secretion) when you’re sleeping,
so you don’t get adequate deep,
restorative sleep. That sleep, and
normal cortisol rhythms, are
important for memory formation
and future access. Now, where did
you put your highlighter?Cortisol secretion is tied to many factors
(like sleep, exercise, and psychological stress)
but is also influenced by your eating habits.
One of cortisol’s jobs is to help glucagon keep
blood sugar within a healthy range. When
your body senses that blood sugar is too low
(like when you haven’t eaten for a very long
time) or if it crashes too fast (as they tend to
do following a blood sugar spike when you’re
insulin resistant), it reacts to that stressful
situation by releasing cortisol. Cortisol then
prompts glucagon to get to work, breaking
down energy stored as liver glycogen (or
muscle tissue) and flooding it into the