Moment 156: Your Stress Is Making you Fat & Sick... Here's How To Fix It!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In this moment, neuroscientist and bestselling author, Dr Tara Swart discusses the brain-body impacts of stress and the dangers of being around stressful people. While people think of stress as being solely a mental health problem, it can physical health impacts, the most obvious being an increase in belly fat. This fat is a result of the stress hormone cortisol, which because of evolution, tells your body to hold onto fat as a survival mechanism. Because of this, you can’t shift this belly weight with either diet or exercise, the only thing that will change it is addressing the stress that is causing the release of cortisol. Dr Swart also says that leaders who cannot handle their stress, who she calls, ‘leaky cortisol people’, can cause a trickle down effect in an organisation, causing stress and negative health impacts on the people below them. Listen to the full episode here Apple - https://g2ul0.app.link/BIZuIuDPwIb Spotify - https://g2ul0.app.link/NGE9aaHPwIb Watch the Episodes On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Tara: Instagram: https://bit.ly/48hJ1k2 Twitter: https://bit.ly/46gqYZI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	So stress causes belly fat? As a survival mechanism, it will help you to store fat around your abdomen.
0:42.3	So again in the cave cave if you were potentially
0:45.1	going to like not find food for a month then if you had extra fat around your
0:48.8	abdomen you could digest that and survive till you could find food. So with my clients and financial services it got
0:56.1	to a point where as soon as I walked into the room they just lift their t-shirt up and say
1:00.0	now you know how I've been in the last month. And then I had a really, really funny
1:05.1	incident when I was speaking at a bank and the CEO's PA was there in the audience.
1:16.0	And I was explaining that, you know, leadership stress leaks down, that stress can lead to abdominal or fat, that you can't shift,
1:21.0	because she shouted out.
1:22.0	So he's the reason that I'm fat. But Steve no one laughed.
1:29.6	Really? Yeah and that's when I knew that, okay, he obviously is like really stressing everyone out.
1:37.0	Oh gosh, no one laughed. No.
1:40.7	Through fear or something or just because they thought it was true?
1:44.0	It wasn't funny. It was true.
1:46.0	Jesus.
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