Tag: cortisol
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Estrogen and cortisol, not androgens, suppress immunity
There is a very famous theory in reproductive biology still considered the dominant one in its field….
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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…
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Poverty makes people dumb and prematurely old
A common debate in public policy is whether people slide into poverty because they are stupid or…
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Dieting (fasting) is deleterious
Hot on the heels of another post I recently made is the study below, which concludes that…
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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…
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Cheating is driven by cortisol, not testosterone
The topic of macho behavior and its apparent mediator testosterone has been studies every since steroids were…
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Cortisol (stress) directly causes depression
I have posted quite a few threads/posts on the role of stress as perhaps the main cause…