Stress-Cortisol-Belly Fat-Mindfulness

Minnie2361
Minnie2361 Posts: 281 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Biggest predicator of early onset of fat is through the stress pathway, High Stress shifts behavior, appetite, stimulates overeating related to insulin resistance ,metabolic syndrome and general obesity.
People reach for comfort foods to calm them down and hold onto calories.
Stress causes the same signals that famine does, it makes us hungry , it turns on brain pathways that make us crave dense calories , so when stressed we choose unhealthy choices such as high fat, high sweet , high salt that reward the brain.

Mindfulness based stress reduction, train people to be meditate to recognize where they keep tension, when they are hungry. Easy to develop skills.

They did a study.
The trained people to eat consciously and examine their relationship with food. They were to eat in response to hunger rather than emotions. For obese women the more they improved on their well being decreasing anxiety and stress, the more fat they lost and the more belly fat they lost, Cortisol goes up after you wake up , for obese women after the intervention the cortisol was greatly reduced and the more belly fat they lost.

starts at 42:57
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sKxfImHkFI
The more cortisol was reduced the more belly fat they lost.

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  • Minnie2361
    Minnie2361 Posts: 281 Member
    Part 2
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1801007
    Serum cortisol and total protein levels, blood pressure, heart rate, lung volume, and reaction time were studied in 52 males 20-25 years of age practicing Dhammakaya Buddhist meditation, and in 30 males of the same age group not practicing meditation. It was found that after meditation, serum cortisol levels were significantly reduced, serum total protein level significantly increased, and systolic pressure, diastolic pressure and pulse rate significantly reduced. Vital capacity, tidal volume and maximal voluntary ventilation were significantly lower after meditation than before. There were also significant decreases in reaction time after mediation practice. The percentage decrease in reaction time during meditation was 22%, while in subjects untrained in meditation, the percentage decrease was only 7%. Results from these studies indicate that practising Dhammakaya Buddhist meditation produces biochemical and physiological changes and reduces the reaction time.
  • ViktoryaC
    ViktoryaC Posts: 124 Member
    Sounds like that might explain why my waist measurement went from 24 to 36 in one year.....
  • nextrightthing
    nextrightthing Posts: 408 Member
    bump
  • Minnie2361
    Minnie2361 Posts: 281 Member
    the good side and not so good side of cortisol

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ9jy2eCb5I

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMSvpZFJn8w
  • Lichent
    Lichent Posts: 157 Member
    We watched those videos. now we understand why we kept getting hungry after eating the sweet nasty stuff. Then we kept eating more. That you tube is great for getting educated on how we put on fat.
    My buddy is an ex smoker and he says sugar is just like nicotine , just plain addictive. Nasty stuff. The sugar goes straight to fat oooh so glad we dumped the junk food and didn't pass it on to someone else.

    That skinny on obesity made sense. Someone is finally talking sense.
  • nomeejerome
    nomeejerome Posts: 2,616 Member
    oh geez....
  • KateK8LoseW8
    KateK8LoseW8 Posts: 824 Member
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  • Lichent
    Lichent Posts: 157 Member
    Make it stop???? What are you doing here???
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    Can't watch the video currently.

    This isn't a Lustig "documentary", is it?
  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    NO.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    Can't watch the video currently.

    This isn't a Lustig "documentary", is it?

    Funnily enough...
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    I eat pieces of cortisol like you for breakfast. :angry:
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    Can't watch the video currently.

    This isn't a Lustig "documentary", is it?

    Funnily enough...

    Figures...

    ...and *sigh*.

    (But seriously, are there any other prominent authors pushing this view?)
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    I eat pieces of cortisol like you for breakfast. :angry:

    You eat pieces of cortisol??
  • PetulantOne
    PetulantOne Posts: 2,131 Member
    Funny, the more stressed I get, the less I want to eat. I must be a special snowflake.
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    I eat pieces of cortisol like you for breakfast. :angry:

    You eat pieces of cortisol??

    Yes. Of course. It's sciency.

    Edit: Have you seen Happy Gilmore?
  • taiyola
    taiyola Posts: 964 Member
    Sounds like that might explain why my waist measurement went from 24 to 36 in one year.....

    Or maybe you just ate too much, and moved too little, y'know?

    :huh:
  • LumpySpacePrincess1
    LumpySpacePrincess1 Posts: 388 Member
    Sounds like that might explain why my waist measurement went from 24 to 36 in one year.....

    Or maybe you just ate too much, and moved too little, y'know?

    :huh:
    Who asked for your entirely logical contribution? Logic stains the rainbow! IT'S NOT HER FAULT, T'WAS THE CORTISSOOLLL!!!
  • VoodooAborisha
    VoodooAborisha Posts: 147 Member
    People who have had frequent or recent heavy live stresses, such as bereavements, job change/loss, home change/loss, have cortisol levels that make it virtually impossible to lose weight. A study I read this morning said that cortisol was as dangerous as smoking or a sedentary lifestyle.

    After I lost my job and my house in 2010, plus essentially losing all my friends and family because we moved to another country, and my mother died in 2011 from a 4-year battle with cancer, I tried MFP in this time of high stress and cortisol production with the same calorie intake and exercise as I am doing now, and after 7 weeks I had not lost a pound. This September I noticed a decline in my anxiety and stress, I started again about 6 weeks ago, same exercise, same calorie intake, just to see if there was a sufficient decline in my cortisol level to allow me to lose weight. Fortunately, there is less cortisol in my system, and I have now lost 8 pounds in about a month.

    I am happy for those who do not know the horrors and health problems of extreme cortisol production, and I hope they never have to experience it. I had visibly aged about 10 years in a space of only two years. I am hoping to buy back some time now that I am better - and fortunately now my cortisol level is low enough to let me lose some weight.
  • rainbow198
    rainbow198 Posts: 2,245 Member
    People who have had frequent or recent heavy live stresses, such as bereavements, job change/loss, home change/loss, have cortisol levels that make it virtually impossible to lose weight. A study I read this morning said that cortisol was as dangerous as smoking or a sedentary lifestyle.


    I'm sorry to read about all of the stresses you had in your life. Glad to see your weight loss is continuing! I'm interested in reading that article you mentioned. Would you mind either posting or PMing me the link to the study if it's online? I'm such a geek about learning the science behind things. Thank you. :)

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