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I want to talk about how to balance your hormones or manipulate your hormones in a positive way.

So the first question is, what is a hormone?

Hormones are communication particles that travel through the body from one place to another. They originate from a gland that makes them, and then they travel through the bloodstream. And then they get received by

a receptor. So right now, I'm talking to you, and hopefully you're listening to me through your

receptors, to the ears. You can see me through

the receptors of your eyeballs. But without me seeing you in person, I don't really know if

these words are connecting to you. And in the body, when the communication is received,

there's another signal sent back as a feedback loop. It's like a little circuit type thing, like a thermostat in your

house. As soon as it hits a certain temperature, maybe the heater turns off. And the body,

as soon as a certain blood pressure is achieved, certain hormones were turn off. Maybe the hormone

regulating sodium and fluid. As soon as a certain blood sugar is achieved,

like 80, certain hormones are then turned off. So if there's no feedback mechanism with hormones,

then the hormone starts going higher and higher and higher and higher. And that would be really

bad in the body. But that's the problem in the body with hormones.

You somehow disrupt this feedback mechanism, whether you block the receptors through what's called

endocrine disruptors. That would be like the pesticides, insecticides, herbicides,

that can block the receptors. And now there's no mechanism for your hormones to turn off.

They start going higher and higher and higher.

And just as a side note, all those things I just mentioned,

the pesticides, insecticides, herbicides,

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