The Cortisol Connection: Why Stress Makes You Fat and Ruins

How can you reallyower your stressevels,ose weight, keep it off and protect your health? This book has the answers. In The Cortisol Connection, well-known nutritionist Dr. Shawn M. Talbott explains whyowering cortisol the body's major stress hormone is as important to health andongevity asowering cholesterol. Using his carefully designed and easy-to-follow SENSE (Stress management, Exercise, Nutrition, Supplementation and Evaluation) cortisol-control plan, he shows you how to reduce stress, improve stress, improve your-term health,ower your cortisol and avoid weight gain. This book:Explains how cortisol contributes to weight gain, depression, osteoporosis and hypertensionIncludes a SENSE program that is based on controlled studies with patients who have used it for over five yearsIncludes new research on the connections between cortisol and HSD (the body's fat storage enzyme)and cortisol and testosteroneContains a stress self-test and a weight-reduction plan.