The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
when you look at cancer atherosclerosis and neurodegenerative disease it seems to me that the direct lines of evidence for the damage of hypercortisolism stress response are probably most demonstrated in cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis visa vie several mechanisms not the least of which is hypertension both macro and micro vasculature but also through endothelial disruption adhesion of cells and sludging
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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but you know when I think about all of the lifestyle factors I wonder if the one that gets the least attention that has the greatest impact is stress you know because we don't have a pill for it we can offset the harm of nutrition so much easier with pharmacotherapy and yet a person walking around with simmering hypercortisolemia and the effect that that's having on their endothelium and you know their sympathetic nervous system I feel like that's the one that I wish we had a better handle on as far as how to help people because again I we don't have a pill right outside of blood pressure management we don't really have a pill for that