I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.

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Hormones are essential for every cell in your body

and yet endocrine disruptors are everywhere.

What to do?

This is the people's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady.

Your Horace. Your hormonal balance is influenced by your diet, your stress level, your genetics, your gut microbes, and the chemicals you're exposed to every single day.

How can you restore your body's natural balance?

Do you know where your adrenal glands are located?

Most people don't, and yet they produce essential hormones vital to our well-being.

What's the latest on hormone replacement therapy for menopausal symptoms?

Are there alternatives to estrogen and progesterone?

Coming up on the people's pharmacyacy Health Headlines, restaurants and workplaces like call centers have been implicated as locations where COVID-19 infections are spread. Big social events like

weddings have also provided the opportunity for people to transmit the

virus even before they know they're ill.

Scientists have paid much less attention to more informal gatherings

that might have fewer people but closer contact.

Now a study used national health insurance data for most of

2020. They compared the rate of COVID infections in households with a birthday in the

previous two weeks to those without such a celebratory

event.

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