Social media wants you to believe it's an epidemic. Here's what experts think.

Popular videos and social media posts have identified cortisol as the main culprit behind facial puffiness, but many ...

Throughout this process, I consulted various doctors to better understand cortisol and to answer the question: Should we all ...

an excess of cortisol – results in a round, puffy face. “You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,” is a popular refrain in these videos. In posts, users share before and after images ...

But if you've spent any time on TikTok lately, you may be convinced that you have what influencers are calling "cortisol face." Cortisol...what? In a nutshell, the phrase refers to a phenomenon ...

Thousands of posts online have joined the dots and coined the term "cortisol face" - as well as "cortisol body". Here, Jane dives into whether the facial phenomenon is real, and most importantly ...

Social media users just won’t stop talking about how the stress hormone cortisol can cause cheeks and eyelids to swell out of recognition, a condition dubbed “moon face.” “Your face is ...

Cortisol often gets a bad rap for its association with stress… There can be an entire constellation of factors that cause a puffy face, including water retention, allergies or inflammation.

TikTok trends often make you wonder if you've been living under a rock, and the latest craze, "cortisol face," is no different. According to social media influencers, stress isn't just wreaking ...

But if you've spent any time on TikTok lately, you may be convinced that you have what influencers are calling 'cortisol face'. In recent months, TikTok has been flooded with videos claiming ...

According to some of the planet’s foremost medical thinkers (TikTok influencers), these are not simply inevitable consequences of existence; they are signs that you may have so-called “cortisol face”.