Cortisol

“There is a very small study that shows that actually it can have the ability to reduce cortisol and relieve anxiety and stress. And I've actually found in people that I work with that it's extremely effective with people.”

“So when your rib cage is closed like this, it's going to actually increase your cortisol. So that's your stress. And it's going to decrease your testosterone, which is like the aggressive energy that flows through us.”

“Cortisol is also catabolic. Cortisol chews up your tissues. So if we're cranking cortisol in the gym, but we're trying to gain muscle, you can see where intensity needs to be dialed in for the individual.”

“A glass of wine to celebrate might actually lower your cortisol and allow you to have a happier homeostasis inside your body.”

“To the degree that I almost lost my right eye as a result of excess cortisol in my system.”

“There's research that says that when you swear curse, it actually helps you reduce anxiety. When you curse, you release a flood of neurochemicals that blunt out the neurochemicals associated with anxiety, cortisol being a big one. So you get a big dopamine hit…”

“When there's cortisol present in our body, the cortisol basically acts as a numbing agent. So it's much harder to kind of tune into those sensations”

“And they discovered there's a biochemistry of what they call championship biochemistry. It's where these people like Tom Brady's down by 10 points, and it's the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl, and he comes back the way to me. How? He has this huge surge of t…”

“There, it turns out that there's a chemical that trees release, Shane, called phytoncides. Have you heard of this? P-H-Y-T-O-N-C-I-D-E-S. Phytoncides. When you're out in nature, Not when you're on a treadmill looking at a picture of the Muir Trail. I'm talking…”

“That's not a placebo effect. That's a real effect of the release of cortisol and adrenaline into your body. The release of dopamine is controlled by light, powerful neuromodulator that makes you feel good.”

“That sets A cortisol increase in the morning, which is a healthy cortisol increase that provides wakefulness, triggers your metabolism in the proper direction. If that cortisol spike happens too late because you didn't view light, then you step out during noon…”

“People say, oh, that's the stress hormone. No, it's not. It's a hormone that ha it's a hormone that is secreted in what we call stress, but basically glu, what cortisol does is it gets glucose into your blood really fast so that cells can use it really fast.”