The Stress in Your Body Might Not Be Yours

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0:58 Here's your host, doctor Eldrid Tables. Hello, Good morning everybody. It's Wednesdays, and it's nine o'clock am on eastern daylight time because we all sprang forward last weekend. And I am doctor Taylor. I am the Hartmone Doctor and the Spiritual MD. And this is the Ageless Blueprint podcast and welcome everyone. You know, I've been doing this for a little over a year now, and you know I do this every Wednesday, and I hope that people are listening, are you know, are viewing it, And sometimes you just don't know. And so last night I was doing my question and answer in my school group and some people were saying, hey, I just listened to your podcast. So, you know, the feedback really motivates me to keep going because sometimes it's lonely here trying to come up with these podcasts and trying to do all these things. So I welcome your feedback. If you say, hey, you know, keep it up, you know, or hey, you're doing a bad job or great job, you need to do this or that. I appreciate the feedback because that gives me motivation to keep going. So h anyway, today, you know, I'm always about talking about stress and how stress almost influences everything. You know. We wrote the book The Stress Connection because we came to that realization. Well, you know, as you stay into something and you focus on something long enough, you get new ideas and things get revealed to you and all this. You know, So a lot of times we talk about the current days

2:30 stress and that's a good point. This is a stressful time here. We've got a war that's going on, We've got financial upheaval, we have we have all kinds of things going on here. So we think about the stress right now. But I'll tell you when I went to Ghana, and I'll talk about that, I felt like some of the stress that happened in Ghana was in me. Okay. Is that when I was over there, I could feel the heaviness of what was going on there. So that made me and my wife we decided like, look, I wonder if there's any scientific evidence about the stress suffered by previous generations, I mean in four or five, six, yer, does that actually affect how we respond to stress or how we are wired for stress even right now? Could it be passed down from generations that stress and agony or whatever should be pass down. So that's what we're going to talk about. Is the stress that you're feeling right now, is it connected to some generational stressors? And then when I think about it with the medical history, you know, we talk about your family history, you know, but really what we may need to be talking about is what is your generational history, Okay, whether it's influenced by race or by where you were in the world of you know, what part of the country or the world you were in. Was it a safe place, was it a not safe place? All of that and be

4:00 wired in. And so that's what we're going to look at. Where is the stress coming from? Is it from today or is it a is it compounded from generations on down the lane. So that's what we're going to just talk about today. Where is that stress? Is it my stress or is it my great great grandfather's stress? Which which one? Is it? All right, so let's see we can go to the first slide. You know, man, rebel, all right, the stress in your body might not even be yours. What if some of the stress in your body did not start with you? And that's what I kind of that was the question that we asked ourselves when we came back from that experience. And that's one of those doors where that led out of the dungeons and they got on ships and they went across the Atlantic ocean. Let transatlantic slave trade started there. And let me tell you, yes, this is not about slavery. Okay, I'm just I'm just telling you that's where I got the idea. So don't don't get all uncomfortable because I'm talking about something that can make some people uncomfortable. But if we don't, if we don't understand our history, we're bound to repeat it. So this is important, all right, all right, So could the stress experience by previous generations still influence our biology? And that's what I'm saying that African Americans not the only people that have been through stress, all races all everybody has had somewhere in their history where they have had a stressful tank. So I'm just

5:33 talking about general stress. I'm going back in my generation. But think about your generations, if you're Irish or Italian, are Asian or whatever. Is that any stress that is generational? And some people call it a generational curse. Well it's not necessarily a curse because that makes it mystical. Really, it is generational epigenetics, and that's what we're going to talk about. Generational epigenetics. You have genes and then you have epigenetics, things that are above the jeans that control the genes. All right, So that's what happened. Standing in gun We were in these dungeons where the slaves were, and it was dark and it was only one little opening where you could see what it was. Two openings, one where they drop food down and then they would take you to a place where you would go in this thing called the Door of No Return. And we stood there just like that, and I'm going to tell you it was it was moving. I mean, it was like it was a heaviness that you felt. My wife and I both felt that. And then as we saw some of the other places and how these people were naked.

6:45 They were there for months, sometimes waiting for the ships to come, so they would excrement everything was on the floor. Then they would throw food down there and you would eat. You would know what you were eating because it was so dark. So I mean that is that is stress, guys. And then what you need to have to understand is that out of over sixty million, sixty million slaves that were taken there, that only about twelve million actually made it across. So what I think is that we were one of the most adaptable people ones who made it here. So that's how I look at that as being positive. That made the Africans who came here, they were able to survive the transatlantic slave trade being in the bottom of ships. So I am almost proud that I have gotten here because that means that my past generations actually survived, so but still there's also stress. Here we will talk about some of the closer generational stressors that people can go through. So't the stress of my ancestors that my ancestors experience still influenced my biology. So because extreme chain, extreme stress changes the body. When humans experience extreme stress, their cortisol rises, and sometimes it can be a permanent rewiring.

8:09 Your blood pressure regulation ships because you're thinking that you've got to get blood to your muscles so you can run or fight. So, no matter what the stress is, it's always thinking about survival. Inflammation increases because your body is concerned that hey, maybe in a fight you're going to get injured. So I have to up this acute inflammation response, and I have to suppress the long term inflammation response like that stimulates cancer and all or protects you against cancer. And then also metabolism changes if you were born and this is what we're going to talk about. You see, if you were born in a area where there was famine or there was war or whatever, your metabolism changes. So you want to store energy, you want to store fat because you don't know where your next meal will come from. So we're going to see an example of that. How whatever environmental or stress that your parents were undergoing during that time, then that is going to influence the child's biology and you need to recognize that.

9:12 So because something that's a problem, you can understand that this has not come from me. It's not coming from my present environment. It's coming from a past environment, and I'm just reacting to it like what was happening in that environment. So you see, if you were born like I was in the nineteen sixties, and if I don't recognize it, I was born with the pattern that was was okay in the nineteen sixties, but now in twenty twenty six, I can't keep running that pattern because things have changed so much. So I can't be prepared for the nineteen sixties and I had to be prepared for twenty twenty six. All right, I hope that makes sense right now. This is not just me, you know, babbling about something that happened to me, and my answers is not have seen this around the world. Researchers have documented generational stress effects in the Dutch hunger winter famine. It was about forty years the Dutch people were going through famine and so they studied generations after that, and when you go through a famine, metabolism changes again. You began to store fat, So they were more likely to be obese, they were more likely to have insular resistance, and they were more likely to have cardiovastera disease. Primarily not because the situation that they were in presently was causing those problems.

10:36 They didn't have those particular risk factors, but they still had those generational changes that had stuck. And so even though they may have been living in an area where there was plenty of food, they still suffered from that change that happened during that famine. So they also looked at this in families of Holocaust survivors that their stress response was different. Okay, they were more they were more reactive to the stress. So it changes the way your quarters are pattern reacts if you were born in a time where there was difficulty. Now, children of mothers of who were pregnant during ninety eleven, they have a quarters all are stress imprint. That was a very scary time.

11:24 Probably the kids born during COVID they're going to have residual side effects from that. So we need to be able to understand that, Hey, look, the environment that you are born in or that you are that you are exposed to early in life, it puts an imprint on you and you react in a way that would help you to survive during that situation during that situation, but it may not help you survive in the present situation. So the key is understanding and being aware that that is what's going on. All right, So this is how this gets passed down. Now we know about genetics. Okay, all my mother had this and then her mother had that, and that's not necessarily the case. It's not about what genes you inherited. It's about what genes get turned on and what genes get turned off. Okay, So that's how you can expand learn more all this because different genes get turned on and get turned off, and they're basically turned on and turned off by your perception of what is going on. Okay, if you perceive that the situation you're in is dangerous, then survival genes are going to be turned on. Those are the fight or flight genes.

12:44 So if your perception is danger stress, I need to be alert, then that's what is going to happen. Those genes will get turned on. Her survival genes get turned on. If you are in a situation where things are comfortable, you're relaxed, everything seems to be finn You see the world as being safe, you don't see it as being dangerous. Then the pair of sympathetic are the rest and digest genes come on. Those are the ones that help you to thrive, to help you to feel good, give you energy. So how you perceive it, your mindset turns on and turns off your genes, your lifestyle. So we're going to talk about how you turn on and turn off these genes and that epigenetics. It can be It can be transferred generational too. It can be inherited also. So if you've turned on that fight or flight gene, three generations back, if you don't recognize it and mentally change your mindset that hey, look, no things are safe now, I'm not worried about that. I see that in patients who come in when I ask them how long have they had anxiety, and they'll say I've had it all my life. I immediately know that they grew up in a dysfunctional home and they don't know why they're anxious, and they're forty years old, that parents have already passed, already passed away.

14:14 They're in a relationship, everything's fine, but they still feel their anxiety. It is because their nervous system got wired or anxiety for unpredictability, because usually those homes are unpredictable. You don't know if you're safe or you don't know if you're in danger. It changes, you know, moment by moment. So they are wired like that. So you don't want to pass down genes that are turned on. That's going to cause a problem in generations to come. And what you want to do is recognize it, heal it in yourself so that you can turn off the genes you don't want, turn on the genes you do. And now that gets inherited down the line. That's why this is so important. I've been talking about how you were raised, the first seven years, all of that that determines the future generation and the future of our society and our world.

15:11 So that's how important it is to understand the stress physiology and how it can be inherited and how you can change the lives of future generations. And I'll show you examples of that. All right, So again, your genes are not your destiny. Okay, you can be say, oh, my mother had cancer. No, there is no such thing as a cancer gene. There is no breast cancer gene. There is, it's not. It's what genes get turned on and turned off. If your anti cancer genes, which is really your immune system called natural killer cells, if your body is turned on into survival mode, it is it does not care that a cancer may kill you six years from now. It's trying to get you out of the situation. So it turns off that part of your immune system. So that's why it's so important to understand how you can turn on and turn off your gams.

16:09 So here's how you can do it. So stress is probably the number one thing that turns on genes that you don't want to turn on. That's why I talk about stress so much. Okay, So you don't want to turn on that gene. So you have to change your perception. You have to change how you think about things because stress is a perception. Okay, there's certain things. Now, if you put me on top of the mountain and give me some skis and tell me to ski down that mountain, I'm going to be stressed. To death because I don't know how to ski. Okay, but if you put a professional skier out there, there's no stress because their perception is that this is something I'm familiar with. I do it all the time, so they have no stress. So that's what I'm talking about. You have to change your perception.

16:54 Sleep will turn genes on and off. When you go to sleep, you're in that rest and digestiment, so it retrains your nervous system. Then hey, there's a time for rest and there's a time for activity. This is the time that I'm going to recover and recuperate. So you need sleep. You need the proper nutrition to turn turn off genes. Those genes again, you can be eating, you know, three thousand calories, but if there's no nutrition in it, your body thinks there's a famine, and so you start to gain weight. We wonder why people who are in poverty are overweight. You're like, oh, they're eating too much. No, they are trying to get nutrition from food that doesn't have nutritional value, so they're not I'm seeking. In generality, we judge people because we don't understand it. So people are living in constant poverty, their genes of famine are turned on, they're more likely to be instantly resistant to have diabetes. See that's what I'm saying. We blame people and say it's their fault, but really it may not be.

18:01 All right, So environment, where you in a safe environment, or where you're in a non safe environment, it's going to turn on the genes that protect you when things are unsafe, and it's going to turn off the ones that are the safety gems. And your lifestyle, are you acting like you want to live? You know? I say you have to be active, you have to keep learning, you have to keep progressing. I'm sixty five and I'm more fervent about learning and being active or go to the gym because I decided I'm going to change my stress physiology at sixty five. Right, all right, See, modern life still creates survival stress. Okay, so just think about it.

18:47 We don't have to be I mean, we are in a war now, but you don't have to be in a war. They don't have to be bombing you. You know, we're in the United States right now. Maybe we should be where, but right now necessarily worried about a bomb drone. But we're beginning to be anyway. That's why you have to change your perception. Okay, that's why I try not to look at the news because I don't want to have the perception that the world is in chaos. I don't need that perception. I need to have the perception that this will work out because see, hey, I'm sixty five. I've gone through the Vietnam War that was going on when I was born. Okay, I was born in the sixties, so I've gone through the Vietnam War. We've gone through these sixties. I know these things happen. Okay, but this too shall pass. Okay, this too shall pass. Whatever is going on now, this too shall pass. You just have to be able to adapt to these changing environments, right, So anyway, this just think about it. We got all these single mothers raising children. That is stressful. It's stressful when there's two parents raising children. We have financial instability, just you know, I'll tell you this is so at March eleventh, March twelfth, you know, gas prices have almost doubled, so you know, the everybody's worried about AI taking their jobs.

20:09 So this stress builds. So the children who are born to parents in this age will will feel like they have been born here and they will feel or have it wired the stressors that the mother and the father are feeling. Okay, so we have to be very careful especially, you know. And even they say, well, what are you worried about, doctor, You don't have any children. Well, I got to think about my kids. Okay, they're living in this now, they're not married yet, they're not having children. But I need to understand this so that they can be ready for this. All right. I wish I'd have known this when I was really practicing. Obguy N and I would have counseled mothers about this, you know, But hindsight is twenty twenty caregiving responsibilities. You know, we're taking care of our sick parents with taking care of maybe other people's kids or whatever. You know. We have unsafe environments.

21:05 If you're living in a place where there's drive by shootings and you're worried that some straight bullet is going to go into your house, that turns on that stress signal and that's going to affect generations down the line. We talked about AI and job security and unsafe environments. You can have unsafe home environments and then you can have unsafe world environments, and that's kind of what we feel now. You know, children, Just think about these children who have been in been victims of these school shootings. Are just in a time where you have to go to school and you have to have drills for an active shooter. We used to have fire drills and that was stressful. You could hear this sound and loud sound.

21:48 Just think of the kids and their kids who are going to raise kids who are afraid to go to school. I mean, that's what we have to think about, you guys. Okay, this is not just about me and slavery and all that. It's not okay, it's not about that. It's about how are we going to affect how are we going to stop these quote unquote generational curses. Is that we have to understand, even if you're in an unsafe environment, it's about the perception and the perception that you give to your children, and that you can change the perception of the situation. And that's what a lot of people say is say, hey, look I was poor, but I didn't know I was poor until I saw some other people who were poor. Okay, that's kind of changing the perception I'll tell you that's what happened, you know, happened to me.

22:39 We weren't rich, but I didn't know we weren't rich because everybody around me was the same situation I was in. So that's how you change the perception. And maybe that's how this generational curse got you know, got changed. But I'll tell you exactly, you know my situation, all right. So stress doesn't have to be one event. Trauma is often accumulated stress. And I see that when I do the cortisol saliva testing. Is that usually when that cortisol is down or depleted, it's because women are men, anyone has gone through multiple stressors, Okay, And that happens around age forty fifty and sixty. You get older, your children are having to go to you know, trying to finance them going to college. You have parents who are getting sick.

23:28 You have women who are women and men who are going through harmonal changes, you know, So you have an emotional stress, and then you have a physical stress of your heartmones changing. So all of that is a cumulative stress. And you can do that for a certain amount of time, but usually eventually, around age forty fifty sixty. The accumulation of all those stressors and the turning on and turning off of those genes has ended up causing you healthy health problems, functional problems where you can't think as well. All of these. The nervous system never fully resets, so the body adapts to survival and it just turns on the survival gene. It just leaves it on. Okay, and you can't do that whatever, sooner or later it's going to cause a problem. So when survival mode becomes normal, many people feel constantly tired. I hear people all the time come in my office. I have this overwhelming fatigue.

24:30 I sleep and I wake up still tired. That is survival mode being turned into a normal occurrence. They just feel anxious or overwhelmed. Where what happens is that things after a while, things that they could do easily now because the quarters all is down, their daily source of energy is down, they feel anxious or overwhelmed. Even with mild tacts you so and you're saying, oh, way, hey, am I getting dementia? What's going on with me? So then that becomes another stress because you don't know what and why it's happened, why things are happening to you. You're not able to relax, you have mental fog. I'm telling you, this is what I see every day in my office. These are the people that I see that tired, the anxious, and overwhelm. They get their hormones out of white, so they can't lose weight, they can't relax. They wake up at two or three o'clock in the morning they say they're mentally foggy. This is what I see. So this is why I'm telling you stress really rules everything. Okay, if you can understand stress, I told you several years ago, and when I read that study that said seventy five ninety percent of all business to primary care physicians are for stress related complaints, so disorders, and that made me dedicate my life to learning about stress and hormones. And so now I'm continuing to study and say, wait a minute, it's just not the stress that you've lived through. It's the stress that your parents and your grandparents and your great great great great great grandparents were What stress did

26:03 they pass down the lane? So I think this is just, you know, incredibly interesting, and I think it's just something that you want to think about, because, like I said, now instead of just taking your family history about your mother and father, it's like, hey, what was going on during the time when you were born? Okay, and we almost have to have like a little history lesson, like what was was it a stressful time during that year or two years that you were in gestation, that you were in the womb and womb and so so that's what you got to start thinking about. So the part that matters the most. Research suggests that stress biology can influence the next generation, which means something powerful. Your biology is not just about you, It is about generations to come.

26:49 So just think you could make a change today, and it could and whether you're in your reproductive stage or not, but you could make a change today. You could tell it to your true to say, hey, look we've got to we've got to create an environment when you get pregnant that we are preparing your child for whatever may come in whatever generation because we don't know what's going to happen years from now. Well we got to make sure that our stress doesn't get passed on. But they are not able to function in whatever the future holds. So that's the important part. And so I notice time for a break and I think the next slide, Yeah, that's where I want to go is how can you change?

27:29 How can you do this? How can you look at what is going on with you? Because first you have to be aware, you have to be aware of what's happening. Then you have to be clear about how and what and why it happened. Then that's when you can Once you recognize and you're aware of it, that's when you can start making the changes, and then you can pass it on to someone else. All right, So let's take a break. Then we're going to talk about I'm going to tell you my personal history, how I think this happened to me, and how maybe you understand that now I understand who I am at this present point in time, that maybe that'll help you become clear and aware of how you get to this point and how you can either continue some good generational epigenetics or you can change it and you can go a different path. All right, So it's break time.

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29:35 All right, all right, we're back on doctor Taylor. I am the Parmel Doctor and Spiritual MD. And we're talking about is the stress that you're dealing with right now? Is it really yours or is this someone else? All right, so let's look at this. What I want to talk about is that you have a choice right now. You can either carry on the great things that you feel are very beneficial for you in future generation and you just now you know, and you know how to emphasize those are if you don't like you know, the past, family history, or emotional history. This is where you can make a change. You know. I've learned from all of this mindful meditation and all these guys is that the only thing you have control of is this present moment right now. This is the only thing you have control of.

30:23 You have no control of changing the past, and you have no you have no way of really changing the future unless you change the present moment right now. So I'm going to encourage you to say, hey, look, right now, you can make a decision and it could affect ten generations down the line. That's how that's how important I think this is. So so let me tell you. So this is a let me see if I'm right here. Yeah, okay, So let me tell you the story. I think I want to go here first, all right, So I'm just going one generation back because this is what I know. All right. So, my father was born in nineteen twenty it was actually nineteen twenty three. My mother was born in nineteen twenty six. So he grew up in the world that told him he was not equal. Okay, but here's what happened. He was in World War Two. He was in Germany, he was driving a supply truck, and he saw in Europe where Africa, well it was white people, color people. They were treated with respect, they were treated equal. Okay, So he came back with a different mindset. All right.

31:29 My father was actually a Baptist minister, all right, so he began to see that. All right. Now I was born in nineteen sixty. So what was happening then It was the civil rights movement, all right, So that just reinforced the fact that hey, look we are equal. All right, this is this is this is the time for civil rights change. Okay. So I was born when this ideology was being created. So my dad was looking at it as, hey, you are equal. So this is what he told his children. And I grew up. See, I also remember blessing and integration. And if you're not my age, you don't realize this, but there was chaos in the streets where people were fighting integration. I actually went to an integrated school, even in elementary school, and what my father told me over and over again is that if anyone in that class makes an A, you can make an AD too. He said, if nobody in that class makes an a, I don't expect you to make it. But if anybody makes it, I expect you to make it. He told all our children.

32:40 There was six of us, and here's what happened. Five of us were admitted to Vanderbilt and the other woman went to Northwestern. My brother, who is seventy eight, seventy, he'll be seventy seventy seven. He was in the second class of African Americans to be allowed in Vanderbilt. So you see, this stress we're talking about is not ten generations back, Okay, we're talking about my generation. My brothers and sisters had to deal with this, Okay. So all I'm saying is is that my father changed a generation. Okay, So let me go back. Okay. So that moment changed the generation. The civil rights movement was rising, America was confronting segregation and justice and belief that some people were less than others. The shift for many families, something began to change. A new idea began to take home. We are equal, and when belief changes, generations can change. Okay.

33:39 So all you have to do is you have to change your belief. Okay, I give credit to that. That is why this is what I'll tell you. I was born in nineteen sixty, so my other brothers and sister was born in nineteen forty fifties. And I think I'm a little bit more of a rebel than my older brothers and sisters because I was raised in a rebellion is time. So that's why I can go off and do Asians blue print and I'm doing saliva testing. I'm a rebel. I'm a rebel of the establishment. My other my brother who's a doctor, who's ten years older than me, he's not a rebel's as he's a conservative, Okay, because that's kind of how you had to You had to be more passive during that time in order to survive.

34:25 And when I was being raised, you had to be more of a rebel to survive. So you know, I'm just down. I'm learning this and it's it's allowing me to understand myself more, and how allowing me to understand my brothers and sisters more. All Right, So a lot of times they say when you teach something, you end up teaching yourself. So as I was going through this, I'm like, ah, that's why I'm a little different than my other my older brothers and sisters. I'm at the end of the baby boomer generation. I was born in nineteen sixty, it ends in sixty three, So I'm on this cusp. Okay, I'm a little more like my children's generation. I'm trying to get on, you know, TikTok and all of this stuff. I'm a little bit more toward trying to be like my kids that I'm trying to be like my older brothers and sisters are my parents because I'm on the cusp of this baby boomer generation and whatever came after that. So I want you to start thinking generationally how that's affecting you. When were you born, What was happening in the world. What were your parents concerned about? Were they concerned about the next meal on the table or did they have plenty and they had this, you know, their marriage was disrupted. What was actually going on when I was in the roomb? What did that situation prepare me for? What did they rewire my nervous system to expect once I was brought into the world.

35:51 It's really cool stuff. I think, Okay, what do you think, rebel? I'm going on here? But this really like turned me on to help me to understand why I'm like I am. Why am I such a rebel? You know? Why do I fight against the institutions? Why do I fight against propaganda? Hey? I was born in the sixties, So anyway, when were you When was I born? That's a secret. No, But but does this make sense to you? It definitely does, And it's making me want to go back and look at time frames like when my parents were developing me and as I grew. I want to see you, like, gee, what was going on in life? I remember some things. I mean, I remember when the Space Shuttle exploded, Yeah, and things like that. I remember.

36:40 I remember growing up in New Orleans and watching a lot of things. See I fall in the middle because I'm Italian and the people in certain neighborhoods treated everybody disrespectfully. Yeah. They I'd watch some of my friends get called horrible things, and then people would call us horrible things too. It's like hmmh. And that's why I said when I started out, I'm like, that's just my history is slavery. But almost every race has had somewhere at some point in time where some other race or country or whatever is trying to dominate them.

37:25 And you dominate somebody by making them feel less than and so, like I say, the Italians, Irish, Asians, the Native Americans, all of them there, they are carrying the stress of their ancestor. And you, just like I said, you have to decide. Okay, is it a good thing? Now? Some of it is resilience. Okay. I felt like I get by surviving the Transatlantic slave slave trade. I feel like I'm resilient. I can handle anything. Okay, if I can handle that. I learned that when I climbed up that mountain to see those dog on guerrilla you know, ten thousand feet up up about you know, I was like, I can handle anything now. So but anyway, that's the part of it. So that's what I'm saying. This is this goes across generations. You just think about, you know, the stuff that you probably remember, the Bosnia and Servia when the Soviet Union broke up. That was chaotic. I mean, there's always chaotic things going on. The power of this is how can you remain calm when everything around you is going crazy. I will tell you one thing that my brother told me, who was who's a doc, who's older than me. He said, Look, this was like when I was a first year in medical school and he had been out. He said, if you can remain calm and everything around you is going crazy in the operating room or in the emergency room, people will be in to respect you. So here's what I did. When I was doing my residency in obgy N. That was my goal.

38:56 Is whether it was emergency C section, whatever, I was going to stay calm. And this is what it got me. It got me to be chief resident of OBGYN. And I don't feel I feel like I did anything special. Is I was able to be calm and make good decisions really because of what my brother kind of told me is you need to stay calm. And this is what when chaos is going on around you, can you calm yourself. And that's why I started doing meditation and telling people about meditation, because it teaches you how to calm your brain down even if your external environment is going absolutely crazy. And that is a skill I think everybody should learn. How can I keep my internal environment where I don't turn on these stress genes, even those stresses all around me. That is the skill that I need people to try and learn. All right, So here we go. Okay, great, okay, let's go.

39:51 First question, Are you saying stress can be coded into our DNA and RNA. That's exactly what I'm saying. That's exactly what I'm saying. It gets encoded. Like I said, you have to think of your DNA as your hardware on your computer and your epigenetics. That's what that turns up. That shows you what program you're looking at. So you get so your genes have all of these programs. It has stress programs and it has non stress programs. Okay, and so what is it will turn on the gene and now if somebody doesn't turn it off, that gene stays turned on. Okay, the gene didn't change, but the switch that turned on that gene came on. And if you don't turn it off, it's going to get passed down down the lane. All right.

40:37 So next question, I hope I explained that. Okay, I believe. So let's see. Are you saying we experience things and the feelings control our response behavior as we go along in life. Yeah, so if you are if that stress system is always on, you're going to feel this constant anxiety. Okay, And constant anxiety. It turns off your frontal load. When you're anxious, it's very hard for you to think and to think logically. You begin to react, and that's what we call you your lower part of your Mammlian Olympic brain. You just act totally on emotion and not logic, and so you end up making decisions based on a system that was turned on three generations before. Okay, so you have to recognize, hey, where's that anxiety coming from. You have to consciously be aware of it and consciously do things to turn on the right genes and turn those scenes off. We can go ahead, say it's a few months last time we get through. But you have another question.

41:41 Yes, can people have anxiety and not know they have anxiety because it's their normal? Exactly? That's right, That's what I was talking about. Most people think that the way they feel is normal because that's how they felt all their lives. Okay, but a lot of time is what you think is normal is not normal. Okay, it's I have a book called the Myth of Normal. Okay, normal just means what are most people experiencing. Okay, So if you go and get your blood pressure and everybody has high blood pressure, and then if you look at medicine, they do a bell shaped curve. It will show you that high blood pressure is the norm.

42:23 So yeah, if everybody normal just means what is most common. And if it's common that people have been raised in a stressful environment, that anxiety and the stress pattern becomes normal. Everybody thinks that not sleeping well is normal, or being tired is normal, or not being able to control their weight normal. No, all of that is a stress and normal and nervous system, this function that may have been coded into your genes one hundred years ago. Anything else we. Do, but you need to finish this line. It's first, because yeah, I'm just gonna go really real quick. So ages through print living begins where we understand stress, physiology, hormones, lifestyle and mindset. Okay, I'm gonna go through this real quickly because we do want to answer your questions. So the final thought, the stress in your body might not be yours, but the healing can begin with you, and what you change today may change the biology of the next generation. So this is my big audacious goal. I've been reading this book called The Art of Impossible, and so one of You know, he talks about how people who thinks things are impossible impossible become possible when one person does it. Like the four Minute Mount. They thought nobody could run the mound and that's the four minutes until Roger Bannister did it. Nobody thought you could fly until the Wright brothers did it. Well, this is my thing.

43:50 I want to make saliva testing, cortisol, esogen, progesterone. I want to make that as commonplace as knowing that when you need your blood pressure checked, you know that he's supposed to put a blood pressure cuff on you. When you want to know your temperature, you know you're supposed to use a a dermometer. And when you want to know about your hormones, everybody knows you do a salibaty Okay. The other thing I want to do is get this to have women and men learn enough physiology so that they can teach their kids about estrogen and progesterone and what makes things grow and how your hormones can be out of balance. And just think if everybody knew from an early age, hey, I need to worry about my estrogen, progesterone and balance because if it's out of balance. I could get fibroids, I could have infertility, and my moods could be crazy. It will make menopause very hard for me.

44:43 But if I monitor this and I know my physiology that should have been taught in the fifth grade health class. If you can teach your daughter that, it will change this hormone confusion that has been going on for fifty years. So if you are part of ageless blueprint, you are part of changing future generations because if you know this information and you can teach it to your children and your friends to say, hey, look, if you're not getting saliva tested, you are just guessing that's why you're having So that's why there's so much confusion because people aren't using the right test. Harmone clarity equals saliva testing, blood pressure, medicine equals blood pressure. Come if I want to know my blood count, I know I'm slowly go get a CDC.

45:27 My impossible goal is to make it where people, not doctors, people understand this, okay, because if you can understand this, you can change generations to come that they know how to measure stress through cortisol testing, that through heart rate variability. This is not information that's hard for people to understand, but if you understand it, you can change the life of your children, the children that's coming after that by understanding stress physiology and epigenetics. So that is my goal, and the reason why I get up here and do this is that I want you, guys who have questions, I want to give you the answers. And I told people last night, I want you to lose some sleep thinking about this. I want you to lose some sleep thinking about how important this is. I want you to lose some sleep thinking about how if I'd have known this earlier, how my life could have been different. So that's my goal, you guys, all right. I kind of get choked up about this because it's like it's like something that I have to get out, I have to get after me. So I come up with all these ideas and almost is overwhelming because how important it is to me and how I can see that that's a part of purpose in life. Can I do something that is going to change the life of people that come after me? Okay, So I got I gotta stop. I'll

47:00 get emotional. I'll start playing here in a minute, you know. So hey, we got one minute left. So if we got one more question. Let's go. Let's see. Are you saying we can take control of our genes exactly? That's exactly what I'm telling you. That is that I couldn't have. I've been sitting here for fifty minutes trying to say that one thing. Yes, you can take control of your genes. There is nothing permanent about your genetic makeup. You can change your genes at any point in time by changing those things that we just talked about. Your mindset, your nutrition, lifestyle factors, how well you sleep, all of those can change your genes and it can change the length of your life. I did a podcast on the telomere effect. Is that how changing those lifestyle things that we talked about it can lengthen your life. And if it doesn't even lengthen your life, it can make your life more enjoyable, okay. Is by taking control of your life and your health, your genes, and control of what your future generations are going to have to deal with.

48:08 So anyway, I know it's time to go. Thank you for your attention. Hey, comment, give me some feedback, tell me you know, tell me join my school group. Do all the things I tell you. I'm telling you to do, and we'll see you next week. All right, thanks for joining doctor Taylor today. If you missed any part of this show, just check out the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Angel's Blueprint is every Wednesday at nine am Eastern Time on W four EC Radio at w FOURC dot com. Together, we discovered the ancient secrets to better health through science and spirituality made for modern times. Until then, feel free to check out Anngeless Blueprint podcast dot com and Taylor mvformulations dot com for more information.

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