drob31
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I've been thinking a bit about why people have immediate reactions to certain foods or eating too much food, and it goes back to cortisol levels. As you can see in the chart below, cortisol is released when you eat, and the amount of cortisol in your body triples when you eat a sufficient number of calories.
The body requires cortisol in order to aid in the metabolism of fat, protein, and carbohydrates. But what if you're not producing enough cortisol to meet this demand? I can see two outcomes; 1. Your body diverts to using pregnolone using the progesterone pathway, thus lowering DHEA, but possibly still not producing enough cortisol. This brain fog lasts until the food passes through the stomach and the need for cortisol decreases, bringing you back to a more "manageable" state. 2. Your body diverts to the progesterone pathway, but there simply isn't enough pregnenolone, so you are left with a deficiency of all adrenal hormones, and metabolites of pregnenolone are also used for neurotransmitters, which could contribute to the brain fog.
The more common theory, since food sensitivities and reactions are not usually type one hypersensitivities (the type accepted by allopaths), is that you may have leaky gut, and or your body begins an autoimmune attack when it detects certain substances in foods you eat like animal proteins for example. Removing these triggers stops the autoimmune attack, or toxin pass through to your blood stream (via leaky gut). This is why the autoimmune paleo diet works for many who have this sort of reaction. And it has been suggested consuming a small amount of a certain food could trigger this autoimmune reaction for months.
The body requires cortisol in order to aid in the metabolism of fat, protein, and carbohydrates. But what if you're not producing enough cortisol to meet this demand? I can see two outcomes; 1. Your body diverts to using pregnolone using the progesterone pathway, thus lowering DHEA, but possibly still not producing enough cortisol. This brain fog lasts until the food passes through the stomach and the need for cortisol decreases, bringing you back to a more "manageable" state. 2. Your body diverts to the progesterone pathway, but there simply isn't enough pregnenolone, so you are left with a deficiency of all adrenal hormones, and metabolites of pregnenolone are also used for neurotransmitters, which could contribute to the brain fog.
The more common theory, since food sensitivities and reactions are not usually type one hypersensitivities (the type accepted by allopaths), is that you may have leaky gut, and or your body begins an autoimmune attack when it detects certain substances in foods you eat like animal proteins for example. Removing these triggers stops the autoimmune attack, or toxin pass through to your blood stream (via leaky gut). This is why the autoimmune paleo diet works for many who have this sort of reaction. And it has been suggested consuming a small amount of a certain food could trigger this autoimmune reaction for months.