Posted by leeran on March 26, 2003, at 16:20:37
In reply to Re: Hormones » leeran, posted by lil' jimi on March 26, 2003, at 15:59:10
Lil Jimi - reminds me of Purple Haze - which reminds me of the state of affairs in and around my gray matter now and then.
Re: thickened middles. When we're under stress our bodies produce cortisol.
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Cortisol affects fat distribution by causing fat to be stored centrally—around the organs. Cortisol exposure can increase visceral fat—the fat surrounding the organs—in animals. People with diseases associated with extreme exposure to cortisol, such as severe recurrent depression and Cushing’s disease also have excessive amounts of visceral fat.
"Everyone is exposed to stress, but some people may secrete more cortisol than others, and may secrete cortisol each time they face the same stressor," Epel adds. "We predicted that reacting to the same stressors consistently by secreting cortisol would be related to greater visceral fat."
> > I meant to reply to "jim" or "jimi?" about this yesterday.
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> hi leeran,
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> you can call anything you please, just don't call me late for supper! <heh, heh>
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> great post there ... way informative ... Thanks for the good info!
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> got me to thinking ... i have heard tell this about the fat gut syndrome on guys ... that we tend to establish entrenched eating habits as youngsters when our metabolisms can burn off anything we eat and then as we age our testostorone levels fall off and our metabolisms slow down, but we don't change our eating habits, so ... by (or before) 35 here comes the big gut on (sometimes) otherwise thin frames.
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> my theory is y'all gals also have your testostorone levels fall off by about 35 in a parallel to what happens to us... along with all that other stuff .... maybe?
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> just a thought anyway.
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> peace,
> ~ jim
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> p.s. my grandma always called me "little jimmy"... "jim" was already taken when i registered for Psycho-Babble.
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