Belly Fat and Stress: The Hidden Link Nobody’s Talking About

Описание: On this episode of The Model Health Show, we discuss how chronic stress can impact your overall health, specifically its correlation with increased visceral fat and fat around the heart. High levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, play a significant role in these effects, making stress optimization crucial for metabolic health and fat loss. Understanding and managing stress is vital for improving mental health and preventing adverse physiological outcomes.

Featuring insights from leading experts in stress, cortisol, psychology, and healthy aging, this episode breaks down the difference between healthy stress and chronic stress, how cortisol promotes fat storage around the midsection, and practical ways to lower stress through better sleep, nutrition, movement, and lifestyle habits. If belly fat has been hard to lose, managing stress may be the missing link.

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
8:32 - Awareness of stress is crucial
10:11 - Engage in maximally intensive exercise
12:03 - Importance of sprinting for stress relief
15:24 - Vitamin C as a stress buffer
19:35 - Adapting to and metabolizing stress
24:10 - Belly fat's sensitivity to cortisol
29:01 - Importance of cortisol in the body
31:00 - Effects of low cortisol on daily life
32:40 - Stress impacts on chronic diseases
37:20 - Embracing movement enhances life quality
39:01 - Muscles secrete anti-depressant molecules
42:58 - Exercise sensitizes us to more pleasure
45:40 - Green tea influences our body's stress response
48:10 - Dr. Sharon Burrquist on stress and metabolism
50:05 - We need to optimize stress in our lives
56:08 - Activating cellular stress responses for health
59:03 - Exercise as a potent health booster
1:02:30 - Cardiorespiratory fitness predicts longevity

Shawn Stevenson is the author of the USA Today National bestsellers Eat Smarter and the Eat Smarter Family Cookbook, as well as the international bestselling book Sleep Smarter. He’s also the creator of The Model Health Show, featured as the number #1 health podcast in the U.S. with millions of listener downloads each year. A graduate of the University of Missouri–St. Louis and Shawn studied business, biology, and nutritional science and became the cofounder of Advanced Integrative Health Alliance. Shawn has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times, Muscle & Fitness, Good Morning America, ESPN, and many other major media outlets.

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