HOW’S YOUR MENTAL WELLBEING?

1 COUNTERACT CORTISOL

Stress hormone cortisol is part of your natural response to deal with danger. It’s meant to spike in the morning to wake you up and then decline at bedtime. But hormone fluctuations during perimenopause can elevate cortisol, disrupting the cycle. When cortisol becomes unbalanced, it can disturb sleep, sap energy, trigger weight gain and inhibit happy hormone serotonin and feel-good hormone dopamine. External factors, such as relationship stress or work pressures, also increase cortisol, often resulting in a stress and anxiety overload.

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