High Cortisol: The Silent Killer of Your Body #shorts

When the, the way your body's wired right to respond to a real threat is to release cortisol and stimulate your adrenal glands and get your fight or flight reflex engaged and run away or keep yourself away from the threat. But you're not designed to experience a high cortisol stress state all the time. And so while the zebra goes back to grazing, we keep ourselves in that loop all the time and our cortisol stays high. And that, as you know, has tremendous harmful effects on the physiology of the rest of our body. Breaks your brain down, breaks your joints down, breaks your cardiovascular system down, like staying in a high cortisol stress state is tremendously harmful for your body.