Dr. Stacy Sims

relative energy deficiency coming back to the brain.

The brain signals it not as strong to keep that corpus luteum, what happens after the follicle, alive.

And a lot of women, I still have my period, so I'm okay.

But if we're using our cycle as a vital sign, we can actually say the ratio of energy balance is not great.

And it's often because we're doing it at sacrifice of other things.

So if you're doing the strength training three times a week,

And you're running however you're spacing out your other days.

That's such a healthy balance.

It's hard that you're going to be in a bad position with that.

These were episodic stresses.

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.