While exercise is well-known for improving physical health, mood, and energy, not many realize that the way you exercise—and when—can significantly impact your body’s stress response. At the center of ...

If you’ve scrolled through social media lately, you may have seen some chatter about cortisol—a stress hormone—and its supposed villainous effects on your body. Negative effects of cortisol have been ...

Myokines are hormones that communicate via the bloodstream with various organs such as the brain, adipose tissue, liver, bone ...

This graphic highlights key findings from a clinical trial showing that regular aerobic exercise led to a reduction in levels of the stress hormone, cortisol. In the first clinical trial of its kind, ...

If you need one more reason to motivate yourself to be more physically active, you can add the exercise-induced hormone irisin to your list. In the past two years, scientists have discovered that a ...

Stress hormones are chemical messengers that play a role in the body’s physiological and behavioral responses to stress. Examples include catecholamines and cortisol. These hormones help initiate the ...