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The Mind Muscle Connection
How Nutrition And Body Comp Can Add To Your Stress Load | Ep 722
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In this episode, I break down How Nutrition And Body Comp Add To Your Stress Load. I walk through how stress impacts body composition, recovery, and performance and why fat loss gets harder when total stress is too high.
We go through the eight major stress buckets, with a deeper dive into dieting stress specifically. I cover chronic energy deficiency, poor meal structure, blood sugar volatility, low micronutrients, eating in a sympathetic state, caffeine, alcohol, and body fat extremes, including how each one can quietly slow progress.
If you feel like you’re doing everything right but your body composition isn’t moving, this episode will help you figure out why.
Let’s talk about:
- Introduction
- Stress Load
- When Total Stress Gets Too High
- 8 Common Stressors
- Signs Stress Load Is Too High
- Biggest Sources of Stress
- Stress Is Context Dependent
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