Adrenaline

Adrenaline is a neurotransmitter and hormone our bodies release when exposed to a dangerous, exciting, threatening, or stressful situation. Also known as the flight-or-fight hormone, adrenaline encourages blood flow to the brain and muscles, raises blood pressure, and increases sugar levels in your bloodstream, giving us the energy to face or outrun a stressor or threat.

Whether It Can Be Helpful

Although adrenaline increases the chances of surviving danger, having high doses of the hormone puts you at a greater risk for unwanted weight loss, anxiety, heart palpitations, and high blood pressure.

How It Differs from Cortisol

Although adrenaline and cortisol are produced in the adrenal glands during stressful times, the two are different creatures. The former is both a neurotransmitter and hormone, while the former is only a corticosteroid hormone.

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Ieva Kubiliute is a psychologist and a sex and relationships advisor and a freelance writer. She's also a consultant to several health and wellness brands. While Ieva specialises in covering wellness topics ranging from fitness and nutrition, to mental wellbeing, sex and relationships and health conditions, she has written across a diverse range of lifestyle topics, including beauty and travel. Career highlights so far include: luxury spa-hopping in Spain and joining an £18k-a-year London gym. Someone’s got to do it! When she’s not typing away at her desk—or interviewing experts and case studies, Ieva winds down with yoga, a good movie and great skincare (affordable of course, there’s little she doesn’t know about budget beauty). Things that bring her endless joy: digital detoxes, oat milk lattes and long country walks (and sometimes jogs).

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