223 You're Reading Your Cortisol All Wrong, and Your Thyroid Is Why, with Dr. Jaclyn Smeaton

Thyroid Mystery Solved: Hashimoto's and Hypothyroidism Revealed · Sep 3, 2026 · 56m

Cortisol has become the hormone everyone loves to blame, the go-to villain for stress, stubborn weight, and feeling wired all the time. But that reputation misses what cortisol is actually doing in your body, and it skips right past the role your thyroid plays in the whole thing. Inna sits down with Dr. Jaclyn Smeaton, a naturopathic physician and the Chief Medical Officer at Dutch Test, who reads cortisol panels all day long and has watched even trained clinicians get them wrong for years. What she has come to understand points to a connection between cortisol and your thyroid that almost no…