New Delhi, June 15 -- In boardrooms, on night shifts, and behind glowing laptop screens long past midnight, a quiet health crisis is unfolding. Young working women across the globe, and increasingly in India's booming urban workforce, are being diagnosed with hormonal disorders at an alarming and growing rate. Conditions like polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), thyroid dysfunction, adrenal fatigue, and early perimenopause are no longer rare medical footnotes. They are becoming defining health challenges of a generation.

The stress-hormone spiral

At the heart of this crisis is chronic stress. When the body perceives sustained pressure, tight deadlines, long commutes, job insecurity, and the invisible second shift of domestic...