Get Energized: The REAL Reasons Why You’re Always Tired - Dr. Berg

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i would say out of all the things that i’m expert in i think the number one thing is in fatigue that’s definitely a certification that you can’t get from any university you have to get it from the school of hard knocks but i personally have been so tired for so many years and then overcame that fatigue and then helped tens of thousands of people so i’m going to tell you right now i am going to show you how to get your energy back i was doing all the wrong things i was trying to take all these pills and vitamins but there was something else underneath my fatigue that i was missing and until years later when i finally figured it out it was like i took a helmet off my head and i finally woke up so let’s talk about the seven reasons why you’re tired the first reason is adrenal fatigue you have too much cortisol what’s interesting about cortisol it’s a stress hormone that adapts your body to stress and under stress your body switches to running on glucose despite what your diet is if you have too much stress your body is going to basically run on glucose this is why there’s another name for cortisol glucocorticoid okay it’s a glucocorticoid it’s a glucose type hormone meant for short-term energy it’s supposed to give you energy but it ends up making you tired because it’s going to mobilize a lot of glucose that’s stored in your liver and it’s also going to make glucose out of protein and fat that’s called gluconeogenesis so here you are having all this glucose flowing through your bloodstream and then your blood sugar is going to increase and then insulin is going to come in there and push it down so when you go through chronic stress that’s when things start to go downhill and all that glucose will just make you thoroughly exhausted all right so the more stress you have the more your body runs on sugar now there’s a little gland in the brain called amygdala and it’s very similar to the adrenal glands on top of the kidney but it works on your brain in other words it addresses a certain type of stress in your brain and that specific stress is a fear type stress it’s a fear response so amygdala has everything to do with different shades of fear whether it’s a very high level fear like you’re shy to a major panic attack or you’re terrified or right in the middle you have anxiety or you have worry all those are fear states and so anytime you have a fear state the amygdala is involved and it’s going to affect a lot of different biological processes like your ability to sleep like your ability to get into a calm state and anything that’s related to fear is going to get you to avoid that fear you probably heard of the saying um you must face your fears right well when you face your fears they no longer are fierce because fear is about avoiding something and as soon as you don’t avoid it and you face it you don’t have it anymore but the best remedies for an adrenal stress situation or an overactive amygdala would be to take vitamin b1 okay good amounts of b1 in the form of nutritional yeast that is going to make you feel very calm now some other things you can do is take ashwagandha i have some more information on that in a link down below but ashwagandha is an adapted gym it increases your tolerance to stress there’s many other herbs that are adaptogens but ashwagandha is one of the top herbs and then we have sleep more sleep better control over your stress better adrenal function and i will get to sleep in a second but the last thing i want to mention is physical work that’s a very great therapy for stress like any physical work that you can start doing it will really help you release that stress now exercise is okay but physical work is a lot better because physical work and also exercise helps to deplete that stress energy that tends to build up that prevents you from sleeping all right number two sleep okay poor sleep will make you tired and many times you can’t sleep because you have high cortisol because you’re stressed especially if it’s between 12 midnight and 2 o’clock in the middle of the night that is when you’re supposed to have the lowest amount of cortisol but if your adrenals are overactive that’s the time that you’re most awake and i had a problem with that for years until i figure things out now one thing about sleep there’s a sleep hormone called melatonin i recently did a very interesting video on melatonin because there’s two types of melatonin there is one type that’s in your bloodstream and in the pineal gland but there’s another type of melatonin that is in all of the your cells it’s deep in the cells it’s called a subcellular melatonin and the way that you increase that melatonin is through infrared did you realize that over 50 of the sun rays are infrared so that infrared is actually increasing melatonin in all of your body’s cells which will greatly help your sleep but another purpose of melatonin is to act as a powerful antioxidant even more powerful than glutathione in your liver and so melatonin is really important in countering all the stress that we experience and preventing a lot of oxidative damage and free radical damage and so if you can get out in the sun definitely do that for a good period of time but if it’s winter and you can’t do that you can also get infrared from a fireplace or a campfire or some candles or red light therapy but the sensation of infrared is like the heat that you feel from the sun or from a fire or from a light like incandescent light i’m not talking about the artificial lights that they have now like from your computer and your cell phone which will all counter the infrared uh wavelength and deplete your melatonin so that’s probably one of the reasons why people have a hard time sleeping is they’re sitting in front of the computer all day long and they can’t seem to recharge the melatonin now the other thing i’m going to recommend for sleep which is a really great protocol which i use on my body is i take four of my sleep aid okay right before bed about 20 minutes and three of my d3 and k2 that seems to work very effectively to get into a really nice deep delta wave sleep and it’s allowed me to get like even up to nine hours of sleep so i will use that when i need to sleep a little bit longer but presently my sleep cycles are in pretty good shape vitamin d3 helps to reset the sleep centers it’s great for jet lag and it’s very very important in sleep cycles and so taking vitamin d right before you go to bed is actually going to help you sleep it’s not going to wake you up all right number three post viral syndrome okay so let’s just say you just had coped or some type of viral flu and now you have this residual fatigue you have chronic fatigue syndrome now the medical term for this it’s called myalgic and cephalomyelitis now what does that mean that’s a fancy term for you have a combination of muscle pain and inflammation and soreness with inflammation of your brain causing cognitive deficits as well as fatigue now that medical condition mimics the symptoms of a b1 deficiency as well as a b3 deficiency so really what i think is going on is you have this inflammatory immune response and it’s creating massive oxidation massive free radical damage and you’re going into this infection with an already empty bucket of b vitamins and the residual fatigue that you have from this infection is really a vitamin deficiency that’s what it is primarily vitamin b1 but also the other b vitamins as well as other nutrients as well and so if you just had an infection and you start taking nutritional yeast and or b1 try to find a natural source and you also took vitamin d3 with zinc okay you’re going to start to have more energy there’s some other things that you can take too as powerful antioxidants like nac and not taking a melatonin but being exposed to the infrared which naturally increase