Busting Myths about Cortisol with Beth Skwarecki

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4.6 • 950 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 150 minutes

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In this episode, Greg and Lyndsey sit down for a discussion about cortisol with Beth Skwarecki, the senior health editor at Lifehacker. The dangers of high cortisol are a persistent topic of conversation in social media content, so the discussion focuses on the types of claims that are being made, the dubious methods of self-diagnosis and “treatment” being recommended, and the potential risks and dangers associated with letting social media convince you that you’re basically an endocrinologist.

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0:00.0	The Welcome back to the Stronger by Science Podcast. I'm Greg. And I'm Lindsay. And we have another great show for you today. In fact, we are doing our very first interview episode with this current hosting lineup and we're excited to welcome
0:34.9	Beth Squareki on to the podcast today. Beth is the health editor at Life Hacker
0:40.3	and a certified personal trainer.
0:43.0	She's also the author of two books, Genetics 101
0:46.1	from Chromos and the Double Helix
0:48.2	to Cloning and DNA Tests,
0:50.0	Everything You Need to Know About Genes
0:52.3	and Outbreak. 50 tales of epidemics that terrorize the world
0:57.1	she's also a accomplished practitioner of the odd lifts which I think is very cool. She competes in the USAWA which is the
1:06.9	US all-around Weightlifting Association and has a record 510 pound Denny deadlift and if you don't know what that is I can put the
1:17.0	the video of that in the show notes it is extremely impressive and I've already told Beth this, but just on a personal level, she is one of my very favorite health and science writers.
1:30.0	So I'm thrilled to be sharing a conversation with her on the show today. So Beth, welcome to the show.
1:35.6	Thank you. I'm glad to be here and I'm a longtime fan of Stronger by Science, so this is very exciting for me too.
1:40.7	Thank you. Okay, so when I reached out about you coming on the show, just as a little background for
1:47.0	listeners, I've been following Beth's writing for a long time and I saw she she mentioned on Reddit that she was
1:56.4	interested in maybe starting a podcast so I was like hey you know that's that's a
2:01.0	lot of effort would you have any interest in just coming on ours instead?
2:04.5	And yeah, I trust her work enough that I was willing to just say like, hey, is there anything
2:11.1	you want to talk about that you think would be cool?
2:14.0	One of the topics she brought up was cortisol.
2:17.0	And it seems to be a pretty intriguing and timely topic because it's it's a subject that's been
2:25.3	blowing up on social media recently in particular Tik-Toc and there seems to be a lot of
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