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.
I included cortisol but it is really important to understand that that's almost a useless number because that is measuring total cortisol in the plasma cortisol is about 97 ish percent bound to albumin and cortisol binding protein and it's really only the free cortisol that is metabolically relevant or endocrine illogically active
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what those tests are measuring are total cortisol and total cortisol just as we'll talk about when we talk about testosterone is actually kind of unhelpful because it's all of the cortisol including that which is bound and the majority of cortisol is bound to a carrier protein known as cortisol binding protein it's also bound to albumin and other proteins as well so we really need to understand how much cortisol is Unbound what's called free cortisol and it's this free cortisol that exerts its biologic activity