Peter Attia· MD
some of the most interesting stuff glucocorticoids do in those circumstances is basically run a triage program they shut down everything that's not essential not essential to surviving the next five minutes of this massive physical challenge so digestion with digestion exactly you got better things to do than digest breakfast when you're trying to avoid being somebody's lunch and you're sure not going to get any metabolic benefits of digestion during this five minutes it's slow expensive the energy you're getting you're getting from your liver you're getting from your fat cells it shuts down growth obvious logic there you know grow antlers tomorrow if you're still around to umballa right now shuts off reproduction same logic there it shuts off all the long-term building projects and just focuses your energies on what's immediately there and this makes makes sense if you are running for your life running after meal and all you need to do is look at a couple of diseases where people don't turn on the endocrine stress response Addison's disease shy-drager syndrome whatever these are not diseases where somebody who now is more at risk for adult onset diabetes eight months from now these are diseases where somebody goes running after their commuter bus and they dropped it from hypoglycemic shock