All of us lie awake when we should be sleeping pondering that same question, 'How close are we to death?'. When will I die? Will I live old enough to play with my grandchildrens? Will I still be able to hike up that hill behind my house when I reach 60's? In this post, I will discuss more of cortisol and how it affects our state of mind.
The solution medicine has latched on to is really just an antidote to their low fat regime. It is, quite simply, to exercise more and hysterically. All that medicine ever suggested was for you to live on sugar and run like hell on that treadmill and burn it off. Not to mention doing marathons or long endurance sports activities which thrash your adrenals and makes you biologically old if you do it years after years regularly.
As your weight goes down, your insulin receptors go back up, then bloos sugar also falls because your muscles soaked it up as you exercise through the now functioning insulin receptors. This is the way exercise lowers blood sugar. When your insulin is lower, you can't make as much cholesterol and that number goes down too. Then, the doctor declares you as cured, but, you are not cured.
Now, you just have a new disease, because it never occurred to them that you don't have to work off what you don't take in the first place. In reality, running, jumping or climbing response with ancient subroutines. A fear response that throws your cortisol into high levels. High cortisol is a blood sugar mobilizer, so it throws your blood sugar up again, when your blood sugar goes up, insulin follows. That means the continous rebounding of excessive exercise alone can make you insulin resistance over time. Here's how it works.
Running, Jumping, Climbing = Being Chased
Chase = Stress Response
Stress = Cortisol release = Blood sugar mobilization
Blood sugar up = Insulin Up = Insulin Resistance = Fat storage and Hypertension
Let's face it. You would never go from your chair to the door really fast unless something was chasing you. Agree? This cortisol fear trigger is the big key to mental illness and heart disease. When the lights are on too long in 24 hrs, it's summer. During summer, we mated and ate until we burst. The light, fighting, and eating meant our cortisol never dropped for three to five months or so, out of the year. You, on the other hand, live, in your head, in constant fear and panic on the verge of death.
When you live in prehibernation mode, but never get to go dormant, you go crazy. You go crazy because you have stayed up so long. You see, in nature, staying up that long would mean you've eaten half of the planet, which is way more then you share. And, you are mostly likely no longer fertile from swimming in all that insulin. Therefore, you have no business living. So, nature takes you out by altering your reality so you won't want to live anymore. You actually go crazy so you will take yourself out.
The way nature effects this mechanism in your body is by ultimately creating a bipolar state of mind. Nature doubles the odds of your suicide impulse control. So, if you don't do yourself in while in the throes of despair during the depressive state, you will probably make some dangerous, life threatening moves while you are high as a kite. Either way, nature wins.
And don't forget the cortisol principle. When the sun never sets or you never turn off the lights, your cortisol never drops. High cortisol only occurs in nature when you need it to run away or deal with pain. High cortisol is meant to be episodic, not chronic. In nature, chronic high cortisol would mean you are a reproductive loser, best reason to take you out and social outkast.
Having chronic high cortisol and chronic high insulin together puts your mind in the constant 'panic' state of summer mating. The lights are on, the food (carbohydrates) must be plentiful because your insulin is up, and naturally, because of the light and all of the excessive exercise, your cortisol is up for competition. You triggerred ancient programs and subroutines that would only ever switch on in true states of peril, such as 'run for your life' or 'your DNA won't show up in the next generation'. When your seasonal insulin/cortisol 'clock' is off, real mental illness, not just gross mood swings, but true manic depression and schizophrenia can occur.
There are studies which showed that depression, manic depression and schizophrenia is simply being out of light and dark rhythmicity. Even The National Institute of Mental Health agree with the studies conducted on these mental illnesses. When you sleep, you feel better and more sane. I'm sure your mother told you that aint it?
Your mind is not your brain, it is the echo that follows one beat behind the biochemical and biophysical actions in the body and brain. Your mind is a receiver that amplifies and gives a context to everything that is going on in your body and in the environment. It's like a television set of sorts, which receives signals from a remote source, such as body, planet and other living things. When we watch television, we all know that there are no little people in there. It's hard to realize, but the same is true of your head.
There are major players involved which includes seratonin, dopamine, GABA and melatonin to identify the loops in the machinery. Sleep controls food suply and reproduction, which control your mental state. Now, let's discuss abit about schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is, most often, an extreme form of manic depression, which is also known as bipolar disorder. It is, an excessive unregulated amount of dopamine in the brain leading to episodes of mania that come complete with hallucinations, including sounds and smells.
When you overeat carbohydrates, not only does your body become insulin resistant, but your brain can, too. In the brain, seratonin and dopamine stand on opposite sides of the board of the log. If's one's up, the other down. It's the duality again. Too much seratonin and you're paralyzed, too much dopamine and you are stucked to the ceiling. I know I know, you guys must be thinking, isn't seratonin supposed to be the 'happy hormone' and we need it? Yes, you are right, but if the levels are too much, imagine the petrol in the car over spill, what will happen? It's important, we need it for our brain, and sufficient levels would be the key here. Seratonin and insulin are on the same side of the equation in metabolism. There are also on the same side of the brain. Insulin, because hormones can be neurotransmitters too, can suppress dopamine levels, just as seratonin does. But bear in mind, neither seratonin nor insulin can suppress dopamine if there are no receptors to register their presence.
Now, schizophrenia is the ultimate state of insulin resistance in the brain. There are other factors involved too but I will not explain it in this topic. It is, in effect, cerebral diabetes Type II, the result of endless summer in your head. You see, sleep loss really can drive you nuts!
When the light that controls appetite, which controls insulin, stays permanently switched on, the production of neurotransmitters such as seratonin and dopamine, which are controlled by insulin, become wildly unstable. Well, sleep early, avoid high carbohyrates(especially refined carbs) meal before bedtime, ensure there are good amount of quality clean protein couple hours before you hit the bed(during dinner) as L-Tryptophan converts into melatonin and seratonin, and of course, turn off all devices which transmit signals such as mobile phones, wireless routers, radio, and other similiar gadgets, unless you want them to kill your melatonin receptors and disrupt your quality sleep. Goodnight folks, sweetdreams.
There are studies which showed that depression, manic depression and schizophrenia is simply being out of light and dark rhythmicity. Even The National Institute of Mental Health agree with the studies conducted on these mental illnesses. When you sleep, you feel better and more sane. I'm sure your mother told you that aint it?
Your mind is not your brain, it is the echo that follows one beat behind the biochemical and biophysical actions in the body and brain. Your mind is a receiver that amplifies and gives a context to everything that is going on in your body and in the environment. It's like a television set of sorts, which receives signals from a remote source, such as body, planet and other living things. When we watch television, we all know that there are no little people in there. It's hard to realize, but the same is true of your head.
There are major players involved which includes seratonin, dopamine, GABA and melatonin to identify the loops in the machinery. Sleep controls food suply and reproduction, which control your mental state. Now, let's discuss abit about schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is, most often, an extreme form of manic depression, which is also known as bipolar disorder. It is, an excessive unregulated amount of dopamine in the brain leading to episodes of mania that come complete with hallucinations, including sounds and smells.
When you overeat carbohydrates, not only does your body become insulin resistant, but your brain can, too. In the brain, seratonin and dopamine stand on opposite sides of the board of the log. If's one's up, the other down. It's the duality again. Too much seratonin and you're paralyzed, too much dopamine and you are stucked to the ceiling. I know I know, you guys must be thinking, isn't seratonin supposed to be the 'happy hormone' and we need it? Yes, you are right, but if the levels are too much, imagine the petrol in the car over spill, what will happen? It's important, we need it for our brain, and sufficient levels would be the key here. Seratonin and insulin are on the same side of the equation in metabolism. There are also on the same side of the brain. Insulin, because hormones can be neurotransmitters too, can suppress dopamine levels, just as seratonin does. But bear in mind, neither seratonin nor insulin can suppress dopamine if there are no receptors to register their presence.
Now, schizophrenia is the ultimate state of insulin resistance in the brain. There are other factors involved too but I will not explain it in this topic. It is, in effect, cerebral diabetes Type II, the result of endless summer in your head. You see, sleep loss really can drive you nuts!
When the light that controls appetite, which controls insulin, stays permanently switched on, the production of neurotransmitters such as seratonin and dopamine, which are controlled by insulin, become wildly unstable. Well, sleep early, avoid high carbohyrates(especially refined carbs) meal before bedtime, ensure there are good amount of quality clean protein couple hours before you hit the bed(during dinner) as L-Tryptophan converts into melatonin and seratonin, and of course, turn off all devices which transmit signals such as mobile phones, wireless routers, radio, and other similiar gadgets, unless you want them to kill your melatonin receptors and disrupt your quality sleep. Goodnight folks, sweetdreams.
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