VIRTUAL HERBALISM CONFERENCE - DAY 1
Cortisol Reset and Stress Recovery: Restoring Health with Herbs with Aviva Romm
In this session, Dr. Aviva Romm will guide you through practical strategies for resetting and recovering from stress. As modern life strains our bodies, leading to hormonal imbalances and long-term health issues, Dr. Aviva will show how herbs, lifestyle practices, and holistic approaches can restore balance. A Yale-trained M.D., family physician, midwife, herbalist, and best-selling author, Dr. Romm is a pioneer in women’s health. Through her work, she offers a fresh perspective on health and wellness by addressing root causes and rebalancing hormones, stress, and energy. Learn how to identify potential causes of imbalance and navigate your body’s natural rhythms with confidence!
Discussion Highlights:
- How chronic stress and elevated cortisol levels affect our physical and emotional health.
- Key signs that indicate an imbalance in cortisol levels.
- The connection between elevated cortisol and inflammation.
- Adrenal fatigue and why this pseudo condition is physiologically inaccurate, but the symptoms are real.
- How stress influences mental health and herbs that support emotional well-being.
- How herbs can support balancing cortisol levels and the body's stress recovery processes.
- Beyond herbs—lifestyle changes that are essential for cortisol reset and stress recovery.
Aviva Romm, MD is a midwife, herbalist, and Yale-trained MD, Board Certified in Family Medicine with Obstetrics. A practitioner, teacher, activist and advocate of both environmental health and women’s reproductive rights and health, she has been bridging the best of traditional medicine, total health ecology, and good science for over three decades. She’s a long-time home birth pioneer and birth activist. Her company’s philanthropic arm, DharmaMoms, provides funding for organizations working toward reproductive justice and birth equity in high risk obstetric communities.Â
She is also a renowned herbalist and author of Botanical Medicines for Women’s Health and seven other books, including the New York Times bestseller Hormone Intelligence, which explores the impact of the modern world on women’s hormones and health, offering a holistic, science-based approach to women’s medicine. Her podcast, articles, books, and online programs help women take back their health and her innovative professional programs are educating a next generation of health practitioners.
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