Mastering Nutrition

Hormones Are Never In Charge

Mastering Nutrition

Show Notes

Hormones matter, but they are never in charge. Their abnormalities are never the root cause of anything. All hormones do is communicate the biochemistry of one tissue to the biochemistry of another tissue. In this episode: Three Reasons For Hormones to Be Messed Up Exceptions to the Rule Leptin, Insulin, and Thyroid Hormone As an Example How to Approach Hormones For the written version, the links to references, and the links to testing, see here: https://chrismasterjohnphd.substack.com/p/hormones-are-never-in-charge Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is the Founder and Scientific Director of the mitochondria test Mitome.

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