if there are substantial amounts of glucocorticoids in the circulation but little CRH, you have probably started the recovery period. That’s exactly when digestion starts up again and your body can begin to replenish those stores of energy consumed in that mad dash across the savanna. Appetite is stimulated. In chapter 4, we saw how glucocorticoids help to empty out the bank account of stored energy during a stressor. In this case, glucocorticoids would not so much serve as the mediator of the stress-response, but as the means of recovering from the stress-response.
