How Repressed Emotions Affect Eating Behaviour, Cravings, and Metabolism
Repressed emotions don’t just influence your mood, but directly impact your eating patterns, cravings, and metabolic health. In this episode, we break down the actual physiology behind emotional suppression and why it acts as a chronic stressor in the body.
Chronic stress - including suppressed emotions - elevates cortisol, raises blood sugar, reduces insulin sensitivity, and disrupts appetite regulation. This combination can lead to increased cravings, emotional eating, metabolic slowdown, and difficulty losing weight.
Episode Chapters:
0:05 - Intro
0:50 - Metabolism 101
1:02 - What is stress
1:39 - Kinds of stress
2:09 - How and why we repress emotion
4:01 - The somatic experience of an emotion
6:30 - Stress disrupts metabolism
7:25 - Stress leads to insulin resistance
9:24 - Stress can lead to over or under eating
11:42 - Stress signals an emergency
12:12 - Chronic emotional suppression leads to chronic stress
14:08 - How you can overcome this
I hope you enjoy the episode!
Jen X
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