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You touch your face more times each day than you realise. If you do it more than usual, your body could be telling you that ...

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If you’ve scrolled through social media lately, you may have seen some chatter about cortisol—a stress hormone—and its supposed villainous effects on your body. Negative effects of cortisol ...

Say hello to cortisol, the hormone released when stress hits, triggering that familiar “fight, flight or freeze” response. Produced by the adrenal glands, cortisol also helps regulate blood ...

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Cortisol rises before waking as part of the body’s circadian rhythm, not in response to awakening, challenging previous beliefs. For many years it has been generally accepted that waking up ...

Cortisol is a hormone produced in the adrenal glands that controls many different body functions, including regulating blood sugar and metabolism, supporting immune function, controlling blood ...