Stress & Your Immune System

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hey guys listen I wanted to talk about stress and your immune system the connection between the two now it is true that there’s a lot of your immune system rather to your gut and its influence on the integrity of the lining of the colon and and what you eat okay but what I’m going to talk about is another thing I’m going to talk about how stress influences your immune system in general because if you take any person with a chronic health problem nearly a hundred percent the time it originated with some type of a stressful event I did my live show last Friday and I had a lady call in and talk about health problems in chronic health problems she had digestive problems and allergies and sleep problems and she didn’t have a way problem but she had all sorts of digestive issues and this has been going on for years and years and years and she was eating better but it wasn’t getting well so I asked her I said when exactly did it all start okay she couldn’t really remember so I I said well when were you doing well and she gave me a date I think it was like a when she was 30 years old and then 31 that’s when things started going downhill and I wanted to find out what was the change what happened and she told me a massive stress situation which I already knew because I’ve been doing this for 29 years and this is what comes up over and over and over it’s this underlying stress thing so what I want to talk about is how stress can predispose you to getting sick okay because what it does to the adrenal hormone called cortisol cortisol is a type of hormone that is intimately involved in the immune response it actually suppresses the white blood cell it suppresses the t-cells for example which are involved in training the immune system and getting them to learn how to fight off infections it actually lowers the immune barrier then allows the viruses to innervate the cells that’s why people get virus infections when they get stressed shingles herpes things like that it actually will increase the platelets which then can set you up for clotting factors okay increases neutrophils which then lead to inflammation so there’s a whole immune thing going on when that stress is activated in fact take any autoimmune disease and stress is definitely involved in those conditions think about the typical treatment is prednisone what is that it’s a synthetic type of cortisol because the adrenal hormones will decrease inflammation and decrease immune function and so if there’s an allergy involved or high levels of histamine people take prednisone or cortisone okay because it has that function so basically when the stress goes to high we have an alteration in course all and adrenal function and this leads to a drop in the defense mechanism now there’s many different types of stress you have physical trauma you have surgery you have being involved in a relationship with someone who is stressing you out 24/7 but I think the biggest stress is losses okay a loss of a loved one loss of a job that can really hit somewhat hard core and that’s the health - starts going downhill and of course there’s all sorts of things that you can do you know go for long walks being sunshine to get more vitamin D which is all gonna help the immune system you know remove yourself from the stress go on a vacation take B vitamins get more sleep and of course you already know this but what I want to talk about is what to do with the stress that’s stuck in your body you have to realize that all the stress that you experience kind of gets stuck in the body like a sponge thus saying that time heals all no it doesn’t it actually makes things get worse we’re letting to stress because all the stress tends to build up in certain parts of your body so there is a way to help someone with the accumulation of stress and I developed an acupressure technique I’ve put some links down below of all the different techniques that you can use there’s different parts of your body that are involved in the flight or fight mechanism that’s called a sympathetic nervous system and then there’s also the opposite system called the parasympathetic switch counter the stress and this is part of the nervous system that is throughout the body so there is a way to tap into that too least that stress the one of the most powerful ones is working on the neck points because up in the top part of the neck there is certain center that controls the parasympathetic nervous system this is kind of like the off switch this is the system that relaxes you so I found when you apply pressure to these points it can really help people get into a relaxed State the next points are in the mid-back okay these are part of the sympathetic nervous system points which can also be released to relax the flight or fight mechanism then you have points in the abdomen area which can indirectly influence the actual adrenal glands which are located deep inside now you’re not actually working on the adrenal glands you’re working on the acupressure points that are connected to the adrenal gland you take any person that’s stressed out they’re bound to have a lot of tension in the abdomen and the muscles around the adrenal glands now this technique can be done two ways you can do it on someone else or you can use a massage tool to do it on yourself okay I show you both ways on the video so if you don’t have someone you can get the tool and do it on yourself alright so I put some links down below definitely try this out I think it can really help you especially if you’ve been a pin cushion for stress your entire life hey you know what I just want to say something only thirty percent of the people that watching this video actually make it this far and you did so I really appreciate you thank you so much