Day-to-day stresses can give you cortisol spikes. We call it a rushing woman’s lifestyle, a term coined by Dr. Libby Weaver in her book Rushing Woman’s Syndrome. That’s because a woman’s body is much more sensitive to swings in stress than a man’s body. We are hormonally designed to procreate, and when stress goes up it signals a massive hormonal shutdown to occur. When a stress response gets triggered, our brain thinks a tiger is chasing us. It will reorganize all our hormones in that moment so that we are neurochemically prepared to run from the tiger. This new configuration of hormones
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