What is going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the AirCama's Fitness

Podcast. Hope you're having a great day.

We're diving right into a Q&A today, and the first question is going to be, hey Eric,

when do you know if cortisol is the reason that you are not losing weight.

So let's talk about this for a second,

shall we?

Because I know this is a big thing right now

on the interweb, on the internet social media. Very simply put,

cortisol in and of itself is not going to stop you from losing weight.

Okay?

Now, let's break this down. What, cortisol is stress.

Cortisol is you're adding stress to your body, okay? When you work out, for example,

that is a stress. You are putting stress on your body. So these people who say,

cortisol is bad, cortisol is bad, cortisol is bad. Cortisol, in of itself, is not inherently bad. You need cortisol to, for example, get stronger and build muscle because if you don't put that stress on your body

I don't know how you're you're not going to be able to get stronger and build muscle because your body has to adapt it recovers from the stress and then it

adapts okay so cortisol is not bad it's quite necessary actually it actually

it actually wakes you up in the morning as well it kind of spikes your cortisol and wakes you up in the morning as well. It kind of spikes your cortisol and wakes you up in the morning. But nonetheless, you, what is bad is too much cortisol. Just like anything, too much water is bad for you. Too much water is bad for you.

Too much anything is bad for you, right?

We have to kind of balance these things out.

And it's how do you know is too much?

What can you recover from?

Everybody's recoverability is what it's called. Everybody's recoverability is a bit

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