Dr. Josh Axe

estrogen, testosterone, progesterone, thyroid hormones, everything's going to be off.

So oftentimes people are chasing all of these other hormones like testosterone or estrogen when the reality is if you can start to fix cortisol, which tends to be, it's all lifestyle.

I mean, that's one of the things I like about your podcast is it's about habits.

Getting in good habits is so important to healing.

I'll hit on the most common, but then generally, if you're not well, I mean, I truly believe that stress is the number one thing that makes people sick.

It's not food.

That's big.

That's number two.

But stress and the emotions you experience consistently... Mm-hmm.

That is the single biggest thing that drives your stress.

There's one study that said that 80% of doctors' visits have a major stress component.

And I remember one of the things that surprised me, because they don't teach you this in school, but when I first had my few years of running my clinic, I would have people come in with inflammatory bowel disease or IBS.

And they would come in, and if they would eat something that was just really off the diet, I'd put them on a pizza or ice cream, conventional ice cream.

they would have just major, major gut reaction.

But you know what?

I would have people come in with IBD, similar thing, and they would be eating perfectly.

And they would have a reaction like that.

And I'd say, well, you're still on your diet.

What's going on?

I'm going through a divorce.