Body & mind
24 min
The Cortisol Myth
The stress hormone everyone wants to lower might be keeping you alive.
Popular culture has cast cortisol as a chemical to be defeated. The science says we have the story backwards: the hormone is essential, and the real pathology of chronic stress lies in the broken rhythm of its release, not in its presence.
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About Mythio
One story, one sitting.
Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.