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The Cortisol-Gut-Hair Connection: Why Midlife Women Are Losing More Than Sleep If you've noticed more strands in your brush lately, you're not imagining it—and stress may be doing more damage than you realize. When cortisol stays elevated, it pushes hair follicles prematurely out of their growth phase and into shedding, a condition known as telogen effluvium that can cause noticeable thinning within two to three months of a stressful period (Thom, 2016). For midlife women, th

Sick and Tired of being Sick and Tired? The Cortisol Connection: What Every Woman in Midlife Needs to Know If you're a woman somewhere between 40 and 60, you've likely spent the better part of two or three decades running on adrenaline. Careers, kids, aging parents, relationships, mortgages, late nights, early mornings, and a mental load that never quite shuts off. For a long time, your body rose to meet the demand. And then, somewhere around perimenopause,