Dr. Betty MurrayHelping Women Navigate Menopause | Speaker, Author, and Advocate for Women's Health Over 40

How Chronic Stress Disrupts Your Hormones

26 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Dr. Betty Murray explains how chronic stress suppresses thyroid and ovarian hormones while disrupting adrenal function and insulin regulation. The body's stress-blunted receptors can't respond properly, trapping you in feedback loops that keep your endocrine system dysregulated.

Stress suppresses thyroid. Stress suppresses ovarian output. Stress will alter adrenal response, receptor sensitivity, insulin control. And then all of those have a feedback loop on each other that ultimately signals back to the hypothalamus and pituitary that things aren't working right, but now they can't have the right response because their receptors are being blunted by the chronic stress activation.