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I Love Being Sober

I Love Being Sober

Restoring Your Vitality With The Cortisol Cure

Oct 20, 2026 · 52m

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Most of us have heard that cortisol is the stress hormone and the goal is to lower it. Dr. Erin Kinney says that is backwards. Cortisol is your body’s energy currency. It gets you out of bed, handles stress, and helps your body heal. The real problem is running out. At 22, Erin was a marathon runner who gained thirty pounds almost overnight, couldn’t get out of bed, and cried all the time. Labs showed her cortisol was nearly nonexistent. That sent her to naturopathic medicine and, years later, to her Cortisol Bank Account framework: everything you do is a withdrawal, rest is a deposit, and healing only happens when you earn more than you spend. Recorded live in front of clients and staff at…