What the Makers of Cortisol Won’t Tell You
What the Makers of Cortisol Won’t Tell You by T. Incledon
By now you must have heard thousands of times how cortisol (C) is catabolic and will break down all your hard-earned muscle. You might even be using various drugs or supplements to suppress cortisol release in the hopes that perhaps this will help you to get bigger or stronger. Now, on the surface it appears to make sense for you to want to suppress C, after all it is catabolic. There is one little catch though: Without C many important metabolic reactions become impaired. The result: Muscle weakness and in severe cases death (1). So, the trick is to train hard enough to stimulate muscle growth without sending your C levels through the roof. Normal, healthy ranges of C are what we want, not levels suppressed so far down that we can
