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WHY AM I ALWAYS HUNGRY? REASON # 1 HIGH CORTISOL 17

That’s what’s really happening when cortisol is high. It’s all around your cells, but
your brain can’t sense it. And that is a problem

If your brain cells can’t tell that there’s already loads of cortisol, they keep
signaling for more. Cortisol may be everywhere, driving up your appetite and
your anxiety, but your brain doesn’t know it’s there. What happens? Your brain
keeps shooting that first cortisol bullet, CRH, over and over again. So cortisol

keeps flooding your system.

If you can help your system recognize that there’s already too much cortisol in

your body and crowding around your brain cells, some very interesting things
start to happen:

1. Your brain cells recognize the truth. There’s already plenty of cortisol,
too much.

2. Your brain stops sending out CRH.

3. Your pituitary stops sending out ACTH.

4. Your adrenals stop pumping more and more cortisol.

5. Then, victory! Your cortisol levels go down.

How do you make these good things happen? You sensitize your brain cells with
the supplement phosphatidylserine (PS).

Your body makes its own phosphatidylserine, but sometimes you need more. PS
helps your brain cells register what’s really going on around them: cortisol

is everywhere. When they figure that out, everything changes for the better.
Studies prove that PS works. 18,19,20

Another version of PS is called SeriPhos (SP) It works too, maybe even better. SP
is simply PS that’s been altered. The modification makes it easier to absorb.

Doses are usually from 300 mg up to 1000 mg. Before bed or before dinner is
a natural time to take PS. A few people find it mildly stimulating, so they don’t

take it at night.

If you know when you usually feel stressed, consider taking PS before that time
of day. It seems to be most effective on an empty stomach. If you have trouble