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have you ever wondered why some people

lose weight when they experience stress

yet other people gain weight when they

go through stress we’re gonna talk about

exactly why that is there’s two hormones

involved one is cortisol and the other

is insulin insulin is the hormone that

converts glucose into fat it will store

the excess glucose as fat okay cortisol

is a stress hormone it’s activated by

stress and what that does is it

mobilizes glucose it will increase blood

sugar okay it’ll break down the stored

glucose and the liver and the muscles

and it also converts protein and fat

into glucose but here’s the big point

acute stress or short-term stress

inhibits insulin it lowers insulin so

you have the situation we have all this

glucose in the blood so the body can use

it because you’re being chased by the

tiger because if you had high insulin

that would not be good for survival

because it would lower your fuel that

you needed to get away from the attacker

or the lion that’s chasing you so short

term acute stress it decreases insulin

okay so that means that you would lose

weight because insulin is not increased

but long-term chronic stress it will

increase insulin and this is why some

people gain weight with core salt

it all depends on what’s happening with

insulin now if someone takes prednisone

which is a synthetic version of cortisol

they will definitely gain weight and I

noticed too when people are chronically

stressed mentally they will gain weight

eventually because what happens they’re

generating mobilizing so much glucose

and they’re not using that glucose

because it’s all a mental stress they’re

not physically using up the glucose they

will tend to get fat because the insulin

starts to increase because the body also

does not want a lot of sugar in the

blood so it gets it out of there and it

gets stored as fat and as a side note

it’s always very important for those

people who go through a lot of mental

stress

exercise on a regular basis not only is

that good for fitness but it’s also good

to keep the sugar burned off from the

spike from the cortisol all right so I

hope that answered the question

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