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"Hormones, Health and Human Potential" with Dr Nicky Keay

We Do Science - The Sports Nutrition Podcast

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The Concept of Hormonal Dysregulation

Hormone dysregulation is an imbalance in behaviours that you perform and it has the potential to be reversed. Athletes with reds who have been skimping on their nutrition, particularly underfuelling with carbohydrates, do relatively, therefore high energy demand from their exercise. So this will cause a dysregulation of the thyroid axis. It's down regulation, but the one that gets up regulated is the stress response. The cortisol goes up. But if you go too far, there's only so much it can take, you see? And it will just try and keep you alive and survival mode will ensue. If you're not a doctor or an entrepreneurist or whatever, you

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