#256 ‒ The endocrine system: exploring thyroid, adrenal, and sex hormones | Peter Attia, M.D.

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Peter Attia, MD

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Fitness

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🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this special episode of The Drive, Peter provides a comprehensive overview of the various endocrine systems: the thyroid system, the adrenal system, and the sex hormone system (for both men and women). He walks through the basic biology and the feedback cycles that regulate the production of these hormones and discusses the various options for the treatment of hormone deficiencies. In addition, Peter delves into hormone replacement therapy (HRT), providing nuanced insights into its appropriate usage and the clinical approach he adopts when working with patients.

Peter supplements these explanations with whiteboard illustrations. For a more complete understanding, we highly recommend watching these videos over just listening. The videos can be found on our YouTube channel or on the show notes page.

We discuss:

The thyroid system [2:15];
The adrenal system [15:45];
The female sex hormone system [27:00];
The male sex hormone system [40:00]; and
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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Drive Podcast.
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0:46.3	Now, without further delay, here's today's episode.
0:51.1	Welcome to a special episode of the Drive.
0:53.9	In many of our previous podcasts, and as we'll see it upcoming episodes, we have spoken
0:58.5	about and will speak about various hormones.
1:01.3	And while in these conversations, we can get into some of the details.
1:04.4	A lot of times, we skip some of the basic biology and treatment implications around these
1:09.1	hormones.
1:10.2	As such, I wanted to do an episode that answers a lot of these questions we get around
1:14.3	the various hormones.
1:15.9	When thinking about the best way to do this, I reflect back on how I used to do this in
1:19.4	pre-COVID days.
1:20.7	I always used a whiteboard or piece of paper, and I would draw sketches of the systems.
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