Chronic Stress, Hormones & Healing from the Inside Out
In this episode, Dr. Sonya Jensen and host Dr. Jaclyn Smeaton cover the science of how stress disrupts female hormone health and the emotions women carry that perpetuate that disruption. They discuss the physiological mechanisms of chronic stress and how hormone testing can tell patients their stress story.
This discussion also explores:
- How chronic stress and sustained cortisol production can lead to suppressed progesterone
- The downstream effects of resentment and unexpressed emotion
- How a patient’s emotional history connects to their symptoms
- The cortisol/cortisone ratio and what it can tell practitioners and patients about fatigue, low motivation, anxiety, and burnout
- Using the Cortisol Awakening Response on the DUTCH Plus as a clinical conversation tool
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