Tag: cortisol
Blocking cortisol extends lifespan more than rapamycin, by improving mitochondrial function
Yet another confirmation that cortisol, while being life-saving in acute stress situations, can shorten lifespan if chronically…
High cortisol, cortisol/DHEA, cortisol/testosterone ratios may drive schizophrenia
The connection between chronic stress and schizophrenia is well-established but medicine continues to vehemently deny that stress…
Vitamin A may alleviate depression in humans
I know this post will make me a lot of new enemies among the anti-retinol crowd, but…
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…