While everyone should be proactively managing stress in their lives, it is especially important if you have PCOS. I’ve found that I can “get away” with more in terms of poor diet and lack of sleep during times of either less sources of stress or more proactive management of stress.

I think a lot of us also underestimate how much stress is impacting our bodies because a baseline of high stress has become our normal. Our nervous systems are chronically pushed into their sympathetic state. It’s not until we go on a restful vacation or finally get some sort of a break from our stressors that we realize just how much our nervous system had been in overdrive.