There is always more to say & things are often more complicated than we like. Especially with butter. Butter has received a bad rap for the past 50 or so years, having been replaced by margarine, trans fats, and oils in the hopes of saving the USA of the #1 killer, heart disease. Yet, even after all of that effort, heart disease is still a top killer and now we also have higher rates of diabetes, thyroid disease, and cancer.

Elevated cortisol means there is chronic overstimulation of stress on the body.

The stress could be from the food you eat (sugar), emotional stress, or immune stressors or triggers like…