Stress And Diseases Pt2 3/5 User Manual 4 Humans

okay well why would we want that

digestion is good right but it's not

going to save you against the bear your

stomach acid is not going to unless you

throw up on the bear but really for the

most part that that digestive process

isn't going to help so let's put those

processes on the back burner and focus

on saving our life with the bear so

that's what drives this whole

system uh sexuality

well sexual function or erections or

ovulation they're not going to do much

for the

bear we we

assume right so they're going to be

they're going to be turned off they're

going to be a lower priority while we

have a stress response reproductive

hormones the female is not going to say

that well you know grizzly bears here I

I I don't think I want to reproduce

right now so the body hasn't figured out

growth and healing is not is not a

priority and extremity temperature goes

down so your hands get cold well that's

just kind of a byproduct of of Vaso

constriction when you raise blood

pressure and you constrict blood

vessels the the the fingers the skin in

the fingers that's just not a high

priority warm warm skin isn't going to

do much for you so that blood is needed

elsewhere and so all these things that

happen they're a direct immediate result

of the stress response so let's go back

up and look at health

issues uh high blood pressure well we

got that one accounted for that's pretty

plain high cholesterol we've got that

one accounted for rod syndrome cold

hands and fingers fers yeah neck pain

not so totally obvious except that when

we have a stress response we increase

muscle

tension because we want to that

increases our Readiness and our our

alertness we can get out of there

quickly so but if we have that neck if

we have those muscles tense for a long

long time when there's no bear around

well we're probably going to get some

neck pain and quite possibly some

headaches as

well uh

diabetes we cover that because the

cortisol will increase blood sugar

glucose and it will uh it will increase

your insulin resistance it will decrease

your sensitivity to insulin which is the

first step toward

diabetes

constipation okay we sell all these

laxatives and constipation just says

well you know I'm not going to expend

energy moving my gut when there's a

grizzly

bear blood clots well that comes from

the blood clotting Factor your blood is

a little bit thicker than it should be

so so that you could stop bleeding if

you had an

emergency uh

obesity um this is a separate uh sem Al

together but just real quick that the

Obesity comes from when the cortisol

raises your blood sugar because your

body thinks there is a fight here I'm

going to have to expand energy so you

raise the blood sugar but if there is no

actual fight if there's no actual

grizzly bear but only a perceived danger

then that blood sugar is going to get

converted into storage and the only

thing we can store in amount in any

large amount is

fat so if we constantly have a lot of

cortisol then a lot of that blood sugar

is just going to turn right around to

Fat okay that's why people get bloated

and and overweight when they're on uh

when they're on what's it called

cortical steroids for any length of

time um

infertility we got that one counted

for Miss carriages we get that one

accounted for erectile dysfunction

digestive problems

ulcers uh let's talk about ulcers just a

little

bit do you know what actually causes

ulcers the bacteria exactly for the

longest time they just looked at the

stomach and they said well it hurts when

I have more stomach acid so the stomach

acid must be the problem problem and

therefore ulcers are caused by stomach

acid then this guy came around and found

that it was actual a bacterium that it

lives in your gut and if there is an

overgrowth of this bacterium it eats

away at the lining of the stomach and

you get an

ulcer but this bacterium is very

sensitive to

acid so the ulcer is not CA

by too much acid it is caused by not

enough

acid so when you have a

functional uh system when you have your

parasympathetics and your digestion

functions you make more stomach acid

that keeps this bacterium under control

and you don't develop ulcers and they

heal

up the problem is that they look at it

the wrong way so they say well it's the

stomach acid hurts so we'll give you

something to reduce the stomach acid

even further so they're making the

problem even worse well now you don't

have the pain from the ulcer but you

can't digest food your ulcer doesn't

necessarily heal you just don't have the

pain but now you're getting all sorts of

problems down the road because you're

not absorbing nutrients from your

food um allergies they have to do with

an imbalanced auto imbalanced immune

system uh that's a separate takes a

little bit long to go into and

autoimmune diseases rheumatoid arthritis

and cancer these are all immune system

functions okay what happens with when

you have a stress

response you shut down your

parasympathetic response right your

parasympathetics is what runs your

immune system so anytime that you have a

stress response you shut down your

immune

system how many

students get sick around finals time do

you have an increase of colds and flu

yes okay right there you have all these

this evidence right in front of you and

all you have to understand is what the

sympathetics and the parasympathetics do

in your body it accounts for everything

thing that happens

okay so all of these drugs would be

unnecessary if people learn to balance

their sympathetics and their

parasympathetics so now let's just look

at the the second half of of number nine

there uh we covered what happens

initially

because when the grizzly bear is around

that's an appropriate response that's an

adapt stress response that's something

we want to happen but if this goes on

for a long long time what happens then

and that's the problem because your body

only has one stress response and it

doesn't matter if it's a grizzly bear or

if it's a pile of bills or rude people

or gas

prices or bad news on TV anything that

makes you feel tense or uneasy or that

puts you in defense like you're trying

to attack something even if it's just

imaginary it will trigger the same exact

stress response but to a lesser

degree but whereas the bear eventually

you either he eats you or you you or he

goes

home these everyday stresses they never

go away they're with you you wake up

with them you add to them during your

day you go to bed with them and you wake

up the next day and there's