Acute stress triggers cortisol release that helps you handle immediate threats, but chronic stress keeps cortisol elevated and damages your gut, immune system, and blood sugar. Modern life turns stress into a constant condition instead of a temporary one.
Good stress, bad stress. What's your take on this? The problem with modern society, stress becomes chronic. When stress becomes chronic, there are a panoply of very, very detrimental downstream impacts. We often associate it with the release of cortisol. Right. And cortisol can be again adaptive in the right moments. But over the course of time, that will degrade gut function. It will prohibit the innate immune system, it can raise blood sugar levels, so it can cause know blood sugar imbalances essentially it can lead to imbalances in the body and really if there is a signature of disease, it's imbalance. Right. So this is bad stress.
