Tailor your morning routine to your menstrual cycle phases to support hormonal health. Use a gentle alarm instead of a jarring one, skip checking your phone immediately, and start slowly with mindfulness. Sudden stress spikes cortisol, which disrupts insulin and hormone production.
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Yes. And I actually have 4 different morning routines for each phase of my cycle, of course, but consistently my morning routines typically include some kind of mindfulness practice. And I always start my day slow, even if that means it's gotta start slow within a 5-minute period, or it's gotta start slow within an hour or 2-hour period. I always start slow, meaning that first of all, I don't wake up to a cortisol-inducing alarm. I usually, if I have to set an alarm, Then I will do it to some kind of something that's more soothing, like music or chimes, something like that. And then I don't just hop out of bed and I certainly don't hop on my phone and start checking my emails right away because all of that will spike your cortisol and cause cortisol dysregulation, which by the way, cortisol regulation is intimately tied with insulin regulation and hormonal production or production of estrogen and progesterone.