Slower Metabolism and Accelerated Aging - Cortisol's Specialties
This is your body’s stress hormone. It stimulates your fight or flight response and the release of stored liver glycogen. This can happen when you engage in a physically intense situation, a psychologically intense situation, or by simply not eating frequently enough and thus causing your blood sugar to drop too low.
Cortisol release does serve a purpose and is ultimately beneficial if stimulated properly through intense physical exercise, but failure to control your mental and emotional stress levels can cause an unhealthy, uncontrolled release of cortisol. This can cause major health problems and drastically hinder your progress in developing the body that you desire.
Because cortisol is a catabolic hormone, it can also cause the breakdown of lean muscle tissue, especially when you do not eat frequently enough. Frequent cortisol release resulting from uncontrolled mental and emotional stress can wear your body down and cause constant fatigue and an increased susceptibility to illness.
Lastly, unhealthy cortisol release can cause intense sugar and carbohydrate cravings, which are very hard to resist. If you obey the cravings, you cause your blood sugar to spike up, which causes the release of insulin, and in turn puts your body straight back into fat storage mode.
Regardless of what your physical goal is, cortisol control will be critical to your achieving it. The best way to do this is to actively practice de-stressing habits, follow your Personal Training programs precisely, eat frequent small meals, and make sure that your meals have the correct balance of foods for your body.
We teach all of our clients how to do all of this easily, step by step as we help them transform their body into the body they have always wanted. Claim your Two Free 1 hour Personal Training Sessions (a $150 value) and find out for yourself. Your dream body is just around the corner. ...Keep Reading
Cortisol release does serve a purpose and is ultimately beneficial if stimulated properly through intense physical exercise, but failure to control your mental and emotional stress levels can cause an unhealthy, uncontrolled release of cortisol. This can cause major health problems and drastically hinder your progress in developing the body that you desire.
Because cortisol is a catabolic hormone, it can also cause the breakdown of lean muscle tissue, especially when you do not eat frequently enough. Frequent cortisol release resulting from uncontrolled mental and emotional stress can wear your body down and cause constant fatigue and an increased susceptibility to illness.
Lastly, unhealthy cortisol release can cause intense sugar and carbohydrate cravings, which are very hard to resist. If you obey the cravings, you cause your blood sugar to spike up, which causes the release of insulin, and in turn puts your body straight back into fat storage mode.
Regardless of what your physical goal is, cortisol control will be critical to your achieving it. The best way to do this is to actively practice de-stressing habits, follow your Personal Training programs precisely, eat frequent small meals, and make sure that your meals have the correct balance of foods for your body.
We teach all of our clients how to do all of this easily, step by step as we help them transform their body into the body they have always wanted. Claim your Two Free 1 hour Personal Training Sessions (a $150 value) and find out for yourself. Your dream body is just around the corner. ...Keep Reading
- Perpetually high cortisol levels = rapid aging, muscle loss, decreased energy, weakened immune system, and sugar cravings
- Eating frequently and correctly and practicing stress reducing habits = low cortisol levels