Shawn Talbott > Quotes

“People with disrupted cortisol-secretion patterns have higher body fat (particularly in the abdomen), lower muscle mass (particularly in the arms and legs), and reduced basal metabolic rate (BMR, the number of calories burned at rest).”
― Shawn Talbott, The Cortisol Connection: Why Stress Makes You Fat and Ruins Your Health — And What You Can Do About It

“researchers from the University of Montreal have linked obesity to stress (higher stress levels = higher body weight), but have also found that education and mental outlook can reduce that stress/ weight relationship.”
― Shawn Talbott, The Cortisol Connection: Why Stress Makes You Fat and Ruins Your Health — And What You Can Do About It

“Stress makes a person fat primarily because of an excessive secretion of the key stress hormone, cortisol, along with a reduced secretion of key anabolic hormones, such as DHEA, testosterone, and growth hormone. This combination of highly catabolic cortisol and reduced anabolic hormones causes the body to store fat, lose muscle, slow metabolic rate, and increase appetite—all of which have the ultimate effect of making a person fatter.”
― Shawn Talbott, The Cortisol Connection: Why Stress Makes You Fat and Ruins Your Health — And What You Can Do About It