When stress pressures start to rev up, numerous systems in your body start to respond. This heightened rate of metabolic demand naturally produces more inflammatory trash as a byproduct. Like a power boat speeding through the water, the wake (inflammatory trash) is based on how fast you are going. If you are already low on energy then your power boat is already sputtering. In this case, your engines can pour out a lot of black smoke even though you are not going very fast. Too much inflammatory trash along with too little ATP is a recipe for mood stress.

Your body seeks to buffer these demands by making extra cortisol, produced by ...