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The Secret to Being Calm When Stressed With High Cortisol

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

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The Effects of Cortisol on the Immune System

Cortisol is an anti inflammatory in fact, they use synthetic cortisol called prednisone in all conditions involving inflammation. But the problem is when you have chronic elevation of cortisol over many, many months or years, you start developing resistance to that cortisol in the receptor. So too much cortisol over a long period of time will keep you in an inflamed state and this prompts the need for mitigation.

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