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The impact of stress on our physical and emotional health | Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D. (#51 rebroadcast)

The Peter Attia Drive

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The Effects of Insulin Sensitivity on Insulin Levels

In the 80s, there was briefly this deep puzzle in that it turned out new world monkeys have like an order of magnitude higher glucocorticoid levels. Different people will have a different insulin response to the same food,. That's the reason we do glucose tolerance tests. So you could basically say someone is cortisol sensitive and cortisol resistant.

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