The Root Causes of High Stress Levels | Dr. Chris Kresser #shorts

If you're feeling depleted and you're not really responding to stress very well, you're not very resilient, you feel like you don't have a lot of buffer for the daily stresses of life, then you definitely have to look at your magnesium levels. That's probably one of the most important nutrients that governs our stress response. All of the B vitamins are really critical. Zinc and copper are really important for the nervous system, fat soluble vitamins. Another one is both male and female hormone imbalances. So women who are dealing with issues around menstrual cycle, sexual vitality, men also dealing with sexual vitality and strength, recovery and performance. The production of all of the sex hormones, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and all of the ways that those hormones are converted in the body depend on several different nutrients. And when you're low in those nutrients, then you're not going to get optimal conversion of those hormones. So the entire endocrine system will be affected. So nutrients drive all of those biochemical processes in the body.