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Welcome to As A Woman, the podcast hosted by fertility physician Dr. Natalie Crawford to educate and empower women.

Each week learn about your health, your fertility and how they relate to your true self.

Become a part of the community fostering collaboration over competition while learning how to authentically find your voice and amplify others as a woman.

Hey friends, welcome back to the As A Woman podcast. Today I'm talking about stress.

This is a complicated topic, even though it's a word we are very familiar with and we use it all the time.

I mean, how many times have you sat there and said, I'm so stressed out.

I don't know about you, but I've said this over and over and over again.

And I've also used my own stress as an excuse a thousand times.

A reason to live in contingency because I have this stressor that I need to get past before I go and do the next thing like workout or take care of myself.

And the problem there is that often these stressors build upon themselves and they're not just acute events.

So let's just think sciencey.

First part of this episode we're going to talk science because you know I love hormones.

Then we will talk about your body, what happens and start to talk about how this impacts our fertility and what we can do about it.

And the reality is your body is one body, your fertility is not an isolated acute thing.

We must understand that even though medicine has divided into organ systems for ease of becoming a specialist or expertise, the entire body is connected.

What is bad for one thing is bad for another.

And that's a really important concept.

So even though I'm going to talk about a few studies and fertility outcomes because that's my area of expertise.

Stress is bad for you in so many different ways.

Okay, so what is stress?

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