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How Chronic Stress Leads to Disease - Learn the Shocking Truth! 💥

20 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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A YouTube health-education video (creator: Dr. Tabatha Barber) explaining how chronic overproduction of stress hormones—adrenaline and cortisol—drives intracellular inflammation. The speaker states that while acute cortisol can aid healing, chronic excess causes tissue breakdown, impaired healing, and metabolic derangement inside cells, which the speaker links to development of diseases such as cancer and diabetes.

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Chronically overproduction of adrenaline and cortisol cause inflammation, inflammation inside the cells. And inflammation is destructive. So a little bit of cortisol acutely is actually a good thing and can help us heal. But chronic excess, long term, that is destructive. It causes our tissues to break down and not be able to heal. And they essentially, it's a setup for the creation of disease, of metabolic derangement that happens inside the cells, and that's what creates cancers and diabetes and all of these things.