I recently had a fun interview with Sandee LaMotte of CNN for her CNN article, “From migraines to asthma to shingles: The physical toll stress takes on your body and how to combat it,” discussing how stress, specifically in the age of coronavirus, can impact your physical health.
Besides ramping up fear and panic, the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified almost all our everyday stressors–finances, health, relationships, and so on—elevating our stress hormones and putting our bodies at risk. These hormones, like Cortisol, are helpful in acute stressful situations, but take a toll when the stress drags on.
Read the article to discover how your stress could be impacting five of your body’s most important systems. And don’t forget the good news: there are so many options to bring those hormone levels down. Breathe! Get curious, learn more, play with different ways to find your calm, find your strong. Need ideas?
