Category: Cortisol
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Learning How to Treat Burnout Syndrome Can Help You Protect Your Health
People who experience prolonged, unmanaged stress at work may be experiencing burnout syndrome (BOS), a popular phrase that has recently become officially recognized as an occupational phenomenon with serious health consequences. There is now there…
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How Do You Know if Your Cortisol Levels Are Low?
Your body has a mechanism we know as “the fight or flight” instinct. You’ve felt it. When a situation becomes alarming, your body readies for action and your focus turns solely to coping with the…
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The Complicated Connection Between Cortisol and Weight Lossk
Many of us are familiar with cortisol’s tainted reputation. In the media of yesteryear, cortisol was frequently tarred as the “belly fat builder” or as a leading cause of being overweight. More recently, people have…
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How to Balance Cortisol Levels and Relieve Your Symptoms of Chronic Stress
Cortisol is essential to health. Our bodies normally produce cortisol throughout the day in a cycle—more in the morning as we wake, less in the evening to prepare us for sleep—to support our daily physical…
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What Is Adrenal Fatigue and How Can You Recover?
If you’re like many people, you lead a high-stress life. Between family obligations and long hours at work, it can seem like you never catch a break. You’re tired. And even if you try your…