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So the question is effects of cortisol in our body.
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So what is exactly cortisol? cortisol is a primary stress hormone and it is a steroid hormone.
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Steroid hormone.
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Think of cortisol as nature's built -in alarm system.
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It's your body's main stress hormone.
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And it is made in the caution.
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Of adrenal glands and then released into the blood which transports it all around the body.
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So in this question we have to find the effects of cortisol.
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Here we have some function of options a.
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It is anti -inflammatory.
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B, it is immunosuppressant.
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C, it increases rbc production.
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D, all of these.
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Well, cortisol affects the immune system by preventing the production of inflammatory mediators.
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During chronic stress, cortisol is overproduced, causing fewer receptors to be produced and immune cells inducing chronic inflammation.
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So it means that cortisol is anti -inflammatory.
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It is true...