What Chronic Stress Is Really Doing to Women's Bodies

About this episode

This episode discusses the impact of chronic stress on women's bodies with Dr. Aviva Romm, exploring deeper health issues beyond busy lifestyles.

What if the chronic exhaustion, hormonal imbalance, brain fog, and burnout you've been living with aren't just the cost of a busy life — but your body's signal that something deeper needs attention? In this episode of Mighty as a Mother, we sit down with Dr. Aviva Romm — Yale-trained physician, board-certified family medicine doctor, midwife, herbalist, NYT bestselling author, and one of the most trusted voices in women's integrative health and hormonal wellness — for a conversation that is equal parts science and permission slip. Dr. Aviva Romm has spent over three decades at the intersection of modern medicine, functional medicine, and women's hormone health — her own lived experience included. She is the author of The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution and Hormone Intelligence , two of the most widely read books on women's hormonal health, cortisol, adrenal function, and stress-related illness. Dr. Romm brings something genuinely rare to this conversation: a clinician who asks better questions, looks earlier at the root causes of women's health issues, and never reduces cortisol imbalance, burnout, or hormonal disruption to a quick fix or a trending protocol. This episode was born out…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jenn Cohen, Laura Demuth

Guest: Dr. Aviva Romm

Topics covered

• chronic stress
• women's health
• hormonal imbalance
• burnout
• caregiving
• functional medicine

Keywords

• chronic exhaustion
• brain fog
• hormonal health
• adrenal function
• stress-related illness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yale

Books & works: The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution, Hormone Intelligence

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