Short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video about hormone balance and treatment. Speakers discuss how multiple hormones (thyroid, insulin, cortisol, pituitary-derived hormones, sex hormones) interact to regulate metabolism, weight (notably perimenopausal weight gain), and cognitive function; they mention using hormone therapies (e.g., testosterone, thyroid tweaks) to improve performance and manage weight.
Your thyroid, it's your insulin. It's all of the hormones that come from the pituitary gland that regulate all of those together. We now have tools to more effectively treat, like weight gain, especially the weight gain that comes with perimenopause. In getting myself on the appropriate hormones.
Initially, I started with testosterone, a little bit of thyroid, but not much, just a little bit to kind of tweak performance. What's fascinating for me about thyroid, and I think some people don't really realize, we think about thyroid and our metabolism very closely, that, oh, you're going to, you're going to, you're. You have a sluggish metabolism because you don't have enough thyroid, or vice versa. Maybe you're having a hard time gaining weight because you have too much. But thyroid is also very linked to cognitive function.
All of our hormones are.
Yes. And this is one of the things.
I explain to patients. It's not just your sex hormones, it's your cortisol, it's your thyroid, it's your insulin, it's all of the hormones that come from the pituitary gland that regulate all of those together. And we look at those.
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