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A new biomarker for chronic stress: Hair Cortisol
August 20, 2013 by NewsBot
Cortisol is a well-known stress hormone and until recently, we have only been able to understand how stressed a person has been for about the past 20 minutes or the past day. Now, with about 100 strands of hair clipped from the scalp, we can get a biological indicator of stress over the past three months...