@drgreghealth: Here are three signs your body is under too much stress. I've been a functional medicine doctor for more than 25 years, and these are the signs that get explained away the most often. Sign one: waking up consistently between two and four in the morning, wide awake, for no clear reason. This is a classic pattern of cortisol and blood sugar dysregulation working against each other overnight, not just bad sleep. Sign number two: persistent cravings for sugar or salt that do not match your actual hunger. Both are tied directly to how your adrenal glands and cortisol regulate your blood sugar and your sodium balance under chronic stress. Sign three: digestive changes that showed up out of nowhere. New bloating, new irregularity, a gut that used to just work and now does not. Your gut and your nervous system are in constant two-way communication, and chronic stress shows up there before almost anywhere else. None of these are random. They are your body telling you clearly that the stress load has gone on too long. Which of these three has been explained away as normal for you? Find the root. Heal the whole.

Dr. Greg

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