Toxins, Stress, and What They're Doing to Your Hormones with a Top Reproductive Endocrinologist
6/12/202650 min
In this episode of unPAUSED, Dr. Mary Claire Haver continues her conversation with Dr. Natalie Crawford, double board certified obstetrician, gynecologist, and reproductive endocrinologist, and author of The Fertility Formula. In part two of this conversation, Dr. Crawford gets specific about the forces working against our hormones every day, chronic stress, disrupted sleep, inflammatory food, and the endocrine disrupting chemicals most women have never been warned about. She explains how cortisol triggers insulin resistance, how insulin resistance drives inflammation and ovarian dysfunction, and why resistance training and building skeletal muscle is one of the most direct interventions a woman can make at any age, including perimenopause. On sleep, she makes the case that it is the single most under addressed factor she sees clinically, explaining how FSH and LH are released in the early morning hours and why disrupted sleep directly interferes with ovulation, estrogen, and progesterone production. The conversation also covers anti-inflammatory nutrition and gut health, the difference between unscented and fragrance-free, why forever chemicals and phthalates are disrupting the hormone system from inside most women's homes, birth control timing and uterine lining recovery, and what egg freezing actually is and is not, and who it is most likely to benefit. Guest links Natalie Crawford, MD Natalie Crawford, MD (Instagram) Natalie Crawford, MD (TikTok) Natalie Crawford, MD (Facebook) Natalie Crawford, MD (YouTube) Natalie Crawford, MD (LinkedIn) Books “The New Perimenopause,” by Dr. Mary Claire Haver “The New Menopause,” by Dr. Mary Claire Haver “The Fertility Formula,” by Dr. Natalie Crawford To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsMary Claire Haver· Host0:00
I think it is important for women start to learn that hormone dysfunction is an abnormal sign from your body. It can start to be normal, right? Perimenopause is a normal phase we all go through, but when it happens early, it's not. Mm-hmm. Right? And so just, again, the same at it. Like, we shouldn't ignore these signs. We have to know to look for them. We have to understand what's supposed to happen, and how do we take at least the static off the radio so the brain and ovary can have the clearest communication that it can. We want to be able to be in that place at all stages of our reproductive life, regardless if we're trying to get pregnant at this moment. [upbeat music] The views and opinions expressed on Unpaused are those of the talent and guests alone, and are provided for informational and entertainment purposes only. No part of this podcast or any related materials are intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. In part one of my conversation with Dr. Natalie Crawford, a double board-certified OBGYN and reproductive endocrinologist, she helped us rethink fertility entirely as a window into a woman's overall health. We talked about ovarian aging, egg quality, PMOS, miscarriage, and why the fertility story and the menopause story are often the very same story viewed through different stages of life. In this episode,