{"id":31405,"date":"2018-03-14T19:45:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=31405"},"modified":"2018-03-14T19:45:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:45:28","slug":"health-what-is-cortisol-and-what-does-it-do-part-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/health-what-is-cortisol-and-what-does-it-do-part-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Health: what is cortisol and what does it do, part 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Researching the human body can mean continual self-tutoring. The tutor begins about the critical hormone cortisol.<\/h1>\n<p>Cortisol is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands. Its release is augmented when the person feels stress. It has many effects; what follows is one mechanism in which it participates. The first two points are necessary background, while the third explains a function of cortisol:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\nThe human body interprets stress as physical danger rather than a social condition.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nNeither brain cells nor <em>exercising<\/em> skeletal muscle cells need insulin for glucose uptake. However, as I understand, fat cells <em>do<\/em> need insulin to import glucose.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nCortisol increases blood sugar but inhibits insulin secretion and possibly even insulin sensitivity. Doing so channels the glucose (blood sugar) towards use by the muscles and brain, rather than by the fat cells (which would change it to fat for storage). Therefore, under stress, the muscles and brain have access to lots of energy so they can respond.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I hope to talk more about cortisol:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todaysdietitian.com\/newarchives\/111609p38.shtml\">www.todaysdietician.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/8772471\">www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=21983\">www.oracletutoring.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-athletes-way\/201301\/cortisol-why-the-stress-hormone-is-public-enemy-no-1\">www.psychologytoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/a-to-z-guides\/what-is-cortisol#1\">www.webmd.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diabetes.org\/food-and-fitness\/fitness\/get-started-safely\/blood-glucose-control-and-exercise.html\">www.diabetes.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researching the human body can mean continual self-tutoring. The tutor begins about the critical hormone cortisol. Cortisol is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands. Its release is augmented when the person feels stress. It has many effects; what follows &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/health-what-is-cortisol-and-what-does-it-do-part-0\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health: what is cortisol and what does it do, part 0<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1370,181,9,1],"tags":[2803,2804,2805,2806],"class_list":["post-31405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-health","category-lifestyle","category-nursing","category-uncategorized","tag-cortisol-and-the-stress-response","tag-flight-or-flight","tag-function-of-cortisol","tag-what-is-cortisol-and-what-does-it-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31405"}],"version-history":[{"count":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31501,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31405\/revisions\/31501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}