My age is 24. Height 6 ft. Weight 76 kg. My question is that does high cortisol cause increase in testosterone?
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Hello- Think of testosterone and cortisol as being exact opposites- in the context of muscle building if T is the accelerator of muscle mass, C is most definitely the brake. They have very much an antagonistic relationship. T increase allows us to decrease body fat, build muscle and keep a high libido. Excess levels of cortisol, however, do the opposite – it decreases muscle mass (via a process called gluconeogenesis), increases fat mass around the middle [2], suppresses your immune system, and decreases sexual appetite.
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testosterone and cortisol are both made from pregnenolone (which the body synthesizes from cholesterol), when cortisol is elevated, it basically “robs” the raw building material of T into making a stress hormone, rather than male sex hormone.
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