Dr. Shilpa Sayana explains how hormones work together using a family analogy: the adrenal glands are the wise grandmother, the thyroid is the supporting mom, and the ovaries are the sensitive grandchild. When stress taxes your adrenals, the whole system suffers.
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Is this. Tell me more about that. Yeah. And so you know how I like. And the hormonal cascade is more like the relationships between a family. Think of, like, the adrenal glands, which are like those two tiny glands producing the stress hormone cortisol. That was like the wise grandmother. And then think of the thyroid as a supporting mom, and think of the ovaries as a sensitive grandchild. And the ovaries are going to be sensitive to whatever intragenerational trauma that's happened. So if you've had a ton of stress, anxiety, or inflammation in your life, your adrenal are going to be taxed, and that's going to have an impact on your thyroid, and it's going to have an impact on your adrenals and.