{"id":16185,"date":"2017-11-07T17:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=16185"},"modified":"2018-06-27T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:21:27","slug":"day-long-cortisol-level-consistency-may-affect-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=16185","title":{"rendered":"Day-long cortisol level consistency may affect your health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">When remains at a constant level throughout the day, stress hormone, Cortisol, could lead to some serious health issues like inflammation, obesity and cancer, reported in a recent research. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In general, the level of the cortisol varies throughout day. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Emma Adam, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University said, \u201cCortisol is naturally high in the morning to help perk you up, and it decreases into the evening.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">At the University news release, Adam said, \u201cThe loss of this cycle \u2013 or the lack of variation of cortisol \u2013 is what is associated with negative health outcomes in our study.\u201d <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Variable cortisol level is a result of chronic stress according to the researchers. They named this condition, \u201cstress-related circadian dysregulation.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The study only reported the association between the less variable cortisol level and impaired health. The research was not aimed at finding the cause and effect relationship. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The study performed a review of data collected from 80 previous studies. The researchers focused at 12 health problems and finally, reported that out of 12, 10 diseases are associated with the reduction in the variation of the cortisol levels. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Adam said, \u201cWhile inflammation and the immune system dysfunction had the strongest associations, fatigue, cancer, depression, and obesity were all worse in people who had less variation in their cortisol.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The study concluded that bringing variation in the levels of cortisol hormone throughout the day may help in improving the health conditions of patients.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">One of the co-researcher stated, \u201cIt&#8217;s the righting of rhythms that are important, more so than the righting of levels.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Adam and her team also suggested that by changing the lifestyle like doing regular workouts and taking sufficient amount of sleep, people can restore their daily cortisol rhythms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The result of the study was first published in the<em> journal, Psychoneuroendocrinology.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When remains at a constant level throughout the day, stress hormone, Cortisol, could lead to some serious health issues like inflammation, obesity and cancer, reported in a recent research. In general, the level of the cortisol varies throughout day. Emma Adam, Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University said, \u201cCortisol is naturally high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12660],"tags":[33503,33504],"class_list":{"0":"post-16185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-health-news","8":"tag-cortisol","9":"tag-cortisol-affect-your-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}