Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

Right.

So it's an evolved mechanism.

But the problem is everything comes with a price.

So you are accepting this, all these benefits

but you're sacrificing your gut.

That's what happens, you sacrifice your gut.

And so that surge of adrenaline, that surge of cortisol, that's out of synchrony, out of context of, I said this cortisol is good in the morning.

But what I'm saying is cortisol is not good when it's some random time of day and you don't need it.

It sacrifices your gut health.

and then ultimately what that results in is when you sacrifice the gut health the gut microbiome number one you feel it here so you might have to go to the bathroom or you might get the cramps or the bloating or whatever it might be right so you feel that that's your gut microbes that's also your gut motility that has been adjusted by the surge of stress but then it ultimately parlays into okay so if the gut microbes are weak then that affects the gut barrier when the gut barrier gets weak then that affects the immune system now you've just created inflammation

Okay.

So that's, that's the way that it works with the sympathetic nervous system.

All right.

So, and then the gut gets weak and then that the gut actually sends signals back up to the brain, right?

Through a number of different ways.

But when the gut is unwell, our brain can't be fully well.

Huh?

Right.

So if you want to be sharp, if you're a high performer,

and you wanna be sharp, focused, have intense cognitive endurance, you have to nurture your gut, right?