HH573: Encore Presentation- Stress: Affects Fertility
Today, I want to share how it impacts our fertility.
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Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
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Transcript
Welcome back to another episode of health hacks
Melissa Deally:as I continue my theme of talking about stress and how it
Melissa Deally:impacts our health and longevity, and today, I want to
Melissa Deally:share how it impacts our fertility. Stress can interfere
Melissa Deally:with our reproductive hormones, because when the body is in the
Melissa Deally:stress state. It is producing cortisol and adrenaline in order
Melissa Deally:to get us to safety, and we need energy to be able to fight or
Melissa Deally:flee, and the body is setting us up to be able to do all of that.
Melissa Deally:And in order to have that kind of energy, it has to shut down
Melissa Deally:other systems in the body in order to give you what you need
Melissa Deally:in the moment. And so it will shut down your immune system. It
Melissa Deally:will shut down your digestive system. You can't be in, you
Melissa Deally:can't be in your rest and digest system at the same time that
Melissa Deally:you're in your fight or flight system. And it will also shut
Melissa Deally:down procreation, because you're not going to stop and make a
Melissa Deally:baby when you're trying to get to safety, and when we are in
Melissa Deally:this fight or flight state, it is supposed to be short lived.
Melissa Deally:And then when we get to safety, now we can get back into our
Melissa Deally:rest and digest system. And that's where we really want to
Melissa Deally:spend most of our lives, is in that calm, parasympathetic
Melissa Deally:nervous system. And yet, in today's world, we're not we're
Melissa Deally:spending most of our lives in our sympathetic nervous system.
Melissa Deally:And so over the course of time, if the body's always having to
Melissa Deally:produce cortisol and adrenaline, it has to be able to do this.
Melissa Deally:It's doing it at the expense of other things. And so it is
Melissa Deally:producing these at the expense of producing progesterone. And
Melissa Deally:without progesterone, we can't actually hold on to a pregnancy
Melissa Deally:because we need that progesterone in order to create
Melissa Deally:the lining of the womb. And as a result, our fertility and our
Melissa Deally:ability to hold a pregnancy is negatively impacted because of
Melissa Deally:the stress that we are under. And so if that's you, look at
Melissa Deally:the stress in your life and look at what you can be doing in
Melissa Deally:order to balance that out. There are some stresses. There's that
Melissa Deally:you can't do anything about, however, there are other
Melissa Deally:stresses that you can control, and steps you can take to
Melissa Deally:mitigate them. And one beautiful way to really calm the nervous
Melissa Deally:system is to spend time in nature, taking walks in a local
Melissa Deally:park, enjoying outdoor activities to rejuvenate your
Melissa Deally:mind and body, planning to get out for hikes close to home on
Melissa Deally:the weekends, just a little bit of time in nature where you can
Melissa Deally:go for a walk, sit on a bench, close your eyes, gaze Up to the
Melissa Deally:sun. Breathe deeply, listen to the birds, listen to the wind in
Melissa Deally:the trees. Notice the different colors in nature. All of these
Melissa Deally:things help to calm your nervous system. And you'll notice that
Melissa Deally:the moment you step into a beautiful, natural surrounding,
Melissa Deally:that very soon after that, you'll feel the stress leave
Melissa Deally:your body. It's an incredibly powerful way to get out of that
Melissa Deally:fight or flight state. And throughout this series on
Melissa Deally:stress, which started back at episode number 445 and we're now
Melissa Deally:10 episodes in each episode, gives you different tools that
Melissa Deally:you can use to calm your nervous system. So check them out. See
Melissa Deally:what works for you, because not everything will work for
Melissa Deally:everyone. Find one that works for you, and if you need support
Melissa Deally:with your fertility, please reach out. Melissa at your
Melissa Deally:guided health journey.com. We can certainly run labs to
Melissa Deally:determine the state of health of your body right now, where your
Melissa Deally:hormone levels are at, where your cortisol levels are at,
Melissa Deally:where your mineral levels are at, is your body healthy enough
Melissa Deally:to sustain another life? And we want to make sure that you are
Melissa Deally:as healthy as possible, so that you can and so that you're not
Melissa Deally:becoming deficient throughout those months of pregnancy. So
Melissa Deally:reach out, Melissa at your guided health journey.com. I
Melissa Deally:would be happy to help you get into your healthiest state so
Melissa Deally:that you can have a wonderful, happy, healthy little bundle of
Melissa Deally:joy down the road.
