{"id":10739,"date":"2014-05-25T13:23:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T20:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/?p=10739"},"modified":"2018-03-20T19:41:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T02:41:15","slug":"stress-a-shifting-of-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/25\/stress-a-shifting-of-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress — A Shifting of Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Also see:
\nCollection of FPS Charts<\/a>
\nLow Carb Diet – Death to Metabolism<\/a>
\nCan Endurance Sports Really Cause Harm? The Lipopolysaccharides of Endotoxemia and Their Effect on the Heart<\/a>
\nRunning on Empty<\/a>
\nExercise and Endotoxemia<\/a>
\nRay Peat, PhD on Endotoxin<\/a>
\nEndotoxin: Poisoning from the Inside Out<\/a>
\n<\/a>Ray Peat, PhD: Quotes Relating to Exercise<\/a>
\nRay Peat, PhD and Concentric Exercise
\n<\/a>Potential Adverse Cardiovascular Effects from Excessive Endurance Exercise<\/a>
\nBowel Toxins Accelerate Aging<\/a>
\nExercise Induced Stress<\/a>
\nCarbohydrate Lowers Exercise Induced Stress<\/a>
\nSugar (Sucrose) Restrains the Stress Response<\/a>
\nLow Blood Sugar Basics<\/a>
\nRay Peat, PhD on Low Blood Sugar & Stress Reaction<\/a>
\nArachidonic Acid’s Role in Stress and Shock<\/a>
\nBlood Sugar \u2013 Resistance to Allergy and Shock<\/a>
\nShock Increases Estrogen<\/a>
\nA long childhood feeds the hungry human brain<\/a>
\nAnatomy of the Heart<\/a><\/p>\n

Your body manages its resources in relation to need. The chart below attempts to provide a visual of the manipulation of resources that occurs during stress.<\/p>\n

Our physiology is designed to handle occasional stressors, but if the stressors are frequent or elevated in intensity then expect adverse consequences eventually. We can only borrow from other areas of the body to nourish others in a time of need so many times until the adaptive systems break down. <\/p>\n

When the adaptive systems do break down, we experience symptoms of some sort. The symptoms are usually a result of a prolonged problem so have patience when attempting to correct them.<\/p>\n

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Supporting Quotes:<\/strong>
\n\u201cDigestion is quickly shut down during stress\u2026The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of digestion. Along comes stress: turn off parasympathetic, turn on the sympathetic, and forget about digestion.\u201d<\/em> -Robert Sapolsky<\/p>\n

Quotes by Ray Peat, PhD:
\n\u201cDuring moderate exercise, adrenalin causes increased blood flow to both the heart and the skeletal muscles, while decreasing the flow of blood to other organs. The increased circulation carries extra oxygen and nutrients to the working organs, while the deprivation of oxygen and glucose pushes the other organs to a catabolic balance. This simple circulatory pattern achieves to some extent the same kind of redistribution of resources, acutely, that is achieved in more prolonged stress by the actions of the glucocorticoids and their antagonists.\u201d<\/p>\n

“The intestine really is where people should be paying more attention because any kind of stress or shock reduces circulation to your intestine, and that makes it more permeable or “leaky”. And aspirin incidentally is now being studied as possibly the best defense against a leaky intestine, even though there is a tremendous amount of Tylenol-type propaganda saying “Don’t use aspirin, it makes your intestine leak”, but, in fact, it prevents endotoxin and bacterial movement from your intestine into your bloodstream.” (interview)<\/p>\n

\u200e\u201dIncidental stresses, such as strenuous exercise combined with fasting (e.g., running or working before eating breakfast) not only directly trigger the production of lactate and ammonia, they also are likely to increase the absorption of bacterial endotoxin from the intestine. Endotoxin is a ubiquitous and chronic stressor. It increases lactate and nitric oxide, poisoning mitochondrial respiration, precipitating the secretion of the adaptive stress hormones, which don\u2019t always fully repair the cellular damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBacterial endotoxin causes some of the same effects as adrenalin. When stress reduces circulation to the bowel, causing injury to the barrier function of the intestinal cells, endotoxin can enter the blood, contributing to a shock state, with further impairment of circulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe amount of injury needed to increase the endotoxin in the blood can be fairly minor. Two thirds of people having a colonoscopy had a significant increase in endotoxin in their blood, and intense exercise or anxiety will increase it. Endotoxin activates the enzyme that synthesizes estrogen while it decreases the formation of androgen (Christeff, et aI., 1992), and this undoubtedly is partly responsible for the large increases in estrogen in both men and women caused by trauma, sickness or excessive fatigue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur innate immune system is perfectly competent for handling our normal stress induced exposures to bacterial endotoxin, but as we accumulate the unstable fats, each exposure to endotoxin creates additional inflammatory stress by liberating stored fats. The brain has a very high concentration of complex fats, and is highly susceptible to the effects of lipid peroxidative stress, which become progressively worse as the unstable fats accumulate during aging.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Also see: Collection of FPS Charts Low Carb Diet – Death to Metabolism Can Endurance Sports Really Cause Harm? The Lipopolysaccharides of Endotoxemia and Their Effect on the Heart Running on Empty Exercise and Endotoxemia Ray Peat, PhD on Endotoxin Endotoxin: Poisoning from the Inside Out Ray Peat, PhD: Quotes Relating to Exercise Ray Peat, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2053,2051,93,1580,369,359,468,233,678,100,168,1257,400,559,399,453,2050,1099,4,2052],"class_list":["post-10739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-atkins","tag-blood-flow","tag-blood-sugar","tag-bowel-toxins","tag-constipation","tag-digestion","tag-endotoxin","tag-exercise","tag-immunity","tag-inflammation","tag-libido","tag-lipopolysaccharide","tag-low-carb","tag-lps","tag-paleo","tag-ray-peat","tag-resources","tag-sex-drive","tag-stress","tag-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10739"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11920,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739\/revisions\/11920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}