Dr Natalie Crawford

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Toxins, Stress, and What They're Doing to Your Hormones with a Top Reproductive Endocrinologist · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

You make less estrogen in the setting of insulin, okay?

So you're supposed to have some insulin, you need it for life, but this chronically elevated insulin is very detrimental to your health.

The piece of that puzzle that's so important is to say, okay, we can understand maybe how diet can come into it, but let's say sleep.

When you get sleep is one of the times where your body can go and clear up some of this inflammation, but also your cells can become more insulin sensitive.

So if you're not sleeping as much, you're already starting out in a deficit.

From the stress standpoint, okay, well, we can't prevent the stress.

This is the crazy world we live in.

But what we do when we encounter it can be really impactful.

One clue or fun fact, right, is that muscle has a transporter on it called GLUT4 that allows glucose to be utilized without needing insulin.

So if you build and use skeletal muscle, which is the exercise of choice for hormonal health and for long-term health,

She means resistance training.

Resistance training, strength training, picking up weights, you're using your body if you can't pick up weights yet, but building your muscles.

When you are then stressed, if you use those muscles, you can get glucose out of your bloodstream into your muscles, lower it, and not see the insulin resistance that develops from stress.

Chronic stress causes insulin resistance.

Isn't that wild?

Regardless of the foods that you eat because of the mechanisms we just described.

So if you have the bad email or the bad meeting, you could do 10 squats in place or you could go walk.

You could do something to activate your muscle and that can help get that glucose in.

And then the more muscle you have, the easier that will be.

But then also when we're stressed, what do we do?

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