Cortisol Balancing

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20 years ago I was exposed to repeated severe stress. It all started with a very traumatic experience giving birth to my son and it followed by very stressful breastfeeding months that literally destroyed my sleep patterns and turned me into a severe insomniac. Because of the effects of high and low cortisol, my immune system collapsed. I caught several infections, sinusitis, and bronchitis. Because of the abnormal cortisol, my body became very inflamed, constantly, so I injured my neck and had a stiff neck with a very painful shoulder that wouldn't heal no matter what. I went to physios, osteopaths, did yoga, but the neck and shoulder would not improve. All this added to my sleepless nights! Imagine that! Needless to say that my mood suffered a horrific blow and my marriage, due to all the constant non-ending challenges with my health that I wasn't able to reverse, suffered a blow too.

With the cortisol disregulation and the sleepless nights I developed insulin resistance and gained a lot of unwanted extra pounds. I had huge eye bags, black areas under the eyes, my face was puffy, my body was bloated, I was shattered beyond imagination, and I honestly felt that I could die at any moment. Due to the high cortisol, I also became estrogen dominant. My periods became extremely abundant and over time I developed uterine myomas (very big polyps).

Getting up in the morning was a torture and I had to take my son to the nursery and then to school. I was severely burned-out for years and years and no Gp was ever able to help. I had never been more miserable, if you want the truth! There were days when I even contemplated the thought of leaving this world! Living was too painful.

Until I met a functional medicine practitioner who explained to me what was happening to my body and what I needed to do to reverse all the suffering! Under his care, I started healing, at last! I can say that he literally saved me from the worst! If I had continued like that, I would not have made it alive to see my gorgeous son grow up and become a happy and successful man, as he is now.

Fastforwarding nearly two decades, I have now become a funcional medicine practitioner myself and I have been in practice as a nutritional therapist since 2015, and as a functional medicine practitioner since 2017. I specialise in cortisol balance and I help the burned-out suffering with a wide range of symptoms that ruin their every day life like the ones I experienced myself.