How Stress & Cortisol Causes Your Body to Use Food Differently—Episode 42

When I was in the height of my healing journey, my Functional doc discovered that while I was eating highly nutrient-rich foods and fiercely abstaining from inflammatory ones, I still wasn't absorbing the nutrients from the foods I ate.

You can imagine how discouraging that was.

And at that moment in time, I wasn't in a stress-state anymore.
I was truly doing what I thought was resting.
In fact, I couldn't work anymore.
But I was  experiencing the effects of a few years of intense stress on my body.

What unfolded was many years of research, trials, and errors, and digging deeper and deeper into the effects of stress on our bodies.

Researchers now say that highly stressed individuals actually have a harder time utilizing the foods they eat. There was a study conducted specifically regarding caregivers and how the stress they endure affects their bodies’ ability to process the foods they eat. And guess what? They found that those under extreme stress didn’t handle junk food as well – it led to larger waistlines and insulin insensitivity. 

Tune in to find out more and for a couple of simple practices you can begin to implement today!

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