317: Understanding Arousal

Age Less / Live More

Lucas Rockwood

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

During the summer between 8th and 9th grade, I watched my classmate Jeff go from about 125 lbs to 180 lbs in six weeks. This scrawny, video game nerd turned into a force to be reckoned with through a combination of hard gym workouts and anabolic steroids he bought from his older brother. I'm not sure if you've ever seen a transformation like this firsthand, but it's not something you easily forget.

Enter hormones. They can make you skinny or make you fat. They can give you hot flashes, make you tired, or make you feel young and vital. Your 'chemical body' is responsible for how you look and feel most of the time, and yet it's often out of whack. Hormonal imbalance used to be rare and mostly found in older people, but these days you can find kids with massive hormone imbalances at any school around the world. So what do we do?

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Listen & Learn:

How hormones can impact just about everything
Why birth control pills, food, stress, age, and environment can all affect our chemical body
How hormone theory is only a century old
How hormone research is still new and developing

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Randi Hutter Epstein is a medical writer, author, and journalist. She has written for publications including The New York Times and The Washington Post. She is also a lecturer at Yale University and an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Journalism.

She is the author of two books: Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank (2010) and AROUSED: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything (2018).

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0:00.0	I often get asked by yoga students and trainees which sites which video
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0:53.7	Go to yoga international.com forward slash yoga body that's yoga
0:57.7	international dot com forward slash yoga body to get started. When I was in 8th grade I lived in Orange County, California and in my neighborhood we had a little community pool and a gym.
1:15.0	And this guy in my eighth grade class, his name was Jeff.
1:18.1	And Jeff was a scrawny, nerdy guy, much like myself.
1:21.7	And between the summer, between eighth grade and ninth grade so going
1:24.8	into high school Jeff became completely swole dramatically so I mean to the point
1:31.5	where everyone remarked it was absurd freakishly large and it was the first time I really experienced someone going on steroids.
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