Can You Get Sick From Stress? | PYHP 071
The holiday season is upon again, which is a great time of year to spend with family and friends. However, it can be a stressful time of year as well. Not to mention, it is also the cold and flu season.\nMost of us are too busy and don\u2019t have time to get sick, but that is part of the problem. We push ourselves too hard. Sleep is often never enough, so we open ourselves to illness.\nIn this episode of the podcast, we discuss the connection between stress, your adrenals, and immune function. Over the years, we have seen it many times with our patients. They are very busy with work, family and just life in general. If an unexpected stressor comes along, they don\u2019t have enough reserves to keep them well. Inevitably, they are laid up in bed with a cold or the flu.\n\xa0\nPYHP 071 Full Transcript:\xa0\nDownload PYHP 071 Transcript\nDr. Maki: Hi everyone. Thank you for joining us for another episode of Progress Your Health Podcast. I\u2019m Dr. Maki\u2013\nDr. Davidson: \u2013and I\u2019m Dr. Davidson.\nDr. Maki: So have you noticed the weather\u2019s changing a little bit? It\u2019s getting a little cold.\nDr. Davidson: Oh, absolutely.\xa0\nDr. Maki: I think it was like in the 20\u2019s these last couple of days in the morning.\nDr. Davidson: Yeah. I think 30\u2019s because it didn\u2019t completely freeze but when it\u2019s cold here, it usually means that the sun is out which is really pretty. Then with the fall leaves being orange and read, it\u2019s actually been a really beautiful Fall here in Washington.\nDr. Maki: Yeah, you and I went for a hike the other day, we have this called the inner urban trail right behind our house and when we went up to this hike that\u2019s in Bellingham called Fragrance Lake which is a really popular hike. You are telling me about when you went down the trail and all the leaves were on the path and it looks like, kind of, like the yellow brick road from Wizard of Oz.\nDr. Davidson: Yeah, there was a big\u2013 kind of like a windy time like a windy night and then the next day when it was really beautiful I went for a walk by myself on that inner ravine trail and nobody had been on there yet. No bikers, no walkers and it was just all these yellow leaves all over and just me that did it. I was like, \u201cI feel like I\u2019m on a brick trail.\u201d\nDr. Maki: Yeah, that\u2019s great.\nDr. Davidson: A yellow brick road.\nDr. Maki: Yeah, yellow brick road. I\u2019m originally from the Midwest Minnesota and there\u2019s a scenic tour, scenic drive you go from Duluth, Minnesota up the, what they call North Shore which is the North Shore of Lake Superior and everyone takes this kind of\u2013 I won\u2019t say everyone\u2013 but a lot of people take this annual trip to be able to see the change of the leaves and certainly, we never really got a sense of that in Las Vegas when we live