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Episode 54 - The Connection Between Your Menstrual Cycle, Stress, Safety, and Cellular Repair
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🐚 Topics covered
- Understanding adrenal physiology and the HPA axis (Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal axis)
- The stress response cascade: what happens in your body during stress
- How cortisol and adrenaline work and their different roles in stress response
- The connection between stress hormones and blood sugar regulation
- How modern lifestyle has created chronic stress patterns our bodies weren't designed for
- The impact of the menstrual cycle on stress resilience (estrogen's role in cortisol awakening response)
- Understanding allostatic load and the cumulative effect of chronic stress
- Root-level stress repair versus surface-level "stress management"
About the Host
I’m Iris Josephina—functional hormone specialist, orthomolecular hormone coach, and entrepreneur. Through Cycle Seeds and The Inner Rhythms Podcast, I support people in reconnecting with their cyclical nature, deepening body literacy, and reclaiming hormonal harmony from a place of sovereignty and embodied knowledge. Most people know me from Instagram, where I share stories, tools, and inspiration on cyclical living, menstrual cycles, fertility, hormones and more.
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Chapters
1. Episode 54 - The Connection Between Your Menstrual Cycle, Stress, Safety, and Cellular Repair (00:00:00)
2. Adrenal gland anatomy and function (00:02:49)
3. The HPA axis explained (00:03:35)
4. Seven-step stress response cascade (00:07:38)
5. Adrenaline vs cortisol functions (00:10:26)
6. Blood sugar's role in stress response (00:12:59)
7. Modern lifestyle vs ancestral stress patterns (00:15:14)
8. Cortisol's circadian rhythm (00:17:21)
9. Estrogen's influence on stress resilience (00:19:15)
10. Allostatic load concept (00:23:10)
11. Stages of HPA axis dysfunction (00:27:14)
12. Second wind phenomenon and sleep disruption (00:30:10)
13. Categories of stressors (00:32:54)
14. Problem with "managing" vs repairing stress (00:37:15)
15. "Your body cannot heal if it doesn't feel safe" (00:41:21)
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