Dr. Amy Nett: Well, that’s a great question. I wish I knew why labs weren’t routinely providing a test kit for the cortisol awakening response. Because as we looked at in the content, I think it was two or three weeks ago, I think we were talking about the cortisol awakening response.
There’s a lot of research behind it. I mean, that’s a really useful measure. And again the cortisol awakening response is that rise we see of cortisol after waking, generally around like 20 to 30 minutes after waking. And in the presentation, Chris mentioned that his recommendations if you wanted to do that hack, his recommendations for obtaining the cortisol awakening response includes samples taken for samples. So you take it upon wakening, and 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and 60 minutes after wakening. So it would be those four measurements. And then yes there might be some rise earlier on, but I don’t think the rise is going to be so brief that you would need to be taking samples every five to 10 minutes.
And I could see an argument for wanting to do something before a full 30 minutes after. Because again the cortisol might start increasing around maybe 20 minutes for some people. So you could do a 20, 25 minute. But again, you’re looking at the pattern of cortisol. So it’s going to start rising, and you’re going to see it rising. It’s going to continue to go up a little bit more. I don’t think you’re going to get too rapid of a peak where you’re really going to miss useful data. So no, I think you can do it using a test kit as we talked about. So where you have something like the dried urine test where you have five collection samples or even for saliva, the saliva test kits. You can normally get five samples. You can use those for sample collections and do it waking and then maybe 25, 30 minutes, 45, 60 minutes, I think you’ll get a reliable response without having to track so often. But you’re right, I wish labs would just provide the kits for us and make it a little bit more straightforward.