When Chronic Stress Overpowers Your Body's Brake System | Is Your Exhaustion Actually Stress?
A YouTube talk by Aaron Hartman, MD explaining how chronic stress impairs the body's ability to regulate cortisol. Using a car-brake metaphor, the speaker describes that with persistent stress the normal cortisol 'brake' response loses effectiveness, so larger releases of cortisol are required to achieve the same effect — shifting cortisol from protective to potentially harmful.
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