 | high levels of cortisol and high levels of adrenaline both produced by the |
| 0:59.7 | adrenal gland the activation of the sympathetic nervous system and the activation of cortisol really wasn't designed to go more than 90 seconds. |
| 1:09.0 | The problem is nowadays, it's just all day along. |
| 1:12.0 | Our environments, our life is filled with things that keep us in |
| 1:16.9 | stress mode. When the body is in flight of fight, it's preparing for emergency survival, running away from something, or fighting. |
| 1:26.4 | And you will not heal 100% if you're in this mode. |
| 1:31.3 | Many people have the switch turn on, and they just can't turn it off. |
| 1:35.1 | And this prevents the sleep which has an entire cascade of additional things that can |
| 1:40.4 | happen. I did a whole video on that. It also released glucose. Okay, your body has a stored |
| 1:46.8 | glucose as glycogen. It's going to release glucose when you have high levels of cortisol. I mean even another name for cortisol is |
| 1:54.3 | glucose corticoid. It's a glucose controlling hormone and it will activate |
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