High Cortisol Occurs During and After Surgery – Cortisol Levels & Surgery Side Effects – Dr.Berg

Why do you experience a cortisol spike after surgery? Take a look.

DATA:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28758231/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cen.13820

Timestamps
0:00 Cortisol spike after surgery
1:20 Why cortisol activates after surgery
1:49 Cortisol, potassium, glucose, and sodium
2:19 Side effects of cortisol after surgery
3:24 What should you do for high cortisol after surgery?
4:56 Key takeaways

In this video, we’re going to talk about cortisol spikes after surgery.

Now, it would make sense if stress didn’t go up too much because of anesthesia—you can’t feel pain while under. However, this isn’t the case.

Your body still feels and reacts to pain while under. In turn, your body reacts to it with cortisol—the stress hormone.

How much cortisol spikes correlate with the severity of an invasive procedure.

Surgery activates both the inside and outside of the adrenals. This causes an increase in both cortisol and adrenaline.

When your cortisol is raised, you may also lose potassium. This is why they often give you a potassium IV.

You can also experience fluctuations in glucose levels and retain more sodium.

In general, there are a lot of post-operative effects that go on, including:
• Temporary memory loss
• Decreased learning
• Inflammation
• Decreased immune function
• Increased catabolic effect
• Decreased wound healing
• Autoimmune issues - Guillain Barre Syndrome
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Low electrolytes

If you are coming up on surgery and want to minimize your cortisol and adrenal response, you can do intermittent fasting and then fast a day before you go into surgery. This will help strengthen your adrenals and give you some resistance to stress. It will increase your ability to resist oxidative stress.

You can also do healthy keto. Ketones are anti-inflammatory, which may help with symptoms.

It’s important to get plenty of electrolytes both before and after surgery because of the stress response and depleting potassium.

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, age 58, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

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Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients so he can focus on educating people as a full time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, and prescription or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

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Thanks for watching. I hope this helped clear up why you might see stress symptoms and high cortisol after surgery. I’ll see you in the next video.