hormone
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But there is the potential for long-term health damage – heart disease, autoimmune problems - linked to "toxic stress", where the body is flooded with hormones like cortisol and catecholamines, which produce adrenaline.
From BBC
Heart rate and blood pressure jump and stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline surge.
From BBC
It would take years and additional discoveries made by others to synthesize the hormone into an effective drug and to determine doses that didn’t make patients vomit.
The nutrients are involved in converting tryptophan into the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin, she said.
Her first transfer date was postponed after a doctor said her uterus wasn’t ready, but she started hormone therapy to try again.
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