נטורפתית: לחץ כרוני גורם למחסור בערכים תזונתיים בגוף | ריאיון

Sheridan, so great to have you join us on Vital Science today. Thanks for having me, Brandon. I think most of us, when we think about stress, we think of it as a purely psychological experience. But what effect is that actually having on the physical body, and what implications does this have as far as nutrition goes and what we need to be eating to stay healthy at that time? Well, we've actually connected mind and body used to be recognized in traditional medicine for a very long time in history, in other cultures, that whatever's going on emotionally and mentally is physically existing in the body as well. And when I was writing my book, one of the things that was so fascinating is we're getting nine signals from the gut to the brain versus one from the brain down. So every time we are chronically stressed physically, it is actually changing the way we behave and the brain. So it's affecting everything. And we can't separate the two, unlike how we try to only focus on the physical sides these days. So there's lots people can actually take, but it's usually baby steps to get started when they're under a lot of stress. Which specific nutrients does chronic stress deplete most significantly, and what are the consequences of running low on those specific nutrients? The main nutrients are the ones that support the nervous system. So the nervous system is actually our primitive alarm system. And when we're in fight and flight, which a lot of people have heard of, we use up a lot of magnesium, B vitamins, our blood sugar automatically goes up because we're needing that extra glucose for our muscles and our lungs to run. So it's why even people that I see in clinical practice fasting for all day and then maybe eating only at night, they wonder why it's so easily for them to store on fat or have really poor sleep. And they think, well, fasting is supposed to work for me. But if they're chronically stressed, these vitamins and minerals are used up so quickly that and then the gut and how we eat is affected as well. So there's no one single fix with even supplementation. So it's a combination of focusing on when we eat as well as how we eat and then what. So it's like a triangle. If people were thinking about how to start with the steps in place first. How to eat. That's intriguing. Could you sum that up quickly, what you mean when you say how to eat? Yes. So once we've got the actual ideal meal focused in front of us, if we are mentally focused on something else and our heart rate is being affected, when we actually become conscious of this, what you'll notice is that you're pumping blood much more quickly and your breathing rate is affected. What that is giving you a signal is that your digestion and the blood flow to digestion is being slowed down. So that means even if that perfect meal is in front of you, it's actually not going to be absorbed as well as what it could be if you were to really slow down and breathe more deeply, even a couple of breaths. I love listening to music if I'm not with good company when I eat, because it helps me very quickly shift into a more relaxed state, which is our parasympathetic rest and digest state. So it's often the missing component that is always a work in progress for the rest of our life, that if we can be relaxed and breathe properly when we eat, we're going to get a better result from what we're eating.