Cortisol Articles

Cortisol Articles:

Is Cortisol Good or Bad?

Many people have come to associate excess cortisol with a fat stomach, which happens to be true. However, there are several sides to the cortisol coin worth understanding. Several new studies highlight the vital need for cortisol in health and help to shed light on what goes wrong.

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How Stress Causes a Fatty Liver

New research has for the first time pinpointed the precise mechanism explaining how excess cortisol results in a fatty liver.

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Lack of Sleep, Stress, Adrenals, and Obesity

A new study points out that the lack of sleep, all by itself, is enough to inappropriately raise cortisol later in the day. As I explained last week, too much cortisol turns off fat burning gene switches in your liver, leading to obesity risk.

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New Insights on How Stress Causes Acid Indigestion

Scientists are gaining a new understanding of the stress-hormone cortisol and its relationship to bile. The great majority of people with “acid indigestion” actually have “bile acid indigestion” and not “stomach acid indigestion.” Thus, a better understanding of this issue can help a person to correct symptoms of indigestion at the source and not rely on dangerous acid-blocking medication to suppress symptoms and further worsen underlying problems.

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