Nourishing Women Podcast

Today’s episode is helping you to understand and explore what happens in your body when you have hypothalamic amenorrhea. Unlike other hormone conditions, HA is directly caused from stress to the body, namely inadequate intake and excessive exercise. This episode helps explain how this occurs, and why we lose our period when our diet and exercise behaviors have gone too extreme.   In this episode we discuss the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis or HPG axis refers to the hypothalamus, pituitary gland and gonadal glands almost as if they are a single entity. This axis plays a critical role in the development and regulation of several different body systems like reproduction and immunity. The HPG axis produces hormones that cause women to menstruate. Each gland produces hormones in a precisely timed manner allowing them to work in harmony creating an ideal environment for your body.   The HPG axis is extremely sensitive to the environment. Changes in the environment can then affect the HPG axis and hormone pro