Tag: cortisol
Burning more fat and less glucose leads to diabetes
I really hope the keto community and other low-carb diet afficionados are taking note of the stream…
Chronic stress (adversity) lowers dopamine and causes mental illness
The evidence for the role of chronic stress in virtually every health condition doctors have a name…
Estrogen and cortisol, not androgens, suppress immunity
There is a very famous theory in reproductive biology still considered the dominant one in its field….
Rats can drive cars (to lower stress), befriend robot rats and help them when in trouble
Official/pathological science keeps sternly warning us not to anthropomorphize and to think of animals as nothing but…
Poverty makes people dumb and prematurely old
A common debate in public policy is whether people slide into poverty because they are stupid or…
Dieting (fasting) is deleterious
Hot on the heels of another post I recently made is the study below, which concludes that…
High cortisol and low testosterone likely drive PTSD
As the article below states, 20%+ of service members come back with PTSD. It is a devastating…
Cheating is driven by cortisol, not testosterone
The topic of macho behavior and its apparent mediator testosterone has been studies every since steroids were…
Cortisol (stress) directly causes depression
I have posted quite a few threads/posts on the role of stress as perhaps the main cause…