Habits to help with high cortisol

Cortisol is our stress hormone that is released when our body is under stress.

Most people don’t think they are stressed because they don’t FEEL stressed. However, stress isn’t just psychological; stress can be physical, mental, emotional, environmental and/or energetic.

In the short term, cortisol is necessary for our survival. It is released when we are stressed in order to help our body respond and hopefully recover from the stressor.

However, when our bodies are under chronic, acute stress and our cortisol levels stay elevated, we start to face the consequences of high cortisol.

Constantly elevated cortisol has impacts on our metabolism, reproduction, ability to recovery, our immunity among other things.

People who have chronically elevated cortisol often experience issues with metabolism, manifesting as thyroid or metabolic conditions, reproduction, mental health, and physical symptoms like issues with weight, rounded face, acne, and a weakened immune response.

If you have high cortisol or are just looking to help your body feel safer/recover from stress, these tips can certainly help!

1) Starvation is the greatest stress on the body. If you are already stressed, depriving your body of energy just adds to that.

2) Eat enough from Whole Foods. Eating enough calories for your body and obtaining enough nutrients from Whole Foods helps your body obtain more nutrients and makes sure it doesn’t feel depleted.

3) Circadian rhythm is important because it regulates sleep/wake cycle along with a multitude of other processes in the body. High cortisol can impact this cycle, which makes it difficult to sleep, placing even more stress on the body.

4) Exercising TOO much where you can’t recover is a big stress on the body, especially if you are already stressed. On the other hand, not moving at all can make you less resilient to stress and impact health long term.

5) Sleep is where your body recovers and resets. Poor sleep in quality/quantity is shown to increase stress on the body along with other negative effects, such as decreased performance, increased hunger, increased irritability, fatigue etc…

6) Healing emotional trauma is often overlooked. When we have emotions/traumas stored in the body that we are unconscious of, they manifest physically as pain or as things that trigger us. When we are unconscious of these things, they place a lot of stress on us.

7) Joy is one of the best medicines out there. Doing the things that you love is shown to help decrease stress levels and increase overall feelings of happiness and satisfaction.

8) A regulated nervous system is essential for reducing cortisol levels. When your sympathetic nervous system is always activated, you are signaling for your body to release cortisol, resulting in chronically elevated cortisol.

I hope that these can help!🤍

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