The Truth About Thyroid, Adrenals, and Hormonal Imbalance

About this episode

This episode discusses the interconnectedness of thyroid, adrenal health, and hormonal imbalances in midlife women.

Feeling tired, wired, foggy, puffy, anxious, or just not like yourself in midlife? Your thyroid, adrenals, and hormones may all be part of the bigger picture. In this Tea & Truth episode, we're putting the pieces together and talking about how thyroid function, cortisol, stress, blood sugar, sleep, and menopause hormone changes can overlap — and why your symptoms deserve a deeper conversation, not dismissal. So many women in midlife are told their labs look "normal," yet they still feel exhausted, foggy, anxious, inflamed, stuck with weight changes, or completely unlike themselves. In this episode of Tea & Truth: Honest Talk for Women in Midlife , we're talking about the truth about thyroid, adrenals, and hormonal imbalance — and why these systems are so deeply connected. Your thyroid influences energy, metabolism, temperature, digestion, mood, and more. Your adrenal glands help regulate your stress response through hormones such as cortisol. And during perimenopause and menopause, shifting estrogen and progesterone can make stress, sleep disruption, blood sugar swings, and fatigue feel even more intense. This episode is a practical, honest, and encouraging look at the midlife…

People in this episode

Host: Lynne Wadsworth

Topics covered

• thyroid function
• adrenal health
• hormonal imbalance
• midlife symptoms
• stress management
• menopause

Keywords

• thyroid
• adrenals
• hormones
• midlife
• fatigue
• stress
• menopause
• blood sugar
• cortisol

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tea & Truth, midlife

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