The Autonomic Nervous System and Metabolic Health

Now let's tie these concepts of insulin, cortisol, and the sympathetic nervous system together and get down to what the solutions are. And then you get caught into that that kind of will of stress where stress is causing the insulin resistance because it's causing free radical damage and oxidative stress in the cell and the cell stops accepting sugar, then insulin goes up and then they measure the insulin and go, well, you've got metabolic syndrome. It's obviously insulin is the reason you're getting fat, but it's not really the reason. So you can cut the carbs out and crank the fat up and then you wonder why you're still getting fat and why you're wasting muscle and you can't get any progress is because you haven't really taken care of the problem. You put a band-aid over a bullet hole instead of working on the real problem, which is your lifestyle, getting more sleep, getting more food, calming the fuck down. So if we don't take care of that autonomic nervous system, we're going to get locked into that loop. And that stress is going to cause all the downstream things like lower metabolic rate via inhibited thyroid function, leaky gut, increased immune response, then leading to decreased immune response. There's all of these things that happen just because the brain's telling the body that you're in danger and you're not doing anything to get rid of the danger. So get rid of the danger.