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Why Is Cortisol So Important With Candida

4,629 views · Published 27 November 2016 · 4:10 · Indexed 22 October 2026

Channel: CanXida · 2016 · Education

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We're going to talk about cortisol today and its importance. I just found an interesting article in a local newspaper about why cortisol is so important. I regularly get asked by people through Facebook, YouTube and different other areas of the internet why cortisol is so important. Why the adrenal function has any bearing in getting people to overcome a Candida yeast infection or whether it be a parasite problem or a gut problem in general or many other kinds of immune dysfunctions that people get. 

Cortisol is an exceedingly important hormone that the adrenal glands make. The adrenals make adrenaline and cortisol, two main stress hormones. Adrenaline is more important in the "alarm phase" or the early stages of stress. It's driven up to a very high demand by people who put incredible urgency and pressure on themselves these days. Today, we tend to push the adrenaline up artificially also by caffeine, by lots of coffee and tea that we drink. Cortisol tends to be more the delayed response for stress and tends to have more of an effect in the adaptation and exhaustion phases. Even much more so than the adrenaline. 

Traditionally, when you look at stress in our lives as humans, we used to suffer from famines, wars, floods and things like that. Really bad a long time ago. We still do today, but not to the extent that we did. Cortisol was an important hormone to maintain the integrity of the body with long term periods of stress. Many of you people watching this video right now will have long term periods of stress. Maybe you're not in a famine or a flood. Maybe you're not at war, although we have got wars in many countries around the world today. There is no arguing that. The big problem with cortisol today is people who've got very big mortgages or long term low grade relationship stress or they've got work stress or some kind of stress that they're living under. Some constraint. 

A big link between cortisol here particularly is cortisol in its higher doses is going to help slow the metabolic rate down because it's thinking that you're going to be stressed long term, so it's going to preserve the body. It's going to preserve the fat stores. This is one reason why people get that kind of spare tire as they tend to get more stressed out. As stress continues on and on, the cortisol slowly drops off and this basically takes the power away from your immune system because the white cells can't work effectively anymore with low cortisol. This is what maintains a yeast infection on and on for some people. Sometimes for years. 

Vaginal, jock itch, skin problem, or a gut dysfunction. So there's a massive link between long term low grade stress, low cortisol, and poor immune function. 

Particularly, as I mentioned in the initial stages with high stress with high adrenaline and high cortisol until it hasn't been quite depleted yet, the person's going to get a very powerful immune suppressing effect, which makes them more prone to acute infectious disease. They won't necessarily feel the pain so much, but they may get a lot of weight loss in the initial few years. As that continues on, the fatigue occurs more, the immune dysfunction occurs more, the long term yeast infections occur more, and they're very hard to shift. 

You can read all about it in my book, Candida Crusher, or you can check it out on the other videos I've made regarding adrenal fatigue, cortisol, and Candida yeast infections.

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