Average Salary. Administrative assistants earned a mean annual wage of $33,020 as of May 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The highest-paid 10 percent assistants and secretaries earned as much as $47,670 or more, while the lowest-paid 10 percent earned $20,050 or less.
Cortisol & Adrenal Function. Cortisol is a life sustaining adrenal hormone essential to the maintenance of homeostasis. Called âthe stress hormone,â cortisol influences, regulates or modulates many of the changes that occur in the body in response to stress including, but not limited to: 1  Blood sugar (glucose) levels. 2  Fat, protein and carbohydrate metabolism to maintain blood glucose (gluconeogenesis). 3  Immune responses.
CORT : Cortisol, the main glucocorticoid (representing 75%-90% of the plasma corticoids) plays a central role in glucose metabolism and in the body's response to stress. Cortisol levels are regulated by adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), which is synthesized by the pituitary in response to corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH).