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

but that people who had higher levels of salivary amylase, it took them longer to get pregnant.

So we call the month-to-month chance of getting pregnant your fecundability, the probability of pregnancy that month.

And they had increased the rate of infertility to the point where we can sit here and say really clearly, stress is not benign.

This whole don't stress about being stressed is a harmful additive.

And again,

There will be stressors that you cannot control, but thinking about how do I build in time?

How do you have real self-care?

How do you manage stress?

And how do you take care of yourself on the other tenants?

If stress is gonna be one that's increasing that inflammatory burden, how do we lower it down?

Because when you are stressed, many people don't know that it actually changes

The adrenal glands and the adrenal glands are really important in progesterone production and actually can have you make progesterone at times of your cycle when you're not supposed to.

And so chronic stress can be associated with elevated progesterone.

And that's part of why it can be harder to get pregnant because earlier I said progesterone opens and closes the implantation window.

Right.

So many clinicians and patients really think that ovulation, again, is this all or nothing idea.

So, yes, there are circumstances where the walkie-talkies can be turned off and you won't ovulate at all.

Things like hypothalamic amenorrhea.

If you're severely exercising a ton, your calorie intake is very low.

If you do have a huge chronic illness or a serious life traumatic stress, your brain may see these feedback and say, this is not a good time to be pregnant.

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