So welcome back. I am in the Alps. I know you can't see the view. But I am take a series of short videos on the effects of stress in our 21st century world. If you haven't watched the first three videos, make sure you go back and have a look. We're basically talking about facts.

Well, actually, we're talking about the difference between the sexes. So this is video number four in the series, and today we're going to talk about the relationship between the stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline, and the female hormones, progesterone and estrogen and particularly estrogen. So when you are in a stressful position, so whether that's a perceived or I'm perceived, that's a whole new video, your stress hormones are raised. We've already discovered in one of the earlier videos why we as women Unable to kind of disseminate and get rid of that stress and have a look and go back and see what that's all about. So assuming that you understand that your stress hormones are likely to be higher in your bodies than in, in the equivalent of a man's body, what we need to be able to understand is what effect this has. So yesterday we talked about one effect of this raise cortisol level, which is that cortisol and insulin are really best friends, and how that leads to insulin resistance and potentially type two diabetes.

Today, what we're going to look at is the effect of cortisol on estrogen. So when you have these cortisol, this Chi, cortisol and adrenaline in your system, it means it suppresses estrogen in your system. Now, of course, we understand, don't we, the estrogen has such a major part to play in our life as a woman right? From puberty well beyond your postmenopausal years. And so what we're aiming to do is to create this wonderful passage into fertility and then down and outside paling off into postmenopausal. And it should be a very natural, easy progression.

Sadly, for some of us, it's not always that way. But one of the reasons for it being disrupted is the effects of high levels of stress, particularly on our estrogen levels. So if our estrogen levels are suppressed in any way, and that means that testosterone is higher, and this is when we see the imbalances that cause things like infertility, polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis, PMT or pm s. perimenopausal symptoms that are really quite uncomfortable and take over your life. All of those cycles of our lives are affected by the amount of adrenalin and therefore the amount of stress that we are subjected to. So, I hope you've learned something today. And in the next series of videos, we're going to be looking at ways in order to go in ways that we can counteract the stress that we are inevitably all subject to in our 21st century world.

So my name is Dr. toolbar him and I am in the friends out. And so I'll see you on the next video. Remember to like, subscribe, and follow or unshare of course