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Dr. Izabella Wentz: Cortisol Myths, Fasting For HPA Axis Health, Adrenal Fatigue Gaslighting + Stress Hormone Supplements

The Art of Being Well

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The Role of Hormones in Stress

There is something known as adrenaline dominance too when we're in that HPA access depletion. And there's this beautiful hormone cascade and I have a, like I wish I had a blackboard, but I could draw it. All of our hormones are made from cholesterol and they kind of get priorities of different hormones, get shifted in. So one hormone is always trying to like when cortisol is low, other hormones will try to come up and compensate even thyroid hormones too.

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