Sal Di Stefano

This is why people initially get addicted and they feel good.

They're like, oh my God, I have all this energy.

What's happening is your body's spiking up these catecholamines to get you more motivated to find food.

So like if you're in nature and you go without food, your body spikes up like,

all right, give this person some energy.

We got to find some food, but people get addicted to this high, but too many catecholamines, norepinephrine, epinephrine, you know, cortisol, cortisol even feels good.

High cortisol feels good.

Cortisol is an energy producing hormone.

That's why it's high in the morning and it starts to taper off at night.

In fact, there's an argument to be said that there are people who are, you could refer to as cortisol junkies.

Yeah.

where their stress levels have made their cortisol so high that they become resistant that they actually seek out stressful situations to produce that feeling.

So these people are like, they're typically a type A, but they'll get addicted to like high intensity exercise.

They tend to be late all the time.

They tend to be in stressful conversations all the time because without realizing it, they're causing spikes in cortisol that start to make them feel better.

Over time though, this causes you to crash.

Oh, yeah.

It's not good.

Not good at all.

But I can pick out cortisol addicts now pretty easily when I meet people.