Stressed? Burnt out? 🙋‍♀️

Here's how it affects your hormonal balance and what you can do about it.

The effect stress has on our hormonal balance and overall health is profound. When in a stressful situation, aka “fight or flight” mode, the body releases a hormone I’m sure you’ve all heard about: cortisol. When under intense or prolonged stress our cortisol levels are elevated.

Are you experiencing:

• 😔 Weight gain or finding it hard to lose weight?

• 🩸Irregular periods or infertility?

• 💩 Digestive issues?

• 🤯 Trouble sleeping?

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Elevated cortisol negatively impacts our hormonal balance by:

• 🎢 Disrupting our blood sugar (which we learned the importance of regulating in the first edition of this newsletter!)

• ❌ Shutting down our reproductive system (because conceiving would not be advantageous)

• 😩 Draining the body of essential vitamins and minerals and disrupting gut bacteria

Not to mention it slows our metabolism 🐌 in an effort to conserve energy (hence the weight gain or weight loss resistance)!

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What you can do about it…