Tom McKenna
speaker
90 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 3d ago
Tom McKenna’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Cortisol itself is part of our natural biorhythms.
OK, when we're active in the morning time, when we get up, our cortisol levels are naturally higher.
That's appropriate to what we're doing.
And that's fine.
Yeah, absolutely.
And late at night when we're not busy, we're tired, we've...
our day is done, well then we're more at ease and our cortisol levels are naturally lower.
So the thing that is kind of, that is a medical issue, a clinical issue, is where if you have abnormally high cortisol levels, cortisol excess,
persistently over the long run, well, then that's important and that needs to be reviewed and investigated.
If it's way too high, you could have Cushing syndrome.
If it's way too low, maybe you have Addison's disease.
Addison's disease is known, it's a form of adrenal insufficiency where you haven't got enough hormone.
You can have low blood pressure.
You can have problems with pains and you can have weight loss.
And that's treated with hormone supplementation.
But back to cortisol for a second as a villain, it's kind of being used in a way to describe, it's blamed as the root cause of many midlife kind of symptoms like abdominal weight gain and so on and fatigue and tiredness.
And in that sense, you know, it's important that people
people who have those issues, that they're not disavowed and not hurt.
Like it's a lazily kind of relabeling of menopause symptoms for many people and where their menopause symptoms are being disavowed.
And it's nearly, it's a seductive description that, you know what, you know, here's a neat little answer in a bowl.
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