Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how stress keeps your body in fight-or-flight mode, raising cortisol. Shifting to rest-and-digest mode through nervous system regulation reduces it. Her Healthy Her program treats hormone imbalance by addressing inflammation and the whole person, not just prescribing hormones.
It really is about how can I navigate the stress through my day? Because it's not going to go away magically, right? But there are ways to pull yourself out of the sympathetic nervous system, which drives that cortisol production into the parasympathetic, which decreases that cortisol production. So that is a huge part of what we teach and focus on in Healthy Her is nervous system regulation. Hormone balance, like systemic healing of— and decrease of inflammation. Like, we just do not only prescribe hormones or heal one thing. I just— God made it clear that we have to take care of the woman as a whole.
