The #1 Fastest Way to Turn Off Stress
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Let’s talk about stress. I recently experienced a stress event, and I want to talk about what happens in the body when a person goes through something like this. We’re also going to discuss how to get rid of stress and how to prevent stress.
Certain stressors on the body, like exercise, heat therapy, or cold therapy, are in your control and have positive effects on the body.
But, negative stress is out of your control and can have harmful effects. This lack of control could be related to a situation, condition, or relationship.
In a stress state, you have a lot of involuntary glandular secretions and reactions occurring. Two parts of the body have both involuntary and voluntary control: the diaphragm and skeletal muscles.
Controlled breathing exercises and walking are powerful to put yourself back in control of these systems and pull yourself out of a reactive fight or flight mode.
It’s also important to understand that a vitamin B1 deficiency can mimic mild hypoxia and trigger your stress reflexes. Vitamin B1 is crucial to help pull yourself out of a stress state and even prevent stress.
Overall, the best things when dealing with stress are:
1. Controlled breathing exercises
2. Walks
3. Vitamin B1
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So, I'm driving my tractor carrying a bale of hay. |
| 0:06.0 | And the bale of hay weighed about 2,000 pounds, right? |
| 0:09.0 | And I had it on what's called the front loader, the front part of the tractor. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm going down the hill, and there's nothing flat where I, my farm is. |
| 0:16.0 | Everything's on angles, steep angles, cliffs, things like that. |
| 0:20.0 | So I'm driving down this pathway to the on angles, steep angles, cliffs, things like that. |
| 0:25.5 | So I'm driving down this pathway to this paddock. |
| 0:29.5 | And of course, my wife said, you probably should let someone else do that. |
| 0:31.5 | You know, you're not very experienced in a tractor. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm like, I can do it. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm driving down and I have too much weight too high on the front of this tractor. |
| 0:39.3 | Driving on a hillside, which is not very stable. So the tractor started to tip over. Okay. At that moment, I had what they call |
| 0:48.3 | a stress event. Okay, this is called flight or fight. Now, in flight or fight, you know, you have two options. You can fight or you can fly, get the heck out of there. And so I chose the flight part. Get off the tractor real fast. Try not to kill yourself as the tractor went through the electric fence and off the cliff. So I experienced stress. So today we're going to dig into this and I'm just |
| 1:13.9 | using myself as an example. I was under some severe shock stress and what happens in that mode, |
| 1:23.2 | you have the flight or fight mechanism kick in. That's part of what's called the autonomic nervous system. So the word autonomic means involuntary. It happens |
| 1:34.9 | automatically without your control or will. And that's the key point is this |
| 1:43.3 | word control. You're going to be stressed out as much |
| 1:46.8 | as you are out of control in a situation. And you'll be less stressed the more you're in control. |
| 1:53.6 | So there are stress states like exercise, you're stress in your body or a jacuzzi or a cold bath. |
| 2:00.4 | Those are all stress, is a very positive stress. |
| 2:02.6 | It's going to help you. But any stress that you are out of control puts you in a bad place. |
| 2:09.6 | But in my situation, I had this sudden burst of adrenaline, massive adrenaline, that stayed in my bloodstream all day, as well as cortisol. |
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