About this episode

This episode discusses the impact of cortisol during midlife and offers two breathing techniques to manage stress.

Your stress feels bigger than it used to. Your belly is storing weight differently. And you’re more reactive than you remember being. Nobody told you cortisol was behind all of it. Today we fix that. This episode breaks down the hidden tax of midlife cortisol — what it is, why it hits harder during perimenopause, and how it shows up in two distinct ways: the acute spike and the chronic background rise. Then we get practical with two breathing techniques used by elite performers and backed by ...

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Host: Valerie Mekki

Topics covered

• cortisol
• stress reduction
• breathing techniques
• perimenopause
• midlife health

Keywords

• cortisol
• stress
• breathing techniques
• midlife
• perimenopause
• weight gain
• mental health

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