Many today are complaining of feeling sad and tired,
struggling with weight gains, and suffering from low
sex drives. There's one common culprit behind all of
this -- Stress!
Here’s how it works: When you are mentally or
physically stressed, your adrenal glands create a
natural hormone called cortisol. Cortisol has an
enormous effect on all of the systems of your body.
** Feeling Tired?
If your cortisol is too high or too low, the chemistry
of your brain is altered. Stress-related cortisol
imbalances cause fatigue in several ways.
Because cortisol is designed to keep you alert in times
of stress, it can cause insomnia and resulting chronic
tiredness.
Your adrenal glands can become exhausted from the
constant demands placed on them to produce endless
amounts of cortisol. They then produce too little
cortisol – which results in chronic fatigue.
**Gaining Weight?
The excess cortisol caused by stress causes your blood
sugar levels to fluctuate. Since the brain’s primary
fuel is sugar (glucose), any imbalance in blood sugar
will cause you to crave sweets and carbohydrates such
as bread, pasta, potatoes, and pastries.
Sound familiar? This is the source of “stress eating.”
Plus when your adrenal glands are busy pumping out
cortisol in response to stress, they can’t adequately
fulfill some of their other functions. For example:
Stressed adrenals can’t produce aldosterone – a hormone
that regulates your body’s mineral content. This means
you might be low on magnesium, which will cause you to
crave chocolate ... or salt in the form of chips,
olives, or other salty processed foods.
**Got a Low Sex Drive?
Unbalanced cortisol levels lead straight to a lower
level of sexual energy, desire, and performance. There
are several reasons for this.
Because your adrenal glands are so consumed with making
cortisol, they will either get lazy about producing sex
hormones -- or your production of sex hormones will
become suppressed because sex and the survival-related
"fight-or-flight" response don’t go together very well
(and survival will always come first).
If your body is in a chronic stress response mode,
stopping to have sex is unlikely. Stress prepares your
body to fight or run, not make love! And since
unbalanced cortisol levels can also cause insomnia,
depression, and fatigue – the likelihood of feeling
perky and sexy is also pretty slim.
**The Common Solution
The sources of stress in your life are unlikely to
simply go away. That is a fact. But if you ARE feeling
tired, fat and unsexy – there is something you CAN do.
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effectively.
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