If you go look at the um athlete foundations or the athlete resilience protocols that put together , you're not going to see these things in there for that specific reason . Um Any form of cortisol regulation needs to be done strategically , if you are excessively high and we're bringing you back down the normative values at the right time , then great . If you're normal though , then taking you down lower than that is actually problematic .
Lots of lots of popular books there . Um I think that if people are trying to regulate their cortisol and they're just under and they just understand that basic contour that the baseline should be uh you know , rise pretty quickly after one rises in the morning . So it's easy to remember , rise , rise , um rise out of bed and rise cortisol with light , um bright light with exercise , um with caffeine , these things will all increase cortisol and then across the day , it's normal for cortisol to spike .
But then to really pay attention to how much psychological and physical stress is occurring in the six hours or so or eight hours prior to sleep . Um Does that seem like a , a good sort of broad contour of how to have a healthy pattern of cortisol release ? Because you actually want the cortisol to reduce inflammation and initiate or participate in the recovery process .
We have nutrients , we have energy again , specifically carbohydrates . Therefore , Cortisol can sort of go back down . We don't need to be liberating free fatty acids and preparing uh the need for fuel .
It's probably a better way to put it , but that it can blunt cortisol taking post training or um maybe in the evening before sleep . What are some of the basic ways that one can think about and maybe use carbohydrates in specific ways in order to let's say control cortisol rather than uh quash Cortisol . Uh you actually have alluded to it a number of times already .
