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Welcome to the future.

Thank you for tuning in today.

I am pleased to tell you that we have a brand new topic for you.

This morning, we are going to talk about the cortisol connection to weight gain.

And you might be asking yourself, what exactly does this mean?

What is cortisol?

You might be saying to yourself, you know, I thought those numbers on this scale were sliding up because of all of those Christmas cookies and treats that we have been eating, right?

There was tons of that this last week, right?

So much food, right?

I know.

You know, of course, we do agree that your waking may be from eating all of those Christmas cookies, your favorite holiday brownies,

or indulging in those white chocolate peppermint lattes, or it could also be from getting stuck in traffic, or those long checkout lanes at the holidays, or any of those other holiday stresses that you can think of

and there are many it may surprise you to learn that the stress that you live might actually be

the cause of your weight gain yeah that's something i don't think people really think about

and we don't talk about i mean we talk about connections with that, but it can be a big

component to this.

It really is.

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