Now you would think if you went through surgery and had anesthesia that that numbing effect

would keep your stress and cortisol levels low because your body wouldn't be able to

feel the pain or injury. But that's not the case. When you go through surgery, you might not feel it,

but your body is definitely going to feel it and react to it. There's all sorts of interesting

research on the post-operative cognitive dysfunction that occurs after surgery. There's a lot of

post-operation symptoms in general side effects that can occur that have nothing to do with

cognitive, but we'll talk about that. What you need to know is that this effect correlates with

the severity of your surgery. I had two major surgeries. Both were from a broken arm. I fractured

my shoulder and I fractured my elbow and another accident. That was actually a major surgery. I

think it was like three hours. They had to put together my elbow with 30 different pieces of

screws and things like that. You can come out of it like you've been traumatized the second

time. Of course, it was necessary, but there are some things that you need to know about and do

to minimize the potential side effects from getting a surgery. Now it really depends on how invasive

the surgery is, but what happens when you go through surgery, you have to look at it like another

trauma, a stress response. You're activating the adrenals, not just the outside of the adrenal,

which is the cortisol response, but also the inside, the adrenaline. You're going to really raise

your adrenaline and your sympathetic nervous system. When you raise cortisol, you can also lose

your potassium. This is why many times it will give you a potassium IV through surgery to make

sure that your potassium doesn't drop down too far because it can affect the heart. Also, when cortisol

increases, you get more gluconeogenesis. Your body is actually making more sugar. It's just like

making more sugar. It's going to affect your blood sugars. You can come down because then you spike

insulin and then you get sodium retention as well. There's various things that can happen after

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