Why should you care about your blood sugar?
Because healthy blood sugar regulation can translate into…
✅ Sustained Energy
✅ Mental Clarity
✅ Fewer Cravings
✅ Better Sleep
✅ Stress Resilience
✅ Clear Skin
✅ Stable Mood
And those are just the effects you’ll notice.
Because over time, healthy blood sugar regulation supports your hormones, brain, heart, and healthy aging 🙌
If you have any questions about blood sugar or want personalized support...
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What your body does with stress 👇
I think we can all agree that the holiday season is one of the most stressful times of year.
Maybe you have a *sense* that it affects your health, but do you actually know why or how?
If you want to train your body to be more resilient to stress (so it doesn’t have so much control over your life), it helps to understand stress hormones.
So let’s start there.
There are 2 hormones to know:
Cortisol & Adrenaline (also called Epinephrine). Here are the differences:
1️⃣ Adrenaline is released rapidly as an immediate response to stress, whereas cortisol is released in a daily rhythm regulated by the brain & the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.
2️⃣ Adrenaline has fast effects to activate the body when in danger (think “fight or flight!”) Cortisol has slower effects that are not as obvious to track.
3️⃣ Whereas adrenaline increases the heart rate and can make you feel anxious during intense moments, cortisol has longer-term health effects related to metabolism, sleep, brain, and mood.
Cortisol is so central to the stress cycle that I’ll be sharing more about it and what we can do to balance it in upcoming posts.
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👋 Raise your hand if you want more resilience to stress!
Less anxiety?
Yes please 🤚
New research shows that one way to achieve these things is simply by getting BETTER SLEEP.
The study looked at data from 1600 healthy adults during 2020 (an anxious time for lots of people!). Most of the participants were women.
They found that both positive coping strategies and higher quality sleep made people more resilient to stress and anxiety—independently, meaning each of these things work on their own.
Need some tips & motivation for better sleep?
✅ Keep the room cool
✅ Turn off screens in the evening
✅ Commit to a calming routine
✅ Cut off caffeine in the afternoon
✅ Get exercise during the day!
We have lots of tools in our functional medicine toolbox to help with stress, anxiety, & sleep.
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Sullivan EC, James E, Henderson LM, McCall C, Cairney SA. The influence of emotion regulation strategies and sleep quality on depression and anxiety [published online ahead of print, 2023 Jun 21]. Cortex. 2023;166:286-305. [link]