High Cortisol Does Not Just Kill Desire After 40. New Research Links It to Alzheimer’s Risk in Women.

Medicine has been measuring the wrong thing, at the wrong time of day, while three systems quietly went offline.

Welcome to The Female Edge. Today we dive into the problem of stress and cortisol, including why you want to know your level and why your doctor will fight with you about ordering it.

Your doctor did not run a cortisol test. Your doctor ran a complete blood count, maybe a thyroid panel, possibly a lipid panel if you were due, and then looked up from the …