How Cortisol Effects on Body and Destroy Proteins – Dr.Berg

Stressed? Cortisol’s effects on your body could be breaking down your muscle and other proteins! Here’s how.

so I want to talk about the relationship between cortisol and protein a lot of people don’t understand this but there’s a huge connection with cortisol the stress hormone and the breakdown of protein in the body so I want to kind of show you kind of us and some overall reviews of what happens protein breaks down into amino acids and if you know there’s a lot of people right now with they have a lot of neurotransmitter problems they have depression they have attention deficit disorder they have anxiety and they’re trying to take psych drugs to improve the neurotransmitters right my question is why why can’t they get it from the diet what’s what’s the problem what’s causing this amino acid issue a lot of hormones are made from amino acids why do people have hormone problems why does your immune systems so bad why do they have bone loss and muscle loss that’s called atrophied muscle loss so there’s a couple things that allow this process to occur when you consume protein to make amino acids and turn them into body tissue and neurotransmitters one is you need enzymes from the pancreas so let’s say the person is a diabetic or they’ve eaten a lot of sugar and they damaged the pancreas that could be one big factor that they’re not breaking down into the amino acids to be able to make these neurotransmitters anymore it could be also they’re eating all cooked foods you know it could be dietary it could be that they’re not consuming enough protein I didn’t even put that on there but that’s kind of rare or it could be the stomach they don’t have enough hydrochloric acid and they have heartburn and they have digestive problems and they’re taking any acids or whatever that could be the reason why they’re not getting these as well digestive problems or could be lower in the digestive tract they don’t have the friendly bacteria to really break down these proteins as well because that is something not only the stomach but the microbes help you make amino acids as well okay the number one thing though is the high cortisol that’s really what will prevent this process from occurring and this comes from stress so cortisol creates a catabolic effect comes from the word cannibalistic cannibal cannibal eats eats flesh okay catabolic hormones break down things we break down muscle protein so with the cortisol this high stress these amino acids are not absorbed in the muscle so you get a catabolic effect of the muscle you get breakdown atrophy of the muscle you get muscle wasting with cortisol that’s why during stress or menopause when the adrenal backs up the ovary you see is people just like getting all flabby so that’s atrophy of the muscle amino acids do not get absorbed into the muscle if the hot cortisol is high the bone is not just calcium it’s a lot of collagen it’s a lot of protein so the bone also doesn’t get the amino acids too so you have bone loss okay but third the lymph system the lymphatic the lymph nodes that’s part of the immune system it actually shrinks in an atrophies as well call is called lysis which is breaks down the limp breaks down and what happens is it releases antibodies and I want to get into that and a little bit but first let me just kind of tell you what happens so we have the suffering of all the body tissues involved with protein muscle tendon ligament bone lymph all these things don’t get the proper amino acids so now what happens as these amino acids go instead to the liver and they go through a process called daemon d animation okay D emanation and this basically is a term of breakdown of amino acids and so in other words the liver will break down these amino acids into ammonia and carbon skeletons and the Hydra the hydrogen ion okay so the ammonia turns into urea or urine or uric acid and that’s why people get gout because they can’t this builds up too much because the liver is damaged okay or the kidneys damaged but carbon skeleton forms carbohydrates and glucose in other words your body is converting amino acid to sugar to glucose yeah that’s interesting the hydrogen ion that gets that goes out to the urine and wherever the hydrogen ion goes so does the potassium so you lose potassium and then when you lose potassium you become very very alkaline and it throws off the pH and you can’t absorb oh my gosh calcium II of all these issues all right why why is the body doing all this because it’s in a survival mode it must create a secondary fuel source and what it does is it causes gluconeogenesis gluco meaning sugar neo New Genesis create so the body is creating new sugar from protein from amino acids so it’ll basically allow the rest of the body to go to hell in a handbasket as long as it’s good it gets its fuel so but the problem is all this carbon atoms that it’s kind of pulling carbon skeletons it’s forming glucose will start spiking the blood sugar and spiking the insulin and causing diabetes and belly fat and high cholesterol okay now there’s some other things that I want to talk about with this limp when you release the antibodies you also then with a smaller lymph system start decreasing the production of antibodies you don’t actually produce these antibodies like you did before and you also do not create the cellular barriers in the resistance and is against infections so you have a lowered resistance and a susceptibility factor and that’s what causes the autoimmune disease autoimmune diseases are the loss of tolerance or to differentiate from Invader a healthy tissue self and non-self okay so your body starts attacking itself that’s what it autoimmune thing is and if you ask any person who had autoimmune diseases when did it start it always happened after a stress event or a loss of a loved one or a divorce and they start getting this because it stresses the core soul cortisol is the main source of problems with autoimmune diseases why because it’s used is the main here or not cure but treatment what should they give all autoimmune disease they inject them with prednisone cortisol but they don’t take it back and look at what happened first the first thing is that there’s a process bicon cortisol and there’s this whole reaction that occurs you lose your lymphatic system your immune system your antibodies go out of control and you become susceptible and then boom you start getting a loss of tolerance to other tissues so there’s a delicate balance of your body determining what’s a good cell what’s a bad cell with a good microbe with a bad friendly bacteria unfriendly and when it loses control start surveilling developing autoimmune diseases now let me just touch on this I mentioned antibodies right and anybody is a Y shape protein that is used to neutralize invading viruses and bacteria okay so basically the antibodies help neutralize attackers they basically tag or label some foreign microbe as an illegal alien that must be removed from the system so the other parts of the immune system can go in there and take over and remove it but it also can attack it directly and neutralize it directly in some situations but that point is that these antibodies when they lose control right here then you lose your you become susceptible to getting all sorts of chronic infections and autoimmune diseases some interesting things about autoimmune diseases they’re traded with cortisol we talked about that and they turn off when you’re pregnant that’s fascinating so there is a mechanism that protects this growing fetus from being destroyed by your immune system and apparently when you’re pregnant your immune system wakes up and all your autoimmune problems disappear which is fascinating so we have a solution we need to improve the immune system not try to attack it with steroids or we can actually just recommend that the pregnant female stay pregnant and have about 13 14 20 kids