Hello, folks.

Welcome back to the WOOP podcast.

At Woop, we are on a mission to unlock human performance.

I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop.

All right, we got a great episode this week.

Our VP of Performance Science, Kristen Holmes, is joined by health

expert Dr. Kyle Gillette. Dr. Gillette is a dual board certified physician in family medicine

and obesity medicine and an expert in optimizing hormone levels to improve overall health.

Dr. Gillette describes the six pillars of health as exercise, diet, sleep, stress, sunlight, and spirit. He leads the Gillette Health Clinic, where he preaches a holistic approach to health

and believes each person requires precise attention to their body, mind, and soul to achieve optimal health.

Kristen and Kyle discuss what hormones have the most impact on the body and what they are controlling.

This includes thyroid enzymes, dopamine, and norepinephrine.

Conditions that cause hormonal imbalances and how to manage them. They get into menopause, estrogen production, optimizing hormone

profiles for exercise and performance. Lower lean body mass can lead to osteoporosis.

Resistance training becomes very important in those cases.

So that was a very interesting insight.

The rule of insulin resistance and exercise for metabolic function.

How to stay fueled and wanted to eat proteins.

This was interesting.

Animal-based proteins in the morning may be favorable versus plant-based at night.

That was a recommendation from Dr. Gillette.

The role of sleep in hormone regulation and growth hormone production.

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