Welcome to the Key Nutrition Podcast, your one stop shop for everything, food, fitness,

and mindset on today's episode, me and Michelle talked about stress.

And I've talked about cortisol on here before.

There's been a lot of other guests who talked about stress, but we wanted to talk about

really this analogy of that stress, we all have this big bucket of stress that we carry around.

It is a, it is a big bucket of stress that we carry around. It is a big bucket and each deposit of stress is going to cause a greater or lesser effect

in that bucket.

Our perceptions also play into that, but we, if that bucket is full, you're going to be screwed.

We talked about the effects on your physical body, on your weight gain or weight loss,

on your long-term health, like cardiovascular health, blood pressure, heart attack, strokes,

and that we have to look at ways to mitigate this.

And when we talked about, Michelle gave a good analogy of it's a measuring cup going in and scooping out some of that stress and getting it out of your bucket.

We gave you a bunch of tools and tactics to do that, including meditation, breathwork, journaling, getting rid of toxic people in your life.

I mean, time managing better.

We gave, I don't even know, dozens strategies at least, and there's many more.

You got to find what works for you.

And so Michelle talked about breathwork.

She is still taking some one-on-one clients if you don't know how to do breathwork.

And she'll teach you out incorporated that into your everyday life.

So you can find more information on the breath within you on her Instagram.

You can click on that and it will take you to a link tree and you can book. So,

um, and also I talked about a little bit in the beginning of the podcast, but big announcement, Amber Lee Logo, who is a New York Times best seller. She is a keynote speaker,

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