Demystifying Cortisol and Chronic Stress

it's like as soon as we get a lot of it that is way it becomes resistant but talking about the gut health thing there is a reason why cortisol is haywire like you said and there's a reason why your gut is a mess and it's not because you're aging and it's not because you need a menopause protocol or PCOS means you need this different diet programming strategy. So I want to talk about the truth of cortisol in the right way. And I guess in this, it is worthy to point out that a fear of food, especially when you're about to eat it, can cause the same fuck-up-itis because it's a source of stress and your gut is going to respond to that so chronic stress it's the real reason it holds people back is not because of cortisol being haywire because all of those reasons but it does if you are not then because i know that you said this in cerebro but it's the cortisol becomes an issue when you can't recover from it anything becomes an issue when you can't recover from it but well let's not let's take cortisol out of the equation let's just say chronic stress because here's the thing cortisol is just doing what the brain's telling it to do. Is cortisol a stress hormone? Yes, but we need to stop saying it's a stress hormone. And let me clarify, that is not the only thing it does. It helps liberate whole substrate. It helps liberate carbs. It helps liberate glycogen. It helps move stuff around the body. There's a lot of sites. It helps control internal systems like your immune system. It helps regulate inflammation. It does a lot of shit. It's like, it's like a personal trainer. If somebody said, Ruby, you're a personal trainer, therefore all you do is count reps. Does that, does that encompass all the stuff you do? And that's, it's slightly insulting, isn't it? So it's like, if you look at a personal trainer where we're like, okay, we have to teach, we're educators, we're teaching, we're, we're, we're architecting, We're architects because we're creating these beautiful programs based on assessments. So we're surveyors as well. We're also the project managers making sure all the pieces fit. Like there was a lot of shit we're doing. So if you just said, hey, you count reps for a living, that is highly insulting and not conclusive of everything that we do. It's the same thing with cortisol and the same thing with insulin. Insulin, yes. part of what insulin does is store things whereas cortisol is helps to relinquish things but though but the thing is cortisol insulin if we look at that it doesn't just store things it also prevents things from being relinquished it there's a lot of things that these hormones are doing and we we we do there a lot of i don know if they just nefarious or if they stupid The people who go cortisol cortisol and they want to again they want to sell you some shit So I have to think they're kind of stupidly nefarious because they're doing soundbites and clickbait shit to get you to give them money. And they're not telling the whole story. And I reckon most of them don't know the whole fucking story because they've read a book on cortisol. Now they're a fucking expert. It's just like somebody winning their pro card. so yeah i won the uh miss miss alice springs international i i was the i was the best looking physique out of three girls and i have my pro cards and i'm going to train people for bodybuilding shows like fuck off or people will be like i read a book on cortisol uh that was written in like 1984 so now i'm a cortisol expert no you're not there's so much more to do with these hormones and people think and they all work together in a matrix alongside the nervous system and the brain so cortisol is not fucking you up it's the it's the it's the shit that is giving your brain a reason to push out the excess cortisol you have to stop it at the root area which is going to be in the brain just like the mountain isn't the training or the nutrition the mountain is you so we need to trace this shit back that's this is like my theme now i'm so glad i'm reading that book but talking on the pro thing i had a girl come to me saying that her pro coach put her on 1600 calories to build muscle and she just ended up looking like shit wait wait wait yeah you say 600 calories to build muscle yeah did she start out weighing 26 kilos it's just like i don't understand but speaking of cortisol hey luke how was the 20 shots you had before you had something to eat did that cortisol make you fat i see this obese gentleman in front of me like no i i hate that it's like just cortisol cortisol does not make you fat i wish this would go away it does not make you fat it basically pulls fat out of fat cells like how but i want to make a post on that because it's just like you do realize that cortisol stimulates this thing called hsl which means that lipase aka breaking down fat i still remember this luke aka the fat comes out of the cells therefore you are losing fat from fat cells due to the fact that cortisol is in the system. Yes, yes, yes. We look at hormonal system of life space, and so we're looking at, we'll just look at what classification is cortisol and catecholamines, right? So you have cortisol, adrenaline, and noradrenaline. I don't see anybody bashing adrenaline and noradrenaline. Why? Because you don't really have an available blood test to test that, and they have a really short action in the body. So you blame cortisol for just kind of being in the area, but he was kind of minding his own business doing nothing and we just forget that there's all these other people it'd be like if you rob the bank if you rob the bank with a group of six people you're the only one who got caught and it got all blamed on you well there's five other people that were involved and you're not a snitch so you didn't rat them out it's like now you're like this dude is the dude who's robbing all these banks no these six dudes are the dudes that are robbing the bank you just got caught because you tripped