Your adrenal gland, pumping out hormones as you pound the pavement, can only produce so much cortisol at a time.

When you have chronic stress, your body produces too much cortisol and adrenalin-two major stress hormones.

Lysodren destroys the layers of the adrenal gland that produce cortisol.

The body is not able to produce enough cortisol to cope with stress.

In endogenous Cushing's syndrome the adrenal glands produce too much cortisol.

Apple-shaped women produced more cortisol and scored lower on a test that measured how well they coped with stress.

When you get stung, your body produces cortisol.

When the cortex of the adrenals is damaged or destroyed, it cannot produce cortisol.

Someone can also develop chushings syndrome if their body produces too much cortisol naturally.

Your body is not able to produce enough cortisol for the stressful condition.