Dr. Giulia Enders

The walls of the stomach, for example, turn pale.

paler than when you were relaxed.

And this is because the blood flow is being reduced a little bit.

So there's less blood.

So it looks less cheeky, pink.

It's more whitish.

And less blood flow means we have less, you know, nutrients, energy coming in, for example, to have immune cells coming with the blood or, for example, to have mucus build up.

Because that's a process that needs proper blood flow and everything to be developed fully.

So when you have less mucus barrier, your protection layer is a little bit less.

So bacteria and particles from food, they can get to your cells a bit closer and maybe sometimes irritate them even.

But if it's just for a day or a few hours, that's no problem because that's just a good deal.

That's just, you know, trade off a good sacrifice to solve a stressful problem.

But if this is going on for days and sometimes even weeks, you're really taking advantage of an organ being goodwilling, you know, giving up its own work and stuff just for you to solve this horrible situation.

And then the gut gets problems.

And that's when the stress-induced gut problems often start and arise from that mechanism being taking advantage of an organ.

going on too long.

Oftentimes we see our outside demands and outside world so clearly that it's easy to fulfill all of them, but we don't know a lot about what's going on inside while we're doing that.

For example, during a stressful day, at least for lunch break for 30 minutes or in the

As I say, you know, really enjoy eating and being there, being present and saying, you have pushed back all your work this whole morning because it was so stressful.

Now I'm giving you this time to really do your thing and then we'll go back to my job afterwards.