Cortisol & Hormones

Search “how to lower cortisol” and Google hands you two articles: a listicle about chamomile tea and deep breaths, or a clinical page on Cushing’s syndrome diagnostic criteria. Neither is written for a 42-year-old woman whose belly fat won’t move and whose OB-GYN just told her “it’s probably stress. If that 42-year-old is also in … Read more

In 2019, researchers at Basel University Hospital gave 20 healthy volunteers weekly dulaglutide for three weeks and measured their cortisol every way they could think of. Twenty-four-hour urinary free cortisol. Dexamethasone suppression. ACTH stimulation. Nothing moved. If you have read blog posts claiming cortisol and GLP-1 “reset” each other, Winzeler et al. 2019 is the … Read more