It's that time of year when stress can be at it's peak! This episode is about how you can get yourself out of the Sympathetic State– which is often called “fight or flight” and into the Parasympathetic State– which is often called “rest and digest”.

 

As you can imagine, most of us tend to be much too “sympathetic.” It might be our jobs, our homes, our bills, our relationships, traffic, or any other stressor that throws us into a “fight or flight” state.  But whatever it is,  chronic sympathetic activity leads to high levels of circulating cortisol and adrenaline, both produced by our adrenal glands (located adjacent to our kidneys).

 

When stress is chronically high and the adrenal glands continue to pump our cortisol and adrenaline, our “non-critical” functions are inhibited – things like digestion, liver metabolism and detoxification, cellular repair, immune function, and reproduction.

 

In essence, through several physiological interactions, we end up with:

 

1)    Poor blood sugar management and insulin resistance

 

2)    Depression, sleep disruption, and carbohydrate craving

 

3)    Decreased thyroid conversion and a reduced metabolism

 

4)    Altered sex hormone activity

 

5)    Amino acid loss from skeletal muscle

 

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