This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton.

Through education, motivation and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and

doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential.

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Hello everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast.

I am Elizabeth Benton.

Thank you so much for spending a little bit of your time with me today.

I am really looking forward to this episode because I get to combine two things I'm super

passionate about, one of which is hormones.

And the other is stress.

Stress is something that I am working really hard to reduce in my own life.

And a big part of the reason for that obviously stress doesn't feel good but stress also

impairs our decision making, increases our appetite, the two biggest threats to our health,

to our metabolism and to our longevity or our lifespan are chronic stress and overeating.

Not lying.

Those are two of the biggest threats to our health, to our ability to be lean and fit

in healthy, chronic stress and overeating.

Here is the challenge or the rub and the reason we've got to break this cycle is because

it is just that, it is a cycle.

Chronic stress and overeating fall into the category of what is known as a feed forward cycle,

which means they compound each other.

Like stress increases appetite and increases cravings, which leads to more overeating,

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