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Cortisol Hormone and the deadly weight gain effects
To understand the cortisol effect the first thing to understand is the structure of it, location and its role in the body.
Cortisol is the biggest stress hormone is like your body’s very own alarm system in most cases small raises in the body’s cortisol level aren’t much cause of alarm. But there are some circumstances in which cortisol levels can spike and remain high that cam lead to issues. Cortisol has a direct impact on your thyroid and insulin production which means is a big trigger for diabetes slow metabolism and weight gain.
The key thing when it comes to cortisol and weight gain s understanding when recognize it in your own body the easiest way to do this is with a small check list.
Take a look at these small symptoms below :
Moodiness or emotional irregularity
Not enough sleep
Excessive sugar and carb cravings
Uncertainty about life events and work
Skipping or delay meals
Overworking
If you said yes to many of the above points there is a good chance that stress is playing a major role in your life, and as mention before stress can elevate cortisol levels which can in turn lead to weight gain and while being heavier is not an automatic indication of health and happiness close to 9-% of women surveyed indicate that they were unhappy with their current weight. Almost half of the same women saying that worrying about the food they eat on a daily basis causes them fear, worry and unhappiness.
How to conquer cortisol and weight gain
After training and doing nutrition counseling on so many clients here is a quick fact that will blow your mind contrary to popular belief, your metabolism is not getting slower as you get older a new international study of over seven thousand has found that when accounting to body size, the amount of energy expended by participants steadily decline after the age of 30.
What does that means in a layman’s terms ? It means that unlike we led to believe, it is not our metabolism who slows down and leads to middle age weight gain. It’s the fact that we move less that when we were teens. The same study found that we undergo another slowdown in terms of movement by the age of sixty.
A lot of this slowdown relates back to our sedentary lifestyles. The majority of us spend the day hunched over a keyboard or a desk as a career and with all the other pressures of life. It can be difficult to schedule time to exercise or practice movement, at the same time it’s one of the effective ways to keep the pesky extra pounds in check, no to mention what it does for your mental health.
Conclusion
Movement is a critical part for cortisol levels to stay low, a sensitive diet could be another factor, understanding the cycles of cortisol rising up in your body and causes will help you prevent many of the weight gain problems you dealing with right now.
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