Adrenaline, Insulin, and the Stress Response

and it's it's the whole experience is just it's just really having an impact on the nervous system as well i imagine you know that more more training less and less food and this is one of the things that really you know was struck a chord with me when i did the foundations course was how or the impact of the nervous system and you know being in that kind of stress response for long periods of time the impact again that that is having on our on our health on a broad spectrum of different areas of our health um is so powerful and there are things that we just wouldn't expect there are certain aspects that you know that increase cortisol that we just wouldn't expect i don't know if you want to dig into some of that stuff so i know it's a big thing that we're looking at nowadays in the industry yeah and the thing is i i hate i hate saying cortisol because if you say that, then it kind of demonizes cortisol. And cortisol, what it's doing is it's actually protecting you. It's actually keeping you alive because of what you're doing to yourself. So in a lot of cases, probably the main thing that's really screwing people up, if we want to blame something, it's probably going to be adrenaline. Because adrenaline, If you think about listening to that talk that I had with Alex Fajita and with Mike T. Nelson, Mike T. Nelson said something very, very important. Insulin is kind of like a master switch for your metabolism. Well, the real opponent of insulin is adrenaline. So if we think about what they do, insulin tells things to basically be anabolic. like it tells you to take little things and build big things out of them. So like taking sugar and turning it into stored glycogen, right? Taking fat out of the bloodstream and putting it in adipocytes where it's in a much safer area in a fat cell than it is in your bloodstream, right? So at this point, insulin is doing a very good job of protecting you. If you get more and more stressed out and you have an adrenaline load, adrenaline does the opposite. It tells things to break down because if your brain thinks that you're being threatened you're what you're wanting a lot of energy to be pushed out into the bloodstream and also to be broken down into the cell so you get at this point when people are very stressed out that they're breaking things down faster than they can build them back up okay so if i'm breaking down glycogen really quickly to make glucose and i'm shoving tons of glucose into the cell it's going to overwhelm the mitochondria