Dr. Stacy Sims

Well, and your hormones would change for a very specific purpose that you would then go do.

Yeah.

Your body would free up glucose from your liver.

You're getting it ready in your bloodstream so you can go run from the lion.

And then things would shift back to normal.

And what's happening with chronic stress is you're getting all the hormone shifts because your body's really getting ready for the lion, except it's just that bad meeting you had.

And then you're just sitting there longer and you're not using that glucose up.

Exactly.

Exactly.

The people who listen to your show, though, might be a different demographic, we have to acknowledge, right, than population of America.

I mean, like a lot of people who listen to your show, Stephen, are interested in health and their body and achieving certain goals.

And so certainly, you know, I have practiced –

Fertility in North Carolina and in Austin.

And I see a completely different patient population, you know, in Austin, Texas, which is a very fit area.

Women are constantly overtraining.

But to Stacey's point earlier about this maybe evolutionary what happens.

Women go into this hypothalamic dysfunction even before it's what we call like amenorrhea.

Hypothalamic amenorrhea is essentially where the brain, where the hypothalamus is, shuts off, says can't reproduce right now, X, Y, Z reason, no FSH and LH are coming out, you're not ovulating, you're not making estrogen, you're not going to get pregnant.

So it's a survival mechanism.

Pregnancy is dangerous in hunter-gatherers.