^This is my cat, Goku. He is irrelevant to the discussion except as an example of the opposite of excess cortisol – this chunky fluffball has not had a day of stress in his life. Jealous.
Anyway, I digress.
The majority of women that I talk to are exhausted. The last few years especially have taken a toll on all of us, and it’s left alot of us feeling depleted, under stress and just… tired. The impact of the stress and trauma that we’ve been under has untold effects on a womans body and hormonal balance due to how we create cortisol.
Cortisol production is generally supposed to be a quick survival burst – a small amount of stress hormone that is producted through the adrenals. This enables us to ‘run away from the tiger’, so to speak. However, due to us being under constant and unending stress and trauma, the body keeps creating cortisol, and needs to borrow building blocks from other hormones to do so. In the moment of survival, you’re not looking to reproduce, so your body very cleverly borrows the building blocks of progesterone in order to create cortisol.
