When you have a big stress response, your digestion is pretty much shut down. Eating would be the opposite of what your body's telling you to do. This makes it really hard to eat well, because when you're stressed, you're craving the comfort food,. And that means with repeated bouts of stress, you're just going to be gaining weight and particularly in the intra abdominal area. That's what we've seen. We've seen it cross-sectionally. In rat studies and my studies. And now we've seen it in people for about 10 years I studied this. For those of you hearing sympathetic, we're not talking about sympathy. We're talking about the sympathetic arm of

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