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Today, we explore the effects of stress on our health and discuss both acute and chronic stress. Learn how cortisol, the primary stress hormone, impacts your body and discover practical ways to manage your stress healthily. From personal anecdotes of losing a friend and dealing with farm challenges to the benefits of mindful gardening and connecting with nature, this episode provides valuable insights into reducing stress and improving overall well-being. Tune in for actionable tips and a deeper understanding of how to create healthy responses when under stress.
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Magic Barclay (00:42):
Welcome back to a Magical Life.
I'm your host, magic Barclay,and you are in season two.
And today I wanna talk abouthealthy responses when under
stress.
Now we all have things go wrongin our lives.
I've had a few lately, I.
And how we respond to themreally does affect our health.
(01:06):
So how does stress work?
Well, you know, there's lots ofpeople out there talking about
this moment.
So let's put it in a littlesnapshot for you.
The stress happens, youradrenals have to respond.
They release stress hormones,the main one being cortisol.
(01:27):
And it's a short term responseto get you through the initial
stress, and then everything'sokay.
Fairly basic.
Except there are different typesof stress.
So there is acute stress, whichis happening right now.
(01:47):
The things happening, you areresponding.
It'll be over in 10, 20, 30minutes, maybe two hours, but
it's not a long time, andthere's chronic stress, which
our body is under consistently.
Now, when things go wrong, acutestress can.
Become chronic stress, and we'lltouch on that a little bit
(02:09):
later, but what does cortisol,the stress hormone do now?
Look, there's other stresshormones as well, but cortisol
is the most damaging.
So cortisol for an extended timecan shrink your brain, so it can
lead to things like dementia.
(02:29):
cortisol can increase yourweight, so.
I have a cortisol belly, thickaround the middle, reasonably
muscly, skinny legs.
Everything else is reasonable,but cortisol will put weight
around your middle, andunfortunately that's where most
(02:50):
of your organs are too.
So that stresses your organs.
Cortisol can damage your skin.
your skin can get quite thinand.
Wrinkly and dehydrated, and youcan scarf for a lot longer and
you can take a lot longer toheal.
Cortisol can make your eyestwitch and flutter.
(03:12):
Cortisol can make you have brainfog and forget things.
Cortisol can do a whole lot ofthings.
Now, I said it's a stresshormone.
Cortisol is also actually asugar, so it can raise your
blood sugar levels.
It can.
Put stress on your thyroidbecause it is a hormone, and so
(03:36):
what it can do is it can causethyroid issues and imbalance of
hormones.
Back to it being a sugar.
Yes, it raises your bloodsugars.
What will your body do torespond?
It'll give you high bloodpressure to try and push the
sugars through, get rid of them.
Cortisol can also lead tolymphatic swelling because all
(03:59):
that waste has to go somewhereand your lymphatic system has to
help get rid of it.
So there's a whole lot going onin the body when you are under
stress.
So what are healthy responses?
Well, recently I lost a verygood friend and I, I'm denied
(04:20):
about airing my dirty laundry,to be honest, but my response
was not healthy.
Now, I was hurt.
I was upset.
I was blindsided.
Common word used these days.
What was my response to losingthis friend?
(04:41):
Well, my response was blamingmyself.
Maybe I'm less of a person,maybe this, maybe that.
Then I realized it wasn't myissue.
So then my response was anger.
Now, does this all soundfamiliar?
This is actually the stages ofgrief.
(05:02):
So then I was very angry aboutlosing this friend.
Well, the blaming myself raisedmy cortisol.
The anger raised my cortisol.
Then I kind of went, no, maybe,you know, we're still friends
and I'm blowing this outtaproportion.
Well, those thoughts raised mycortisol.
(05:25):
So after a while I came to seeit for what it was.
I spoke to some friends that Itrust.
and that was probably the mosthealthy thing I could do about
this issue.
And my cortisol started tolower.
So this is one example ofdifferent ways that your
(05:47):
cortisol can spike.
What is a healthy response tolosing a long time friend?
Whether it's through death,whether it's because they leave
your life, whether it's becauseyou now roll with different
circles.
Whatever it is it is tounderstand.
Actually it's to comprehend.
(06:08):
'cause understanding means thatyou're standing with that thing.
So no, we're going to comprehendthat.
Life changes.
We have friends for a reason,friends for a season.
That is a healthy response.
Not making it mean anything toyou, for you about you and not
(06:29):
raising your cortisol.
Now, another thing that wentwrong.
Recently, I live on a farm andit's been summer here in
Australia, and so I need to bewatering, right?
Makes perfect sense.
I grow my own food.
I need to be watering.
(06:50):
I've got seeds starting for thenext season.
I need to be watering.
Guess what?
We ran outta water.
Had to get a truck in.
It meant a few days that therewas no water.
And what did I do?
I started stressing.
So again, my cortisol spiked.
(07:12):
What are some things I can dofor that?
I realized running outta waterin the middle of summer in
Australia is.
Quite okay.
I looked at all my seedlings.
Yeah, they were a little bitlimp and sad.
Some of my veggies were a littlebit limp and sad, but they
weren't dead, so I was blowingthis outta proportion that I had
(07:33):
run outta water.
It was another couple of daystill I could water the garden.
What did I do?
I looked at all the healthyfoods that I do grow that can
help lower cortisol.
Things like mulberries, thingslike strawberries.
(07:54):
I grew sweet potatoes, so Iharvested some of that, and I
made beautiful sweet potatobake.
Now, these foods don't directlylower your cortisol.
There are some that do thingslike dark chocolate, do
directly.
Lower your cortisol mushroomcoffee directly lowers your
(08:17):
cortisol.
The veggies and the fruits thatI'm growing don't do that, but
what was I doing to lower mycortisol with them?
I was harvesting them by hand,taking time to appreciate what
I'd grown.
Taking time to appreciate thecolors and the smells.
(08:40):
If you've ever picked homegrownstrawberries, you'll know what I
mean.
That smell is amazing.
Then taking time to walk up tothe house and use them in my
cooking.
Now, what happened next wasamazing.
I was really involved in mycooking, really involved in what
(09:04):
I was making from my ownproduce, and so I immediately
felt a sense of calm and a senseof appreciation and a sense of
vibrancy in life and.
Using this produce, reallyappreciating it, almost eating
(09:26):
it with my eyes and my smell,and like all my senses were
involved, touching it andfeeling it.
There's something veryunderrated about enjoying your
food.
I don't mean enjoying your foodas in eating it.
Yeah.
That tasted nice, great mealsdone, really enjoying it from
(09:52):
the harvest and appreciation ofthe effort that's gone into it,
to the preparation of cooking,to really taking your time step
by step, not just following arecipe and you know, going
through the steps withoutthinking, but really being.
Invested in every single facetof the meal.
(10:20):
Then taking my time with myfamily to eat the meal and
talking about the produce andtalking about how we grew it and
talking about the colors and youknow, discussing what was your
favorite part of this meal.
It was all part of thede-stress.
(10:41):
Process.
Now, I really wanted to sharethis with you because how many
times do we see food as justsomething we are doing to
sustain ourselves?
Just food.
It's never just food, and if youare growing it, it's never just
growing it.
It's everything that's involvedwith it.
(11:03):
It's the up the downs, thesideways.
Like running outta water.
It's all of those things, and somy response to running outta
water was to work with what Ihad and to spend that time, that
couple of days waiting for thewater truck to really enjoy.
(11:23):
What I've harvested, what I'vegrown, what I'm feeding my
family, and to really, really beinvolved with that.
So what are healthy responses?
When under stress, the firstthing is to really see it for
what it is.
Losing a friend, running outtawater, whatever your stress is,
(11:47):
see it for what it is.
You can't change it.
It's something that's happening.
You can't change it, so whytwist yourself inside and out
because of it?
Like why would we raise ourcortisol because of it?
Now, there's a lot we can do dayto day to relieve our stress.
(12:12):
We live in a high stresssociety, right?
We have jobs that are stressful.
We have things in our home thatare stressful.
The internet drops out, thepower goes out.
Kids are having a fight.
Whatever it is, like there'salways some stress.
We have stress in our friendshipgroups.
We have stress.
(12:32):
Gardening.
We have stress on the roads.
Road issues are a big thing.
You know, there's always stresscoming at us, so see it for what
it is.
Obviously, if your life is indanger, that's a problem, right?
But most of our stresses, ourlife is not in danger.
(12:55):
We are consistently under stressin our lives and.
It's not like the wooly mammothis chasing us and we're running
for our life, right?
Or the saber tooth tiger.
I guess we chased the woolymammoth, didn't we?
Maybe we were stressed'cause wecouldn't find something to eat
back then.
It's not that.
Now.
(13:16):
Most of us have a roof over ourheads.
Food to eat, water to drink.
Family and friends to love andcare for and spend time with and
be present with.
So most of the stresses we faceare not life threatening.
(13:40):
But here's the clincher back togood old cortisol, it's life
threatening.
So our response, our usualresponse to stress is what's
threatening our lives.
It's not the actual stressitself.
Now more healthy responses whenunder stress.
We've all heard meditation isgreat.
(14:02):
Well, I'm not a meditator.
You know, if I try and sit stilland quiet for more than five
minutes, I've got dancingmonkeys going on in my brain.
Like it just doesn't happen forme.
But I will.
Go out to my garden and I willtouch the different foliage and
smell the different scents, andfeel the oils coming from the
(14:25):
leaves and look at the vibrancyof the colors.
I will go out into the bush andspend time with animals out
there, you know, even if it's arainy day.
Stay inside and play with mycat.
And just be really connected andreally, really present.
These are all healthy responseswhen under stress, so you don't
(14:46):
have to be a meditator, but ifyou are, that's perfect.
Spend time with the people thatyou love and the people that you
care about with your pets, witha small friendship group that
really gets you, that has nohidden agenda.
You know, women these days.
(15:07):
Guys probably do it too, but Iknow women do it.
We somehow surround ourselveswith people that make us feel
good about ourselves, but a lotof us do it.
Because that person is lessthan.
Do not do that.
Be with your equals.
Okay?
Be a good friend.
Be a good person, and be withpeople because you like them,
(15:31):
not because they are less than.
We need to also look at ourjobs.
You know, it's one thing gettingpaid.
Getting paid regularly andgetting paid a good wage to feed
your family, keep your home,whatever it is that you're doing
with your money.
(15:52):
But if that job makes you feellike a, sorry, I'm gonna say it
like a piece of shit, leave.
Do not stay somewhere where youare under constant stress.
If they're not your people,they're not your people.
Do not change yourself to fit inwith those people.
That's the other thing that wedo, and that starts that stress
(16:15):
pathway going, whether we'reconsciously thinking about it or
not.
The other thing you can do nomatter where in the world that
you are, and that is respect,nature.
Nature has so many things toprovide us, to keep our stress
down, but how many of usactually go and spend time out
(16:36):
there in the wild?
I do.
I go out to the bush.
I love being with animals.
I love crushing a eucalyptusleaf in my hand and smelling the
oils.
You know, I love looking at thecolors and the different foliage
textures and really immersingmyself in it.
(16:56):
Do I have to do it for hours onend?
No.
If I've only got 10 minutes,that's all I give it.
It's enough to have a healthyresponse when under stress.
Now, some people in the worldare lucky enough to be near
beaches or snow or whatever itis that's around you in nature.
(17:18):
Go and enjoy it and enjoying italso means leaving it better
than you found it.
Now this is another healthyresponse.
When under stress, do somethingto pay it forward.
Okay?
So when I'm in the bush, Ialways have a bag with me, like
a rubbish bag and gloves, and Iwill pick up rubbish when I see
(17:42):
it.
If you're at the beach, do thesame thing.
Have a set of tongs and arubbish bag so that you can pick
up rubbish.
Wherever you are, leave itbetter than you found it.
Now, this also means if yourresponse to being under stress
is to go to a coffee shop andhave some you time wipe the
(18:05):
table down, get an extra surveyor something, and wipe the table
down before you leave it.
You can do little things.
That will in turn help otherpeople.
Now, I know this has been alittle bit preachy today, but
I'm not sorry because it'ssomething that needed to be
said.
We need to make healthy choicesin our life and have healthy
(18:29):
responses when under stress,because guess what?
If you let that cortisol pathwaykeep going, it's going to
shorten your life dramatically.
It's going to affect your lifedramatically.
And I'm not talking about in thefuture, I'm talking about now,
I'm talking about that pathwaythat we discussed with cortisol,
(18:50):
with excess weight, thin skin,your hair falling out.
That's another thing I didn'tmention.
Your brain shrinking brain fog,high blood pressure.
Diabetes, all of these bigthings that we hear all of the
time, they're actually directlylinked to cortisol.
(19:11):
Now, look, there's so much morethat hormone slash sugar can do
to us, but what it's meant to dois do things for us, which is
keep us alive under acutestress.
What it does is it plays a bigrole in chronic stress.
So my challenge out there foryou today, whatever day it is
(19:34):
that you are listening to thispodcast, is to consciously.
Create healthy responses whenunder stress.
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(20:00):
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(20:22):
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magical day.
Okay.
Welcome back to a Magical Life.
I'm your host, magic Barclay,and you are in season two.
And today I wanna talk abouthealthy responses when under
stress.
Now we all have things go wrongin our lives.
I've had a few lately, I.
And how we respond to themreally does affect our health.
(01:06):
So how does stress work?
Well, you know, there's lots ofpeople out there talking about
this moment.
So let's put it in a littlesnapshot for you.
The stress happens, youradrenals have to respond.
They release stress hormones,the main one being cortisol.
(01:27):
And it's a short term responseto get you through the initial
stress, and then everything'sokay.
Fairly basic.
Except there are different typesof stress.
So there is acute stress, whichis happening right now.
(01:47):
The things happening, you areresponding.
It'll be over in 10, 20, 30minutes, maybe two hours, but
it's not a long time, andthere's chronic stress, which
our body is under consistently.
Now, when things go wrong, acutestress can.
Become chronic stress, and we'lltouch on that a little bit
(02:09):
later, but what does cortisol,the stress hormone do now?
Look, there's other stresshormones as well, but cortisol
is the most damaging.
So cortisol for an extended timecan shrink your brain, so it can
lead to things like dementia.
(02:29):
cortisol can increase yourweight, so.
I have a cortisol belly, thickaround the middle, reasonably
muscly, skinny legs.
Everything else is reasonable,but cortisol will put weight
around your middle, andunfortunately that's where most
(02:50):
of your organs are too.
So that stresses your organs.
Cortisol can damage your skin.
your skin can get quite thinand.
Wrinkly and dehydrated, and youcan scarf for a lot longer and
you can take a lot longer toheal.
Cortisol can make your eyestwitch and flutter.
(03:12):
Cortisol can make you have brainfog and forget things.
Cortisol can do a whole lot ofthings.
Now, I said it's a stresshormone.
Cortisol is also actually asugar, so it can raise your
blood sugar levels.
It can.
Put stress on your thyroidbecause it is a hormone, and so
(03:36):
what it can do is it can causethyroid issues and imbalance of
hormones.
Back to it being a sugar.
Yes, it raises your bloodsugars.
What will your body do torespond?
It'll give you high bloodpressure to try and push the
sugars through, get rid of them.
Cortisol can also lead tolymphatic swelling because all
(03:59):
that waste has to go somewhereand your lymphatic system has to
help get rid of it.
So there's a whole lot going onin the body when you are under
stress.
So what are healthy responses?
Well, recently I lost a verygood friend and I, I'm denied
(04:20):
about airing my dirty laundry,to be honest, but my response
was not healthy.
Now, I was hurt.
I was upset.
I was blindsided.
Common word used these days.
What was my response to losingthis friend?
(04:41):
Well, my response was blamingmyself.
Maybe I'm less of a person,maybe this, maybe that.
Then I realized it wasn't myissue.
So then my response was anger.
Now, does this all soundfamiliar?
This is actually the stages ofgrief.
(05:02):
So then I was very angry aboutlosing this friend.
Well, the blaming myself raisedmy cortisol.
The anger raised my cortisol.
Then I kind of went, no, maybe,you know, we're still friends
and I'm blowing this outtaproportion.
Well, those thoughts raised mycortisol.
(05:25):
So after a while I came to seeit for what it was.
I spoke to some friends that Itrust.
and that was probably the mosthealthy thing I could do about
this issue.
And my cortisol started tolower.
So this is one example ofdifferent ways that your
(05:47):
cortisol can spike.
What is a healthy response tolosing a long time friend?
Whether it's through death,whether it's because they leave
your life, whether it's becauseyou now roll with different
circles.
Whatever it is it is tounderstand.
Actually it's to comprehend.
(06:08):
'cause understanding means thatyou're standing with that thing.
So no, we're going to comprehendthat.
Life changes.
We have friends for a reason,friends for a season.
That is a healthy response.
Not making it mean anything toyou, for you about you and not
(06:29):
raising your cortisol.
Now, another thing that wentwrong.
Recently, I live on a farm andit's been summer here in
Australia, and so I need to bewatering, right?
Makes perfect sense.
I grow my own food.
I need to be watering.
(06:50):
I've got seeds starting for thenext season.
I need to be watering.
Guess what?
We ran outta water.
Had to get a truck in.
It meant a few days that therewas no water.
And what did I do?
I started stressing.
So again, my cortisol spiked.
(07:12):
What are some things I can dofor that?
I realized running outta waterin the middle of summer in
Australia is.
Quite okay.
I looked at all my seedlings.
Yeah, they were a little bitlimp and sad.
Some of my veggies were a littlebit limp and sad, but they
weren't dead, so I was blowingthis outta proportion that I had
(07:33):
run outta water.
It was another couple of daystill I could water the garden.
What did I do?
I looked at all the healthyfoods that I do grow that can
help lower cortisol.
Things like mulberries, thingslike strawberries.
(07:54):
I grew sweet potatoes, so Iharvested some of that, and I
made beautiful sweet potatobake.
Now, these foods don't directlylower your cortisol.
There are some that do thingslike dark chocolate, do
directly.
Lower your cortisol mushroomcoffee directly lowers your
(08:17):
cortisol.
The veggies and the fruits thatI'm growing don't do that, but
what was I doing to lower mycortisol with them?
I was harvesting them by hand,taking time to appreciate what
I'd grown.
Taking time to appreciate thecolors and the smells.
(08:40):
If you've ever picked homegrownstrawberries, you'll know what I
mean.
That smell is amazing.
Then taking time to walk up tothe house and use them in my
cooking.
Now, what happened next wasamazing.
I was really involved in mycooking, really involved in what
(09:04):
I was making from my ownproduce, and so I immediately
felt a sense of calm and a senseof appreciation and a sense of
vibrancy in life and.
Using this produce, reallyappreciating it, almost eating
(09:26):
it with my eyes and my smell,and like all my senses were
involved, touching it andfeeling it.
There's something veryunderrated about enjoying your
food.
I don't mean enjoying your foodas in eating it.
Yeah.
That tasted nice, great mealsdone, really enjoying it from
(09:52):
the harvest and appreciation ofthe effort that's gone into it,
to the preparation of cooking,to really taking your time step
by step, not just following arecipe and you know, going
through the steps withoutthinking, but really being.
Invested in every single facetof the meal.
(10:20):
Then taking my time with myfamily to eat the meal and
talking about the produce andtalking about how we grew it and
talking about the colors and youknow, discussing what was your
favorite part of this meal.
It was all part of thede-stress.
(10:41):
Process.
Now, I really wanted to sharethis with you because how many
times do we see food as justsomething we are doing to
sustain ourselves?
Just food.
It's never just food, and if youare growing it, it's never just
growing it.
It's everything that's involvedwith it.
(11:03):
It's the up the downs, thesideways.
Like running outta water.
It's all of those things, and somy response to running outta
water was to work with what Ihad and to spend that time, that
couple of days waiting for thewater truck to really enjoy.
(11:23):
What I've harvested, what I'vegrown, what I'm feeding my
family, and to really, really beinvolved with that.
So what are healthy responses?
When under stress, the firstthing is to really see it for
what it is.
Losing a friend, running outtawater, whatever your stress is,
(11:47):
see it for what it is.
You can't change it.
It's something that's happening.
You can't change it, so whytwist yourself inside and out
because of it?
Like why would we raise ourcortisol because of it?
Now, there's a lot we can do dayto day to relieve our stress.
(12:12):
We live in a high stresssociety, right?
We have jobs that are stressful.
We have things in our home thatare stressful.
The internet drops out, thepower goes out.
Kids are having a fight.
Whatever it is, like there'salways some stress.
We have stress in our friendshipgroups.
We have stress.
(12:32):
Gardening.
We have stress on the roads.
Road issues are a big thing.
You know, there's always stresscoming at us, so see it for what
it is.
Obviously, if your life is indanger, that's a problem, right?
But most of our stresses, ourlife is not in danger.
(12:55):
We are consistently under stressin our lives and.
It's not like the wooly mammothis chasing us and we're running
for our life, right?
Or the saber tooth tiger.
I guess we chased the woolymammoth, didn't we?
Maybe we were stressed'cause wecouldn't find something to eat
back then.
It's not that.
Now.
(13:16):
Most of us have a roof over ourheads.
Food to eat, water to drink.
Family and friends to love andcare for and spend time with and
be present with.
So most of the stresses we faceare not life threatening.
(13:40):
But here's the clincher back togood old cortisol, it's life
threatening.
So our response, our usualresponse to stress is what's
threatening our lives.
It's not the actual stressitself.
Now more healthy responses whenunder stress.
We've all heard meditation isgreat.
(14:02):
Well, I'm not a meditator.
You know, if I try and sit stilland quiet for more than five
minutes, I've got dancingmonkeys going on in my brain.
Like it just doesn't happen forme.
But I will.
Go out to my garden and I willtouch the different foliage and
smell the different scents, andfeel the oils coming from the
(14:25):
leaves and look at the vibrancyof the colors.
I will go out into the bush andspend time with animals out
there, you know, even if it's arainy day.
Stay inside and play with mycat.
And just be really connected andreally, really present.
These are all healthy responseswhen under stress, so you don't
(14:46):
have to be a meditator, but ifyou are, that's perfect.
Spend time with the people thatyou love and the people that you
care about with your pets, witha small friendship group that
really gets you, that has nohidden agenda.
You know, women these days.
(15:07):
Guys probably do it too, but Iknow women do it.
We somehow surround ourselveswith people that make us feel
good about ourselves, but a lotof us do it.
Because that person is lessthan.
Do not do that.
Be with your equals.
Okay?
Be a good friend.
Be a good person, and be withpeople because you like them,
(15:31):
not because they are less than.
We need to also look at ourjobs.
You know, it's one thing gettingpaid.
Getting paid regularly andgetting paid a good wage to feed
your family, keep your home,whatever it is that you're doing
with your money.
(15:52):
But if that job makes you feellike a, sorry, I'm gonna say it
like a piece of shit, leave.
Do not stay somewhere where youare under constant stress.
If they're not your people,they're not your people.
Do not change yourself to fit inwith those people.
That's the other thing that wedo, and that starts that stress
(16:15):
pathway going, whether we'reconsciously thinking about it or
not.
The other thing you can do nomatter where in the world that
you are, and that is respect,nature.
Nature has so many things toprovide us, to keep our stress
down, but how many of usactually go and spend time out
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there in the wild?
I do.
I go out to the bush.
I love being with animals.
I love crushing a eucalyptusleaf in my hand and smelling the
oils.
You know, I love looking at thecolors and the different foliage
textures and really immersingmyself in it.
(16:56):
Do I have to do it for hours onend?
No.
If I've only got 10 minutes,that's all I give it.
It's enough to have a healthyresponse when under stress.
Now, some people in the worldare lucky enough to be near
beaches or snow or whatever itis that's around you in nature.
(17:18):
Go and enjoy it and enjoying italso means leaving it better
than you found it.
Now this is another healthyresponse.
When under stress, do somethingto pay it forward.
Okay?
So when I'm in the bush, Ialways have a bag with me, like
a rubbish bag and gloves, and Iwill pick up rubbish when I see
(17:42):
it.
If you're at the beach, do thesame thing.
Have a set of tongs and arubbish bag so that you can pick
up rubbish.
Wherever you are, leave itbetter than you found it.
Now, this also means if yourresponse to being under stress
is to go to a coffee shop andhave some you time wipe the
(18:05):
table down, get an extra surveyor something, and wipe the table
down before you leave it.
You can do little things.
That will in turn help otherpeople.
Now, I know this has been alittle bit preachy today, but
I'm not sorry because it'ssomething that needed to be
said.
We need to make healthy choicesin our life and have healthy
(18:29):
responses when under stress,because guess what?
If you let that cortisol pathwaykeep going, it's going to
shorten your life dramatically.
It's going to affect your lifedramatically.
And I'm not talking about in thefuture, I'm talking about now,
I'm talking about that pathwaythat we discussed with cortisol,
(18:50):
with excess weight, thin skin,your hair falling out.
That's another thing I didn'tmention.
Your brain shrinking brain fog,high blood pressure.
Diabetes, all of these bigthings that we hear all of the
time, they're actually directlylinked to cortisol.
(19:11):
Now, look, there's so much morethat hormone slash sugar can do
to us, but what it's meant to dois do things for us, which is
keep us alive under acutestress.
What it does is it plays a bigrole in chronic stress.
So my challenge out there foryou today, whatever day it is
(19:34):
that you are listening to thispodcast, is to consciously.
Create healthy responses whenunder stress.
Now, as always, please like,review, share, subscribe to this
podcast.
We love hearing from you.
Pop on over to Facebook at aMagical Life podcast and ask us
(20:00):
questions there.
Post under one of the poststhere, comment and pose a
question to us.
We will address it here onseason two of the podcast.
This podcast is all abouthelping you create healthy
responses, and today it'shealthy responses when under
stress, a magic Barclay.
(20:22):
I look forward to seeing yourresponses, your questions have a
magical day.
Okay.
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