How Chronic Stress Creates Hormonal Havoc

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Mitopure. Chronic
stress has become epidemic in our society where faster is better
and we attempt to pack more obligations into our ever-expanding
schedules. In the face of chronic stress, insulin increases and
your adrenal glands release hormones like adrenaline and cortisol.
These hormones flood your system, raising your heart rate,
increasing your blood pressure, making your blood more likely to
clot, damaging your brain’s memory center, increasing belly fat
storage, and generally wreaking havoc on your body. So what steps
can we take to manage stress? In today’s episode of my series I’m
calling Health Bites, I talk about how chronic stress creates
hormonal havoc and how to use diet and lifestyle practices to
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checkout. Here are more details from our interview (audio version /
Apple Subscriber version): The dangers of chronic stress (3:16 /
1:35)  How stress affects hormones (4:02 / 2:42)  How
diet affects our stress response (4:56 / 3:56)  The importance
of working on your mindset (8:07 / 5:52)  Simple techniques to
reduce stress (8:52 / 6:37)