NFPT Live: Making Connections Between Exercise Cortisol and Stress – Ep 21

Posted August 10th, 2025

by Beverly

Hosford

In this episode we talked about:

What is cortisol?
Why we need cortisol.
Why too much cortisol isn’t good.
What elevates cortisol.

Some of our viewers said:

NFPT Live Episode #21

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