Stress Testing

When you're chronically stressed it shows up in your adrenal hormones, most often as high cortisol and low DHEA. When your adrenals get tired, cortisol levels will fluctuate abonormally, and this can show up in a saliva test or blood spot test taken in the morning and at night. Tired adrenals can cause many symptoms, including fatigue, poor sleep and weight gain. Chronic excessive stress can contribute to heart disease, diabetes and breast cancer. Low DHEA can be a marker of aging and a cause of foggy thinking and low energy.

Yes, I'd like to read the article, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Stress, which will give me details on how stress can cause poor health and high cortisol, and how to heal tired adrenals.

What Your Dr. May Not Tell You About Stress
If you think stress might be affecting your health, you'll want to read this article about how tired adrenal glands can cause poor health and hormone imbalances.

Cortisol Levels, Thyroid Function and Aging
A fascinating interview from the John R. Lee, M.D. Medical Letter with Dr. David Zava, about how cortisol levels affect thyroid function and aging.

Cortisol and the Stress Connection
In this article originally published in the John R. Lee, M.D. Medical Letter, Dr. John Lee and Virginia Hopkins explain how the adrenal hormone cortisol work in the body, and how too much or too little can affect your health.

PMS and Stress
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Melatonin: Hormone of Sleep and More
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PMS and the Stress Connection
Stress can be a direct cause of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), and it can certainly make it worse. Stress creates high cortisol levels, which creates hormone imbalances. Excerpted from What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about PREmenopause by Dr. John Lee and Virginia Hopkins.

Postpartum Depression, Stress and Nutrition
An article by Dr. Dean Raffelock about how stress and poor nutrition can contribute to postpartum depression.

This is Your Brain on Hormones
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What Your Dr May Not Tell You About Iron and Anemia
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What Your Dr. May Not Tell You About Your Thyroid
Millions of people have low thyroid and take supplements such as synthroid for it. This article by Dr. John Lee and Virginia Hopkins will explain how to tell if you have low thyroid, list the symptoms of low thyroid, how to supplement for low thyroid, and how to test for low thyroid.

Saliva Test or Blood Spot - What's Best?
How to choose between a saliva hormone level test and a blood spot hormone level test.

DHEA Supplements and Hormone Levels
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