Too much cortisol has been found to have a negative effect on our immune systems and long
term high levels of cortisol can lead to chronic depression.
Not exact matches
In long -
term follow - up studies
of the adult children
of mothers who ate
high protein diets while pregnant between 1948 and 1954, it was found that by age 40 offspring commonly had
high levels of the stress hormone
cortisol [6] and
high blood pressure [7,8].
Women in their last
term of their pregnancy and highly trained athletes can have
higher - than - average
cortisol levels.
Many people with endogenous Cushing syndrome (not caused by medication) have hyperlipidemia due to long -
term exposure to
high levels of cortisol.
Taking
high levels or long -
term doses
of Prednisone can also bring about Cushing» s like symptoms (called iatrogenic Cushing» s) as it is a corticosteroid and increase the
cortisol levels in the blood.