The menstrual cycle derives from the Latin word for month and refers to the roughly one month (28 day cycle) that a woman goes through...

Women can be very complicated, many women aren't familiar with their own phases of the menstrual cycle or how their hormones physiology...

Other than genetics and the difference in genitalia, arguably the largest biological difference between women and men is in the relative...

What is Hypocortisolism? Hypocortisolism is when levels of cortisol itself switch from being chronically elevated to being too low....

If you are embarking on a fat loss journey and you are starting off already with high levels of chronic psychological or life stress,...

While all stressors cause a relatively similar stress response (hormonally at least), there are gender differences in how the system...

While obesity can lead to an over-activated hypothalamus , stress and cortisol also play a major role in the overall control of...

The hormone cortisol is actually one of several hormones that are grouped under the heading of corticosteroids but I will refer to them...

Stress can be defined as anything that throws your body out of allostatic balance. Stress comes in many ways: INJURY - STARVING - TOO HOT...