37. Is Cortisol Causing Your Weight Gain as a Busy Professional Woman?
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If you’re a busy working professional woman, you might be thinking that your stress is causing weight gain. But some people say that stress causes them to lose weight. So which is really true for you and how do you fix it? That’s what we’re diving in to today on the She’s Healthy Podcast.
In the episode your host Lori Aikman, Nurse Practitioner, Founder and CEO of Crown Executive Health and Queen Bee Medicine dives into to the root cause of stress and how it can trigger both weight gain and weight loss.
Highights:
0:00 Intro
1:28 Everyone's body is different and stress will affect their body differently
4:24 Approaching stress weight gain from a Functional Medicine Approach
5:15 Three Phases of the Stress Response
6:09 Acute Phase: High cortisol
8:24 Compensatory Phase: Cortisol is up and down
10:46 Cortisol drives up blood sugar and insulin causing weight gain
13:39 Exhaustion Phase: Low cortisol
15:32 Insulin Resistance & Weight Gain
19:05 Gaslighting Women by ignoring a Functional Medicine Approach
21:01 Addressing stress related weight gain through diet and lifestyle