At CrossFit Generation we talk about the 4 key factors to the big health picture. Nutrition, exercise, stress and sleep. Today we’ll focus on stress. Stress produces cortisol which is a normal and healthy process of the body. It becomes unhealthy when cortisol levels don’t taper off throughout the day and stay at chronically high levels. Here are a few articles from a blog I like to read regarding stress and the effects it has on the body. One is a good general introduction article on managing stress (click here) and one focuses an in depth look at specifically women and cortisol (click here).