The reason my body crashed was because your adrenal glands can not produce
constantly high cortisol levels forever.
Not exact matches
High cortisol levels also impede sleep, so if you're
constantly stressed during the day you might find it hard to get some shut - eye, even when you physically feel exhausted.
While
cortisol has beneficial effects on the body,
constantly high levels of it are problematic.
Abnormally
high (or
constantly high)
levels of
cortisol do things like: suppress the immune system and predispose us to cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and more.
People can live in this state for 5 - 10 years and can move between normal and
high levels of
cortisol constantly.
Constantly high levels of
cortisol = fat storage (especially around the stomach).
This
constantly high level of
cortisol can be known as Adrenal Fatigue (stages 1 and 2), and it often takes years to develop.
A vicious cycle ensues, keeping your adrenals in overdrive, meaning they're
constantly secreting hormones like
cortisol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine; lower progesterone and
higher stress - hormone
levels tell your brain to freak out.