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Lifestyle Stressors

Meaning

Lifestyle Stressors are external or behavioral factors arising from an individual’s daily habits and environment that exert a measurable, detrimental impact on their physiological and psychological homeostasis. These pervasive influences include chronic sleep deprivation, prolonged psychological stress, suboptimal nutritional intake, sedentary behavior, and exposure to environmental toxins. In the domain of hormonal health, these stressors directly impair the delicate regulatory balance of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, leading to dysregulation of cortisol and DHEA production, and they can also negatively affect thyroid and gonadal hormone metabolism. Managing these stressors is a fundamental, non-pharmacological component of restoring and maintaining endocrine health.