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How Career Burnout Changes Your Appetite and Metabolism
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the under-discussed link between chronic career stress and metabolic disruption. They dive into how elevated cortisol from workplace exhaustion can alter appetite-regulating hormones like ghrelin and leptin, leading to cravings for high-calorie comfort foods and metabolic slowdown. The hosts share the story of a marketing executive who experienced a 15-pound weight gain over six months of burnout, and discuss research from the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology showing a 20 percent higher resting cortisol level in burnout patients…
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