Why Stress (Cortisol) Makes You Fat (Spikes Insulin) – Stress and Weight Gain – Dr. Berg
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Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 1 November 2022
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Here’s how stress makes you fat. Check this out.
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| 0:00.0 | So we're going to talk about how stress can actually make you fat, okay? Now I've had |
| 0:22.4 | some diabetics test or blood sugars when they go through stress and it definitely increases |
| 0:28.6 | the blood sugar. So let's talk about why. So the body's response to stress is it spikes |
| 0:34.8 | cortisol. It will also elevate adrenaline. Now cortisol, another name for it is glucose |
| 0:41.8 | corticoid, okay? So it has something to do with glucose. It has the potential to significantly |
| 0:49.0 | raise your blood sugars. So here you are, you're on the ketogenic diet, you're not eating any carbs, |
| 0:56.1 | you're going to fasting and your blood glucose goes up because you're stressed, interesting. |
| 1:03.7 | Also, trauma will do it too. I remember when I was riding my bike and my chain locked up. |
| 1:09.4 | I went over the handlebars on the cement going 30 miles an hour. Next thing you know I'm laying |
| 1:15.6 | there in a state of shock and you know I was like craving sweets like crazy and incredibly thirsty |
| 1:25.3 | because my blood sugar you know went up and then insulin kicked in it went right down. I |
| 1:30.4 | ended up with like low blood sugar. I was like what's happening here? So cortisol will raise your |
| 1:35.5 | blood sugars significantly. It will also release glucose from your liver, okay? So we have this |
| 1:43.2 | stored sugar in the liver. It can dump the stored sugar when you're under stress. So it ends up |
| 1:48.1 | in your bloodstream, right? So then insulin has to come in and take it and put it in the storage. |
| 1:54.6 | Also, it dominates. What does that mean? Diamonates. Well, there's a little word in there. |
| 2:00.4 | Amonate, which has to do with amino acids. It basically takes apart amino acids. It breaks down |
| 2:06.8 | protein and it turns it into glucose. It's called gluconeogenesis. The creation of new glucose |
| 2:17.2 | from something else. It could be from ketones. It could be from fat. It could be from protein. |
| 2:23.4 | But with cortisol, it will tend to break down your proteins. This is why women, specifically |
| 2:29.5 | after menopause, get atrophy. They start losing their muscle mass when they get older. And it |
| 2:35.6 | just turns into fat. And then the blood glucose goes up. So it's not a good situation. |
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