Stress, the secret ingredient that’s keeping you from your health goals...
HOWEVER, when a body has chronically high levels of cortisol (due to chronically high levels of STRESS) there are harmful effects on immune function, risk for chronic disease and WEIGHT. In normal stressful situations humans encountered thousands of years ago like chasing an animal in a hunt, the hunt would eventually end. Subsequently your body would send out other hormones to decrease cortisol levels. Remove the stressor and lower the cortisol.
Today our lifestyles are very different. Many work long days, coming home to families, with the stressors of finances, relationships, traumatic events, media streams of terror that never seem to end. We lead over-stressed, fast-paced lifestyles and our bodies are pumping out cortisol nearly constantly. What does cortisol do?
Don’t worry it’s not all doom and gloom. There is much we can do for ourselves to slow this path to over-stressed and less than ideal health. Here are just a few recommendations:
While our bodies are quite fascinating with untold numbers of physical processes we barely understand, and complicated cascades of enzyme interactions that work together so harmoniously to make us live and thrive, there are less complicated and less complex therapeutic diet and lifestyle changes we can make to strategically lower stress in our bodies and experience the extraordinary healing power inherent in these bodies when provided the right environment and necessary resources.
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AuthorCaitlin Johnson is a dietitian, wife, lover of ice cream, chef wannabe, California-girl, Christian, liver eating, "food-avore." Archives
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