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so today we’re going to talk about why

you lost your butt yet you gained a

belly

and there’s some data i want to share in

this book right here the siba collection

of medical illustrations

volume 4 endocrine system on page

85

okay this is the picture of someone with

too much cortisol cortisol if excessive

can break down the quads

and the glutamus maximus right here so

let me just explain and i’m not trying

to diagnose you with that condition

which is called cushing’s syndrome

because you don’t just one day wake up

with cushing’s syndrome which is a high

level of cortisol it happens gradually

so you can have a version of that but

not a full-blown cushing’s disease

just because of high cortisol so since

cortisol is a stress and a survival

hormone what it tends to do is

keep your sugar levels available so you

can use it as quick energy and also it

will rob peter to pay paul it will take

um extra things from your body that you

might not need or you have extra like

the gluteus maximus is the largest

muscle in the body so apparently it has

extra amino acids to convert over into

glucose then you have the next largest

muscle which is the thigh muscle the

quadricep so both of these muscles are

then broken down and that process is a

catabolic effect catabolic means you’re

breaking down something from protein to

amino acid and then from amino acid to

glucose in the process you’re developing

also atrophy of the muscles which could

look like cellulite but it’s really not

it’s just a loss of muscle fiber

so we get muscle

amino acids

sugar glucose and then that’s converted

to fat with the help of

insulin

so now the question is what causes this

condition and then of course what can we

do about it

well there’s several things it could be

that you’re on prednisone because you

have some type of inflammatory condition

that’s basically a synthetic version of

cortisol and one of the side effects is

cushing’s syndrome which is that high

cortisol

now when a woman goes through menopause

they will lose

the ovary function or to some degree not

100

but there’s a backup organ called the

adrenals so if you go into menopause

with

adrenal weakness or adrenal stress

then you can develop a higher level of

cortisol because the adrenals are now

coping with that extra function and that

can affect a lot of things it can affect

the loss of collagen in your joints

even you can have bone loss because

there’s less

protein in the bone itself but also this

is probably why you see a lot of women

after menopause that

lose the butt in the quads and then we

just have a situation where you go

through chronic stress for a period of

time that can do it or let’s say you

have a tumor on either the adrenal gland

or the pituitary gland that can also do

it birth control pills this is

interesting birth control pills has many

side effects one being

pseudo cushing’s now what is pseudo

cushing’s well it’s not necessarily

coming from the same mechanism it’s

coming from a different mechanism where

there is an increase of something called

cortical steroid binding globulin now

what does that mean that means that

where there’s an increase of this thing

in your liver called

cbg okay cortical steroid binding

globulin and what the heck is that

that is

a combination of protein connected to

cortisol so in other words about 90

percent of all the cortisol in the body

is bound to a protein and so that way

it’s not free it’s not available and we

have similar mechanisms for testosterone

and estrogen as well

but we don’t necessarily want all this

free

cortisol in the body so we have to

put it in an inactive or a bound state

to protein well the problem is birth

control pills increases

this cbg

thereby increasing cortisol okay now you

also see this same mechanism in

pregnancy

it probably could also happen if you are

on some type of estrogen therapy as in

hormone replacement therapy possibly or

even possibly if you’re estrogen

dominant okay for some reason

the more fat that you have in your body

both men and women the more estrogen

you’ll have because the fat cell

makes more estrogen but i didn’t include

that because there’s not a lot of

research on that topic

now there are other things that are not

related to necessarily cortisol

that can create atrophy of your butt and

your thigh okay like one would be

sarcopenium now what is a sarcopenia

that is a condition where you’re just

losing muscle mass and strength with age

okay

and i have done a video on that and i

will put a link down below so that’s one

cause you’re just getting older

but there’s things you can do to counter

that inactivity so if you’re sitting all

day you have a desk job uh and you have

no exercise well

this is the body shape that you’re gonna

get

or let’s say you have chronic low back

pain that prevents you from

activating these muscles and that could

do it as well so

what is the solution

right here

if you are on prednisone you want to

find an alternative okay

and

i don’t know what reason you’d be on

prednisone for whatever reason i would

there’s a lot of different alternatives

in fact i do have a video on that and i

will put that down below but typically

there’s always an herbal or some natural

solution to whatever medication you’re

taking of course check with your doctor

like adaptogens for example like

ashwagandha

is a great

stress reducer and it can greatly

support your adrenals the gland behind

the cortisol

also vitamin d is a natural

anti-inflammatory a very potent and

powerful one and it’s great for pain so

if you’re taking prednisone

for that reason maybe you should try

something a little different

all right number two reduce your stress

so whatever the source of your stress is

do whatever you can

to

reduce the stress

doing physical work is one of the best

remedies for overall mental stress it

takes your mind off things and it works

your physical body and of course

exercise itself is great for stress

especially long walks or any type of

exercise as long as you avoid over

training which is not good for high

cortisol number three if you get on the

ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting

you’re going to reduce

the flight or fight mechanism the

sympathetics and increase the

parasympathetic nervous system okay that

can help lower cortisol

and this is why when people go on keto

and if they don’t feel as anxious

anymore

they feel better less depressed so it

can actually change your whole mood

number four the key nutrients that you

need to help

balance and reduce cortisol

potassium eat foods high in potassium or

find a potassium supplement potassium is

a natural physiological tranquilizer it

relaxes the muscles it calms down your

body also magnesium

very very important just so happens that

potassium magnesium are in leafy greens

like in large amounts of salad

b1 which i like to get from nutritional

yeast also is one of the best natural

things to lower cortisol you’ll feel the

difference you take it like in a form of

nutritional yeast and you wait like four

minutes you just

wow it just gives you relief

um

all right so now we have sleep of course

that is vitally important because the

less sleep you have the more cortisol

you have the worse the blood sugars i

have a ton of videos on that which i’ll

put some important ones down below and

then number six limit the amount of

things that stimulate the adrenals like

caffeine like tea

like chocolate like um energy drinks all

that will prevent you from sleeping and

there’s one last point that is

kind of invisible

emf electromagnetic fields from your

cell phone from the computer i bought a

tester okay i did a video on this

i found that sitting behind a computer

for i don’t know how many hours i mean

probably 14 hours a day i was being

bathed in electromagnetic fields which

when i

completely rearranged my computer and

things i felt an instant drop in stress

so i think this has a really big factor

you should watch the video i did on this

because it’s an invisible

stressor

that is so common yet it’s not really

mentioned hardly anywhere so i’m going

to put that video up right here check it

out

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