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The Effects of Stress on The Body...

12 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker explains that women's bodies continuously adjust hormonal balance in response to environmental and lifestyle factors such as calorie intake, exercise intensity, and stress levels. Overly restrictive dieting, excessive workouts, or high stress can disrupt the menstrual cycle. The speaker illustrates this with a story about a friend who, after a year of trying to conceive and consulting a reproductive specialist, was advised simply to reduce her stress. She followed the advice, lowered her stress, and became pregnant within a month, highlighting the powerful role of stress reduction in fertility.

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Our bodies are always adapting to our environment. Women's are. Women's are. If we're restrictive too much with our calories, this is why I taught fast like a girl, when to fast and when not to fast. If we're too extreme with our exercise, if we're too extreme with our stress levels, whatever environment we're putting in, our hormones are like navigating that and adapting to that. And your cycle will change based on that. Your cycle will change based off of that. I'll give you a great example. I had a friend who had two kids and was trying to get pregnant with a third. And she waited a year to go to this reproductive specialist who had her fill out, fill out like mounds of paperwork. She goes, after a year of waiting, she sits down with this guy and he says, I'll tell you how you need to get pregnant. You need to stop doing so much. Wow. You need to stop stressing so much. And she was so upset, she left. She's like, I waited a year. I filled out all that paperwork. And that's what he told me? And she goes, and then I decided to try it, and within a month she was pregnant.