Calm Your Mind and Body: Dr. Berg’s Stress-Reducing Elixir

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now this video is going to greatly help those who are going through stress and i want to make this as simple as possible you’re just going to be drinking one cup of this thing i’m going to tell you in a few minutes daily to bring down your stress to zero but i first want to explain why it works now i do want to say that reducing your stress to zero is not healthy for a long period of time in fact you can’t live without some stress stress is actually healthy as long as it’s not sustained our bodies become stronger when we put our body through stress like exercise for example right if you sit on the couch no stress did nothing you would waste away the problem is sustained stress burns out a lot of your organs and i want to just go through that fairly rapidly number one the immune system okay stress high levels of cortisol this hpa stands for hypothalamus pituitary adrenal so when you perceive stress through your brain it goes through these different levels and then it comes out as cortisol and so now your body can start adapting to stress with the help of cortisol so cortisol kind of goes through these organs and adjusts the organs to deal with this stress but with the immune system it basically turns off and that makes you very susceptible to viral infections and all sorts of things i mean think about what happens um when people get stressed out a lot of times they get sick right and so um stress is suppresses the immune system so that’s not a good thing sustained stress can create atrophy to your lymph nodes actually shrink your lymph nodes shrink the spleen and the thymus that’s your immune system okay so stress is very bad for the immune system okay so now the stomach you can actually develop an ulcer you can have the acid start splashing up causing gerd there’s more gastric acid increase in the stomach that’s why you might get gastritis the entire digestive system is controlled by the parasympathetic that’s the rest in digest that’s the opposite of this stress mechanism right here so stress pretty much turns off the digestive system try to digest when you’re under stress it just doesn’t work now as a side note stress also depletes you of vitamin b1 calcium potassium and this thing right here h plus that’s a hydrogen ion now what does that mean what does how does that relate to anything well when you’re going through stress you lose the hydrogen ion what is the hydrogen ion well you know what you’ve heard of ph before right ph that’s the power of the hydrogen ion so basically this is an acid so when you go through stress you’re jacking up cortisol you’re losing your acids and guess what you become too alkaline so you would think that stress makes you acid no it doesn’t it makes you excessively too alkaline and the symptoms of alkalosis are muscle twitching hyperventilation cramping anxiety interesting now stress affects the heart by increasing the blood pressure the heart rate and creating a constriction of the coronary artery stress affects the blood sugars by turning things into sugar okay your fat in the sugar protein in the sugar ketones in the sugar and this is why high levels of stress can even make a person a diabetic okay so even though you’re not eating sugar your body is producing sugar out of other things by having too much stress because another name for this is a glucocorticoid now all this sugar that’s generated is basically making us fat so if you have too much cortisol you start developing fat specifically around your gut because the liver is becoming fatty and then it spills over into the gut so you’ll have belly fat now the tone of the muscles become very very rigid and tight so you get muscle spasms the lung has a problem when you have high levels of cortisol you hyperventilate right you think you’re not getting enough oxygen but you’re getting too much oxygen i did a whole video on this it’s very counter-intuitive it’s very interesting i mean think about this if you were to hyperventilate right now what would happen you would get too much oxygen and you would pass out too much oxygen and not enough co2 actually locks up the ability to absorb this oxygen in the tissues and what happens is you basically starve of oxygen so there’s some really great data on this that i did on a video i’ll put the link down below you can watch that later but the point is that stress throws off your lung and causes an inability to breathe i mean think about asthma think about people during panic attacks people have anxiety they’re they’re trying to get more oxygen and that’s making things worse you should basically just breathe through your nose calm your breath down and then you’ll get more oxygen like really slowly now the brain this is the last part of this puzzle stress both destroys certain parts of the brain that’s why it affects your sleep your circadian rhythms with sleep but the perception of stress coming through the brain that’s activating the cortisol is controlled by this neurotransmitter called gaba okay gaba is like a turn off switch it’s like the brake pads 50 of all the little synapses in your brain are a combination of glutamate and gaba receptors okay and only five percent are dopamine and serotonin so all you need to know for this example is gaba is very very very important in relationship to cortisol it controls this excessive amount of cortisol so when people go through excessive amount of stress over a period of time they don’t necessarily burn out the adrenals they’re burning out this neurotransmitter right here so this remedy i’m going to talk about inhibits gaba it blocks the enzyme that slows down the degradation of gaba thus increasing gaba which turns off cortisol so these little hormones that are coming out of hypothalamus pituitary down to here are all turned off when you increase gaba okay and that remedy is lemon balm [Music] tea that’s right you wanted to start drinking on a regular basis lemon balm tea it’s very very simple you have one in the morning maybe one in the afternoon maybe one a little bit later and this has certain phytonutrients to increase gaba one of the big effects that lemon balm has over your body is it increases tranquility right that’s a really cool word tranquility what does it mean it means peaceful serene unshaken unworried so it increases your tolerance to stress it helps you to be calm it has properties of anti-anxiety anti-depression it increases and elevates your mood it does a lot of other things but it’s really really good for reducing cortisol so in one study lemon balm which is in the mint family as a plant created a full remission of anxiety in 70 percent of people who took it and it also showed significant sleep improvements for those people who had insomnia and 85 of the people who took it now there’s many things you can do for stress but lemon balm tea is one of my favorite things it’s simple you’ll feel quick effects right away it’s very inexpensive and it has a lot of additional health benefits as well that go way beyond just the stress reduction now if you have not seen my video on how to do acupressure for stress you definitely need to check that out i put it up right here check it out