Tag Archives: Cortisol
Wearable gauges fitness through stress hormones in your sweat
Cortisol (best known as the stress hormone) is handy for tracking your athletic performance and even spotting signs of disease, since it reflects how well your adrenal or pituitary glands are working. But there's a problem: measuring that often take...
High Hormone Levels Make Traders Take More Risk
A new study shows that hormones testosterone and cortisol may destabilize financial markets by making traders take more risks. The researchers simulated the trading floor in the lab by having...
The Good And Bad News About Your Sleep Debt
This is the first in a two-part series about the science of sleep. Sleep, science tells us, is a lot like a bank account with a minimum balance penalty. You can short the account a few days a month...
Why The Best Time To Drink Coffee Is Not First Thing In The Morning
Drinking a cup of coffee first thing in the morning blunts the energy-boosting effects of caffeine and may lead to increased tolerance of the stimulant. This counterintuitive fact is explained in...
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