Chronic Stress Literally Destroys Immunity

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hi guys in this video we’re gonna talk about how chronic stress literally destroys your immune system and this is very interesting I’m taking this little section out of this book right here Ciba collection of medical illustrations endocrine system and selected metabolic diseases by Frank netter MD page 84 under the section on cortisol okay he’s talking about the function of cortisol and what happens if you have too much cortisol which is activated by stress so I wrote down the board exactly what it says diverts amino acids from lymphoid tissue leading to a marked reduction in size and to actual lysis of the notes now let me explain what this means so lymphoid tissue is your lymphatic system you have lymph nodes and the lymphatic system is you can look at it like an extension of your circulatory system where you have the heart that pumps the blood and so part of that blood gets absorbed in the tissues and turns into lymph that then goes to what’s called a lymphatic system now you don’t have a pump to push this system so you want to look at it like a drainage system and so all this Limp comes up to the body and it gets dumped back into the vascular system without this system you could have a lot of edema in the tissues but it also is an area where you have a lot of immune reactions to keep these pathogens away from different organs so this is why your glands might swell up and they help protect you so that’s what the lymphoid tissue is leading to a mark that means noticeable or prominent reduction in the size and to actual lysis which means breakdown of the notes we’re talking about the lymph nodes and lymph nodes are the location of where the immune reaction takes place so you have the white blood cells in there and you also have the pathogen so high cortisol will divert amino acids from the lymphatic system leading to a noticeable reduction in size to actual breakdown of the lymph nodes so basically it shrinks your lymphatic now this is not good because now you’re gonna lose your defense mechanism it’s making your immune system smaller next one says this this is accompanied by a marked in this context we’re talking about something that is distinctive and emphasized okay so by a marked decrease in overall antibody production now antibodies are those things that are produced by your immune system that helps develop immunity antibodies don’t necessarily kill but they actually put a tag or a little indicator on the pathogen for other immune cells to kill them so he have enough analyzing your system you are protected but with high cortisol you have a decrease in overall antibody production which together with a breakdown in inter and intracellular that means between the cells and within the cells okay and we’re talking about barriers so you have various barriers of immune defense in this case high cortisol creates a break down in your cellular barriers which is going to raise your susceptibility to viral and bacterial infections so I just want to emphasize this very important factor in keeping your immune system strong it’s not just about nutrition it’s also about keeping your stress as low as possible so if you haven’t seen my video on how to do that I put it right here check it out