Many diseases are due to disruptions to the undercrin system. Dibetes simply means that there's a lot of sweet tasting stuff flowing through your system. If you don't make enough insulen, blood glucose stays high. Another common one is the thyroid gland because you can actually feel it. It sits right on top of your trachea,. Just like the other gland you can feel, which is your testes.
How do hormones affect us? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore the body's endocrine system, steroids, hormones, and how we can hack it with an endocrinologist, Dr. Aniket Sidhaye.
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