Heya
I have been looking into this a lot recently because stress has been hitting my wellbeing a bit and I thought "Right, i NEED to control these stress hormones before they start controlling ME!" lol
I mean as far as I can tell they've already chucked my thyroid balance off so I need to take iodine for a bit to increase my thyroid hormone sensitivity! lol
It's not that bad, but it's a pain! heh
(I've been doing a lot of research and on some forums and some people on there really know their medical stuff v well!)
On there, I think I also came up with a great 3 supplement natural, pretty much side-effect free combo for mostly flattening anxiety hormones! heh
(in order of importance I think)
Magnesium, vitamin C, and Sensoril (which is optimized ashwagandha).
Fingers crossed that should have a really good impact on stress hormone levels without having any negative effects on health The only thing I would recommend is that if you're a guy planning to take sensoril/ashwagandha, take some lignans such as SDG lignan or HMRlignan (both natural and found in plants and stuff), as ash increases testosterone, which is ok, but not great if your levels of something called "SHBG" aren't adequate. SHBG is also increased by good diet, exercise etc, but anyway that's a whole other issue!
But yes, those three look awesome! I'm still working out the exact dosages, but vitamin C is probably about 2-4 grams a day (sounds high but I think it's fine, still researching), magnesium I really don't know yet - Sensoril I think erm.. maybe about 200mg daily.
I mean some other things do drop stress hormones as well, but they can have side effects and play with other things - I think these are like the "big 3" of stress defence, from what I can tell so far!
Anywho, hope that helped!
Hoppi! ^_^
Oh and for the record I believe that antioxidants and anti-inflammatories etc also help out, I'm going to be taking Curcumin 95 and Resveratrol, mostly for unrelated stuff but I think they will probably help anxiety-related stuff too!