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youpissmeoff
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is there anything legit to do for cortisol?
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is there anything legit to do for cortisol?
WoodyO
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We have the problem with everyone bringing left-over cakes and pies and leaving them in the office kitchenette. Luckily, I don't much care for the sweets, but just to be a douche - I usually throw all the left-overs away or move them into the shop. I don't want the admin's getting too fat. I have to look at them too.
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lartinos
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Getting rest, not being stressed, taking in vitamin C (atleast a couple grams at a time) and PS. (Phosphatidyl Serine)
There is another anti-estrogen promoted on this site that is said to help as well. Erase is the name maybe, I'v never tried it.
youpissmeoff
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I am usually pretty laid back and don't do stress at all but there are those times when you can not avoid it and it always shows up on the gut.
jnevin
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I never eat the crap people bring in. One girl brings apples and oranges and I'll snag one of those sometimes. I think it's just that I haven't worked out for so long and now I'm pretty much sitting for 8+ hrs at a time. I need to get my schedule worked out.Pool opens in a couple of months, for god's sake.
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lartinos
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I forgot one more, stims can increase it as well!
youpissmeoff
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Trying to take my coffee away?!!!
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lartinos
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Only if you're going overboard my friend!
jnevin
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There go my rockstars.
mrplunkey
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Here's how I manage it (with mixed success... sometimes it works great and sometimes it all goes to hell).
1) Get on a super-regular schedule. Sleep at the same time and wake up at the same time.
2) Routines are your friend. Make them rituals. Work at the office may be unpredictable, but your morning routine and drive into work shouldn't be. Just don't integrate anything unhealthy into that ritual (i.e. buying a big milkshake on the way into work).
3) Go easy on the stimulants. I do a fairly large (but far from monster) cup of 50% decaffeinated coffee. Then I avoid caffeine for the rest of the day. Lots of coffee in the morning can give you the late afternoon munchies that go along with a crash.
4) Embed little healthy rituals into your day (i.e. not food rituals, like a candy bar run). For me, I like to use the last 10 minutes of lunch to work a Sudoku puzzle. Sure it sounds nerdy, but it puts some ritual into each day.
5) Schedule everything you can. And don't run one of those big-shot blow-hard calendars where you tell your "girl" to give them some ridiculous date six months from now. But do organize each day at least 1-2 days in advance when possible. For some reason, a little advance notice gives our brains a chance to adjust for what's coming.
6) Small lunch... always
7) Learn to intermingle stressful and relaxing work. I love product development and research issues. I hate personnel problems and legal issues. So if I'm going to spend the afternoon in a room full of lawyers, you can bet your ass I'm going to spend the morning in a machine shop or working on a new product.
8) Maintain perspective: "There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet". And strangely enough, your office manager will try to convince you that you completing that TPS report before the COB today will save you all.
9) Keep in the back of your mind that many companies artificially create a crisis like (8) simply because it pumps you full of adrenaline and keeps you working harder -- but it also pumps you full of cortisol which makes you softer and more tired.
10) I've never found a cortisol-reducing supplement that actually worked for me. But that sure doesn't mean they don't exist.
I'm sure I left a few out. That was just stream of consciousness.
