How to Use cortisol in a Sentence

cortisol

noun

• The sight sent a jolt of cortisol through his body and an urgent shout out of his lungs.
  — Hermione Hoby, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• Your cortisol level is supposed to rise in the morning and drop as the day goes on.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 21 May 2020
• When the brain no longer detects the threat, cortisol levels fall.
  — Andrea Petersen, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
• What are the signs and symptoms of high cortisol levels?
  — April Benshosan, Glamour, 24 July 2024
• Stress releases cortisol to the body and brain, which causes the feelings of fight, flight or freeze.
  — Jenny Anderson, Time, 8 Aug. 2023
• The hygiene comes in the form of lowering levels of cortisol, the main stress hormone.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 25 Apr. 2022
• These can all lower your cortisol levels, which can help clear your mind and your skin.
  — Kara Wahlgren, Seventeen, 28 Apr. 2023
• Levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, range higher for both men and women in the morning.
  — Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 23 June 2022
• When the stress takes precedence, cortisol levels increase, and the body becomes alert.
  — Alexa Mikhail, CNN, 14 June 2022
• Bonell knew that heat stress can trigger the release of cortisol, which could hinder blood flow to the placenta.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• One study shows that a 20-minute walk can relieve stress and decrease your cortisol levels.
  — David O'Hara, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• The research team plans to dig deeper into the role cortisol may play in long Covid in future studies.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 25 Sep. 2023
• One of the key benefits of delta 8 is its ability to reduce cortisol levels in the body.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• Relieves Stress The body produces cortisol, the stress hormone.
  — Ashley Olivine, Ph.d., Mph, Verywell Health, 1 Oct. 2024
• The drug is also used to treat Cushing syndrome, a condition in which the body produces too much of the hormone cortisol.
  — Sahar Fatima, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2023
• The researchers also measured the hormone cortisol in the hair of dogs and their owners over a year-long period.
  — Bronwyn Orr, Quartz, 9 June 2019
• Turns out spending time with friends lowers cortisol, the body’s stress hormone.
  — Karina Bland, azcentral, 22 Oct. 2019
• Your chemistry can ricochet from the feel-good pleasure of dopamine to the fight-or-flight anxiety of cortisol.
  — The Enquirer, 16 Dec. 2021
• Danckert found that the boring clip induced higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol than the sad one.
  — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
• When that stress persists week after week, the body adjusts to the higher cortisol levels.
  — Sarah Sekula, CNN, 27 Aug. 2020
• Fear can trigger the release of adrenaline and cortisol, the body’s stress hormones.
  — Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 26 Oct. 2023
• The original plan was to train dogs to detect heightened levels of cortisol, the stress hormone.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 May 2021
• In fact, 20 minutes of any art form can improve mood and lower cortisol or stress levels.
  — Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 6 May 2023
• And there’s the stress hormone cortisol, a major component in dream, or REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, says Bryant.
  — Miriam Foley, Good Housekeeping, 18 Nov. 2019
• The weight helps to boost the production of serotonin and melatonin while reducing the stress hormone cortisol.
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2022
• Just petting a dog can reduce levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 19 Aug. 2024
• Most people’s cortisol dips at night and then increases in the morning.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 29 Feb. 2024
• Constant stress causes the adrenal glands to release a hormone called cortisol.
  — Lynn Saladino, Health.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• All of these things can influence the amount of cortisol—the primary stress hormone—in your body, Dr. Smalls-Mantey says, and turn you into a real-life Scrooge.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 20 Dec. 2023
• For one, Wilson thinks saliva tests are more precise than blood tests for measuring cortisol levels.
  — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024