We hear a lot about cortisol, the “stress hormone,” on social media today. Cortisol has change into a buzz phrase within the well being and health trade—a part of a cautionary story used to warn ladies away from intense bouts of train they age.
From fear-mongering posts about the way it’s ruining your well being to questionable recommendation from “hormone coaches” promoting expensive dietary supplements and restrictive diets—it may be exhausting to separate truth from fiction.
That’s why we introduced in the skilled, Dr. Carla DiGirolamo—a Board Licensed Obstetrician/Gynecologist, Reproductive Endocrinologist, Menopause Society Licensed Practitioner, and health fanatic (to not point out a CrossFit coach and authorized diet coach). She’s spent her profession serving to lively ladies—from puberty to menopause—optimize their psychological and bodily efficiency. Yep, she’s mainly a rockstar in relation to understanding hormones and training high-performing ladies.
This week’s episode of The Match Bottomed Women Podcast is all about cortisol—the misunderstood “stress hormone” everybody likes to hate. We’re slicing by way of the noise, debunking myths, and exploring how cortisol performs a important position in your well being, health, and general resilience. Collectively, Dr. Carla and I deal with the dialog all of us want to listen to about cortisol, ladies’s well being, and the reality behind these viral hormone claims.
Significantly, this week’s episode is one for the books.
Right here’s why we’re obsessive about this episode:
Dr. Carla’s analogy of cortisol because the trombone in a a lot bigger orchestra will utterly change the way in which you consider hormones, stress, and well being. (Spoiler alert: it’s not all about cortisol!) She additionally dives into sensible methods to dial down stress, recuperate higher, and keep sturdy as you age.
Actual Discuss: Restoration Issues
Restoration isn’t only a checkbox after a exercise—it’s the place enchancment truly occurs. Whether or not it’s dialing in your diet, prioritizing sleep, or lastly studying to like your cool-down routine, restoration helps you keep resilient and prepared to your subsequent problem.
Don’t skip this one if…
✅ You’ve been freaked out by cortisol content material on social media.
✅ You wish to know the right way to be stronger (and more healthy) as you age.
✅ You’re interested in how hormones affect your stress and efficiency.
Tune in now to listen to Dr. Carla’s unimaginable insights and sensible recommendation!
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What You’ll Study in This Episode:
- Cortisol isn’t the villain—it’s important for all times and health. It’s the hormone that helps you deal with challenges, whether or not that’s a tricky exercise or life stress. Nevertheless, it’s all about returning your stress response system to baseline after activation.
- Cease worrying about “spiking your cortisol.” You want cortisol to be attentive to exterior stressors with a purpose to survive. As an alternative, begin specializing in returning your stress response system to baseline usually by way of confirmed down-regulation methods like meditation, leisure walks, mild or enjoyable yoga.
- Burnout isn’t brought on by cortisol—it’s brought on by power stress. Dr. Carla shares the right way to deal with what’s triggering your elevated stress slightly than blaming cortisol itself.
- Why growing old modifications the sport. Restoration will get trickier as ladies age attributable to modifications in resilience and hormonal shifts, however correct restoration methods can maintain you thriving. Power coaching, diet, and conscious restoration are extra necessary than ever.
- The bounds of hormone testing. Single snapshots from blood checks may be deceptive! Dr. Carla explains why you might want to deal with the larger image of your well being.
- Underneath-fueling = underperforming. Underneath-eating can truly be a giant reason for persistent inside stress and elevated cortisol ranges. Vitamin fuels your physique for exercises and restoration.
About Dr. Carla DiGirolamo
Dr. Carla DiGirolamo is a double Board-Licensed Obstetrician/Gynecologist and Reproductive Endocrinologist specializing in caring for lively and high-performing ladies from puberty by way of menopause. Dr. Carla accomplished her residency coaching in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brown College Medical College/Ladies and Infants’ Hospital and Reproductive Endocrinology fellowship coaching on the Massachusetts Basic Hospital at Harvard Medical College.
Dr. Carla has 20 years of expertise as a fertility specialist and extra just lately as a Menopause Society Licensed Practitioner. She can also be an endocrine marketing consultant for Wild Well being and Everlasting Life. She has been featured in Boston Journal’s Prime Docs within the Boston space for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.
Dr. Carla has been featured in a number of podcasts and speakerships at numerous occasions discussing the physiology of the hormonal modifications of menopause, hormone remedy, and optimizing bodily efficiency in elite and avid leisure feminine athletes. Dr Carla can also be the writer of a number of programs together with the “Menopause Health Specialist” course with MedFit Classroom, and the “Robust” and” Navigate Menopause” programs with Feisty Media.
Dr. Carla has been within the health trade her whole life as a leisure athlete and for greater than a decade as a health skilled with credentials as a CrossFit Stage 1 Coach and Licensed Vitamin Coach. As a pioneer in Ladies’s Efficiency Endocrinology, she makes a speciality of optimizing psychological and bodily efficiency in ladies in high-performance professions and feminine athletes of all ages.
Dr. Carla has a weblog by way of Substack known as “Athletic Getting old”. https://www.athleticaging.weblog/ and her second publication “Efficiency Edge” https://www.performanceedge.weblog/ launched in February 2023
Comply with Dr. Carla
Web site: https://www.drcarlad.com/
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Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-digirolamo-0109b8103/
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