143. How Microbiome Levels Affect Your Overall Health with Kiran Krishman
Ancient Health Podcast
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Stress and Anxiety - What's the Big Problem?
If you have a dysfunctional gut microbiome, when cortisol gets dumped into the gut to get metabolized and start binding glucocorticoid receptors, it actually causes your gut to become severely leaky at that moment. This then increases the migration of toxins into the system, which increases inflammatory responses. IL-6 has the ability to go to the brain and reactivate the HPA axis again - even though the stressor is gone. So this means that a single stressor in the morning can reactivate your HPA axis over and over and over again throughout the day. That's why people are in these chronic anxiety states throughout the day: They can't go up and come down
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