Stress alters metabolic hormone with health consequences, study shows

A long-studied metabolic hormone, FGF21, also acts as a stress hormone—a discovery that helps explain how psychological stress causes metabolic dysregulation and drives physical disease, according to a new study from researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and the Butler Columbia Aging Center. The findings are published in Nature Metabolism.

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