Sort Your Brain Out: Boost Your Performance, Manage Stress and Achieve More

All Aboard the Stress Express!

Stress is a friend. Without stress, you'd be constantly flummoxed, you'd never get anything done and you'd certainly never manage to rise to the challenges presented by an ever-changing world. Stress, or more precisely the stress hormones, cortisol and DHEA, are the keys to your ability to respond effectively to changes both within your own body and in the outside world. Without the ability to release cortisol and DHEA you would lack the behavioural flexibility that enables you to do every worthwhile thing you have ever done.

Stress, if controlled and harnessed, can provide many benefits but only if you don't let it hang around too long. Cortisol works best for you in short doses but too much cortisol over long ...