Cortisol
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Sep 14, 2026
Vicki KirbyHOST
I know.
Kim LovelyHOST
Cortisol.
Vicki KirbyHOST
Yeah.
Kim LovelyHOST
Is it making us fat, tired, and crazy?
Manaan KarrayHOST
It's life-saving.
speaker_1HOST
Cortisol marshals and replenishes our energy stores.
speaker_1HOST
It stimulates gluconeogenesis in the liver, pouring glucose into the blood so our muscles and brain have the fuel they need to deal with the crisis.
Manaan KarrayHOST
It sharpens focused attention.
speaker_1HOST
If you are running from a predator, you do not need to be digesting your lunch.
speaker_1HOST
And you definitely do not need your immune system mounting a massive inflammatory response to a minor scrape.
speaker_1HOST
Cortisol actively contains the immune response.
speaker_1HOST
That makes sense.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The mechanism he's reaching for, threat recalibration, has a plausible biological basis.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Cortisol.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Glucocorticoids.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The stress hormones.
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Herman PoppleberryHOST
So the honest summary is that his experience is consistent with a real effect, documented in adjacent populations, with a plausible biological mechanism, but not directly studied in his exact situation.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
and the mechanism is probably over-determined.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Cortisol impairing fear memory retrieval, attention being reallocated, avoidance being broken by necessity, stress inoculation producing global resilience.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
All of those could be true simultaneously.
Paul LaursenHOST
Sometimes a family environment, you're on vacation, you're just taking a little bit of breather from the work and all the emails that were burdened by and whatnot.
Paul LaursenHOST
And it just does some amazing things for the mind to be able to kind of calm itself down, lower the overall stress hormones, things like cortisol, Cortisol is what's called a glucocorticoid.
Paul LaursenHOST
It raises your sugar levels.
Paul LaursenHOST
And unfortunately, that blunts the ability for us to burn fat.
Meg MillHOST
It just keeps you there.
Meg MillHOST
Your body increases cortisol production.
Meg MillHOST
Cortisol is your stress hormone.
Meg MillHOST
In short bursts, it's life-saving, chronically elevated, destructive.
Meg MillHOST
So here's what chronic cortisol does to your gut.
Meg MillHOST
And cortisol does something else.
Meg MillHOST
And this is a big one if you've ever been diagnosed with something like SIBO.
Meg MillHOST
Cortisol slows down something called your migrating motor complex.
Gerardo AlarconHOST
It's in our pocket, dude.
Gerardo AlarconHOST
What does he say before he pulls the phone out? He's like, cortisol, testosterone.
Brendan CooneyHOST
Cortisol, dopamine, cortisol, dopamine.
Brendan CooneyHOST
Charlie Kirk.
Brendan CooneyHOST
Charlie Kirk's face.
Gerardo AlarconHOST
Andrew Schultz.
Gerardo AlarconHOST
Dopamine.
Gerardo AlarconHOST
Cortisol.
Amanda JonesHOST
I'm your host and founder of Elevated Health in Canyon, Texas.
Amanda JonesHOST
So what does cortisol actually do? Cortisol is a steroid hormone produced by your adrenal glands, or little glands that sit on top of your kidneys.
Amanda JonesHOST
And we call it the stress hormone, but that's an oversimplification.
Amanda JonesHOST
Cortisol helps you regulate your blood pressure, your glucose, metabolism, inflammation, immune activity, and your sleep-wake cycle.
Amanda JonesHOST
So you absolutely need cortisol.
Amanda JonesHOST
When someone tells me they need to lower their cortisol, my first question is when? Because we don't want low cortisol all day.
Amanda JonesHOST
So as evening comes, melatonin rises and helps to tell your body it's nighttime.
Amanda JonesHOST
And cortisol and melatonin have roughly opposite daily patterns.
Karol BaracGUEST
You're breathing a little bit more shallow.
Karol BaracGUEST
Cortisol gets released.
Karol BaracGUEST
Your thought process of thinking clearly in your frontal cortex starts to dim down because your body goes into, I just need to protect her, right? all while you're standing in the supermarket going, what the fuck, right? And so what we're really doing, and that's just one example, you're driving, someone cuts you off, there's a loud bang from the construction, and your nervous system is constantly sending these messages up to the brain, right? And the brain and the body, as wonderful as they are, they're not always talking to each other.
Karol BaracGUEST
So sometimes we evaluate the situation, go, I'm fine, but the body hasn't been taught that it's fine.
Karol BaracGUEST
You're breathing a little bit more shallow.
Karol BaracGUEST
Cortisol gets released.
Karol BaracGUEST
Your thought process of thinking clearly in your frontal cortex starts to dim down because your body goes into, I just need to protect her, right? all while you're standing in the supermarket going, what the fuck, right? And so what we're really doing, and that's just one example, you're driving, someone cuts you off, there's a loud bang from the construction, and your nervous system is constantly sending these messages up to the brain, right? And the brain and the body, as wonderful as they are, they're not always talking to each other.
Karol BaracGUEST
So sometimes we evaluate the situation, go, I'm fine, but the body hasn't been taught that it's fine.
Debbie HarrisGUEST
And one of the things we need to balance is our cortisol.
Debbie HarrisGUEST
This is very important.
Debbie HarrisGUEST
Cortisol is that fight or flight hormone.
Debbie HarrisGUEST
It's the one that says, if I don't stock up like a bear, I don't know when my next meal is going to be or early man.
Debbie HarrisGUEST
I don't know when I'm going to be able to get that next giant animal that we can all eat for weeks.
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