Cortisol – Stress or Activation

by Andy Habermacher | 2021 May 2 | Healthy Brains, The Human Brain

Cortisol is a key hormone in the human body and brain. But in a lot of popular literature, it is considered the stress hormone. This is not just the popular literature, a standard way to measure stress physiologically in academic research is to measure levels of cortisol in saliva. So is cortisol just the stress hormone . . .

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