Stress Got Your Metabolism Down? Pt. 3

When you give in to those cravings, your body releases a cascade of rewarding brain chemicals that can set up an addictive relationship with food. Therefore you stress, you eat. If you don't consciously control the pattern, you can become physically and psychologically dependent on that release to manage stress. In fact, people who self-medicate with food tend have hair-trigger epinephrine reactions and chronic high levels of cortisol.