Cortisol is a hormone that affects hunger cravings, digestion, blood pressure, circadian rhythms, physical activity and our capacity to handle stress. Cortisol is a glucocorticoid, which is also able to raise your glucose. Cortisol’s main job is to increase your glucose and store the excess in the liver, it keeps us alive by raise our blood sugar when needed, increasing blood pressure and modulating inflammation. So, the more we need cortisol to raise our blood sugar -the more we are using up for something that could be prevented. This is why eating properly such as lower starchy carbs/sugars, plenty of fat and just enough protein as well as eating every few hours to keep our blood sugar from dropping to low is critical in saving our adrenal glands the added stress of pumping out even more cortisol. In the long run, the more cortisol you require on a regular basis the more likely you will be to end up with low cortisol down the road.
Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2014 23:25:00 +0000
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