There's way more to cortisol than diet, or at least macronutrients. My cortisol levels normalized when I gave up gluten/casein, both of which give me a semi-shock reaction when I eat them. Also ... after giving them up, 20+ years of constant anxiety/depression just *stopped*. There is probably some complex reason for that, and likely a lot of the people who get suddenly better after giving up "carbs" are actually immunologically sensitive to wheat-based carbs (which are pretty much all of them on the grocery shelves).
Coffee does next to nothing that way for me. Caffeine studies are interesting, because if you give caffeine to someone who never takes it much, they get high blood pressure etc. But that effect goes away for habitual drinkers.
Also if cortisol problems are caused by starch and stress, then the Japanese should all be very, very fat.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Kim Swearingen <kim@desertmeadows.com> wrote:
I can easily face a life with very low carbs and alcohol. However, caffeine? Really? Stress levels are another interesting thing. I have what to most seems like a fairly high stress life - four kids I'm raising alone and I work in the restaurant industry and way too many hours. That being said, I handle stress extremely well. So does that mean that I probably have high cortisol levels? Is stress itself the culprit or just stress that actually stresses you out? Hard to know, right? Last time I was tested, both estrogen and testosterone were in the normal range, although testosterone was "low normal".Just tell me I don't have to give up coffee.Kim
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