Adrenal glands, responsible for producing hormones that manage the body’s stress response, can sometimes become overburdened. This can result in a commonly seen condition called adrenal fatigue ...

Are you constantly exhausted, even after a full night’s sleep? Do energy slumps and cravings for sugar or salt dominate your ...

"Cortisol is an essential hormone produced and released by adrenal glands," said Dr. Sanjay Dixit, medical director of ...

There's a good chance overworked adrenal glands (sometimes called stress glands) are "making your body resistant to weight ...

Cortisol is the body's primary stress hormone, says Melissa Groves Azzaro, a registered dietitian and author of A Balanced Approach to PCOS. The hormone is produced in the adrenal glands in ...

Classic theory posits that stress-induced glucose release is controlled by hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) or sympathetic-adrenal-medullary (SAM) axes. However, both pathways are mediated by ...

Subscribe for FREE Previous research has highlighted the connection between the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and the gut microbiome, indicating that microbial composition can impact the ...

A research team has unveiled an adrenal independent pathway, the hypothalamus-sympathetic-liver (HSL) axis, to mediate stress-induced glucose release. Their study is published in Nature ...

Or are all these videos making us more stressed about the "stress hormone" than necessary? "Cortisol is an essential hormone ...