We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
So up until now we've been talking about increasing energy and increasing the immune system by way of cortisol and epinephrine, but I'd be totally remiss if I didn't cover how cortisol and epinephrine if chronically elevated, or if elevated too high can have a lot of detrimental effects.
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Well, chronic stress, the chronic elevation of epinephrine and cortisol is actually detrimental to learning. And there's an entire category of literature mainly from the work of the great and sadly the late Bruce Mchuan from the Rockefeller University and some of his scientific offspring like the great Robert Seapolski showing that chronic stress chronic elevation of epinephrine actually inhibits learning and memory and also can inhibit immune system function.