All right, welcome. My name is Divine. This is episode 602 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts.

In today's podcast, we're going to be addressing a super, super, super high-year topic titled Endocrine Testing.

And in today's podcast, we're going to be focusing on suppression and stimulation tests.

Suppression and stimulation tests.

The thing is, this stuff tends to be very, very, very confusing for many people.

But it's something where, honestly, if you understand it,

it will actually explain so many things for you.

It will literally explain so many things for you.

So let's drop right into it.

So I think a thing that's helpful to understand here is just how does the endocrine axis

work just in general, right?

So in general, you know, if you look at most of these endocrine axes, everything kind of

starts in the hypothalamus.

So you have the hypothalamus.

It secretes a particular hormone.

You know, usually we call those releasing hormones.

So say, for example, if we're looking at the thyroid axis, the thyroid gland release

the thyroid-gland release the thyrotropine releasing hormone, right?

And then that hormone that comes from the hypothalamus is going to speak to the anterior pituitary.

The anterior pituitary, you know, contains like T.S.H.

So those cells will secret TSAH, right?

And then from the anterior pituitary, those hormones will go to a target organ, you know.

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