BITESIZE: How Chronic Stress Disrupts Metabolic Health
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Dr. Bret Scher discusses how chronic stress impacts metabolic health and the importance of stress recovery practices.
Can chronic stress undermine metabolic health, even when nutrition, sleep, and exercise are in place? In this episode of Metabolic Mind, Dr. Bret Scher explains why stress recovery is an important part of metabolic health and how chronic cortisol and adrenaline activation may affect insulin resistance, blood pressure, inflammation, sleep, and long-term cardiometabolic health. Dr. Scher breaks down the difference between short-term stress that helps us respond to challenges and chronic stress that keeps the body’s alarm system switched on. He also shares why stress recovery doesn’t have to mean an hour of meditation or a weekend nature retreat. Even brief, consistent practices like 10 minutes outside, a short walk, sunlight exposure, calming music, or nature sounds may help the nervous system reset. In the episode, Dr. Scher covers: How chronic stress can affect blood sugar, insulin resistance, and blood pressure Why cortisol and adrenaline are helpful short term but harmful when constantly elevated How stress can disrupt sleep, cognition, inflammation, and metabolic health Why meditation works for some people, and why consistency matters more than duration How nature exposure…
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