Jaiwant Rangi, MD, FACEEndocrinologist | Founder, Lower The Dose® | Speaker

Stress Survival: The Cortisol Connection

15 May 2026 · 1 min

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Dr. Jaiwant Rangi explains how chronic stress keeps your HPA axis overactive, flooding your body with cortisol and adrenaline. This raises blood pressure, heart rate, and blood sugar, trapping you in survival mode. Telling yourself to shake it off doesn't work; chronic stress needs real management.

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Whenever we are under threat or whenever we feel suddenly, you know, fight or flight. But if you're chronically always stressed out, then that axis of hypothalamic-pituitary axis is under chronic stress. You have too much cortisol and adrenaline running all the time. So you can expect the blood pressure, the heart rate, and the blood sugars always to be in imbalance, and that becomes very dysfunctional. This is our survival mode. You know, a lot of times people say that, you know what, shake it off. You can get, you know, take care of your stress.