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16 Little Known Plants + Phytocompounds to Control(!) Your Cortisol Levels | Plus: A Dozen Better-Known Alternatives

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Don't forget: Cortisol is no stressor, it's released to help us cope w/ stress. While I have repeatedly emphasized that the notion of cortisol as the "muscle-catabolic stress hormone" you have to "keep as low as possible" is fundamentally flawed, there are reasons why you may want to control your cortisol levels within what would be considered the circadian normal zone, i.e. high(er) levels of cortisol that get you going upon waking, lower levels of cortisol in the PM and at night to facilitate optimal glucose control, avoid HPTA suppression (=keep normal thyroid, GH, and testosterone/estrogen levels), allow for healthy and recuperative sleep and so on and so forth. If you are physically healthy and not overweight/obese, you are probably able to achieve this goal if you have the following (health) habits: (1) getting enough sleep (6-8h), (2) adhering to fundamental rules of sleep hygiene (same time, same routine, no blue light exposure before and dur...
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Take Control of Your Cortisol Levels - Use These 5x Stress-Modulating Diet, Lifestyle & Supplementation Rules Wisely

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Always remember: You want to control cortisol, not eradicate it if you want to melt away your belly fat , beat your personal bests and feel just great ! As a SuppVersity  reader, you belong to the chosen few who know that cortisol is not the villain as which it is stigmatized in the fitness industry (obviously to sell supplements | learn more ). Rather than being "bad" or "good", cortisol, a glucocorticoid, i.e. a hormone that keeps your blood glucose stable, and potent anti-inflammatory agent, is more vital than any "vitamin" - in spite of not having the magic "vita" in its name. Whether the effects of this vital adrenal hormone are going to be "bad" or "good" for you, depends mostly on whether it rises and falls according to its natural 24-h rhythm or is chronically low (often labeled adrenal insufficiency) or chronically high. If you want to mess with your cortisol rhythm overtraining is exactly what you "ne...
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A Relaxing, Cortisol Reducing, Testosterone Manipulating Cup of Roiboos Tea, Anyone? Plus: From Herpes, Over Liver-Toxicity to Cancer - Things Rooibos Can Do For You!

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"Decallerate" your life - drink tea!? I am starting to think that I may have totally underestimated Roiboos tea... I mean, tea without my beloved caffeine? That cannot be good for anything, can it? Well, it looks like it can! After a couple of database searches, I did eventually have to realize that the most recent study by Schloms et al. is only the tip of an ice-, or rather "paper-berg" discussing various beneficial health effects of Aspalathus linearis infusions (aka Rooibos [/ˈrɔɪbɒs/], "the red bush" tea) that range from anti-viral to anti-cancer and pro-liver to pro-lung effects. From South Africa to the Netherlands In view of the fact that even I, as a German am more or less lucky to know what Rooibos is and you (mostly US and UK citizens) are only slowly catching up with my countrymen and our Western neighbors, the Dutch, as far as Rooibos imports and consumption is concerned, I just want to clarify that we are talking about a "popu...
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On Short Notice: Teas & Prostate, Metformin & Amenorrhea, Stevia & High, Omega-3 & Low Cortisol, Aminos & Weight Control, Nordic Hamstring Exercise & 20% More Power!

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Image 1: This would be a case where metformin probably won't help you to get your menses back - unless this is just one of your "yous" and you are taking high doses of anti-psychotics, of course. In view of the fact that I have piled up way more " On Short Notice " items than I can possibly squeeze into one installment, today's news on the right tea (green or black) for prostate cancer , the purported anti-obesity effects of leucine and alanine , which turn out to be inferior to those of whole protein, the anti-amenorrhea and weight loss effects of metformin in women on anti-schizophrenic drug and how this relates to PCOS, the surprising N=1 cortisol-raising, high blood pressure and water retaining effects of stevia , the stress and weight loss reducing effects of omega-3s and high DHA levels in the brain , and an effective yet rarely used hamstring exercise, the "Nordic hamstring exercise" , will be complemented by another installment of ...
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DHEA the Slimming Hormone? Study Finds: Dehydroepiandrosterone Directly Inhibits Cortisol Synthesis in Rodent Adipocytes

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After initially being hailed as the fountain of youth, the pharma-financed medical sciences dropped DHEA, when investors realized that a naturally occurring hormone would not be patentable. This and some discouraging and/or inconclusive results from long-term studies had DHEA literally disappear from the research scene for quite some time. Therefore, I am positively surprised that on the forthcoming European Congress of Endocrinology 2011 researchers from the Kobe University in Japan are going to present a paper ( Tagawa. 2011 ) that shows that there may in fact be more to the initial findings of DHEA induced weight loss than follow-up studies would have it. Tagawa et al. investigated the possible mechanism behind the weight loss effects of DHEA and found that there is a direct inhibitory effect of DHEA on glucocorticoid (re-)synthesis in adipose tissue: Using differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes, we demonstrated that DHEA inhibited 11β-HSD1 activity at a concentration of 1 μM within...
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