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The Model Health Show

TMHS 798: The Truth About Stress and Weight Gain

The Model Health Show

Shawn Stevenson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Motivation, Wellness, Nutrition, Health, Sex, Selfhelp

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

When you think about the major drivers of weight gain, you probably consider things like nutrition and exercise. But there can often be a lot more going on the scenes that can contribute to weight gain or weight loss resistance. On today’s show, you’re going to learn how stress can act as an epigenetic controller that influences your propensity for storing fat.

You’re going to learn from three brilliant experts in their respective fields on why things like hormones, thyroid health, trauma, and the overall impact of stress can influence your weight. You’re also going to take away specific action steps you can use to increase your body’s stress resilience.

This episode is full of insights like how your cortisol levels affect your metabolism, how the right kinds of exercise can help you overcome weight loss resilience, and some of the most common misconceptions about the role of stress in our bodies. Click play to learn more from the incredible Dr. Sara Gottfried, Dr. Kelly McGonigal, and Dr. Izabella Wentz.

In this episode you’ll discover:

  • The critical role your endocrine system plays in regulating your weight.
  • How excess stress hormones like cortisol can lead to weight gain.
  • Why a history of trauma can alter your stress response system.
  • The downstream consequences of trauma.
  • How insulin, stress, and weight gain are connected.
  • Which hormone is the master of your stress response.
  • What percentage of people have dysregulated cortisol levels.
  • Why adverse childhood experiences can affect your physiology into adulthood.
  • Which health practice is non-negotiable for healing from stress and trauma.
  • Why our beliefs about stress matters.
  • Major misconceptions about how stress impacts our bodies.
  • How exercise sensitizes your brain to pleasure.
  • What the joy gap is.
  • How your muscles act as an endocrine organ.
  • The warning signs of adrenal fatigue.
  • How stress can slow your metabolic rate and make your body store fat.
  • The impact chronic stress has on the adrenal stress response.
  • How to rebalance your stress response.
  • Why nutrient void foods can make your body conserve energy.
  • The important role of getting quality rest.
  • Which types of exercise are best for restoring adrenal health.

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Transcript

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You are now listening to the model health show with Sean Stevenson.

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For more visit the model health show.

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.com.

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Stress is an epigenetic controller that deeply impacts our rate of weight gain and weight loss.

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On this episode you're going to hear from three leading experts on stress and metabolic health. You're about to learn directly from an expert on endocrinology,

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from a health psychologist,

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and from a pharmacologist who shifted or focused

0:31.0

to optimizing thyroid and adrenal health.

0:34.0

Again, you're going to discover how stress can function as an epigenetic influence

0:39.0

that alters the way your body stores and burns fat. Now this is an incredibly important and

0:45.8

overlooked part of the conversation we were talking about weight loss

0:49.6

because we can be in a caloric deficit and yet struggle to actually lose weight.

0:55.6

And what's going on there is, again, stress can alter the way that our metabolism is working.

1:01.2

So yes, calories do matter in the equation of weight loss and

1:06.0

fat loss, but most importantly we've got to look at the hormone function

1:09.8

underlying everything. We've got to look at the function of our overall

1:12.8

indecrant system of our immune system and understanding what's happening

1:17.4

behind the scenes, what can slow and increase our metabolic rate. And today I

1:21.9

wanted to give you the real keys again from some of the

1:24.6

leading experts in the world and how do we actually give ourselves the real

1:29.4

safety signals that enable our bodies to feel less stressed.

1:34.1

Because all of us handle stress differently

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