There is a phenomenon that engineers discovered, somewhat to their embarrassment, only after they had spent decades trying to straighten rivers. In the name of flood control and agricultural efficiency, they lined the banks with concrete, cut the curves, and forced the water into a direct, efficient channel. The result, they assumed, would be a calmer, more manageable river. What they got instead was the opposite. The water, deprived of its natural meanders, accelerated and scoured the riverbed. It carried away sediment that had taken centuries to accumulate. The straightened river, designed to be more orderly, became the source of the very floods it was meant to prevent. The river needed its bends. Not despite the fact that they were inefficient, but because of it. Your autonomic nervous system is, in its own way, a river with two banks. On one side runs the sympathetic branch - the accelerator, the one that floods your body with adrenaline and cortisol when a deadline looms, a car brakes suddenly or an email arrives at midnight with a subject line that makes your stomach drop. On the other side, the parasympathetic branch - the brake, the one that slows the heart, deepens the breath and tells the digestive system it is finally safe to work. In a healthy system, these two forces don't simply alternate; they "dance". Every heartbeat, in fact, is a tiny negotiation between them. The interval between one beat and the next is never perfectly identical. It stretches and contracts in subtle, rhythmic variation - a phenomenon cardiologists call heart rate variability, or HRV. A high HRV is not a racing heart; it is a flexible one. It is the physiological signature of a nervous system that can bend. And like the engineers' river, we have spent much of modern life trying to straighten it. Chronic stress does not simply mean feeling overwhelmed. At a biological level, it means the sympathetic accelerator is engaged far more often than the body was designed to sustain. The cortisol that was meant to spike and then dissolve, becomes a low, continuous background radiation of threat and the body cannot distinguish from a predator in the grass. The parasympathetic brake, the one that is supposed to restore and rebuild, barely gets a turn.

Do you know what lab works you should ask you GP / Doctor on insulin resitance? Here you have the table with the biomarkers and.... THE OPTIMAL RANGES! Yes, we don´t go for the standards when you talk about insulin. We want to be in the optimal ranges in order to know for sure that we don´t go straight on the path of Insulin Resistance. Check the classroom to see the slides and keep the BIOMARKS OPTIMAL Ranges at hand when you will have your lab results. TASK: as soon as you can go and visit your doctor. Come back with results and let´s start measuring how powerful changes are.

Did you know that constant high cortisol is sabotaging your Insulin Sensitivity? Why do you think is the main cause?

Hello, beautiful people and let´s start this day with something useful ! In May we will focus on Insulin Sensitiviy (and Insulin Resistance). It will be a month with lots of tasks and challenges. We will talk about food as therapy but also about some habit changes. So, if you want to keep track of everything in a really easy way, I recommend you join this community. It´s @Theresa Elliott ´s community and I have to say it helped me a lot with consistency in the last month! I´ve got discipline and I managed to get results! Take a look at this and use the app created by @Theresa Elliott if you want to keep track of your progress with certain tasks! If you are already part of Theresa´s community, what do you think? Have you tried the 28-day Action Plan?

Ok so everyone knows i love mushrooms here. More specificly i love finding them for "free" and cooking them when buying them would cost an arm and a leg. (This batch cost an arm and a leg toget but that is beside the point) we had a successful day yesterday, learned from a micology member, and hiked 3 miles through very rough turrain and got to see family friends qhite surprisingly. All that to say im an advocate for foraging your ow. Goods when possible, not just for the nutritional benifit and potential cost cutting, but the me.orys of being with friend and family, the memory of loosing that awesome water bottle, the memorys of my daughter taking off her boots and flat jumping in that mud puttle, and her not listening every 10 minutes for her own safety or to remind her im NOT going to leave her in the woods.............not sure where this fear comes from. For those wondering, these are morels, very prized, very expensive, no i wont tell where i got them. And for the following question, i use them on pizza, pan fried with garlic and onion (litterally all it needs as the flavor is a bomb just from the mushroom).