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Acute: stimulates SNS, raise your defenses

Chronic:

• Increase in cortisol stimulates neuropeptide (NPY) – hunger pathway (discuss)
• Increases insulin  and leptin resistance
• Shifts white fat into visceral abdominal region
• Decreases brown fat activation
  • Brown fat is the fat on babies and decreases throughout life
  • Metabolically active (converts chemical energy to heat)
  • Lots of mitochondria (why its fat)
  • Fasting makes white fat behave more like brown fat

The more fat the more cortisol (having fat is a stressor to itself)

ANOTHER vicious cycle.

Half of patients with obesity have hypercortisolism and have are normal. If high cortisol higher risk for heart disease

DECREASE STRESS BY

• Reasonable exercise
• SLEEP
• Screen time
• Just say no – JOMO (Joy of missing out)
• meditation