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The Truth About Cortisol, From Someone Whose Body Makes None
Cortisol face. Cortisol belly. Cortisol detox. TikTok has decided cortisol is the villain of 2026, and content about lowering your stress hormone has racked up hundreds of millions of views. Most of it is wrong. And Katie Harvey is in an unusual position to explain why: she lives with Addison's disease, a rare condition where the body produces almost no cortisol at all. She doses the hormone TikTok is trying to detox, every single day, because without it she would not survive.
In this episode of The b.reathe Blueprint Podcast, Katie shares the story of her diagnosis at sixteen, what happened…
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