Dr. Kelley-Chew on the Crisis of Metabolic Dysfunction & What to Do About It
The Wellness Mama Podcast
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Is There a Difference Between Diet and Exercise?
I don't want my kids to develop a deprivation mindset around food. Through that lens, it makes sense very obviously to avoid things like added sugar or really refined foods because they're just not getting energy from it. In terms of exercise, it's really interesting because what you describe is definitely a physiologic phenomenon. What it is is that when you do a really intense workout, you're actually triggering cortisol and the stress response in your system. This goes back to fight or flight for animals. So this is actually a physiologically healthy response to intense exercise. It is, as you pointed out, a very different pathway in terms of the health implications to spiking blood sugar through, for example
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