[Music] this can increase the risk of a heart attack over 2,000% within the first 24 hours now you probably wondering what am I talking about what increases the risk of heart attacks by that much could it be bad diet Noe could it be smoking no what about alcohol no this trigger that I'm about to talk about also increases the risk of getting viral infections and autoimmune diseases so what is this trigger it's actually stress but the type of stress that inrees heart attacks the most is losses a loss of a significant person in your life
and they actually have a name for it it's called a broken heart syndrome what they found was that when you go through a loss your risk for heart attack within the first 24 hours goes up significantly within the first week your risk for heart attacks are 6X that's 600% so this got me thinking into other types of stresses like post-traumatic stress disorder and the risk of developing autoimmune diseases by four 36% and I'm also going to talk about a lot of stress that people have nowadays is actually manufactured stress can be physical it could be
mental it can be real or imagined even thinking about a stressful State can affect your body physically you're not in that stressful environment but just thinking about it your blood pressure will start to increase when I first met my wife we went to this fair and they had a roller coaster she loves roller coasters she thrives on roller coasters she can do the most intense roller coaster that you can possibly imagine I can't even do the small baby ones right I'm a wimp and of course I didn't want to look like a wimp so I
got on the roller coaster with her and I remember getting into the cart and they put this thing over you and they lock you in my pulse rate started beating boom boom boom and as we're going up this slow Hill and I see on the other end it's like a drop off my blood pressure my adrenaline starts kicking in more and more and I started holding I'm really really tight to the point I was shaking my wife's looking over at me going oh my gosh what what's happening here and I was literally in pure Terror
we get up to the top you can't even see where you're going right and my wife said your face was white as a ghost what that means when your face is that pale is you've lost all your blood flow okay all the blood is in the bottom of your feet so as we went over the roller coaster going down I think I passed out I mean there was like tears coming down from my eye my wife says I'm so sorry I will will never do that again I will never force you to get on a
roller coaster and I've never been on a roller coaster ever since that I also had a severe fear of public speaking devastating there's certain types of stresses that people actually can tolerate other people can't so there's two main types of stress there's the type of stress that's acute or sudden and then there's the chronic stress that happens over a period of time but both of them can create similar problems and what happens when you actually experience stress you have two things going on you have a higher level of adrenaline which then activates something else called
cortisol so cortisol is a hormone adrenaline is a neurotransmitter adrenaline works very quickly cortisol takes some time it starts mobilizing the sugar for quick energy whereas adrenaline mainly works on the heart rate sweating blood pressure and also constriction of blood in certain places because we need to put the blood into the heart and the lungs and this is why even when someone has a heart attack right when their arteries are clamping down they can inject the heart with adrenaline and it's a vasod diator opens it up the same thing with someone having an asthma attack
they'll take a cortisol inhaler and that will Vaso dilate the lungs but what happens in chronic stress is you start getting this high level of cortisol cortisol is a natural suppressant of your immune system and this leaves you wide open for getting infections because you just now lost the barrier this is why stress lowers your defenses and allows the virus to invade the body this is also why so many people develop autoimmune diseases after a stress event especially if the stress is intense enough or a shock to the system where literally you just shut down
a part of the immune system that is supposed to keep these autoimmune diseases in check especially a specific cell called the T regulatory cell those cells are kind of like the Peacekeeper and they tend to keep the body from developing this self attack it's called an autoimmune attack from your own immune system destroying your own body cells so that's interesting that also explains why stress really can activate so many problems with the immune system and of course with heart attack and stroke we're dealing with adrenaline what you have to realize is stress activates adrenaline which
activates clotting and other problems related to the cardiovascular system like I said before you don't even necessarily have to have real stress in front of you it can be you trying to sleep and you're running through all sorts of scenarios but some things can get overwhelming and they can shock our body and I'm going to talk about some great solutions for that as well without getting into the details of that generally I think you know what I'm talking about when there's certain people or groups that are basically making your environment more dangerous or at least
perceived to be dangerous creating a real or fake emergency exaggerating a crisis all of these things are meant to put people in fear because usually the group that's creating that problem has a solution that now you're going to be dependent on and really the key word in this whole thing is control there's good stress and bad stress and it all really has to do with who's in control of that stress because there are certain stresses that are very therapeutic to us right like exercise where we're in control so sometimes we think that if we can
just get rid of all of our stress and our problems we'd be very very healthy but that's not actually true one would be high-intensity interval training I mean that actually increases stress it increases adrenaline it increases cortisol but you're only doing it for a very short period of time another stress that's super therapeutic for me is rock climbing now that's intense you're going straight up in vertical you're at Great Heights and when I climb my attention is totally in the present on the next thing I'm going to put my hand on if I'm thinking about
any problems in my mind they are gone within the first few minutes because I am more focused on something else so it's really what you do with your attention because a therapeutic goal should be to get you out of your head and to take your attention and unfix it to what you're focused on and push it to something else sports that's a great therapy because it's a game it's easy to get your attention off your problems when you're doing sports another thing to do is work with wood very therapeutic cleaning gardening dancing music art and
physical manual work around your house all of that is super therapeutic for stress if you're in a stress mode you start to breathe in a certain way this is a way to control your own autonomic nervous system and it works like a charm and what you do is you breathe through your nose not your mouth as you breathe in and you breathe out this is a great technique to pull you out of a panic attack or in an anxiety attack but again it's you now controlling your own breath that's really the secret sauce of that
and also taking certain nutritional things like an adaptogen ashwagandha is one of the better ones ashwagandha helps increase your tolerance to stress it calms the nerves B1 you can get also a nutritional yeast and then magnesium is another one that I use as well especially in the evening before I go to sleep it winds you down it helps in many different ways related to stress and cortisol but there's one more thing you can do that I used to do this in practice and now I do videos on how to do it yourself and you can
manually do some acur pressure to certain points in your body that will greatly reduce your stress it will literally put you to sleep when you do it it's wonderful and for that information you can check it out right here
