by Maria Lebron, August 2021 When your body feels stressed or in danger, your adrenal glands make and release the hormone cortisol into your bloodstream. Cortisol is the body’s main stress hormone and it triggers the body’s “fight-or-flight” response in a crisis, causing an increase in heart rate and blood pressure. Cortisol is also involved […]
How Stress Affects the Mind and Body
By Maria Lebron, April 2020 At some point, everyone feels stressed. Stress is what you feel when you’re facing a difficult or harmful situation. Each person will experience stress differently. What greatly concerns one person may not have any significant impact on another. Stress can be the result of a minor stressor like a job […]
