How Chronic Stress Affects Your Brain? – Dr.Berg

Chronic stress? Here’s how it affects your brain!

hi guys in this video I want to share with  you some effects of chronic stress on your brain okay that’s high levels of cortisol over a  period of time sustained stress can raise cortisol to the point where it starts to destroy certain  parts of the brain specifically the hippocampus the hippocampus comes from the word seahorse  because it looks like a little seahorse and there’s actually two of them on the side of the  brain and they have a role in two things one is short-term memory and a role in locating yourself  and time and space so it’s like your GPS like when a bird flies south for the winter how do they  know where to go well the hippocampus so there’s this pre-program kind of a grid in your brain  that you can help locate things so if this is damaged then you’re going to have a hard time  with driving directions you’re going to be a hard time locating where you parked okay so you’re  going to not remember where you are all the time so that’s that’s the early sign of Alzheimer’s  or the later stages of Alzheimer’s you just you lost your GPS in your brain okay and the problem  is we’re becoming so dependent on artificial GPS is that we’d never really use maps anymore so  that is also a problem so increased cortisol from stress will shut off the oxygen to this part  of the brain and start causing problems with that area but also high levels of insulin will also  destroy the hippocampus so again sugar okay so sugar and stress but there’s one more thing and  it’s actually vitamin b1 deficiency so there’s a vitamin b1 deficiency it causes atrophy of this  specific structure interesting it looks like a classic symptom if you’re really deficient you  start having these symptoms so it could be that it’s stress depleting the b1 or the sugar  to pleadin b1 but if I were if I had this condition I would start loading up on vitamin  b1 and a natural form to start to reverse this process but just make mental note if you have a  friend or family member or a grandparent whatever that’s experiencing this star giving them some  natural be one from nutritional yeast and I bet you they’ll see some great improvements thanks  for watching press it forget it forget it I’m done press the subscribe button and I will  keep you updated on the future events