# This Stops High Cortisol in Literally Seconds (do it when stressed) ## Метаданные - **Канал:** Thomas DeLauer - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHwN3xm_MNY - **Дата:** 21.03.2026 - **Длительность:** 10:27 - **Просмотры:** 33,821 - **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/20327 ## Описание Get LMNT Electrolytes & Receive a FREE Sample Flavors Pack: http://drinklmnt.com/thomas This video does contain a paid partnership with a brand that helps to support this channel. It is because of brands like this that we are able to provide the content that we do for free. 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The mechanism is eerily similar. Your cells stop responding to cortisol's anti-inflammatory signal. So, you just let cortisol go unchecked. It just continues to run. So, even though cortisol is high, inflammation just continues to skyrocket. It's the same thing. You're stressed and inflamed at the same time with no reasonable end in sight. I'm going to teach you how we can mitigate it. And at the end of this video, I also have a specific compound that prevents cortisol resistance at the cellular level. The mechanism is wild. So, here's what we're covering today. First, what cortisol resistance actually is and the vicious cycle that drives it. Secondly, we're going to talk about six tools that address the problem from completely different angles. Some maybe you've heard of, but some I'm pretty sure you have not. And then third, we're going to talk about the compound that protects the cortisol response itself from breaking down. I want to give you a quick takeaway before we even get into the science. Okay, salt can help get your energy up. It can help that whole process of manufacturing energy, take a little bit of stress off the adrenals first thing in the morning. And one of ### Free Variety Pack of LMNT Electrolytes [1:17] the things that I do is I have electrolytes first thing in the morning. So, I popped the link down below for my preferred electrolytes. It also gets you a free sample variety pack with any purchase when you use that link down below. It's called Element Drinklmntt. com/thomas. They have packets, but they also have cans. And their cans come in two forms. A,000 milligram sodium form or a 500 milligram sodium form. I'm a fan of the 500. I like just getting a little bit of sodium, getting awake before I have my coffee because a lot of times when I have a little bit of electrolytes where I realize, oh, I didn't even need coffee this morning. So, that link down below gets you that free sample variety pack with any purchase. So, check them out down below. Under normal conditions ### Cortisol Resistance [1:55] cortisol is actually anti-inflammatory. When you're acutely stressed, cortisol binds to gluccocorticoid receptors on your immune cells and it actually suppresses inflammatory cytoines like interlucan 6 and TNF and it keeps the immune system from going overboard. That's why you actually feel good when you get a cortisone shot. Okay, you're actually controlling inflammation and that's the system working correctly. But when stress becomes chronic, things start to break. And if we look at a review in the annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, this shows how chronic stress like psychosocial stress induces gluccocorticoid resistance in our actual cells. Meaning those cells lose their sensitivity to cortisol. Their receptors actually downregulate. So your body keeps pumping out more and more cortisol trying to get the message through, but the cells are resistant to it. So the result ends up being high cortisol, but it's anti-inflammatory. So its function is impaired. Okay? It's not able to bind. So it can't actually do anything. So inflammatory cytoines don't have a checks and balances system. They run unchecked. That exaggerated inflammation feeds back to the same beginning of the cycle, the HPA axis, driving even more cortisol production. So you see how this spirals in a really bad cascade. High cortisol is driving oxidative stress and is driving inflammation because of the resistance. Okay? And the oxidative stress itself is damaging gluccocorticoid receptors too. So the damaged receptors mean less sensitivity. Less sensitivity means more cortisol. More cortisol means oxidative stress. It's the same feedback loop pattern as insulin resistance just running through a different system. This has been linked to everything from depression to autoimmune conditions to cardiovascular disease to metabolic syndrome. So the question isn't just ### How to Restore Cortisol Sensitivity (6 ways) [3:39] like how do I lower cortisol. It's how do I restore my body's ability to actually respond to cortisol properly? And that requires a different set of tools. So here's six ways to sort of break the cycle. Tool number one, cold exposure to the face. Okay, the mamlian response, not getting in a cold tub. When you apply cold to your forehead and cheeks, the mamalian dive reflex kicks in. So cold activates a specific nerve. Okay? And this nerve that you stimulate in your face actually stimulates another nerve, stimulates the vagus nerve through the trigeminal veagal reflex arc. So immediately shifting you toward parasympathetic dominance is one of the quickest ways to like shake yourself into parasympathetic calmer state. There was a study in scientific reports that tested this, okay? It used a coldface test before a psychosocial stress task and it found that reduced heart rate, increased heart rate variability, and initial indications of legit inhibited HPA access activity. So the old like I got to go splash cold water on my face is flipping real. It actually works. 30 seconds with an ice pack on your forehead or cheeks or just splashing cold water on your face, you are triggering a hardwired reflex that pulls your nervous system back from sympathetic overdrive. Tool number two is glycine before bed. We have research in neuroscychopharmarmacology that showed that glycine acts on NMDA receptors in the supercarismatic nucleus. So it's your brain's master clock. This causes peripheral vasoddilation. This drops your core body temperature and that's one of the main signals for sleep onset. So if we look in the frontiers in neurology, it confirmed that three grams before bed reduces fatigue and it improves daytime performance in sleep restricted subjects. So we have better sleep architecture, we have better HPA access recovery with just 3 g before bed or you can get it from bone broth if you don't want to take a supplement. The third tool phospatil serarine. Okay, the data on this is strong. There was a study in the journal the international society of sports nutrition. found that 600 mg daily of phospatil seraring for 10 days decreased cortisol by 35% in response to exercise stress. But the study that matters for cortisol resistance specifically, we looked at a randomized control trial in lipids in health and disease, 400 milligrams of phosphotidylcerine daily to stressed men for 6 weeks. And in the chronically stressed subgroup, the ones that had disregulated HPA access, phosphotil serereine normalized this whole process, this whole system, their salivary cortisol normalized, their serum cortisol uh in response to a stress test normalized. It didn't just blunt cortisol, but it normalized the whole response. And that's exactly what you want. The fourth tool is raw honey a little bit before bed. Depends on how you sleep with some sugar, with some carbs, and not a lot of honey. And it sounds really simple, but the physiology is real. And it's because your liver holds about 75 to 100 g of glycogen. Your brain burns through roughly 10 g per night. If liver glycogen runs low while you're sleeping, your brain can treat it as a fuel emergency, and it triggers a cortisol and adrenaline response to mobilize glucose. That can sometimes be the 3:00 a. m. wake up you're dealing with. It tends to happen to people that are sitting in the gray area between low carb and keto. So, if you're really low carb, but you're not quite keto, you're sitting in this gray area that's triggering this response. One teaspoon of raw honey, like an hour before bed, you get a slow release of fructose and glucose that kind of tops off the liver glycogen of it. Now, that's not going to work for everybody. So, please, that may not work. It could even backfire on you. But, if you're someone that is dealing with that problem, it could hugely help you. Tool number five. I learned this from Dr. Dave Rabin, MD, PhD up in Mil Valley, up in the Marine County. Wild guy, super cool. Gargling or humming. Okay, stick with me. The vagus nerve intervates with the fernx and with your larynx. Okay, so like if you're gargling or even like deep humming, that is contracting those muscles and stimulates the veagal response. It's essentially like a DIY veagal stimulation. 30 seconds of like aggressive gargling, it activates that parasympathetic branch and it counterbalances this whole sympathetic overdrive that feeds cortisol resistance. And it sounds ridiculous, but it works. Tool number six is slow nasal breathing with an extended exhale. The exhale activates the parasympathetic nervous system through that veagal tone. When your exhale is longer than the inhale, say 4 seconds in, 6 or 8 seconds out, you're directly shifting the autonomic balance, not meditating or anything like that. We're talking a simple physiological lever. Even like one or two minutes of this along with maybe some humming, like huge changes in heart rate variability and it signals your HPA axis that the threat is over. You're not going to be breathing like that. If you're being chased by a cheetah, but I promised you an interesting compound at the ### Compound to Protect Cortisol Response (cocoa) [8:18] beginning, okay, this is one that ties everything together. Remember that cortisol resistance happens when oxidative stress damages the gluccocorticoid receptor. It makes cortisol less effective at suppressing inflammation. This is really important because if we look at a study that was in pharmacological research, it tested whether coca flavvenols one specifically called epiaticanin could prevent this and they found that cortisol normally reduces inflammation in immune cells but when oxidative stress was present that cortisol uh anti-inflammatory effect just was extinguished. Right? So when they added in cocolavinols it reduced the intracellular oxidative stress and prevented the development of cortisol resistance. Chocolate stops cortisol resistance. the cortisol response was preserved. We actually saved it with chocolate. So epicaticanin isn't just lowering cortisol, rather it's protecting the receptor from the oxidative damage that causes the resistance in the first place and it's addressing the root cause here. So if you get epicin from like high flavvenol cocoa, not a Hershey bar, but like legit minally processed cocoa or standardized extract, then this could really work. The only thing that I would recommend is that you do the cocoa earlier in the morning. Okay? Don't do it in the evening because the theob broine is like a non CNS version of caffeine. It will wake you up. It will keep you awake. So, no later than like 400 p. m. for 1 or 2 ounces of really good quality dark chocolate. And you can find low heavy metal chocolate. Okay? It does exist. You just have to do your research. So ### Recap [9:40] cortisol resistance is the stress equivalent of insulin resistance. Your cells stop functioning to it. You're responding to it. Your inflammation kind of runs wild and you just end up in this cycle. So, I'd say the quickest thing that you can do is just that cold water to the face. That is such a powerful dive reflex. And the glycine for sleep. If you sleep better, you can manage stress better. Phosphotyl serum, once again, like 400 milligrams. Really good stuff. A little bit of honey, gargling, a little bit of extended exhales. And of course, the chocolate. And I also did a video here ### How to Stop Waking up in the Middle of the Night to Pee [10:11] that breaks down how to stop waking up in the middle of the night to pee. It's a huge problem. I would sleep through the night if I could just stop peeing in the middle of the night. So, that video is right here. I recommend you check that one out.