Hello, beautiful beans and welcome to the episode of today. So this episode is intense and it's intense for many reasons.

It is a topic that I have had so many requests over.

It is something that I then put out the question to you guys to see what, like on my

Instagram, I asked, you know, I want to do an episode on cortisol and the effects

of caffeine on cortisol production and all of that.

It was wild.

It's probably one of the most engaging questions that I ever put out there.

To the extent that basically, in a nutshell, what I'm trying to say is that I'm turning this

into a two-parter. So episode one of this two-part, the first one is cortisol in general.

We're going to be talking about what is cortisol.

How is it produced?

I'm going to be talking, okay, I've got a list of things.

This is what I'm going to be going through in this episode.

What is cortisol, how it's produced?

What is the role of cortisol?

What happens when you have excessive or not enough cortisol?

And I'm going to be talking about actual medical conditions around

this. Cortisol face, because this is like, I'm not even going to comment on it until I get to it,

but this is big on social media. Different kinds of stress. Cortisol in the morning, sunlight and cortisol,

how cortisol positively impacts your memory. PCOS and cortisol. I'm going to brush on that.

Fasting and cortisol, hit training in cortisol,

and also how to ensure that you have balanced levels of cortisol.

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