Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.

Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

healthy weight.

Let's take a look at what adrenaline does.

It increases your heart rate, sweating, vasodilation of both the

heart and muscle tissue.

This is one of the reasons why you probably have seen movies where they've injected someone

into the heart with adrenaline to revive them.

Adrenaline makes your body stronger, more alert, because it's part of the flight or

fight mechanism being chased by a tiger, right?

It releases glucose from your liver and your muscles for quick energy, and it triggers

this other hormone right here, which relates to something called the HPA axis, the hypothalamus,

the tutory, and adrenal axis.

This is a little different mechanism where you're increasing cortisol, which is the other

stress hormone.

So both adrenaline and cortisol are preparing the body for a stress state.

The difference is adrenaline is what, within seconds.

Cortisol takes a few minutes to kick in.

Cortisol is more long-lasting, adrenaline is more short-lived.

Now, I'll never forget.

When I was in wrestling, I wrestled the 9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade,

and the first year of college until I fractured my neck, but in high school, I wrestled at

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