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Hello, dear listener and welcome to this expert-led episode of owning it the anxiety podcast

with your extremely pregnant host author Caroline Forin.

I have recorded all of these episodes well in advance of giving birth and edited them and

scheduled them in advance, so at this point, if you're listening, I may have popped.

At the moment, I feel like a whale pregnant with a seal.

But anyway, we go on.

I'm determined to get this whole series done and just so that I can go off and have my baby

but leave you with really good content.

So this time we are delving into our endocrine system.

What role do our hormones play when it comes to anxiety?

What's the job of our pituitary gland? What even is that? And why is this so important if we want to

bring down our anxious symptoms? Long story short, your hormones are everything. And we so often

overlook them or we're completely unaware of how powerful they can be. But it's not all in your head, it's all in your

hormones. Here, internationally renowned endocrinologist Dr. Mary Rhine helps us to better

understand our hormones, the key players involved with anxiety in particular, and she advises

us on precisely what our pituitary gland needs in order to function well, which of course

leads us to feeling less anxious.

Thank you as always so much for listening. Thank you for tuning in for supporting.

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