Cortisol, often called the “stress hormone,” is essential for your body, helping with metabolism, blood sugar, immune function and giving you the energy to respond to stress. Like any essential hormone, balance is vital to maintain happy functioning. When cortisol stays high for too long, it throws your body off balance, messing with your mood, disrupting your sleep, creating radical energy highs and lows. It can impact cravings, your sexual appetite as well women’s ability to conceive. You can also experience hair thinning and hair loss during high periods of stress. But possibly the most hated effect of high cortisol is unwanted belly fat gain and its stubbornness to shed.
Understanding your cortisol isn’t just about managing stress and identifying stressors, becoming empowered means we can find solutions. This is why REBIRTH NASAL SPRAY was born!
Why Cortisol Matters
Cortisol influences how we eat, move and even how our bodies store fat. When it’s elevated, it can trigger cravings for sugar or junk foods; making it harder to maintain or lose weight. Normally, once stress passes, cortisol drops naturally but when stress is constant, your body can get stuck in “fight or flight” mode. That’s when fatigue, brain fog, irritability, skin issues and even stubborn belly fat can creep in.
I’ve been there myself and I’ve seen it over the years first hand with clients, but not every fight needs to be a struggle. With minor adjustments, you can change it.
Signs Your Cortisol Might Be High
- Belly fat: Chronic stress can make your waistline hold onto extra fat. Yes, stress can cause belly fat! In fact, research has linked elevated cortisol directly to abdominal fat accumulation and increased visceral fat in general.
- Slow metabolism & cravings: Feeling hungrier than usual or noticing your energy dips.
- Poor sleep: Tossing, turning, or waking up feeling unrefreshed.
- Mood swings: Anxiety, irritability, or low mood.
- Decline in sexual appetite.
- Fatigue: Feeling exhausted even when you’ve rested.
- Skin issues: Breakouts or puffiness.
- “Cortisol face”: A rounded or puffy appearance in the cheeks and jaw.
- Hair loss, caused by prolonged stressful periods restricts blood flow to your hair follicles and causes premature hair shedding also putting your hair in a resting state without regrowth.
- Perimenopause and menopause: the transition of this life phase increases cortisol in many, due to the drop in estrogen. Many other symptoms increase your natural stress level.
While these signs are challenging, they are part of life, and they’re more common than you think. Your body asking for a support.
How To Support Your Body
All these disruptions to our body’s natural rhythms, hormones and nervous system prompted me to create a product to help us restore calm and clarity, called Rebirth; but let’s first chat about nutrition and lifestyle, it is always crucial to treat life stages holistically and to understand that food is actually medicine.
1. Move in a Way That Feels Good
Exercise is one of the most powerful ways to regulate cortisol, but it doesn’t have to be extreme. Walking, yoga or swimming can help calm your nervous system.
If you’ve been stressed for a long time, high-intensity workouts can actually backfire, raising cortisol even more. Making you swollen and more puffy. Instead, start slow. A walk after meals, or 20 minutes in nature can lower cortisol by up to 16%. Join a friend for a hott girl walk, it can be what you need over high intensity sprints. And swimming? It’s magic. Studies show it can reduce cortisol by 30% while improving sleep. Play with kids and animals, cuddling after can also reduce stress.
2. Make Mindfulness Your Ally
Mindfulness doesn’t have to mean sitting in silence. It can be journaling, cooking, reading, reciting or listening to music; anything that helps you slow down. Even a few minutes a day, consistently, can make a big difference. I enjoy time alone, having a coffee.
3. Protect Your Sleep
Your body resets and heals when you sleep. Aim for 7–9 hours of uninterrupted rest. Create bedtime rituals that help you unwind; dim lights, a warm shower or a calming cup of chamomile tea. Ensure your magnesium and is take throughout the day.
4. Feed Your Body, Feed Your Calm
The right food can literally lower cortisol:
- Dark chocolate: Flavonoids help lower stress hormones. Add a teaspoon of RushTush Collagen for a skin-loving boost.
- Green tea: L-theanine promotes calm focus.
- Berries: Packed with antioxidants to fight stress.
- Fatty fish: Salmon, sardines and mackerel calm inflammation and regulate cortisol.
- Avocado: Rich in magnesium and potassium to help muscles and nerves relax.
- Legumes: Beans, lentils, chickpeas, fibre and B vitamins to stabilize energy.
- Nuts: Almonds, walnuts, cashews, good fats, magnesium, antioxidants.
- Eggs: Protein plus choline for brain health and emotional balance.
- Chia seeds: Fibre and omega-3s to support calm and gut health.
And don’t forget water. Hydration alone can help keep cortisol in check.
5. Supplements That Support You
Sometimes food and lifestyle aren’t enough, and that’s where thoughtful supplements come in:
- Magnesium: Calms your nervous system and supports deep sleep. Aim for 200-300mg at bedtime.
- Ashwagandha: Shown to reduce cortisol by up to 32% in chronically stressed adults. Although not everyone responds equally to it. Proceed with testing.
- Omega-3s: Help buffer stress and reduce inflammation.
- RushTush Rebirth Nasal Spray: Designed to balance cortisol and restore calm, fast. Take 2 sprays daily, one in each nostril, repeat for at least 5 days consistently to see a result. Some may experience positive effects instantly.
Why I Created Rebirth
I wanted something that works with your body, not against it.
Rebirth:
- Enhances focus, clarity and improves memory, expands cognitive space expanding brain capacity.
- Boosts NAD⁺ to support energy, repair and improve cellular health turnover.
- Promotes healthy aging by reducing oxidative stress and supporting resilience.
- Ginsenoside Rg3 (found in Rebirth) has potent anti cancer properties, inhibiting cancer cells of growing, it’s also helpful in improving the effectiveness chemotherapy treatment.
- Anti-inflammatory properties inhibiting inflammatory pathways.
- Improves insulin sensitivity by regulating blood sugar levels.
- Cardiovascular benefits by reducing blood pressure to a health state.
- Supports metabolic health.
Delivered through the nasal pathway for rapid absorption, it goes straight to your brain and nervous system. One spray per nostril is all you need to calm your body, restore balance and feel grounded again.
Your Rebirth Starts Here You deserve to feel calm, energized, and in control. Not only rebalancing but also elevating your wellness with a competitive edge. Renew your body, quiet your mind and bring balance back into your life; together. RushTush Rebirth is here to help.
Forever here by your side,
Rush xoxo