Maintaining very low carbohydrate intake long-term can lead to problems related to stress hormones, including elevated cortisol, epinephrine, and glucagon. — Whalespan
Maintaining very low carbohydrate intake long-term can lead to problems related to stress hormones, including elevated cortisol, epinephrine, and glucagon.
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“meaning you get more cortisol less cortisone which leads to stress effects which leads to all sorts of problems in the human body having a lot of cortisol is not good electrolyte problems sleep problems hormone problems”
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“and there is actually problems to keeping carbs too low over the long term because of what happens with stress hormones exactly and I've talked about that in the past uh and you guys have talked about the fact that the fact that acutely when you limit carbohydrates you get cortisol epinephrine and then chronically glucagon elevated and there are stress hormones that come with limiting carbohydrates”