We hear a lot about cortisol, the “stress hormone,” on social media today. Cortisol has grow to be a buzz phrase within the well being and health business—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 laborious to separate reality 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 energetic ladies—from puberty to menopause—optimize their psychological and bodily efficiency. Yep, she’s principally a rockstar on the subject of 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 reducing via the noise, debunking myths, and exploring how cortisol performs a vital function in your well being, health, and total resilience. Collectively, Dr. Carla and I sort out the dialog all of us want to listen to about cortisol, ladies’s well being, and the reality behind these viral hormone claims.
Severely, 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 concentrate on hormones, stress, and well being. (Spoiler alert: it’s not all about cortisol!) She additionally dives into sensible methods to dial down stress, get better higher, and keep robust 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 need to know easy methods to be stronger (and more healthy) as you age.
✅ You’re interested in how hormones impression your stress and efficiency.
Tune in now to listen to Dr. Carla’s unbelievable insights and sensible recommendation!
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What You’ll Be taught in This Episode:
- Cortisol isn’t the villain—it’s important for all times and health. It’s the hormone that helps you sort out challenges, whether or not that’s a troublesome 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 aware of outdoors stressors in an effort to survive. As a substitute, begin specializing in returning your stress response system to baseline often via confirmed down-regulation methods like meditation, leisure walks, mild or enjoyable yoga.
- Burnout isn’t brought on by cortisol—it’s brought on by persistent stress. Dr. Carla shares easy methods to handle what’s triggering your elevated stress moderately than blaming cortisol itself.
- Why getting old adjustments the sport. Restoration will get trickier as ladies age because of adjustments in resilience and hormonal shifts, however correct restoration methods can hold you thriving. Power coaching, diet, and aware restoration are extra essential than ever.
- The boundaries of hormone testing. Single snapshots from blood exams might be deceptive! Dr. Carla explains why you want to concentrate on the larger image of your well being.
- Beneath-fueling = underperforming. Beneath-eating can truly be a giant explanation for persistent inside stress and elevated cortisol ranges. Diet 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 energetic and high-performing ladies from puberty via menopause. Dr. Carla accomplished her residency coaching in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brown College Medical Faculty/Girls and Infants’ Hospital and Reproductive Endocrinology fellowship coaching on the Massachusetts Common Hospital at Harvard Medical Faculty.
Dr. Carla has 20 years of expertise as a fertility specialist and extra not too long ago 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 High Medical doctors 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 varied occasions discussing the physiology of the hormonal adjustments of menopause, hormone remedy, and optimizing bodily efficiency in elite and avid leisure feminine athletes. Dr Carla can also be the creator 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 business her total 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 Diet Coach. As a pioneer in Girls’s Efficiency Endocrinology, she focuses on optimizing psychological and bodily efficiency in ladies in high-performance professions and feminine athletes of all ages.
Dr. Carla has a weblog via Substack known as “Athletic Ageing”. https://www.athleticaging.blog/ and her second publication “Efficiency Edge” https://www.performanceedge.blog/ launched in February 2023
Observe Dr. Carla
Web site: https://www.drcarlad.com/
Fb: https://www.facebook.com/carla.digirolamo.14
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr_carla_d/
Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-digirolamo-0109b8103/
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