
Chronic Stress Can Lead to Hair Loss — New Research Reveals How
Reading Time: 4 minutes Stress is the body's way to manage immediate threats to survival. While many hormones, chemical reactions, and nervous signals are associated with stress, Cortisol is the hormone most centrally involved in the sensation of stress. Stress is designed to get us out of tricky situations and back to a state of safety and balance. Cortisol is an absolutely necessary component of the hormone cascade, but it is also very prone to imbalance. This imbalance manifests in many ways but is most recognizable as Chronic Stress. Stress Changes Physiological Priorities Stress puts the human body and mind into fight-or-flight mode, which...