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Hey guys, I wanted to do a quick video on inflammation and what's at the core of inflammation

in the body.

Let's first talk about cortisol.

Cortisol is an adrenal hormone.

It's a very powerful anti-inflammatory.

When you have inflammation or pain or any type of inflammatory condition, whether it's

autoimmune or whatever, the remedy medically is cortisol shots, cortisol creams, prednisone

because it's anti-inflammatory.

So when you run out of cortisol, maybe because you have adrenal stress or you're burnt

out, you start to develop.

Developing all sorts of inflammatory conditions, you can even develop an autoimmune condition

if cortisol is now working.

So it's intimately connected with adrenal problems.

So that's number one.

Oh, one more point about that.

If you have high levels of cortisol, massive stress, the receptor for cortisol can be blocked

or downgraded or become resistant.

So now you have cortisol resistance.

So now you have high levels of cortisol, but then you also have low levels of cortisol

because it's not effective anymore because the cell is blocking it.

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