The #1 Sign of High Cortisol

What is the best way to know if you have high  cortisol what is cortisol cortisol is the main   stress hormone and if cortisol is too high  there’s a lot of problems that could happen   in your body i’ve done a lot of videos on this  let me go down the list to give you some ideas  
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on what happens when your cortisol is too high  you get belly fat you lose protein in your thigh   muscles and your buttocks okay so you lose your  butt and your thighs what what’s not going to   do your knees it’s going to make your knees very  painful and weak especially when you’re climbing  
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stairs your blood pressure might increase first  starting with the systolic that’s the top number   and then ending up with the diastolic 2.  allergies asthma acne anxiety low tolerance   to stress people start really getting on your  nerves especially slow drivers inflammation  
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why because cortisol is the main anti-inflammatory  so if you don’t have it you fill up with   inflammation it could be anywhere back pain  whatever blood sugar problems you can even   end up becoming a diabetic if there’s too much  cortisol this is why when people get injected with  
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prednisone for example where they use prednisone a  lot sometimes they can become a diabetic cravings   for carbs and breads okay that would be one way  to know that you have a problem with cortisol   decreased libido decreased potassium  because potassium goes through you  
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and that’s a problem because potassium is needed  for so many things like energy relaxing you   balancing fluids it’s a main electrolyte etc etc  you may tend to hold salts and that’s why you have   edema as well but also you will lose something  that is involved with making acids okay and  
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hydrochloric acid so you end up with digestive  problems because you don’t have enough acid   and your blood ph can go more on the alkaline side  not the acid side that a lot of times people think   more alkaline and that can give you a whole  series of additional problems but in addition to  
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all these symptoms one of the best ways to know  you have high cortisol is the time you wake up   at night typically it’s going to be about two  o’clock in the morning it could be a little bit   later like 2 30 a.m but between 2 and 2 30 a.m  in the morning that’s when you become awake okay  
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now i had this problem for years and i didn’t  know what it was it was driving me crazy it was   torture because i would get up in the middle of  night and of course i had restless leg syndrome   too but i just wake up and i would start to  think and analyze and solve problems and worry  
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for hours and then when i finally went to sleep  that was around eight o’clock so the pattern   for high cortisol is you wake up at 2 a.m or 2  30 a.m and then you finally can get to bed right   around 8 a.m when you’re supposed to wake up right  why is that because cortisol follows a circadian  
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wave and cortisol normally is supposed to be the  lowest at 2 a.m okay in the highest at 8 a.m in   the morning so everything is kind of backwards and  so when you should be sleeping you’re most awake   when you should be awake you’re mostly asleep  and then also you might have a problem with  
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midday right around let’s say um two o’clock p.m  or three o’clock or you just want to take a nap   so that’s the pattern of high cortisol you  can also do a saliva test there’s also a hair   analysis i don’t know if they’re still doing it  now but that’s a really good analysis they check  
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your hair because if you test your cortisol  with your blood you’re only looking at your   cortisol at one time of the day as compared to the  hair which gives you an overall average of what’s   going on with cortisol or a saliva test which is  good which you’re measuring like every four hours  
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through a whole period of time to find out what’s  happening on this pattern so the question is what   do you do about it if you have symptoms  of high cortisol well you got to find out   what or who is causing your stress do something  to improve that okay walking long walks in nature  
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very very important physical work is a little  better than exercise even exercise is really good   but physical work to the point where you’re  you can get tired because it also doesn’t   just deplete you of the excess energy the nervous  energy but it gets your attention off problems b1  
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essential nutritional yeast is one of the  best sources and lots of it vitamin d3   vital okay and another reason why vitamin d  is good is because cortisol tends to block the   storage of vitamin d as well as the ability to  use vitamin d people with high cortisol usually  
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are always deficient in vitamin d and vitamin  d is also good for depression and vitamin d   acts like cortisol in the body with all the side  effects so it’s not necessarily going to give   you more cortisol it’ll help you regulate  or balance cortisol that you already have  
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potassium magnesium are the two minerals  that are physiological tranquilizers they’re   key minerals that help relax the nervous system  and usually if you have high cortisol you’re   going to be deficient in both of these so taking  those either an electrolyte or in food is very  
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important and then apple cider vinegar why because  you have alkalosis and we need to acidify the body   so then you can start absorbing the minerals  and breaking down protein very very important   i have a lot more videos on cortisol i’ll put  the links down below but thanks for watching