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Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

The absolute worst stress for your immune system is not exercise stress or work stress,

relationship stress, or money stress, or even marriage stress, or even COVID stress.

It's this type of stress right here.

Losses.

Divorce or loss of a loved one.

This is the greatest stress that someone can go through, and the closer you are with someone

the worse the stress is, because it literally shocks your entire system.

The term to describe this is called bereavement, there's actually some interesting studies

on this.

It's a period of sadness, loneliness, and grief.

It significantly suppresses the white blood cells to the point where you're very susceptible

to getting infection.

When I was in practice, I would always ask people, when did you start experiencing an auto

immune disease, and literally not at a ten times, it was after a loss?

Now also chronic fatigue syndrome could be a reactivation of a virus, as well as weaken

your immune system just to make you more susceptible to getting a new virus.

Here are some things that are very, very important when talking about the immune system.

You want to spend the majority of your time strengthening your immune system versus trying

to kill something off.

You want to make sure that your environment is very, very supportive and therapeutic.

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