Meet Cortisol
Cortisol is known as the body’s main ___ hormone.
What is stress?
Cortisol helps your body deal with this.
What is stress?
Cortisol can increase your appetite. true or false
what is true?
what is one way to naturally increase cortisol in the monring?
sunlight, cold shower, and high protein meal
Getting good ___ helps regulate cortisol levels.
What is sleep?
Cortisol is made in the ____ glands that sit on top of the kidneys.
What is adrenal?
Cortisol raises this in your blood to give you energy.
What is blood sugar (glucose)?
Too much cortisol can cause weight gain in this area of the body.
What is the belly (abdomen)?
Cortisol helps your body stay awake and improves your ___.
Exercise can temporarily raise cortisol.
What is true?
Cortisol levels are usually highest at this time of day.
What is the morning?
During stress, cortisol works with this “fight or flight” hormone.
What is adrenaline (epinephrine)?
Cortisol can make it harder for your body to fight ___.
What are infections?
If cortisol is too low, a person might feel very ___ and weak.
What is tired?
Meditation and relaxation can help lower ___.
What is cortisol?
Cortisol travels through the body in the ___.
What is the bloodstream?
Cortisol helps your body respond to danger by giving you more ___.
What is energy?
Cortisol can break down muscle to help make more ___.
What is glucose (sugar)?
If cortisol stays too high for too long, people may have trouble ___ at night.
What is sleeping?
Cortisol follows a daily pattern called a ___ rhythm.
What is circadian rhythm?
Cortisol is a type of hormone made from cholesterol. These are called ___ hormones.
What are steroid hormones?
When stress becomes chronic, cortisol may stay chronically ___ instead of returning to baseline after the stressor ends.
What is high?
Long-term high cortisol can make cells respond less effectively to insulin, leading to chronically high blood glucose and increasing the risk of this metabolic disease.
What is diabetes?
This daily habit can help keep cortisol lower over time: regular ___.
What is exercise?
Someone feels extra “wired” after a stressful day and can’t fall asleep, even though they’re exhausted. Cortisol is still high because the body hasn’t switched into the “rest-and-digest” branch of the autonomic nervous system: the ___.