Another example of prejudice (prejudgment) affecting the interpretation of evidence. Healthy people are more active than ill ones, and less likely to contract...
Exercise raises cortisol levels while you are doing it, but cortisol levels drop below baseline levels following exercise. This would account for some of the...
Putting kids in day-care centers exposes them to more germs earlier. Breast milk contains infection-fighting chemicals. These factors might account for...
If this is carried out, I predict it will be one of the greatest medical blunders ever. Russ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_66658.html...
There are a lot of studies coming out now saying that salt restriction increases the RAS system (and angiotensin II increases cortisol levels) as well as...
That's interesting. While working on The Potbelly Syndrome I came across evidence that low sodium diets increased cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. I put...
One that jumps to mind in coffee, which has been shown to have very impressive health benefits. Two points: -Coffee is very high in antioxidants which probably...
"Healthy people love to move, and they do a lot of it. People with insulin resistance can't get enough glucose into their muscle cells. They feel "dysphoric"...
"Snacking How we eat can affect our cortisol levels. Jenkins et al. put men on two metabolically identical diets for two weeks. In the regular diet, the...
Hi Paul, You asked: "Any physiological hypotheses as to why insulin might increase cortisol levels? Seems counterproductive seeing as they have opposite...
Hi Lee, before I read your email this evening, serrapeptase was another item in that vast universe of things I had never heard of. I looked it up on PubMed and...
If fasting reduces cortisol, then that might explain why some diets work for a while before failing. On the other hand, some catabolic substance would be ...
I'm surprised I said it. I'll fix it. Russ ... From: "Paul T." <paultheo2004@...> To: <infection-cortisol@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008...
I have COPD and the doctors at my Giant HMO insist that I try inhalers before they will prescribe antibiotics. The inhalers tend to have salmeterol,...
Anger and hostility raise cortisol levels, and cortisol tends to raise glucose levels. Marriage appears to ameliorate the effects of anger and hostility on...
Very interesting. I was always under the impression that insulin was the first evolved hormone. I'm not sure how much I believe the whole "feast-famine"...
It is well known that most forms of depression are associated with hypercortisolemia. Does high cortisol also CAUSE depression in a previously healthy person? ...
Hi Paul, I don't know if Yahoo will allow us to send attachments to the group, but I will know in a few minutes. If it doesn't, then I will send this to you...
A recurring theme is the reduced size of the hippocampus, with attendant cognitive problems, in people who are depressed and people who have high cortisol...
I'm not sure what to make of this, except to say that 2mg of dexamethasone is a lot. Russ The authors administered 2 mg of dexamethasone at 11:00 p.m. to 37...
Inflammation raises cortisol levels. Russ Appels A, Bar FW, Bar J, Bruggeman C, de Baets M. Inflammation, depressive symptomtology, and coronary arterydisease....
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