Ashani Dante

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But Are You Happy? · How To Fight Back Against Hustle Culture, High Cortisol and Burnout · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

And it's interesting because, you know, I think cortisol obviously is something that, you know, when we have high cortisol from stress, like that basically hijacks our ability to rest. matched

Right. matched

And does that kind of come back to that mental overload that you were talking about before? matched

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, if we take a look at cortisol for a moment, I think that cortisol can sometimes actually get cast as like a villain in the wellness context.

It really does.

And I think that that framing can actually miss to an extent what we know about the stress and sleep research.

Cortisol is actually really, really important and it is something that we need in our bodies because it plays a role in regulating our blood sugar, our immune response, our blood pressure.

It's also the thing that allows us to wake up in the morning.

So your cortisol spikes in the morning and that's what gets you out of bed.

And people with too little cortisol actually get really unwell.

And so the hormone itself is doing really important work in our body.

But where it gets into trouble is what happens when the system is under a chronic state of stress.

So in a really well-regulated system, your cortisol is going to rise in the morning that allows you to have that spike that gets you ready to go.

And then throughout the day, it's going to gradually drop.

And once it settles its lowest point in the evening, that's what allows us to feel that rest to go to sleep.

And that curve, that's what gives the body the switch from active mode to that recovery mode in the evening.

But under chronic stress, the curve actually flattens or it gets quite disrupted.

And when that cortisol stays elevated, when it should be dropping, the body reads that as a signal that it's not safe to stop.

It's not safe to rest yet.

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