Cortisol
Where all of your hormones are vitally important, it is almost impossible to get everything properly balanced if cortisol is out of control.
Impaired adrenal function, or coritisol production, I believe is one of the most under diagnosed and treated conditions of health.
Cortisol is primarily created in the adrenal glands, like DHEA. For women after menopause they share the adrenal glands with the other sex hormones after ovarian function declines.
Cortisol is a direct representation to stress. We have been created to deal with stress in a fight or flight response, so that when danger or stress presents itself, our bodies automatically increase cortisol production to help us to fight or flight.
In our culture and others around the world, stress is more of a consistency than we have been meant to deal with. The result is that our adrenal glands get exhausted earlier pulling down other hormones with them.
But before the exhaustion, cortisol levels can fluctuate wildly throughout the day contributing to many unwanted issues of health.
A recent study just highlighted how elevated cortisol levels can be a predictor of subclinical coronary arteriosclerosis, which is a predictor of future coronary heart disease.
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