I have a urinary problem.

Here's what you get on cortisol.

So this really spikes your cortisol.

Get your testosterone up. Get your cortisol down.

So what we find is that high power alpha males in primate hierarchies have high testosterone and low cortisol, and powerful and effective leaders also have high testosterone and low cortisol.

Sorry about that. I've just given you a shot of cortisol, your fight flight hormone.

Cortisol floods the brain it destroys hippocampal cells and memory, and can lead to all kinds of health problems.

like cortisol, adrenaline and dopamine, increase the level of mood enhancing hormones like endorphins, and reduce overall blood pressure.

In the setting of prostate cancer, up to 60 percent of men after prostate cancer surgery may have urinary incontinence and erectile disfunction.

Cortisol is a major stress hormone involved in making skin cells churn out oily lipids from special glands called sebaceous glands.

We have been able to see nerves for facial expression, for facial movement, for breathing every single nerve nerves for urinary function around the prostate.

Physiologically, there also are differences on two key hormones testosterone, which is the dominance hormone, and cortisol, which is the stress hormone.

And in the review, what they were interested in seeing is what kind of stresses most reliably raise levels of cortisol, the central stress hormone.

The brain has goals, basically, to feel good, to move towards reward, which is a dopamine release, to stay away from threat, which is a cortisol release, etc.

It's a genetic disorder, and it involves a twisting motion, and these children get progressively more and more twisting until they can't breathe, until they get sores, urinary infections, and then they die.

I read across a statistic that really hit home for me trans people, people who are transitioning from either being male or female, have three times the urinary tract infections of the general population.

Anyway, we would fill up with our own adrenaline and our own cortisol, and then we'd kill or be killed, we'd eat or we'd be eaten, and then suddenly we'd de fuel, and we'd go back to normal.

This triggers the pituitary gland, a pea sized gland found at the base of the brain, to release adrenocorticotropic hormone which then stimulates the adrenal gland sitting on top of the kidneys to release cortisol, the major stress hormone.

So we know that in primate hierarchies, if an alpha needs to take over, if an individual needs to take over an alpha role sort of suddenly, within a few days, that individual's testosterone has gone up significantly and his cortisol has dropped significantly.