You can be eating all the right things, moving your body, drinking your water, and still feel stuck if you’re not addressing stress. Chronic stress is one of the biggest drivers of inflammation, and inflammation amplifies stress right back. It’s a vicious loop that keeps midlife women burned out, inflamed, gaining weight, and feeling like they’re constantly in survival mode. Because you are.

Here’s what most women don’t realize. Stress isn’t just an emotional state. It’s a full-body, biochemical reaction. When you’re stressed, whether it’s from deadlines, conflict, poor sleep, under-eating, over-exercising, or even gut issues, your body responds by raising cortisol, your main stress hormone. And when cortisol stays elevated, inflammation rises too.

In short bursts, cortisol is helpful. I

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