We hear a lot about cortisol, the “stress hormone,” on social media lately. Cortisol has develop into a buzz phrase within the well being and health trade—a part of a cautionary story used to warn girls 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 dear dietary supplements and restrictive diets—it may be onerous to separate truth from fiction.
That’s why we introduced in the knowledgeable, Dr. Carla DiGirolamo—a Board Certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist, Reproductive Endocrinologist, Menopause Society Certified Practitioner, and health fanatic (to not point out a CrossFit coach and authorized diet coach). She’s spent her profession serving to energetic girls—from puberty to menopause—optimize their psychological and bodily efficiency. Yep, she’s principally a rockstar in the case of understanding hormones and training high-performing girls.
This week’s episode of The Fit Bottomed Girls 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. Together, Dr. Carla and I deal with the dialog all of us want to listen to about cortisol, girls’s well being, and the reality behind these viral hormone claims.
Seriously, this week’s episode is one for the books.
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 fully 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 well higher, and keep robust as you age.
Real Talk: Recovery Matters
Recovery isn’t only a checkbox after a exercise—it’s the place enchancment truly occurs. Whether it’s dialing in your diet, prioritizing sleep, or lastly studying to like your cool-down routine, restoration helps you keep resilient and prepared on 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 methods 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 Learn 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. However, it’s all about returning your stress response system to baseline after activation.
- Stop worrying about “spiking your cortisol.” You want cortisol to be attentive to exterior stressors with the intention to survive. Instead, begin specializing in returning your stress response system to baseline recurrently via confirmed down-regulation methods like meditation, leisure walks, mild or stress-free yoga.
- Burnout isn’t brought on by cortisol—it’s brought on by continual stress. Dr. Carla shares methods to deal with what’s triggering your elevated stress moderately than blaming cortisol itself.
- Why getting older modifications the sport. Recovery will get trickier as girls age as a consequence of modifications in resilience and hormonal shifts, however correct restoration methods can preserve you thriving. Strength coaching, diet, and aware restoration are extra necessary than ever.
- The limits of hormone testing. Single snapshots from blood exams might be deceptive! Dr. Carla explains why you should give attention to the larger image of your well being.
- Under-fueling = underperforming. Under-eating can truly be an enormous reason for persistent inside stress and elevated cortisol ranges. Nutrition fuels your physique for exercises and restoration.
About Dr. Carla DiGirolamo
Dr. Carla DiGirolamo is a double Board-Certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist and Reproductive Endocrinologist specializing in caring for energetic and high-performing girls from puberty via menopause. Dr. Carla accomplished her residency coaching in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brown University Medical School/Women and Infants’ Hospital and Reproductive Endocrinology fellowship coaching on the Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Carla has 20 years of expertise as a fertility specialist and extra just lately as a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner. She can be an endocrine advisor for Wild Health and Eternal Life. She has been featured in Boston Magazine’s Top 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 modifications of menopause, hormone remedy, and optimizing bodily efficiency in elite and avid leisure feminine athletes. Dr Carla can be the creator of a number of programs together with the “Menopause Fitness Specialist” course with MedFit Classroom, and the “Strong” 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 Level 1 Trainer and Certified Nutrition Coach. As a pioneer in Women’s Performance Endocrinology, she focuses on optimizing psychological and bodily efficiency in girls in high-performance professions and feminine athletes of all ages.
Dr. Carla has a weblog via Substack known as “Athletic Aging”. https://www.athleticaging.blog/ and her second publication “Performance Edge” https://www.performanceedge.blog/ launched in February 2023
Follow Dr. Carla
Website: https://www.drcarlad.com/
Facebook: 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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Do you suppose cortisol is your enemy? Think once more. –Alison