Morning urine color may reveal stress reactivity. A study links hydration levels to cortisol surges, suggesting water intake shapes stress resilience.

Is your urine dark in the morning? This could indicate that you’re stressed or not handling potential stress well. According to a recent study, the reason is that you drank too little water the day ...

Dehydration spikes stress hormones. People who drank less than 1.5 liters of water daily showed a 50% increase in cortisol, the body’s main stress hormone. Hydration directly affects your brain. Low ...

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Researchers discovered that people who don’t drink enough water react with sharper cortisol spikes during stressful events, explaining why poor hydration is tied to long-term health risks. Study: ...

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Kidney disease is a serious health problem that often goes unnoticed, especially in older adults. Many of its signs are subtle and can easily be confused with normal aging. But finding kidney disease ...

Dementia warning signs can be detected by a simple urine test, according to new research. The study shows that people with higher levels of the protein albumin in their urine are at increased risk of ...

A simple urine test could reveal your risk of developing dementia decades before symptoms appear, a new study shows. For the study, my colleagues and I tracked 130,000 people and found that protein in ...

Scientists use a metric called “area under the curve” or AUC to assess how well the test performed. An AUC of 1 is a perfect test; an AUC of 0.5 is like a coin toss. In the first group of 243 men, ...