Dr. Saira Hameed

Because I think it's getting a really bad rep.

You know, cortisol is a wonder hormone.

You know, if any of your listeners got out of bed this morning, well, that was because of cortisol, because you had this wonderful boost of cortisol half an hour before you woke up.

Hi, Mike.

It's a real pleasure.

Thank you for inviting me.

Hormones are the chemical signals in your body.

You can think of them as being like your body's text messages.

Your body consists of 30 trillion cells and those cells need to be in communication with one another so that they're all doing the right thing at the right time.

So it's your hormones that mean that you are not just a being, an organism of 30 trillion cells.

You are an interconnected human being.

You can think of hormones being like signals that come out of a radio transmitter.

The radio transmitter are the glands in your body, like the adrenal glands or the thyroid gland or the pituitary gland.

And these gland transmitters are sending out their hormone signals to distant parts of the body.

The hormones travel in the bloodstream and they go from the gland to the target cell and they contain an instruction.

And the target cell must then carry out that instruction.

And these hormones are affecting every moment of your day, as well as the milestones in life.

So they are pretty important.

Clinically, so as an endocrinologist, that's a doctor who specializes in hormones, there are about 15, 20 that we would see fairly commonly, and we would see them because somebody either has

too much of that hormone that's causing problems or too little and again that can cause other problems sometimes the body can become resistant to the hormone what does that mean that means a bit like if you're getting if a radio program is being broadcast but you the listener you tune out you're just not listening you're not understanding or listening into the information so there can be a variety of issues clinically we see these these issues in our in our clinics