How Cortisol Builds Insulin Resistance

When cortisol is chronically elevated, through work pressure, poor sleep, overtraining, or the low-grade stress of running a household and a career, it signals your liver to release glucose. Your body reads high cortisol as emergency fuel demand and insulin rises in response.

Over time, repeated insulin spikes train your cells to become less responsive. This is cortisol-driven insulin resistance.

It develops in people who never eat sugar excessively and in people who exercise regularly. It develops most reliably in high-achieving women who have been running on adrenaline for a decade. The driver is your nervous system's chronic stress response, not your diet.

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