Hormone Balancing: Should You Try It?

Science Vs

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Science, Education, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 11.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Tons of us are feeling run-down and crummy and are wondering: What can we do about it? Well, lots of influencers have an answer: balancing our hormones. These influencers, including some doctors, recommend special supplements, diets, exercises, and prescriptions to tame our cortisol, boost our testosterone, and tackle our estrogen. Are they on to something? We get to the bottom of it with endocrinologists Dr. Deena Adimoolam and Prof. Anne Cappola; and urologist Prof. Mohit Khera. Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsHormoneBalancing (00:00) Hormones are hot right now (02:57) A tale of cortisol and supplements (14:25) Are we in a testosterone crisis?! (20:42) Should you boost your T? (27:35) Is estrogen the enemy? This episode was produced by Rose Rimler, with help from Wendy Zukerman, Michelle Dang, and Meryl Horn. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Erica Akiko Howard. Mix and sound design by Bobby Lord. Music written by Bobby Lord, Bumi Hidaka, and Peter Leonard. Research help from Timmy Broderick. Recording help from Alex Stuckey. Thanks to all the researchers we spoke to including Dr. Amit Raval, Dr. Andrea Sansone, Prof. Bob Spencer, Dr. Daniel Rippon, Dr. Emma Adam, Dr. Hannah Troxel, Dr. John Hough, Dr. Jonathan Little, Prof. Paul Cooke, and Prof. Paula Hillard. Special thanks to Joel Werner, the Zukerman Family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman, and you're listening to science verses.
0:03.4	So, a lot of us are feeling pretty drained right now, a bit crappy.
0:10.1	Maybe you're not sleeping enough, or you're sleeping too much.
0:14.0	Well more and more we're hearing that one thing could be behind all this.
0:18.0	Your hormones.
0:20.0	They're not balanced.
0:23.0	If you're a man or a woman with messed up hormones, listen up.
0:26.0	Let's discuss the best way to balance your hormones.
0:31.0	If you are not getting your hormone levels tested, what are you doing?
0:34.7	People are saying that because of stuff like stress and chemicals in our environment,
0:40.6	our hormones are out of whack, and our bodies aren't working the way that they're supposed to.
0:45.4	So one hormone that might be messed up is your stress hormone, cortisol.
0:49.8	This is something that I wish I knew years ago.
0:52.4	Cortesol, it's a real motherf-fucker. This is something that I wish I knew years ago.
0:52.6	Cortesol, it's a real motherf-er.
0:54.6	Here's five signs that you're running on stress
0:56.4	hormones and high cortisol, and you probably
0:59.2	need to make some huge lifestyle changes.
1:01.2	I'm talking about adrenal fatigue. Yeah, you're talking about adrenal fatigue.
1:02.6	Yeah, you're talking about adrenal fatigue.
1:04.2	Everybody's talking about adrenal.
1:05.9	It goes from high cortisol to then having a cortisol crash.
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