Overcoming Adrenal Fatigue with Dr. Izabella Wentz - How Chronic Stress Disrupts Your Natural Hormonal Balance

<p dir="ltr">Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, we welcome Dr. Izabella Wentz to discuss her new book,  “Adrenal Transformational Protocol”.  After her diagnosis with Hashimoto’s disease, she created an easy path to recover from survival mode. As a nursing mother, she could not take hormone therapy, so she found a natural solution that addressed the chronic stress that caused her adrenal fatigue. In this episode, she shares her journey and how you can step into a new season of peace, joy, and hormonal balance. </p> <p dir="ltr">Dr. Wentz teaches you how to identify the danger signals in your life that keep you in survival mode. Chronic stress can alter your mood in ways that make life seem more stressful than it is. She shares how you can add adaptogens to your daily routine to bolster your resilience to stress. Stress can come in physical and emotional forms. Dr. Wentz details how your workout routine could be straining your body and how you can adjust to exercises that coalesce with your body's stress tolerance. </p> <p dir="ltr">Chronic stress is at the root of hormonal imbalance. Dr. Wentz has identified fourteen safety signals that will alleviate chronic stress. Your body cannot distinguish between a real threat, and a perceived threat, so everything you consume influences your physiology. We discuss how your physiology affects your emotional stability, relationships, and mood. Join us as we pave a new path out of survival mode. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>KEY TAKEAWAYS</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">[5:00] Overcoming Adrenal Fatigue </p> <p dir="ltr">[7:00] Empowering with education </p> <p dir="ltr">[10:00] Shifting out of survival mode </p> <p dir="ltr">[12:00] Danger and safety signals </p> <p dir="ltr">[17:00] Catabolic exercises and chronic stress</p> <p dir="ltr">[19:00] Diet for emotional stability </p> <p dir="ltr">[23:00] Finding the right DHEA dose </p> <p dir="ltr">[26:00] Adrenal Transformational Protocol </p> <p dir="ltr">[31:00] The physiology of disconnect </p> <p><strong><br