5 Surprising Ways to Lower Cortisol and Beat Stress
Want to lower cortisol and beat stress? Get-Fit Guy Ben Greenfield has you covered.
By Ben Greenfield
March 1, 2016
6-minute read
Episode #275
In a past article about identifying stress, I wrote about the adrenal glands and the four stages of adrenal exhaustion. These stages were first identified back in the 1950s, when Dr. Hans Selye conducted experiments creating stress in rats. In the experiments, poor little rats were forced to tread water with their legs tied together until they became exhausted and died.
Dr. Selye then removed the adrenal glands from the rats at various stages of drowning and discovered that the adrenal glands respond to stress in several distinct stages…