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the importance of managing your stress response. I think people are starting to get that it's important to manage your stress response, a growing problem. I think most... I don't know, maybe I live my little world, but it seems like most people are probably aware of this, that it's important, we're going to talk about why. I mean, I've been in this a while now, quite a long time. And everybody who comes in here now, everybody has anxiety, depression, chronic stress. I have a section on my intake form on my questionnaire that I have a patient fill out once we've decided that their case looks like something that we can help. And there's just one whole section in there on are you accomplishing your life's purpose? Do you feel like you have enough time to exercise? Do you feel like you have enough? Are you overwhelmed with things to do?
A lot of times stress isn't stressed. A lot of times it's the daily stuff. And then you have all the news over the last five years and you have the continual at you by listening to the news or looking at your phone all the time. I have... I've done... I've worked at stress literally my whole career and in the beginning I was primarily doing chiropractic and diet and nutrition. And you noticed that the people who were stressed were not going to respond well to their chiropractic adjustments. And we've had physical therapy here and so on and so forth. So they wouldn't respond well to physical therapy. They wouldn't respond well to chiropractic. They just wouldn't respond well and was it was very... We started to screen them out and say, "Listen, we can do this, but as long as you're under stress, you just need to know this may not work very well."
But since then, it has become so ramped up. Back then, it used to be those people stood out. Now every single person that comes in here has on their intake form, anxiety, stress, depression, it's unbelievable. And it's concerning. All right?
When I was younger, people knew stress kind of wore you out and they'd say, look at that person. They're a look older than they should be, than they're biological ages. Or somebody would get cancer and they'd go, "Oh, that person probably was stressed." And there was just this general understanding of stress. But it's a big player in these chronic conditions. And stress is, for example, most of the chronic conditions that come in here, not all, but even well, the vast majority that come in here are autoimmune.
But I had a couple yesterday that're not, and even in their cases, or I think they're on their way to potentially developing autoimmune problems, but they haven't yet. But the problems that they have in their particular case, they were gut problems. Those gut problems definitely have come from their chronic stress because why do you have to manage stress? Those of you who have watched me have probably heard me say many times, if you have an autoimmune problem, if you have an autoimmune thyroid problem, if you have a gut problem, if you have lung problems, if you have a lot of these problems and you're under stress, what's happening is you are putting out hormones that are at a certain level, supposed to be good for you. At a certain level the cortisol that is put out when you're under stress, which everybody now knows what cortisol is, they come in and I go, "Cortisol." They go, "Oh yeah, stress hormone." Well, cortisol first is part of your immune system that goes up to dampen inflammation. Cortisol good, okay?
Cortisol is also a hormone that, it's called a glucocorticoid. Gluco stands for blood sugar.
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