So you wanna be intentional with these practices uh especially in the form of , of supplementation , be very , very intentional . I've heard it said that carbohydrates , in particular starchy carbohydrates can inhibit cortisol . And uh this could be through the uh tryptophan amino acid related pathway that ratchets up to uh serotonin release .
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 .
I know we'll touch on more in the nutrition supplementation episode . But um in thinking about the relationship between carbohydrates and cortisol and what we've just been talking about in terms of cortisol as being vitally important for the adaptation , trigger or triggering adaptation . 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 .
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 .
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 .
