Andrew Huberman· PhD
for example if you're sick you're going to need to make far more glucocorticoids your body's response is going to be to ramp up cortisol production to mobilize Fuel and do a whole bunch of other things and certain cells like the adrenal glands are going to be called on to rise to a higher level of performance and they're not going to be able to make enough cortisol so they're going to have to borrow or take cholesterol from other cells in the body