Imbalanced Cortisol: 2 Questions to Ask Yourself | Ep 290

The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast

Erin Holt

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.9 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever seen imbalanced cortisol on a hormone test and thought “how do I fix this?”, then this episode is for you.

There are MANY reasons for imbalanced cortisol, and Erin lays out many of them in this episode. But after 12 years of practice, there is something that she consistently sees as the NUMBER ONE reason for burnout, stress and cortisol issues. As a functional medicine practitioner, these are the 2 questions she asks anytime cortisol shows up as high or low on a hormone lab.

This is exactly what you need to uncover and correct burnout, stress, “adrenal fatigue” and cortisol issues – and prevent them from coming back again.

Timestamps

(3:55) 3 different ways to test cortisol

(5:47) Cortisol testing: should you even bother?

(14:11) Reasons for high & low cortisol

(19:41) How cortisol dysregulation opens up the doorway to other issues

(21:33) Overfunctioning & boundaries: a clash between 2 essential needs

(36:50) Are your relationships causing cortisol imbalance?

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0:00.0	I'm Erin Holt, and this is the functional nutrition podcast where we lean into intuitive
0:07.2	functional medicine. We look at how diet, our environment, our emotions, and our beliefs all affect
0:13.4	our physical health. This podcast is your full-bodied, well-rounded resource. I've got over a decade
0:19.8	of clinical experience, and because of that,
0:22.2	I've got a major bone to pick with diet culture and the conventional health care model.
0:26.4	They're both failing so many of us. But functional medicine isn't the panacea that it's made
0:31.3	out to be either. We've got some work to do, and that's why creating a new model is my life's
0:37.0	work. I believe in the ripple
0:38.7	effect. So I founded the Functional Nutrition Academy, a school and mentorship for practitioners
0:43.5	who want to do the same. This show is for you if you're looking for new ways of thinking about
0:48.6	your health and you're ready to be an active participant in your own healing. Please keep in mind
0:53.6	this podcast is created for educational purposes only and should never
0:57.2	be used as a replacement for medical diagnosis or treatment.
1:00.7	I would love for you to follow the show, rate, review, and share because you never know
1:05.5	whose life you might change.
1:06.7	And of course, keep coming back for more.
1:13.6	Hello out there, my friends.
1:15.5	You ready to talk about cortisol today?
1:17.6	Let's do it.
1:18.2	If you've ever had any type of hormone testing done and your cortisol has come back
1:23.4	kind of wonky and you've thought, how the heck do I fix this? This episode is for you. As a
1:31.3	functional medicine practitioner, these are the two questions that I ask whenever I see
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