Tag: cortisol
Anti-anxiety drugs, high cortisol reduce empathy
This is a study that has a lot of relevance for virtually every person living in a…
Salt restriction promotes stress by elevating cortisol
Yet another “controversial” topic is getting some attention. After medicine reluctantly accepted the existence of the “Obesity…
Stress/cortisol/aldosterone cause kidney disease; pregnenolone/progesterone treat it
The condition known as chronic kidney disease (CKD) is one of the most common long-term co-morbidity of…
Estrogen and cortisol inhibit mitochondrial oxidation, vitamin E reverses the inhibition
More specifically, those steroids inhibit NADH (also known as DPNH) oxidation in the mitochondria, which shifts the…
Stress is carcinogenic and promotes metastases; blocking cortisol stops this process
Over the last couple of years I posted several times about studies demonstrating that stress from surgery,…
Endurance exercise causes (peripheral) hyper-cortisol state
A few months ago I did a post on a pair of studies showing that while cortisol…
PARADOX: Cortisol promotes inflammation, drives Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)
It looks like serotonin (5-HT), commonly known as the “happy hormone” has a serious competitor for the…
Most cancers overproduce cortisol, and it accelerates their growth
This post is right on the heels of the one I just did on cortisol stimulating its…
Cortisol stimulates its own synthesis (peripherally), drives obesity/diabetes/CVD
Synthetic/bioidentical glucocorticoids (GC) are perhaps the most widely used steroids clinically. In addition, the HPA axis, culminating…
Another “paradox” – elevated cortisol, from high-fat diet, increases inflammation
Over the last year or so I posted about several studies demonstrating that even short-term usage of…