How stress affects your hormones

Stress and anxiety have a great impact on your health. In fact, they are your body’s version of an inherent state of  "emergency".

This means that during this "emergency" state, your normal body functions like hormone and menstrual cycle regulation get disrupted, as your stress levels increase further and you get a full blown panic attack.

Our stress response is fairly primitive. That is why anxiety and fear feel so very physically intense. This is also why, when the body has any choices regarding what part of the nervous system to fuel, and which hormones to make, it will always consider stress most important. 

When women experience anxiety or high stress, it affects hormone production. 

Menstrual periods are  complex occurrences. One of the main reasons for low progesterone relative to estrogen and the resultant irregular menstrual cycles is STRESS. 

If your body makes too much estrogen and not enough progesterone  the condition is called estrogen dominance. It can manifest as:

☆Irregular periods or long cycles

☆PMS

☆Water retention

☆Acne 

☆Weight gain 

☆Heavy period flow

☆Breast tenderness

☆Uterine fibroids

There are many factors  to be considered when  balancing hormones. Reducing stress and anxiety are very, very important. 

If this resonates with you or you’re having an ah-ha moment reading this, let’s chat about how we can fix this together.

Stay blessed with good health...always!!!