Moreover, excess cortisol can increase sodium retention, leading to fluid buildup in tissues. Fluid buildup can cause a ...

Learn about the relationship between cortisol and diabetes, as well as what treatments and management strategies can help reduce your cortisol levels.

Chronic stress and elevated cortisol levels can damage the body's natural rhythm and disrupt the part of the brain involved ...

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 ...

High cortisol levels, while often blamed, can manifest as trouble sleeping, abdominal weight gain, and a "tired but wired" ...

Hajime Tamai, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Shuji Fukata, Yoshihiko Hirota, Sunao Matsubayashi, Tetsuya Nakagawa, Michael C. Okimura, Robert M. Walter Jr. and Lindy F. Kumagai Abnormalities of ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new study links the “stress hormone” to changes in brain volume, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that stress ...

Searches around cortisol, including high cortisol and cortisol imbalances, have been trending on Google throughout the year, while the conversation has also taken off on social media. Wellness ...

Middle-aged people who have higher-than-average levels of cortisol — a hormone linked to stress — circulating in their bodies tend to perform worse on memory and other cognitive tasks than their peers ...

Researchers at University Hospital Zurich and the University of Zurich report that intimate physical contact combined with ...