I got a blood test to figure out my cortisol levels and learned a lot about stress in the process. Anna Gragert (she/her/hers) was previously the lifestyle editor at HelloGiggles, deputy editor at ...

But the bigger question is: Can you actually control your cortisol levels? And, if so, do you even need to? We talked to ...

You may know that cortisol is linked to stress, but what is it and how can we keep it to healthy levels? Our expert ...

Our longitudinal results suggest an overall significant increase in serum cortisol level on d 4 and d 7 which then decreases gradually after the first week of life (Fig. 1). The study has also ...

Some patients with critical illnesses appear to have inadequate adrenal responses to stress, because their serum total cortisol does not rise to expected levels. But most serum cortisol is bound ...

Total serum cortisol and CBG levels were higher in subjects taking oral estrogens than in controls (P <0.001); however, levels in subjects taking transdermal estrogen were similar to controls.

Dr Herane-Vives, a psychiatrist at University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, wants to understand what raised or lowered levels of cortisol might indicate. Andres Herane-Vives ...