Your daily stress is related to Cortisol hormone Written by Dr harold Gunatillake-health writer Cortisol is a hormone secreted by the adrenal glands sitting on top of your kidneys, and its secretion is related to stressful situations in your daily life. It is also called the stress hormone which helps you to balance your hormones and achieve good health. Not only stress levels, cortisol seems to help regulate blood sugar levels, metabolism and also reduce inflammation like extinguishing an internal fire. One wouldn’t survive without this fine tune mechanism in our body. Excess cortisol is secreted even without stress in a condition called Cushing’s syndrome due to a tumour in the adrenal glands or the organ that stimulating it‘s secretion–the pituitary gland. In Cushing’s syndrome you tend to put on weight in the face, abdomen and the chest. The arms and legs become wasted and slender compared to the core ...