Today we dive into hormones; insulin, glucagon, and cortisol, and how these hormones impact our health and wellness goals.

Intro Description:

• Shannon and Lisa share their knowledge about hormones

Bullet Point Summary:

• 2:16-2:34 Starting the discussion with the top Tier 1 hormones that impact all the other hormones in your body: Insulin, Glucagon and Cortisol.
• 2:48-3:54 Lisa talks about how many coaches and doctors take a dogmatic stance on how insulin and cortisol are bad for our health. But it is a necessary hormone that helps us  survive.
• 3:54-6:00  Shannon introduces and shares the night club analogy to help us understand how the body uses and stores these hormones. Glucose is the VIP and Fatty acids will be stored in fat cells when the body is overloaded.
• 6:01-6:44 Shannon continues to share her night club analogy but focuses on Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.
• 6:48- 7:06 Shannon askes Lisa how it feels in her nutrition journey learning about this aspect of insulin fatty acids and how it helps support clients..
• 7:07-8:27 Lisa responds again about the importance of know how to feed yourself the correct macro nutrients throughout the day instead of meal stacking and cramming it all in to one or two meals a day.
• 8:28-9:20 Lisa continues to talk about the things you can do to maximize the carbohydrates in your daily diet.
• 9:35-10:00 Shannon talks about the importance of our quality of food.
• 10-11:34 Shannon continues to share food as fuel and food that support our health: amino acids, fatty acids and glucose from carbohydrates. How you can use carbohydrates as a fuel to help you perform endurance, strength training or mental energy such as a big meeting. The importance of understanding how insulin works to maintain energy.
• 11:35-12:55 Understanding how to create a drip feed of energy or a burst of energy. The importance of pairing: Protein with Carbs or a Fat with carbs to slow the digestion down. To create the burst of energy you would just eat glucose.
• 12:56-13:24  Lisa shares her thoughts about how important it is to shift our beliefs.
• 13:45-15:54 Protein is not an effect energy source but it is so important on the cellular level. Energy source come from our fat and carbs. Learning to toggle between fat and carbs to avoid both at the same time. Understanding macronutrients is liberating 
• 16:36-19:36 Shannon shares more about Glucagon and Insulin. The importance of fasting between meals. Glucagon is responsible for releasing stored fat for energy and insulin is responsible for opening the door to receive sugar as energy. 
• 19:37-20:15  Shannon talks about Hanger and how it shares into future topic of how it affects men and women differently. 
• 20:16-23:14 Lisa shares the importance of understanding what happens when our blood sugar is too low and how to balance your meals. How your stress hormones will release at 5-6 hours into fasting. This can help us understand our mood swings when we have not fueled properly. How fasting can be so much harder on women's bodies.
• 23:15-23:32 Lisa sharesa about future topic about cortisol and how it comes into play with our bodies.
• 23:36-24:55 Shannon shares about fasting in the morning before a workout and the different factors that come in with gender. Shannon promotes listening to the body and trying different ideas  as a test bunny.
• 24:55-26:28  Back to Cortisol. Shannon shares abou Cortisol is usually directly related to stress but in actuality it is very important for daily life.
• 26:30-28:51 Lisa shares important information about chronic cortisol state, stress management  and how it can backfire on you. Why do you crave food and binge eat when you are in this state. It is important to have a stress management system in place.
• 28:58- 31:49 Shannon confirms that this is the reason the course was designed with stress management education and speaks about the green door community.
• 31-31:49 On the back of every activity with work or meal time there needs to be rest.
• 32:50-33:52  Lisa shares the importance of getting to the root of issues causing stress and advocating for yourself.
• 35:40-36:55  Shannon shares an important tip in creating awareness of the people in your life and who take energy from you to give energy to you. Take grace in knowing you do not need to be high performing all the time. The culture we live in encourages high production and few rest breaks.
• 36:55-38:20  Lisa & Shannon confirms that we judge ourselves so hard due to society , upbringing and all kinds of different conditioning. Your body will tell you.
• 39:53- Lisa shares that the little things such as walking, or working by a window is super important for health.

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