Elevated cortisol levels, often triggered by chronic stress, significantly impair memory and brain function. Research ...

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 ...

A study examines links between cortisol dynamics and human cognitive function. Cortisol replacement therapy for adrenal insufficiency is associated with low quality of life and poor psychological ...

Lifestyle changes like diet adjustments, stress management, and others may help bring down your levels of cortisol, a stress ...

For decades the term “Monday blues” has been shorthand for the collective groan that greets the start of each workweek. Studies on the phenomenon across whole countries have found a 19 percent ...

The modern world bombards us with relentless stressors that trigger our bodies to produce excessive amounts of cortisol, the primary stress hormone that can wreak havoc on our physical and mental well ...