Your Cortisol Is Supposed to Be High In the Morning. Here Is What Happens When It Is Not.
The rhythm your body needs, and what it looks like when stress and sleep debt erase it.
You wake up before the day has done anything to you yet, and you’re already tired.
Not sleepy-tired. Depleted-tired. Like you worked a shift overnight instead of sleeping through one.
You’ve been doing the things. Protein at breakfast. Water before coffee. Your dose on schedule. Steps in every day this week. And still, mornings feel like wading through wet sand, and by nine at night your brain flips a switch and suddenly you’re wide awake, replaying a conversation from three weeks ago, wired and exhausted at the exact same time.
That’s not a discipline problem. That’s not your GLP-1 failing you. That’s a hormone running the opposite pattern of what it’s built to run, and once you see the pattern, a lot of things about your last six months start making a different kind of sense.
the curve your body is supposed to follow
Cortisol gets treated like the villain in every wellness post you’ve ever scrolled past. It’s not. Cortisol is the hormone that’s supposed to wake you up.
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