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For the moment, it's doing okay. Having spent my pre-podcasting career in movies and TV, TV especially, I kind of thrive on stress. I think you do too. Most of the time, actually, yes, I do. Well, cortisol is our stress hormone. It's made in our adrenal glands right by our kidneys. Whenever we experience stress, whether it's physiological or psychological, our adrenal glands add cortisol to our biochemical mix. Cortisol creates our fight-or-flight response to danger. In healthy people, peak cortisol is reached about 30 minutes after waking up before slowly declining over the rest of the day, unless stress occurs and your cortisol level jumps up or starts fluctuating wildly. These days, stress comes from every which way, work deadlines, money, even relationships. When your cortisol level stays high because of life, you feel it. You walk around feeling exhausted all day, but then bedtime comes and you can't fall asleep. And you start collecting fat around your midsection. You feel more irritable, more mentally drained, and less motivated. None of it makes sense. You're doing everything right, but your body just isn't working like it used to. Too much cortisol impacts another important hormone that we rely on, testosterone. Our bodies begin to prioritize creating stress hormones over testosterone production. And it's that imbalance that challenges our energy, focus, sleep, and physical recovery from exercise. Most products only focus on one of the two. They reduce
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