Jim Bakker Show - Guard Your Heart | Dr. Don & Mary Colbert
Aired: 2023-06-20
Duration: 02:25


=== Stress Is Poison To The Brain (02:25) ===

[00:00:00]  Dr. Cooper, you recently you had an article that you wrote called We Can Decrease the Risk of Cognitive Decline with One Step.
[00:00:13]  How does the health of a person's brain relate to their body?
[00:00:17]  Well, again, it's stress.
[00:00:20]  Stress is probably one of the greatest things that destroys the brain.
[00:00:25]  And that's where we have to learn to get into God's rhythm.
[00:00:28]  And we have to learn to cast all our cares.
[00:00:31]  Some people are casting one or two cares, but they carry the majority on their cares on their shoulders.
[00:00:36]  Realize stress is poison to the brain.
[00:00:39]  What it does to the brain, it literally causes the hippocampus, which is the main short-term memory center that's in the, right here in the temporal area of the brain, right above the ear.
[00:00:49]  That's the first place Alzheimer's affects the brain, is in the hippocampus.
[00:00:54]  Now, the hippocampus literally shuttles short-term memories into long-term storage.
[00:01:00]  And what cortisol or stress does is it causes the neurons in the hippocampus not to be able to take up enough sugar.
[00:01:08]  And the brain runs on sugar or glucose.
[00:01:10]  And so literally the brain cells start to be starved of sugar and they start to shrivel up and die.
[00:01:15]  So that's what stresses do.
[00:01:17]  That's why we've got to learn to cast all of our cares, not some of our cares, onto the Lord because he cares for us and then enter into his rest.
[00:01:24]  And again, what's so important, when we sleep, our brain recharges, but it needs to be well-oxygenated sleep.
[00:01:30]  So get your sleep.
[00:01:32]  If you're waking up tired, please get a sleep study.
[00:01:36]  There's a chance you have sleep or apnea.
[00:01:38]  And if you do, your brain's not getting the most important news about oxygen.
[00:01:41]  We found that out about them.
[00:01:43]  So do the SNAP diagnostic sleep study and get it treated.
[00:01:47]  That's what we do.
[00:01:48]  Because again, Jesus said, come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest, not stress.
[00:01:56]  Amen.
[00:01:56]  And he says, take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
[00:02:02]  And, you know, the number one stressor is developing a care for this world.
[00:02:07]  Yeah.
[00:02:08]  He said, you know, that that's what will choke the very word of God in you is when you become overwhelmed with the cares of this world.
[00:02:18]  Those are thorns that come in and they will choke the word.
[00:02:22]  So you've got to be careful and guard your heart.