FF5 - Your hormones hear stress before you do.

About this episode

Heather Allmendinger discusses how hormones detect stress before conscious awareness.

Your hormones are always listening. In this Flow Fact Friday, Heather Allmendinger — Queen of Flow and host of the Embracing Flow™ Podcast — shares how your hormones sense stress before you consciously do. Learn how cortisol, thyroid, and reproductive hormones communicate under pressure and what your cycle is really telling you.

People in this episode

Host: Heather Allmendinger

Topics covered

• hormones
• stress
• cortisol
• thyroid
• reproductive hormones
• health
• cycle

Keywords

• hormones
• stress
• cortisol
• thyroid
• reproductive hormones
• health
• cycle

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