Cortisol: The Master Hormone: Improve Your Health, Weight, Fertility, Menopause, Longevity, and Reduce Stress

by Wibe Wagemans, Ioana A. Bina

Cortisol monitoring is on par with breakthrough technologies like penicillin, the CT scan, and Continuous Glucose Monitoring, in terms of its enormous impact on your health and longevity.

Learn more about Cortisol, your body’s master hormone the under-appreciated factor that affects every field of medicine. Cortisol is the key hormone that helped early humans flee predators hundreds of thousands of years ago. These days, we’re no longer fleeing life-threatening predators, but our bodies still use the same hormone to warn us about modern threats—what we refer to as stress.

CORTISOL, THE MASTER HORMONE, written by a Ph.D. in endocrinology and a high-tech entrepreneur, are here to explain how you can manage your cortisol levels so your cortisol does not manage you.

Working with the research and insights nearly 100 of the world’s best scientists in their respective fields, CORTISOL, THE MASTER HORMONE will help you figure out how to get the data you need to live your best life, and to always understand how your stress levels are impacting your sleep, brain function, blood pressure, bones, gut, appetite, weight, immune system, and aging.

Consider

20% higher cortisol levels in the morning can halt ovulation–potentially explaining 50%-70% of infertility cases.#1 cause of early death in cardiovascular disease ahead of obesity and smoking.It is physiologically impossible to lose weight long term when cortisol is out of balance.Low cortisol levels are proven to drive anxiety and burnout in people dealing with high-stress situations.Monitoring cortisol is the only accurate measure of muscle recovery for physical training and mental readiness in athletes.
Learn how to Improve your Health, Weight, Athletic Performance, Menopause Symptoms, Longevity, and Reduce Stress!

Find out how you can protect your health and stop guessing. Read CORTISOL, THE MASTER HORMONE today!

Genres: Health, Nonfiction, Self Help

174 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 3, 2022

Reviews

[David W. Phipps · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bait and switch. Sales pitch for their app and lab program emphasized.

Found most info basic and nothing new. Dr. Gundry and his books are a better choice. Not my cup of tea.

[Alexander · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wibe Wagemans and Ioana Bina MD PhD FACG’s new book is titled Cortisol: The Master Hormone - Improve Your Health, Weight, Fertility, Menopause, Longevity, and Reduce Stress. As the title would suggest, the book is a clear, concise guide to its decided topic, Wagemans and Bina never insulting the reader by cutting corners or not running the risk of being pedantically thorough. Their sense of clarity and ease and expertise with the subject matter is reassuring, but also a testament to their craft as writers. “Say hello to cortisol, your body’s master hormone,” Wagemans and Bina write at the beginning of the read. “It’s the friend that helped your ancestors flee predators in the African savannas…Cortisol is the body’s alarm system that makes your heart pound when you parachute out of an airplane or sit down to take a college entrance exam. It tells you to act now to save your life. But it can also send you into a panic over the stresses of everyday life: Abusive workplaces, job losses, money worries, and strained relationships to name a few…We moderns, living in a time of social media pressures, political brinkmanship, echo chambers, climate change, pandemic anxiety, and a 24/7 news cycle, have more opportunities for prolonged stress than our pre-industrial forebears. We’re here to help you manage your cortisol rhythm, so that your cortisol rhythm does not manage you. We’ll do that by sharing the expertise of the world’s most influential scientists with you. We, the authors of Cortisol: The Master Hormone, are a serial entrepreneur and an integrative physician, and we’ve come together to help you make cortisol work in your favor. In practical terms, we’re talking about a radically new way of measuring cortisol so you get a nuanced, real-time picture of what it’s doing inside your body and mind.”

This is complimented by passages like the following, where Wagemans and Bina’s intentions are on full display. “I am a strong proponent of 'personalized medicine’…,” Bina writes in an exclusive part of the book. “…(it’s) a mode of medical care that customizes treatment for each individual. Indeed, I have synthesized my education and clinical work to come up with an approach that looks at the impact of stress on the whole human being, and that asks, ‘What can my patient learn about healthy living by addressing what’s going on specifically with her gut, her hormones, her genetic make-up, the stresses in her life, and the toxicities in her environment? What therapies can I, the physician, offer that will create balance in her body and mind, perhaps for the first time in a long time?’” She elaborates: “Early on in my twenty-year clinical career as a physician, I began to see the limitations of conventional medicine. There is no better system for severe acute lifesaving situations and procedures, but it falls short in dealing with complex chronic multisystem problems. I was responding to my patients’ symptoms, but somehow not getting to the source of their gastroenterological problems. It was clear to me that oftentimes, barriers to healing stemmed from psychological stressors and maladaptive stress responses down to the cellular level.”

[Valerie Seid]

Holy cow! So many things I never knew. This is really fascinating if you;re at all interested in a new way to tackle anxiety, menopause, weight, etc! Loved it. Share!

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book feels a bit unfinished with typos and random punctuation; however, the information is good and I'd have bought the book just for the notes at the end so I can pull up and read the referenced journal articles. Given that I have no adrenal function and manage entirely with a drug infusion pump loaded with cortisol, I am extremely interested in test strips so I can better manage my dosing. It's a challenge to be the brains of your endocrine system's master hormone, cortisol, without any way to manage beyond subjective symptoms.

[Alberto Lagomarsini · Rating 2 out of 5]

Aparte de la presentación sobre las cualidades del autor, el libro tare un tema novel pero le faltan lo siguiente:
1. Organización: el autor divaga por varios temas sin precisar científicamente la relación con el cortisol. Es una mezcla de temas.
2. Pertinencia: el autor parece que no ha investigado mucho y parte de una premisa muy personal del tema. No ha realizado más colaboraciones más allá de la aplicación que está promocionando.
3. Referencias: el autor no cita referencias sobre los temas. Como mezcla los temas parece más especulaciones que realidad. Inclusive cita a científicos de otras partes del mundo pero de Estados Unidos o Europa la obra carece de referencias.
Realmente es un buen comienzo pero todavía está a un 25% de la totalidad del tema.

[Jeff Searles · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book was well written and informative, but is largely an advertisement for an app they are releasing this year. In fairness, they do present this info early on in the book, so if the reader continues they know what they're getting. The reason I rated it a three instead of four is they plug the app regularly through the book. I think a mention near the beginning and a request to check out the app at the end would have been better and not contributed to a larger concern of bias.

[Richard~TalkToMeGuy · Rating 5 out of 5]

To hear the replay of the many benefits of Cortisol level awareness, click link above. #immunesupport #masterhormone #weightmanagement #stress #menopause #mentalhealth

[Bob Sweet · Rating 1 out of 5]

Edit it down by 50%

Glad I didn’t pay for this book thanks for kindle unlimited. I think it has enough solid content for half the pages.

[Mirella Ivanova · Rating 3 out of 5]

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