Excellent suggestions on preventing overtraining and cortisol excesses. I feel overtraining is usually the result of "under-resting".

In particular DHEA and related compounds are the most exciting of what you mentioned it’s my opinion that DHEA and metabolites are some of the strongest cortisol controlling agents I know of because of the PPAR-gamma, uncoupler protein and brown adipose tissue affected. There is some evidence that GABA derivatives are being examined to do the same thing. Very exciting future developments.

I would only add that anyone interested in using dietary supplements to lower cortisol do so only after reading extensively on the subject. You don't want to affect cortisol one way or the other without knowing exactly what you're doing. There is lots of room for error.

Thanks for the hard work on the article.