Dr. Ben Rein
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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You need to be ready to fight or to escape.
So cortisol, one of the things that it does is it suppresses inflammation because inflammation is not helpful at all in that moment.
In a short-term stressful situation, cortisol is really helpful.
But when we remain stressed for an extended period and our cortisol levels remain elevated, then eventually your body is like, all right, enough's enough.
We can't be like suppressing inflammation, fight or flight mode all the time.
And so there's this kind of like compensatory effect where the body like just goes back to its like natural levels and kind of starts ignoring the cortisol because it's just not sustainable.
So what happens is when cortisol is usually suppressing inflammation, but then the body kind of starts ignoring it, then one of the body's main anti-inflammatory systems is now like out of order.
Over time, you get this buildup of inflammation that normally would have been kind of suppressed, but it just continues growing.
And then as that inflammation kind of grows and takes over throughout the body, it becomes like a health burden.
Yeah.
I don't want to say that like everything about cortisol is good, right?
Like you don't always want it.
But it's funny.
There's a lot of systems like this in the body.
My PhD lab did this study where they found that
This was in rats.
They induced stress when the rats were stressed for like a short period, like one day.
They found that the brain, the prefrontal cortex, which is this really like analytical, important decision making brain area actually became like better.
It like kind of adjusts biologically to make you smarter.
Yeah.
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