Dr. Tabatha BarberI teach women how to fast their way to a faith-filled, hormonally balanced, fabulous life!

Lower Cortisol, Raise Progesterone: My Health Strategy #shorts

9 Jun 2026 · 0 min

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In this short video, Dr. Tabatha Barber explains a key insight from her busy clinical practice: chronic stress and nervous system dysregulation elevate cortisol levels while suppressing progesterone. Since progesterone is essential for conception and maintaining pregnancy, she emphasizes the need to lower cortisol and raise progesterone as a core health strategy for fertility and pregnancy support.

that was one of the early variables that I found. And then stress and chronic nervous system dysregulation was another. So, um, I have a busy practice like you, and my stress was very high. And when stress is high, cortisol is high and progesterone's low. Progesterone means progestation. You've gotta have progesterone to get pregnant and to stay pregnant. So I needed to lower the cortisol and raise the progesterone. That's the short end of it.