Abdominal Fat and the Hormone Cortisol The risks of stress for people prone to abdominal fat retention
Posted on May 13, 2008 - Filed Under Weight Loss | Leave a Comment
Back in the bad old hunter-gatherer days, the human species got a lot of use out of the hormone cortisol. That’s the stress hormone activated during the fight-or-flight response, causing our blood pressure to rise and heart rate to increase.
Throw in a little adrenalin and these useful, even essential, physical adjustments made it possible for our forebears to do things like battle marauding tigers on a moment’s notice, or scoop up their offspring and flee from raging wildfire.
But in the modern world, there’s little need to either fight or flee, yet the cortisol release remains functional in the species, only… Continue reading
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Back in the bad old hunter-gatherer days, the human species got a lot of use out of the hormone cortisol. That’s the stress hormone activated during the fight-or-flight response, causing our blood pressure to rise and heart rate to increase.
Throw in a little adrenalin and these useful, even essential, physical adjustments made it possible for our forebears to do things like battle marauding tigers on a moment’s notice, or scoop up their offspring and flee from raging wildfire.
But in the modern world, there’s little need to either fight or flee, yet the cortisol release remains functional in the species, only… Continue reading
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