How to Use Cortisol to Reduce Stress

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Cortisol peaks around an hour to two hours after you wake up in the morning. Cortisol is meant to be used and it's meant to make you move. Think about our primal ancestors. They got a cortisol spike to motivate us to go find food. So we don't really know how to use cortisol, but yet we throw it around.

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