Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Pamela Smith | Unlocking the Hormone-Weight Connection 🔍

22 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube interview titled “Dr Pamela Smith | Unlocking the Hormone-Weight Connection.” The speaker links excess or imbalanced hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, cortisol) and toxins to weight gain and notes that GLP-1 drugs can help but often require lifelong use to maintain weight.

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If you get too much estrogen, you gain weight. If you get too much progesterone, you gain weight. Because insulin does not work effectively in the body. If you have too much testosterone, you gain weight. If you have too much dhea, too high or too low cortisol, you gain weight. So all of those are very much tied into what people weigh. Toxins are related to weight as well. We have the new drugs out, the GLP1s, which do help a lot of people work through the weight issue. Unfortunately, most people, if they are put on a GLP1, commonly have to stay on one for the remainder of their life to have the weight that they need to be.