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New Simple Device Could Measure Stress Hormone Levels From Your Earwax – IFLScience

A new sampling method developed by researchers from University College London may be able to test your stress levels from just your earwax. The technology

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A new sampling method developed by researchers from University College London may be able to test your stress levels from just your earwax. The technology is cheap, easy-to-use, and rapidly tests levels of the stress hormone cortisol within the wax. The results were published in the journal Heliyon.
Cortisol sampling is notoriously difficult, as levels of the hormone can fluctuate, so a sample might not be an accurate reflection of a persons chronic cortisol levels. Moreover, sampling methods themselves…

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