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    Cortisol and adrenals

    The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis governs your stress response, your morning energy, your sleep, your weight, your mood and even your thyroid. When it deregulates, almost everything wobbles. These explorations give you the full map, from symptom to molecular mechanisms.

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    Stress, cortisol and adrenals

    The full panorama of the HPA axis, of tests that miss the target, and of concrete levers.

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    Assess your stress axis

    A quiz to locate your cortisol profile and your warning signals.

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    Cortisol levers

    Identify priority interventions: sleep, nutrition, micronutrition, adaptogenic plants.

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    Pregnenolone steal

    How chronic stress diverts pregnenolone toward cortisol at the expense of sex hormones.

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    Cortisol and body composition

    Cortisol, insulin resistance, visceral fat, sarcopenia: the metabolic mechanics.

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    Thyroid-adrenal tandem

    Why treating a thyroid without looking at the adrenals often leads to failure.

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