"Why did women prefer the odors of men who had high cortisol level?"

Visionary - sorry to take so long to get back to you - been busy and didn’t want to get back to you until I’d dug out my cortisol results. (sorry to anyone else reading who might find these results boring :smiley:):

Adrenal strss profile (age 40-49)
Sample 1 12.24 (norm. 12-22)
Sample 2 7.01 (norm. 4-8)
Sample 3 5.49 (norm. 3-7)
Sample 4 4.05 (norm. 1-3)
Night time sample elevated but S2&3 also on high side, with S1 very low.

DHEA level:
Sample 1 1.85 (norm. 0.2-0.6)
Sample 2 2.13 (norm. 0.2-0.6)
DHEA: Cortisol Ratio = 6.4

My adrenal stress type: Elevated DHEA response.

The results were from a saliva test sent to a lab for results & report. Ironically I did the test on a day off from work, so actually felt less stressed than normal. :smiley:

Since then I’ve radically changed my diet and have de-stressed considerably, but ahven’t been back fro another adrenal test (£195 a go!) I’ve also been taking some minerals to lower my cortisol.

And I have to say that I find that some Androtics products mellow me out quite nicely (IS & Instant Openness, particualrly). But I’m not sure whether they lower my cortisol levels :roll_eyes:

Precisely. I’m not ugly or anything, pretty good looking for a brown skinned guy, but I’ve been able to get IOIs from pretty women of all races (except the missus :smiley:) usually alot younger than me, but I look younger than my age (a surprise with high cortisol levels? - incidentally in parallel to my increasing cortisol levels with long term stress at work and at home.

As the stress increased so did my outward ‘charm’ as I used to put it. During that time I noticed that I did seem to get more IOIs, without any pheromones, so perhaps there was some kind of natural production of something? (Happy to hear views on that)

When I started using Pherlure I noticed an increase in IOIs. I no longer use IOIs but do find that AMMO just doesn;t seem to work for me in any combination or amount. Neither did Scent of Eros (James - hence my question in a different post about OD ins on Scent of Eros with a small amount).

All told, I still can only tolerate pretty small doses of whatever I use before I get the wrong sort of reaction - invisibility, marginalised, or touch of hostility.

All of that has led me to believe that perhaps my natural production of something is already above normal levels so I don’t need much in the way of mones or move to neg. reactions quicker than lost.

Does that make sense?

Either way, I’m still going to use these products because I do liek the results I get when I get things right. It just means I have to be more delicate in how I balance my mixes (I’m even considering using half a spray of IFM! so as to minimise ‘the blues’)