Hi and welcome back to Jaimefit.com, it’s where I teach people, humans just like you, how to get strong, fit and flexible from the inside out. Today I was looking over my journals and found some notes from my own research I had done in the beginning of 2022 about carbohydrates, gas (a.k.a. burps and farts) and hormones. I find these ideas and concepts to be very helpful and essential in achieving a rockstar body, mind and heart before May 1 of 2024. I hope you enjoy this and have a Jaimefit day!

1/9/22

Carbs, gas, hormones:

When undigested carbohydrates reach the colon, the bacteria that normally live in the colon ferment them. This fermentation often results in the production of gas. Blood sugar levels creates an inflammatory response.
Glucose gets stored in the liver and muscles as glycogen.
In some people, eating small amounts of certain carbohydrates, cause bloating, fatigue, abdominal cramps, poor digestion, and heartburn. What exactly is carb intolerance? The body’s inability to metabolize carbohydrates. The pancreas secrete an overabundance of insulin, which makes your body very efficient at storing fat. Extra carbs in your bloodstream gets stored as fat.
When people eat foods containing carbohydrates, their digestive system breaks down the digestible ones into sugar, which enters the blood. As blood sugar levels rise, the pancreas produces insulin, a hormone that prompts cells to absorb blood sugar for energy or storage. Eating protein and vegetables before carbohydrates lead to diminished meal glucose and insulin levels. When insulin levels fall, glucose and adrenaline levels rise and more glucose is released from the liver. At the same time, growth hormone and cortisol levels rise, which cause body tissues like muscle and fat, to be less sensitive to insulin. As a result, more glucose is available in the bloodstream.
There is no rule for how much is too much, but our bodies were never meant to consume the amount of sugar that is in the typical American diet. Sugary drinks, cereals and other packaged foods have contributed to obesity in both children and adults increasing the number of type two diabetes.
Besides insulin, our body secrete and produce dozens of hormones, which are the chemical receptors that tell certain organs, like your heart, kidneys, ovaries and pancreas, how to function. Hormones range from sex and reproductive to those that control digestion, mood, stress, and metabolism. Hormones work with insulin to control blood sugar, and when one or more become unbalanced, we are at high risk for insulin resistance.
Hormones: cortisol, adrenaline, leptin, growth, hormone estrogen, progesterone, testosterone.
Becoming resistant to any hormone is a huge problem.
Adrenaline and cortisol increase sugar metabolism by telling the liver and kidneys to produce more sugar in response to the insulin.
Excess sugar, including simple carbohydrates, cause hormonal imbalances in insulin and estrogen, leading to insulin resistance which then lead to many health problems, including weight gain, heart, disease, cancer, or diabetes.
Importance of stress management. Chronic stress and anxiety can damage the brain and increase risk of psychiatric disorders. Chronic stress is a psychological state that is caused by prolonged activation of the normal, acute physiological stress response, which can wreak havoc on the immune, metabolic and cardiovascular systems, and lead to atrophy of the brains’ hippocampus, which is crucial for long-term memory and spatial navigation.
This combination of reactions to stress is also known as the fight or flight response because it evolved as a survival mechanism, enabling people and other mammals to respond quickly to life-threatening situations, the carefully orchestrated, instantaneous sequence of hormonal changes and physiological responses help someone to fight off the threat or flee to safety. Unfortunately, the body can overreact to stressors that are not life-threatening, such as traffic jams, work pressure and family difficulties. The stress response begins in the brain. It communicates to the rest of the body through the nervous system to fight or flea.
Persistent adrenaline sugars surges can damage blood vessels and arteries increasing blood pressure and raising the risk of heart attacks or strokes. Cortisol levels create physiological changes that help to replenish the body’s energy stores that are depleted during the stress response. But they also contribute to the buildup of body fat tissue and weight gain. Cortisol increases appetite, so that people obtain extra energy. End of research 1/9/22.