Why Do We Need Cortisol?
Cortisol has become the hormone everyone wants to get rid of. It is also one of the reasons you can get out of bed at all.
Jen, Chris and Matt unpack what cortisol is actually doing while you go about your day. They cover how the HPA axis works as a self-correcting chain rather than a tap left running, why cortisol climbs before you wake and jumps again in the first half hour after you open your eyes, and how one hormone reaches nearly every tissue in the body by slipping into the nucleus of your cells and changing which genes are switched on.
They also look at where the frightening…
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