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🧠 How Cortisol Affects Your Thyroid
In today’s snippet, “How Cortisol Affects Thyroid Function“, we’re talking about how stress — and specifically the stress hormone cortisol — can mess with your thyroid function and energy levels.
When you’re under stress for too long, your cortisol levels can get out of balance. And when that happens, it can throw off your thyroid — the gland that helps control your metabolism, energy, mood, and more. High or low cortisol can slow down your thyroid hormones, block how your body uses them, and make you feel extra tired, foggy, or not like yourself.
Your body does this on purpose when you’re sick or need rest — it’s trying to help you heal. But when the stress doesn’t stop, this “slow down” mode becomes your normal. And that’s when problems start showing up.
💡 If you’re experiencing thyroid symptoms and feel like something’s off, it’s worth checking in on your stress levels and adrenal health as well. Your thyroid and cortisol are closely connected, and healing one often means supporting the other.
⬇️ Watch today’s video in the ‘Adrenal Balance‘ course to learn how stress might be affecting your thyroid, and what you can do to start feeling better.
