Health & Fitness
Stress & Blood Sugar Levels
Stress can have many negative impacts on your health, which can include elevated blood sugar.
Modern humans live in a stress pressure cooker. Since primitive times, stress has triggered an adrenal survival response. This response of fight, flight or freeze was very beneficial for survival back then. Today it only helps in less than 1% of stressful situations and hinders us the rest of the time.
Stress disrupts digestion, elevates blood pressure and blood glucose levels, disrupts sleep, reduces rational decision making, increases the risk of chronic disease, suppresses immunity and cranks out stress hormones, such as cortisol, glucagon, insulin and epinephrine. Stress can also lead to a leptin imbalance. Leptin helps regulate fat storage and hunger.
The result of chronic stress may be weight gain, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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Learning how to manage stress can have a huge positive impact on how much you enjoy your life, as well on your health and longevity.Tomorrow, my next blog will be on ways to reduce stress.