Covid definitely seems to shove folks into further hormonal imbalance.
The word on the street from clinician friends who are treating post-Covid patients and what makes sense clinically to me, it seems Covid pushes people over the threshold of whatever line of health struggles they were teetering on.
It hits their weak spots, and from what I’ve seen clinically after a decade + in practice, many women on nudging up on several subclinical hormonal issues like hypothyroidism and imbalanced sex hormones before they ever encounter Covid.
This is nothing new as ANY strong illness can do this.
The difference now is that we are seeing it in droves with this virus as everyone is eventually going to be exposed to it.