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Kyle Gillett, MD: Hormones & Holistic Health Habits

The Rich Roll Podcast

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Chronic Stress and How It's Changing Our Lifestyles

We live in an epidemic of chronic low level to high grade stress. It's driving downstream all of these metabolic health problems from obesity to diabetes, et cetera. We can think about the adrenal access of stress and we can also think about the neurotransmitter access of stress. One of the ways that your body will acclimate to stress is increasing cortisol,. If you give someone a medication like prednisone, which is basically a medication version of cortisol, then if you give them to them for a long time, then they will develop diabetes and also excess body fat and decreased muscle mass.

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