Cortisol = Waking up at 3-4 AM.
If cortisol stays high, you'll keep snapping awake at 3 AM — no matter how many sleep aids you take.
These are the best ways to bring it down:
1. No food 3 hours before bed.
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 60-minute Cambridge lecture by Demis Hassabis will teach you more about the future of AI than most people will learn in the next 5 years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
Your face looks older than your actual age.
Your muscles are shrinking.
Your sex drive is gone.
Your body is showing you what high cortisol is doing in the background.
Here are 9 ways to lower it without needing medications:
1. Put your face in ice water.
“You really have to work so hard. It’s so hard. And I think that’s misunderstood.”
Eileen Gu, the 22-year-old Stanford student, runway model, and only action-sport athlete to win three medals apiece at two Olympic Games (Beijing 2022, Milano Cortina 2026) has long been a subject of fascination. At Cannes Lions, she opens up about what people don't understand about being "the best" at their craft.
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
“The thought of spending a single day without you torments my soul. You deserve the very world, but how else am I to be with a woman society has made it impossible for me to be with? The woman I was foolish enough to fall in love with.”
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