Your Brain on Stress: The HPA Axis, Cortisol, and the Science of Coming Back


01 · From Me To You Hello Reader, In medicine, we believe every patient tells a story and holds a lesson. This one has stayed with me. I'll call her Anne. She came in asking for a thyroid panel first then 'well, maybe I'm anemic,' she said. Anne was in her mid-fifties with impeccable credentials but a schedule that was unrelenting. She'd spent three of her twenty-five years in higher education steering a university through a leadership overhaul during a global pandemic. When she sat down that...