# #141 - How to Regulate Stress, Cortisol & Your Nervous System Without Losing Your Badass, High-Performing Athletic Edge

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Podcast: [Maximizing Hormones, Physique & Running Through Perimenopause](https://stenobird.com/podcast/maximizing-hormones-physique-running-through-perimenopause-6687130)
Published: 2026-07-09T07:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Your body is not broken. However, some methods you've relied on in the past may be mismatched for this season of life. In this episode, Louise Valentine, a multi-award-winning women's integrative health practitioner and exercise physiologist, talks to midlife female runners who feel like their energy, hormones, body composition, sleep, and performance are changing faster than they expected. Louise explains why perimenopause makes stress harder for the female body to handle and why more miles,...

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