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Boundless Life

Why Is My Cortisol High Even Though I'm Doing Everything Right? Hidden Causes Of High Cortisol, The DUTCH Test & More!

Boundless Life

Ben Greenfield

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2016

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Cortisol can be confusing. And frankly, most popular tests for cortisol don't tell you what really need to know... ...things like how fast cortisol gets cleared by your body, what's truly causing high cortisol or low cortisol, how cortisol (and other...

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0:00.0

Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield.

0:02.3

For the podcast you're about to hear, I had to pee on a bunch of pee strips to find out

0:06.3

some really interesting things about my hormones.

0:08.6

So you're going to dig this one.

0:10.9

But before we jump into today's episode, I want to tell you about something else that

0:16.6

might make you pee.

0:17.9

And that is coffee.

0:19.6

I'm not just talking about any type of coffee though.

0:22.6

And no, don't worry, coffee will not dehydrate you.

0:25.3

They've actually done studies on it.

0:26.6

They found that the amount of water you get from coffee, offsets, an amount of dehydrating

0:31.9

diuretic effect that it might have.

0:34.4

But the coffee that I drink is called Cameracoffee, K-I-M-E-R-A-K-O-F-F-E-E.

0:42.9

And Cameracoffee has a bunch of different neutropics in it, neutropics being things that actually

0:49.2

improve your mental function and your cognitive performance.

0:52.2

I've talked about this stuff before, but I want to zero in on one particular neutropic

0:56.7

called L-theanine that's in this stuff.

0:59.2

Now L-theanine, when combined with caffeine that you find in coffee, actually keeps coffee

1:04.8

from disrupting your sleep patterns.

1:06.8

So if you have coffee in the morning and you want to take an afternoon nap or you have

1:10.0

coffee in the afternoon and you want it not to disrupt your sleep, the L-theanine actually

1:15.5

makes that happen.

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