Episode 53: Why Doing Everything for Everyone Is Destroying Your Hormones in Perimenopause

Beyond Hormone Symptoms Podcast · May 28, 2026 · 28m

This episode is for the woman in the middle, caring for ageing parents, raising teenagers, running a full life, and somewhere right at the bottom of her own list.

Gloria Halim explains the biology of what that load is doing to your hormonal health: the cortisol mechanism, the invisible load, the co-regulation cost of raising a teenager during your own hormonal transition, and why the guilt of not prioritising yourself is partly physiological, not just personal.

Plus five genuinely doable tools for a body under chronic load.

Takeaways

The invisible load of midlife caregiving and its measurable…