Cortisol has been unfairly vilified for being linked to stress, but it is an essential hormone regulating bodily function. Dr London explains its influence.

When people are under a lot of stress, the cortisol flattens out. For some people it goes down and others it goes up and stays up. For most people, cortisol, the vital hormone that controls stress, ...

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 ...

For years, researchers have documented health differences between babies born vaginally versus by cesarean section—work that ...

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 ...

Early life stress (ELS) and function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis predict later psychopathology. Animal studies and cross-sectional human studies suggest that this process might operate ...

For most people, cortisol, the vital hormone that controls stress, increases when they wake up. It’s the body’s way of preparing us for the day. But in police officers who’ve experienced intense ...

Cortisol has become one of the most talked about health terms in the past few years. But what is cortisol? While it is popularly known as body's stress hormone, there is a lot more this mysterious ...