152. Is Chronic Stress Disrupting Your Hormones and Fertility?
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Dr. Monica Minjeur discusses how chronic stress affects hormones and fertility.
Send us Fan Mail Everyone has heard that stress impacts fertility. But stress does not just make you feel anxious — it activates a specific hormonal axis that can delay ovulation, shorten your luteal phase, and suppress fertility in measurable, identifiable ways. And most standard fertility workups almost never look for it. In this episode of Cycle Wisdom, Dr. Monica Minjeur goes beyond the vague advice to just relax and explains exactly what chronic stress does to the hormonal cascade — from...
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Host: Dr. Monica Minjeur
Topics covered
- chronic stress
- hormones
- fertility
- ovulation
- luteal phase
- health
Keywords
- stress
- fertility
- hormonal axis
- ovulation delay
- luteal phase
- health impact
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