As humans we all have natural physiological processes in our body that run on a 24-hour cycle (including sleep) which, when we are more in tune with these, can cause non-necessary stress elevations to be avoided. Where required, we work with clients to help them get more in sync with their circadian rhythms for optimal cortisol reducing results.

Specific micronutrients (when consumed in right amounts and in context with a complete individualised nutrition plan), can help our bodies cope far better with times of cortisol elevation, helping to lessen the negative affects – we work these considerations into a clients’ nutritional plans when required.

Intelligently training hard is required to trigger change in your body in line with your goals and part of that successful process involves actual spikes in cortisol. These elevations need to happen during training to successfully stress the body enough to undergo change BUT must be brought back down as soon as possible when not training to allow the repair, rebuilding and new lean muscle development process to take place. Cortisol is initially needed to trigger the change but interestingly, it must be low for the change process to actually occur. We design and factor in methods and practices to have clients shifting out of heightened sympathic nervous system states and into parasympathetic nervous system states to support these physique altering processes.

There’s no denying that some very common habits, practices and substances increase cortisol within the body in a negative way. Using our client life-style audits, allows us to identify these inhibiting factors and work with the client to change and adopt practices designed to directly help lower cortisol and stress levels.