Functional Medicine (FM) offers a personalized, root-cause approach to transforming your body's stress response and building lasting resilience. Stress is an unavoidable part of modern life. While acute stress is necessary for threat management, chronic stress leads to physiological depletion and dysfunction. The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis and the hormone cortisol are central to the stress response. Chronic activation of the HPA axis can lead to negative conseq