In Defense of Breakfast

What happens when you skip breakfast?

You are in a hypoglycemic state when wake which stimulates the adrenal glands to release cortisol. If you do not eat breakfast, cortisol levels remain elevated. Neuropeptide Y levels stay high which can lead to carbohydrate cravings. Skipping breakfast lowers your metabolic rate making you feel tired, sluggish and even cold. The energy lost from missing breakfast is difficult to regain. Even eating a delayed breakfast only partially brings glucose levels up.

Skipping breakfast reduces the amount of nutrients available to the brain decreasing cognitive performance.

To sum it up, skipping breakfast decreases your metabolism, decreases your energy level, increases cortisol (a stress hormone), increases food cravings and deprives your brain of nutrients. Got breakfast?