When people are under a lot of stress, the cortisol flattens out. For some people it goes down and others it goes up and stays up. For most people, cortisol, the vital hormone that controls stress, ...

Cortisol has been unfairly vilified for being linked to stress, but it is an essential hormone regulating bodily function. Dr ...

What makes the human body so miraculous? Is it our comparatively large brain? Our versatile muscle system? Our exquisite vision and opposable thumbs? Although all these features are undeniably ...

Stress is a feeling most everyone experiences from time to time. In order to cope with these moments, days, months, years when they occur, the body responds by releasing a hormone called cortisol. But ...

Cortisol, often called the primary stress hormone, plays essential roles in metabolism, immune function, and your body’s response to threat. While appropriate amounts help maintain normal ...

The type of stress you face day in and day out can eventually develop into chronic stress, at which point it will begin to change your brain. In a TED-Ed video, “How Stress Affects Your Brain,” ...

Early life stress (ELS) and function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis predict later psychopathology. Animal studies and cross-sectional human studies suggest that this process might operate ...

For years, researchers have documented health differences between babies born vaginally versus by cesarean section—work that ...