Episode
What Chronic Stress Is Really Doing to Women's Bodies
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- Mighty As A Mother
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- Apr 21, 2026
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- 2710
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Summary
What if the chronic exhaustion, hormonal imbalance, brain fog, and burnout you've been living with aren't just the cost of a busy life — but your body's signal that something deeper needs attention? In this episode of Mighty as a Mother, we sit down with Dr. Aviva Romm — Yale-trained physician, board-certified family medicine doctor, midwife, herbalist, NYT bestselling author, and one of the most trusted voices in women's integrative health and hormonal wellness — for a conversation that is equal parts science and permission slip. Dr. Aviva Romm has spent over three decades at the intersection of modern medicine, functional medicine, and women's hormone health — her own lived experience included. She is the author of The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution and Hormone Intelligence , two of the most widely read books on women's hormonal health, cortisol, adrenal function, and stress-related illness. Dr. Romm brings something genuinely rare to this conversation: a clinician who asks better questions, looks earlier at the root causes of women's health issues, and never reduces cortisol imbalance, burnout, or hormonal disruption to a quick fix or a trending protocol. This episode was born out of an honest conversation about what chronic stress actually does to a woman's body over time. We talked about the accumulated weight of caregiving, career pressure, perimenopause, family health crises, and the invisible labor that working mothers carry — and the very real biological consequences when that load goes unaddressed. Dr. Romm walks us through what cortisol — clinically known as the "wear and tear hormone" — does to a woman's sleep, weight, immune system, mood, and long-term health, and what it takes to start reversing the damage in real life, with real constraints. Together, we tal…