Dr. Vonda Wright

A man will lean up and get more cognitively focused in times of low calorie intake.

So this is what we see with fasting data and we see with restrictive diets.

And that was, we need to bring it back to that biological lens, low calorie.

I have to go find the calories.

I have to be fit to go find the calories.

Low calories, I need to not have to eat as much.

So I need to store fat and I can't have a baby because we don't have enough calories.

And then stress?

When we add modern stress onto that, that's a comprehensive addition of cortisol and addition of inflammation, and that also perpetuates body fat.

These were episodic stresses.

Well, and your hormones would change for a very specific purpose that you would then go do.

Right.

would free up glucose from your liver.

You're getting it ready in your bloodstream so you can go run from the lion.

And then things would shift back to normal.

And what's happening with chronic stress is you're getting all the hormone shifts because your body's really getting ready for the lion, except it's just that bad meeting you had.

And then you're just sitting there longer and you're not using that glucose up.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Exactly.