So cortisol is released in countershock stage?
Yes, but cortisol doesn't work instantaneously like catecholamines. Cortisol release needs be sustained and increasing in order to produce significant effects on the body (e.g. blood glucose effects, fat storage, immune suppression). So while cortisol
starts to be released in the countershock stage, this alone is not enough to cause the changes we see later on in the resistance (and exhaustion) stages. It only reaches the level to produce symptoms later on.
Oh not this again. I say we all go with RESISTANCE because that was the answer last year.
Fair enough. Resistance is when the main effects of cortisol begin, according to all the research and literature on the topic. The body doesn't just get to that point and then BANG, cortisol is suddenly released.
Clearly its been simplified for examination purposes. Hence why people keep reporting they've read different things.