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Expert and New York Times best selling author, JJ Virginia. Is stress making you fat? Not only is stress making you fat, it's stress making you fat. Older than your years and lose your sex drive. Oh my gosh. Deal is stress is treacherous to your health and not just your waistline, but also your immune system, your mood, your sex life, and it totally ages you. So a couple years ago, my son was the victim of a hit and run accident. He was literally left for dead in the street. And fortunately, a good Samaritan came and had him airlifted to the local hospital. When we got there, we were told there was nothing they could do there. And because of his torn aorta, his multiple brain bleeds, his 13 fractures, we should just let him go. Well, we overruled them. We had him airlifted to an amazing hospital, UCLA harbor. Ucla, where they set saved his life. They fixed the torn aorta, which by the way, kills 90% of people right on the scene. But then this was weeks in the ICU and months in the hospital, and quite often there were life and death situations going on. So talk about stress. Because ideally the first thing in stress is to, like, get away from it. But there are situations like this where you cannot get away from it. And I remember that first day in the hospital and I had like a horrific heartburn. It was one of the first things that I knew, and I know all the signs of stress. So I was like, all right, oh my gosh, I can't get sick. I have to be full game on. And who knows how long this will be because, you know, I am the primary financial support for my family. So I put everything in place to be able to handle the stress of that situation. And I tell you that because, you know, hopefully you will never be in that situation that is such an extreme situation. But if I could put it in place there and manage it, we can manage the day to day stuff going on. All right, now let's talk about what stress does. First of all, stress breaks down muscle. It's very catabolic. Breaks down muscle Breaks down bone, and when it breaks down muscle, basically it drops sugar into the bloodstream. So when you're under chronic stress, what you're going to see is higher fasting blood sugar. When you have higher fasting blood sugar, you're going to have higher insulin, which means your body's burning sugar, not fat. And quite often it's. It's going to force you to have to eat every couple hours, otherwise you get hypoglycemic. The other thing that happens there is that makes you store more fat around your belly. Chronic stress also lowers serotonin, which then is going to get in trouble with your sleep. It starts making you have trouble with sleep, and it also increases your sugar cravings. It lowers dopamine, which makes you hungrier. And stress makes your gut more permeable. So in the virgin diet, I talk about leaky gut and having food intolerances. Well, well, stress can make you have more food intolerances. And because you're so acidic, stress can also cause bone loss and that heartburn that I talked about. Now, the deal with stress is when you first get under stress, it actually can kind of feel good because your adrenal glands kick up. You've got cortisol and adrenaline going on, and you feel very energized. But the challenge is your body can't keep that up. So. So over time, your cortisol starts to come down. Your adrenals just can't keep that production up, but your adrenaline stays up for a while. And you've heard of that, and maybe you felt that feeling of tired and wired. That's low cortisol, high adrenaline. And then at some point, it all just goes low, low. And then you're just flat out burnout. So obviously you don't want to get there. So what the heck can you do about it? Well, first thing that you want to do, eliminate stress wherever you can. And I call this doing a gut check. Actually, there's an even better phrase for it. If it's not a hell yes, man, it is a no. And I want you to start practicing saying no. This is my year of the no. People ask me stuff. I'm like, no. But really, and especially I think for women more than men, we tend to feel guilty saying no, and we tend to over commit ourselves. And a fast way to stress yourself out is to over commit. So first thing is really, see, is this something I need to do? Or could I say no to this? Or could I delete this? Next thing is work in some meditation. Now, full disclosure. I have been working on working this in. I haven't quite gotten there yet. So if you see me in person, say, jj, have you started meditating yet? But I did just get a really cool two minute meditation to work on because even a little bit of meditation or deep breathing can help lower your stress hormones. One thing that I do and I've done for years and I do it every single morning is I intention every single morning. This is how I start my day. I start my day, I open my journal and I just let it out. I write down what I want, I write down what my goals are and then I write down what I want to have accomplished that day, that month, the 90 day goals and what are the big stretch goals I'm going for in my life. And everything is really framed positive. And that helps me start to frame the day, but also helps them feel like I got some control over what's going on. And I'll tell you what's cool about that. You know, when you write down your goals, you are 40% more likely to have them happen. And when you write down your goals and you share them with someone else, it goes to 80%. So that is one that I live by now. The next thing is figure out your top de stressors because they're different for everybody. I think that's my big challenge with all these stress management courses. I can't think of anything more stressful for me to have to go do. Then another course right on something like stress management. But I think about things that help me de stress. And I have an amazing group of friends and peers that I've really cultivated. So time with them, time with my kids, that's huge for me. Watching something funny. Music, Music really helps me. It's a great pattern interrupt for me. So find what that thing is for you. Music really helps with me. A hug. So good. So hugs are great because they raise oxytocin, which helps lower cortisol. Your pets. I've got the most beautiful little dog. She's really a big dog. But she's a little package. But she's a big dog. So petting your dog, petting your cat can really help. My cat if you pet too much will turn around and bite you. That raises my stress hormones. Sleep is huge. One of the challenges when you get stressed, you tend to not sleep well. But one of the fastest ways to heal your adrenals is cheap. Just get some sleep. So I've done a podcast on sleep, so make sure that you look for that. I've also Written some blogs on sleep. Sleep is so critical. Vitamin S. Can't beat it. Burst style exercise. Now I call it bursting to blast fat. That's where you go all out for 30 to 60 seconds. Something like running the stairs or sprinting or biking or doing jumping jacks or jumping rope. Full body exercise. And then you recover with easy, active recovery and do it again with. When you do that, you actually train your sympathetic nervous system to handle stress better. And the deal with stress is if you look at the most successful people out there, they're people who have learned how to handle higher and higher levels of stress. And, you know, ever since the accident with my son, it's like people call me freaked out about something and I'm like, is anyone dying? And they're like, no. I go, all right, like, what's the problem? My stress tolerance is so much higher. Another one. And I've actually really committed to this. I am a big fan of massage envy. My local massage envy in Palm Desert is amazing. And I go once, one or two times a month. I'm trying to go more, but that's about what I get into. And so massage is another good one. I'll tell you where else I get massages. I am the person that gets the massages at the airports. I love the airport spas. So even if It's a quick 15 minuter, great. Or a mani pedi, get that pedicure. Add in the foot massage. Awesome. Every night if you can. Hot bath, magnesium, Epsom salts. Very calming. Helps with stress. And then of course, eating is very important. So make sure you're eating by the sugar impact diet, virgin diet plate, because sugar is of course, very stressful to the body. But getting in clean lean protein and healthy fats and slow low carbs really helps with blood sugar balance. And one of the things that happens when you get stressed is your blood sugar goes up. So this helps balance it out. Vitamin C is key here. It is the number one vitamin used by the adrenal glands. You will get it depleted during stress, just like the B vitamins. So get your vitamin C going and get your B vitamins going. And fish oil helps here too. Fish oil helps lower cortisol. Now, there's a couple different things that you can use to help with stress, and it really depends on where you are in your adrenal exhaustion profile, because you could either be exhausted or you're cortisol could be up or it could be somewhere in between. So if your cortisol is up, there's some great calming stress formulas like Rhodiola, you know this is what they would include. Rhodiola, Holy basil theanine, Ashwagandha, phosphatidylserine, lemon balm and passionflower. If you're kind of high, tired and wired, some great adaptogenic products include American Ginseng. American ginseng can be a great adaptogen and Eleutherococcus. And then if you are just burnt out, think of some rebuilding formulas. Those can include adrenal glandulars and licorice root extract and isacort and N acetyl tyrosine. There's one other key point here when you're looking at stress is that you also have to look at your thyroid. Because in general, when you have adrenal problems, you usually have thyroid problems too, because stress lowers your body's ability to convert from inactive T4 thyroid hormone to active T3 thyroid hormone. So quite often when you get under stress, your thyroid function goes down too, and the two just work together or don't work well together. So if you've got adrenal problems, check with your doctor on your thyroid. If you've got thyroid problems, check with your doctor on your adrenals. But when you know adrenal exhaustion is really a lifestyle disease, as you can tell from everything I've just described. So it really starts with you getting that awareness. Realizing this is an issue and the way you heal it is to start with changing your life. And you have to do this. It is that critical. So make your adrenals a priority. They'll thank you for it, but also you'll thank yourself for it because it'll make weight loss easier. It'll make your cravings go away. It'll make your health better and your mood better.

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