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Using Cortisol & Adrenaline to Boost Our Energy & Immune System
- Their net effect is to increase energy.
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Nicolay Gerold added 2y ago
- Cortisol is derived from colestoral and is a steroid hormone like the sex hormones, but is their competitive partner. Sex hormones and cortisol compete for colestoral depending on your state. CRH is made in the Brain and causes the pituitary to release ACTH, which triggers the a drenals to release cortisol. Cortisol motivates movement and satiety.
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- Fasting releases ghreline, which binds to receptors that normally bind to growth hormone releasing hormone triggering the release of growth hormones.
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- Most problems occur that people cannot regulate the stress (levels of cortisol and epinephrine in the brain) to stay calm and select the right action.
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Nicolay Gerold added 2y ago
- Whenever we are fasting we are putting ourself on the edge of stress and alertness due to increased epinephrine and cortisol. If you are already highly stressed this can have averse effects.
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Nicolay Gerold added 2y ago
- Make sure your peak in cortisol is when you wake up by getting sunlight. Stressors and unpleasant events trigger the release of adrenaline and cortisol through the day, but they need to be brief. If you struggle with alertness, it can be beneficial to deliberately increase the release through stressors like HIIT, cold exposure.
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- The increase of epinephrine after the learning triggers the neuroplasticity. It primes the hippocampus to encode the prior learned content. The optimal strategy would be a 90 minute bout of learning, trigger epinephrine, bout of NSDR.
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- Long-term stress invokes positive feedback loops triggering over-eating. Ashwaganda can decrease cortisol levels but can have averse effects with habitual use. Apigenine can calm the nervous system. Both can be infested before bed.
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- Bombesin: Stress liberates bombesin, which reduces eating.
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