Burned Out or Breaking Down: The Gut-Hormone Connection Firefighters Can't Ignore

  • October 24, 2026
  • 3:00pm-5:00pm
  • FESTI -- 2025 Courtneypark Dr East, Mississauga, ON L5T 1J3

Facilitated by Sonia Issa

You are training hard, eating well, and still running on empty. This intermediate-level session reveals why. You will learn how chronic shift work stress disrupts your HPA axis, derails your sex hormones, and destroys gut microbiome diversity. This creates a perfect storm of burnout, brain fog, inflammation, and weight gain that no amount of discipline fixes. You will leave with practical tools to identify early warning signs of hormonal imbalance, restore gut health, regulate your nervous system, and reclaim your energy and performance. This is not a willpower problem. This is biology and biology has solutions.

Sonia Issa

Sonia Issa is a proud mother and full-time firefighter with Oshawa Fire Services with 25+ years in exercise science and functional medicine. As a Hormone & Health Optimization Coach and founder of Radiant Heartspace, she has presented on hormonal health, gut health, and firefighter performance at FSWO and the inaugural FSWBC Symposium.