{"id":1737,"date":"2024-06-19T22:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T22:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/should-you-worry-about-your-cortisol-levels\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T22:23:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T22:23:17","slug":"should-you-worry-about-your-cortisol-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/should-you-worry-about-your-cortisol-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you worry about your cortisol levels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve spent any time scrolling through health-related TikToks lately, you&#8217;ve probably heard about cortisol. High levels of the so-called &#8220;stress hormone&#8221; are being blamed for fatigue, headaches, weight gain, mood swings, anxiety, poor sleep, and a dozen other symptoms. But cortisol isn&#8217;t the bad guy, Tufts researchers said. &#8220;All animals, including humans, produce a baseline level of cortisol or a nearly identical hormone called corticosterone,&#8221; said Michael Romero, a professor of biology at Tufts University who studies stress responses. &#8220;It is absolutely critical for survival. If you remove or <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/should-you-worry-about-your-cortisol-levels\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve spent any time scrolling through health-related TikToks lately, you&#8217;ve probably heard about cortisol. High levels of the so-called &#8220;stress hormone&#8221; are being blamed for fatigue, headaches, weight gain, mood swings, anxiety, poor sleep, and a dozen other symptoms. But cortisol isn&#8217;t the bad guy, Tufts researchers said. &#8220;All animals, including humans, produce a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}