Healthy Hormesis

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00:00A little bit of hard is good. A lot, a lot, a lot a bit of hard ain't no good.

00:09That's the whole video. See ya. I'm kidding.

00:12So what I want to talk about here is the concept of hormesis.

00:16So what is hormesis?

00:19Hormesis says a low dose of a healthy form of stress is beneficial or stimulatory

00:25and a high dose, too high we should say, is inhibitory or toxic or harmful.

00:35And some plant compounds that you take in dosage rationale follow a hormetic dosage curve and principle

00:41like rhodiola rosea, rhoda ginkgo biloba, arbacopa manieri, whatever.

00:45Plants typically follow that.

00:47But that concept applies to life.

00:50And what are healthy forms of stress?

00:52Well, we've talked about hormesis, at least touched on it here before it went wellness.

00:56It'll be something like exercise, intermittent fasting, a cold plunge, a sauna,

01:02some sort of shock to your body that is temporary, temporary and healthy.

01:07It doesn't mean it can't be repeated in the temporary sense, right?

01:10Like we do with exercise or fasting, you know, from day to day, having, you know, whatever routine it is,

01:1616-8 or whatever protocol, 18-8, but if you do too much of these things, they're not healthy.

01:23And I want to supplement that with two big examples that people talk to me about all the time

01:28and that you see all the time online and why it makes sense for your body to have a little bit of it,

01:33but a lot of it ain't no good, or a lot of it, we could say, right?

01:39Inflammation and stress.

01:44Inflammation is not good, Shane.

01:45What are you talking about?

01:46It is not if it's chronic inflammation.

01:51If it's chronic inflammation, then it's harder for your body to fight off invaders.

01:57You're more likely to get sick.

02:00Okay?

02:01That's definitely true.

02:02It's associated with almost every chronic disease.

02:04It can damage your healthy tissues, reduce rates of repair, and interfere with a whole lot, right?

02:15It can interfere with your cognitive function, how your GI tract functions, all these things in your body.

02:21But a low dose of inflammation in response to an acute injury is actually a good thing.

02:30The body is extremely intelligent.

02:33And so what happens is when you sprain that ankle, or you get an abrasion, you get a cut or something,

02:37it sends a bunch of immune messengers there.

02:40It sends a bunch of cytokines, immune signalers, right?

02:46Of macrophages, of things that eat away debris, right?

02:50Trying to reduce the buildup of scar tissue, right?

02:52Things that are going to promote remodeling.

02:55Things that are immune messengers so that when they get there, these immune cells say,

02:58ain't no foreign invaders coming up in here because we're vulnerable right now.

03:01We just got hurt, and we're not going to let that happen.

03:05We're not going to let anything get through the skin right now.

03:07We're going to, you know, whatever.

03:08We're going to send stuff there, and that's all well and good.

03:11The alarms go off, and all right, for like a day to three days, that's a natural response.

03:18Okay?

03:18And you can ice it and reduce excessive damage.

03:20Too much of it going there, and that's that.

03:22But letting the body do its work, in some regard, makes sense there, and it's extremely intelligent.

03:27Don't try to outthink it.

03:29Just help to improve the conduit through which things flow in your body.

03:36One of them is the central nervous system, the spark, right?

03:39That's a whole other topic.

03:41But let it do its work.

03:42Low amount of inflammation, okay, makes sense.

03:45But a high amount did the opposite, just like we said with hormesis.

03:49Stimulatory beneficial, okay, still beneficial, maybe peak beneficial, starting to get bad.

03:55Now very bad.

03:57Too much of it, right?

04:00So it helps you fight infection in the beginning.

04:04But too much of it, you're more likely to get sick.

04:07It helps to repair and remodel in the beginning.

04:11Too much of it, it's the opposite.

04:13And so inflammation.

04:16Inflammation is a great example.

04:18Stress.

04:20There are good and bad forms of stress.

04:22This doesn't really go for all forms of stress.

04:25But we will say stress in general.

04:28Here.

04:29At a low dose of stress, when you're in the gym,

04:33and your sympathetic nervous system is kicked in,

04:35and you're in fight or flight mode,

04:37boom!

04:38You gotta get it done.

04:39You're locked in.

04:41That's not your parasympathetic rest digest.

04:42Yes, you are locked in in the game.

04:44You're in that rugby game.

04:46You're ready to go kill somebody.

04:48You're fighting or you're flight.

04:50That is healthy for a very short period of time.

04:53Your body is intelligent.

04:54It's doing that because it's trying to give you more energy.

04:58Right?

04:58That temporary increase in stress.

05:00Your performance is gonna go up.

05:02Hopefully you have some mental clarity and you can think well the whole time.

05:05You don't want to be all flustered and crazy.

05:07That'll inhibit performance.

05:09But physically, right?

05:10You know, it's gonna get you going.

05:12And it's gonna give you energy.

05:13It's gonna help you to conquer something.

05:15And it's gonna help you to deal with stress better later in life.

05:19In the future.

05:20So that dose, that intermittent, that small dose here and there of rigorous exercise.

05:29Then resting, of course, is great.

05:32It's great for you.

05:32You're gonna be more resilient to stress in the future.

05:35And what if you work out nine days a week?

05:39You don't sleep.

05:42You're stressed.

05:43All you're doing is studying for tests and working out and not eating.

05:46Even though fasting is a healthy form of stress.

05:48You don't eat for a week.

05:50And you just go nuts.

05:52And this is way too much.

05:54Common sense says that's not a good idea.

05:56Be balanced, right?

05:57Listen to your body and everything, really.

05:59And we'll tell you not to do that, I'm sure.

06:01But then you get this stress that's been lingering.

06:06And you're constantly stressed.

06:07And your body is more likely to be infected with pathogens, right?

06:11You're more likely to get sick.

06:13It's like excessive amounts of inflammation.

06:16And this is the opposite in the beginning.

06:18Little amounts of healthy stress, they will boost your immune function.

06:21They'll exercise boosts immunity.

06:24Even intermittent fasting.

06:26Whatever.

06:26A lot of things, right?

06:27Vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc are top for immunity.

06:30If you're curious to supplements.

06:32But you're more likely to get sick.

06:33Your brain function is actually going to go down.

06:35You're more likely to suffer cognitive decline later in life if you're chronically stressed.

06:40But that little bit of stress, that was boosting cognition.

06:43You're ready to rock.

06:44You're ready in that test.

06:46Boom!

06:46I'm ready to go at it.

06:48It's a healthy form of stress.

06:49So almost more excitement.

06:51I want you to think of it like that excitement.

06:53It's excitement versus I'm stressed out.

06:56Right?

06:56Your body cannot repair as well when you're chronically stressed.

07:03You can run into a world of chronic health issues with chronic stress.

07:10So low amounts of these things are great for training your brain and training your body to better deal with things in the future.

07:17Or letting it do its work.

07:19Like in the example of inflammation.

07:21Caught the phone wind is blowing.

07:24Not on my watch.

07:26It's not falling down.

07:27It's beautiful out here.

07:29This is great.

07:30But you have to realize the dosage matters a lot.

07:35The dosage matters a lot.

07:37And if you're going to get nothing else out of this video, know that you have to have balance.

07:41And those are two examples of how something that is commonly perceived as harmful can actually be beneficial.

07:47But only in the right dose.

07:50Too much of anything isn't good.

07:52Even things that are healthy in small amounts.

07:56That's what we got for you guys.

07:57Hope you liked it.

07:58Who do we got on here?

08:00Skinny, what's up?

08:01Skin and soul.

08:03How are you, my darling Christine?

08:04Thank you for coming on.

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08:10And Sunrise Singing.

08:12As for now.

08:13That's all we got for you folks.

08:14We'll see you tomorrow baby.

08:16Not sure where, not sure when.

08:17But we'll see you then.

08:18Have a fantastic rest of your night.

08:20Thank you so much.

08:21Happy Saturday.

08:21Get outside and enjoy this.

08:23Happy Wind Wellness.

08:25See ya.

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