oh we're all good to go beyond the obvious well, as we take on the world, 8 hours, i do all this weird all about the stories that matter to you. whatever it takes like policeman. i don't know. we are, your is actually on fire. made for mines. with back in 1940 is usa, an eccentric comic book hero was saving the world. dr. hormone,

at the ripe old age of 80. he was still out fighting baddies. he owed his incredible strength to a cocktail of hormones that kept him young and strong. but the real life power of hormones is even more exciting. on the d w health program. this week we learn about the thyroid, the contraceptive pill, and sleep sprays, and be i'm kind of the facts and fictions of hormones. welcome to in good shape. with me, one small slip and you're on the brink of life and death a but we can often count on adrenalin. the hormone is released by the adrenal gland in response to stressful situation. it spreads rapidly through the

body via the bloodstream. for a few short moments it fills the veritable superpowers, but soon after, the effect wears off in other hormones and have a much longer impact. so much role that helps us to grow. estrogen and testosterone influence sexual development, as well as our physique dopamine and melatonin affect our sleep cycles. apart from the adrenal gland hormones are released from the pancreas and the kidneys. the testicles are ovaries, the thymus, the thyroid and the pineal gland. the pituitary gland is found at the base of the brain and is responsible for homeowner regulation. hormones are an important means of communication between body and mind. just think about what happens to us when we fall in love. role. just thinking about our beloved can give us

butterflies, causes to lose our appetite, or set our pulse, racing, and give a sleepless nights. hormones such as dopamine and fennel f l amine are responsible for such feelings. a solid relationship makes us calm and relaxed. thanks to higher levels of serotonin, physical contact releases, oxytocin, which falters a sense of trust between partners suffering a broken heart has the opposite effect. oh oxy towson levels drop? asked as dopamine. as we gradually lose heart and become lethargic. hormones play a central role in our lives. they help us to attain our goals and reward us with positive feelings. even if it's not always clear whether we control our hormones or

if they're in charge of us what do you need to grow bigger muscles, determination. a training plan, protein shakes. well before all that you need a properly functioning thyroid. it's a glen that secretes thy roxanne and troy iota. thyra name these hormones, all the gas pedal for all metabolism. if the thyroid secretes too much, the body goes into overdrive but 2 little causes to slow down and impaired thyroid can be to muscle atrophy, fatigue, depression, pay, loss, and brutal nails. thyroid disease usually requires medical intervention. sometimes even surgery morgan showed to loves being a mother, jerry and son and baby daughter. but neither pregnancy was easy. ah, as

a shop am good, may act as it leslie saw, isms unable at some point. i noticed there was a lump on my neck. i felt it pressing than been a cent toward the end of the pregnancy. with my son i went to see my gynecologist and asked her if i should have my gp take a look at it. parked up to house that sliced might have alshaun golden. she said yes, definitely. he did an ultrasound and check my thyroid levels and said, oh, that doesn't look so good. so graham, and referred me to the local hospitals and spoke hospitality. easy yet and caused all. she had a large autonomous, a dilemma of the fibroid. dick north, the nozzle was 6 centimeters in diameter and was over producing thyroid hormones from the pituitary gland to show it was normal products yet at enormous or nodules on. the thyroid gland are usually caused by iodine deficiency called modules are inactive, but hog nodules produced to many hormones that are released uncontrollably into the

body. much my giplin. sometimes medications are prescribed to slow down the thyroid gland. he needed, but they have considerable side effects, especially during pregnancy i'd be from that should be avoided and she also started to have other problems like indoors in her sugar levels when, hey, wiring her 1st mowing show to son henry was born. and shortly after that she became pregnant again as vanity in his after talent tank met them. so clay was totally exhausting with such a small child. yeah. and when i did not turn it and of course i had other concerns against like gestational diabetes, financial. the have high blood pressure and fibroid problems in my pick up. let me is on the planet. in the end, my daughter was born prematurely national delivered by c section on this of alice. good. forgot everything went well. henry, hold on there. henry. after the birth of her daughter, marin shoulda finally found time to look after her own health,

the drug administer to counteract the increased hormone production, has strong side effects. so mountain schroeder wasn't permitted to take it while she was pregnant. her doctor wants to operate and remove the hot note, but in such a way that enough healthy thyroid tissue is preserved. if the operations successful martin shall to will no longer need medication. because her thyroid gland will still be able to produce sufficient hormones a few weeks have passed since the surgery time for a checkup. how much healthy tissue is left ah, does even come as even if it's there $7.00 milliliters of wonderfully functioning fibroid tissue on your right side. i'll fix the image to my kid. well my got so does this graph and he is he and here we see the thyroid remnant working on your left side. these i to our by that it's much smaller, of course,

probably about 2 milliliters total or $1.00 mill leaders of tissue. i immediately tucker and come after me to the dark vba is ins could. so in total you have just under 10 milliliters of thyroid tissue. but if it works well and as well supplied with iodine, then that might be okay for you. if not, you can take medication to support its function. understood at last, mowing shoulder can relax and enjoy time with her kids. when male mammals are concentrated, they become less aggressive. scientists attributed this to reduce the level of the male sex hormone, testosterone. and so testosterone got its reputation of making you aggressive, assertive, strong, and powerful and short things traditionally thought of as typically male put, do you know what is complete nonsense?

many myths exist surrounding hormones to sort fact from fiction. d w reported peter's sure heart spoke to expert punk up patty on an old are you feeling fine? i mean as fine as any one can feel these days, but it's a beautiful day. and thank you, rick. ruth, to 130, your homes. well, they are certainly influential and you look at the sun, for example, that will raise serotonin levels, which will help me, for example, to suppress anxiety because certain is really good at suppression. so of course, hormones play an important role in how we feel. for instance, i like to think about them like background music, hovens her for a very bad reputation. beryl trouble makers, which are bricks,

everything up. they make our life difficult for us to of you, right? when we bring so bought them. no, luckily not. and the idea that hormones are somehow like a disturbance in our system comes from this very weird idea that we're these rational beings who make rational decisions all the time. and our rational decisions are great decisions. even though i mean have you seen people? most of our decisions aren't that great, even the most rational ones. we can lie to ourselves. we can over exaggerate our chances. we can get the wrong idea or just not think far enough. so basically, already our idea of all brain is slightly overrated. let's talk about our emotional vert, which are always the term part hormones. or does this mean that week really. com to decide what we want and what we like and what we dislike and

what we do and what we don't. luckily not. i mean, in the end, you can say that they are necessity, hormones are necessity, but they are not enough to make the decision. so basically, they will put you in a certain direction. for example, if you think about sex, they will make you feel last or maybe feel your impulses stronger and weakened of it. the part that tells you not to dance too much or to take back and keep back. but um, in the end, if you act on your impulses, that's your own decision that your brain making these decisions. and so we can't hide behind our hormones. same as tip of the iceberg can't hide off the rest of the iceberg. we all want. this is all part of us. there are thousands of hormones, but 2 of them, everybody knows estrogen interstate stored on a server and friends of the woman and her for throne dominators for men. is it so

easy? no, of course not. and it's shocking, frankly, how often we still find, let him youtube videos telling man how to suppress a, as children, how to boost their testosterone and so on and so on. so 1st of all, sex hormones and as binary, as we think and neither sexes, frankly, basically testosterone and estrogen asked was tribute across all and those in texas . we can even say that if we read a woman, she necessarily has higher estrogen levels on average. yes. but the same goes for testosterone levels. these change was our life time when they change, also from the morning to the evening. so there is not this one being influenced by testosterone and another one by estrogen. another interesting home and it looks chosen to cover the home me, it is released when we have circular, when the color was from one and it makes us peaceful and cozy. on the other hand, it makes the news. oh, how does it fit together?

yeah, that's another of these examples where we have an idea of how the word should be. and then we try to stop the hormones into that very narrow idea. we're not our idea of love with them this part. okay, this must be cuddly and romantic at the same time. even though if you look at love on the home level, is very differently. there are these very exciting times that are more revolt actually around stress hormones and also serotonin. and there is this cozy part to which oxytocin also belongs the fat, where we feel restful was our partner, and where we enjoy being together and just letting go regenerating. but as everyone knows who, who, for example has a dog. when dogs have puppies, you don't go so close by because you're going to get bitten probably. and that's an important part of love that with protecting the ones we love. so i know to why we're so surprised that a hormone that's involved in love would also be involved sometimes in aggression

and sensitivity to threat. you wrote a very interesting book about hormones, about the mysterious book of these substances and all brain and all blot. oh, why did you do that? what you should read? know about our home. i think the most important take home message for the book was for me to be less worried about the things that are hormones do with us. and think more of all the things that we do talk hormones with our daily schedule was all pills was all the stuff we're doing it never really thinking about the question shouldn't be, how do we eliminate these home one will affect how do we eliminate our home once the question should be, where is this point then? when does it harmless and how do we find this point? and then we can also help people or help all a self. well, richard, but for that we really need to drop the idea that hormones in general of bad. i see there's a lot to do for her scientists like you. thank you for this interesting talk with bar banking, the contraceptive pill intervenes in

a woman's natural hormone balance. most pools contain synthetic estrogen and progesterone shins that suppress of elation. social media has offered an outlet for women to speak up about distressing side effects, such as spots weight gain, so breasts, bleeding between periods, nausea, irritability and even blood clots. but there are alternatives. the bolts most common female contraceptive is sterilization. but in north korea, the most popular choice is the copper coil used by 3 quarters of the countries women, the pill as losing popularity world wide ah 26 year old. my can dream wants to find an alternative to the pill. she's had bad experiences and would like to stop taking it to begin one last to begin with. i had had a good month on which to more than i had made,

swings and depression, strong aunt, i fell into a bit of a black hole, felt listless site. i didn't even enjoy spending time with friends anymore. reason dr. donna know is a gynecologist and has noticed that women are increasingly looking for hormone free contraception options. this is shawn. no one has a shied and fast. there's a lot of uncertainty about homeowner contraception, because you can find a lot of stuff about the risks on social media, e m 's ulta and it's the i for example, concerns about from bo, says some stressful at home border amongst for shak and women. not sure if they might be high rescue. ganesh lice the hall is sun angus, crazy court, hulu. there's a range of hormone free contraception methods. these 2 can have side effects, and some are safer than others. condoms are the most common method of hormone free contraception. ne, prevent unwanted pregnancies and protect against sexually transmitted diseases.

another option is a copper r u d. the devices inserted into the uterus and can remain in place for several years. the copper wire coil in the device produces an inflammatory reaction that is toxic to spur. it's effective, but it does have risks almost in how long women need to be aware that there's a risk that the information can spread to the fallopian tubes attached to the uterus. and that can potentially lead to when fertility come as a lead. women need to be well informed and aware that that periods might get heavier and more painful from outside of that and can as this is mrs. i guys definitely know to contraceptives matter, that seats women who have to take to their pets every month with period problems. mit, mit meant little specially and salsa in between. hulu, a diaphragm as a small silicon cup. it's covered with spermicide, that slow sperm down, or kills them and inserted into the vagina before sex,

where it can be left in place for around 8 hours. a lot of people feel this method is to fatally and messy and interferes, but the enjoyment of sex ah, the symptom of thermal method is more popular. this is a fertility awareness approach that requires a woman to take your temperature 1st thing in the morning and monitor or cervical mucus every day, but dr. donna know, advises caution you. that's who kills assume every cycle is different and you need to be aware that your temperature is higher when ovulation is over. montague, before by isn't or and am, is skipped off. there are some apps that calculate fertility based on the previous few months at court. there, so if you have an irregular cycle, you could still under pregnant solution as much nash my home to close count of nights national come. the pearl index is a technique used in clinical trials to establish the effectiveness of birth control

methods. it shows that the pill works best. the most effective hormone free method is the copper r u d, which has a pearl index of 0.3 to 0.8. that means that between 0.3 and 0.8 of $100.00 women using it will still get pregnant within the year. the index shows that the diaphragm is the least reliable method will follow. micah grim has opted for a copper r u d. so far she's happy with her decision and sucrose. i didn't. my menstrual cycle hasn't changed much. the bleeding is heavier, i always have pretty heavy periods. it doesn't affect intercourse, and i don't need to worry about anything. my partner, london, women need to talk to their doctors about which method is best for them to minute tonin is another important whole 9 produced by the pineal gland in the brain. melatonin, lois body temperature. this, the immune system effects the release of sex hormones and benefits learning and

memory. but most importantly, it tells me pull, it regulates our internal body club and makes us feel sleepy at night. that's why it's now used in sleep aids like sprays and polls. but does it one? mm. cortisol is a hormone that keeps us awake and to learn during the day, but when it gets dark, it's melick tones. time to shine with. the pineal gland in our brain produces 12 times more sleep hormone at night than during the day time. melatonin helps us to wind down. it reduces our energy expenditure and causes our temperature and blood pressure to drop. so can taking melatonin supplements, help would sleeping problems. there are pills that contain a milligram of melatonin or more and also melatonin t,

which is weaker. the recommended dose is one or 2 sashes. when swallowed melatonin enters the bloodstream through the intestines. it also comes in spray form. melatonin enters the bloodstream through the mucus membranes in the mouth, all form to both the same promise to help you fall asleep quickly and get better quality sleep. but is it true? we ask sleep expert doctor holger high. he believes one milligram would be enough for most people to fall asleep and products like please could help in the short term blue but not for every one. the on a do stuff still difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep often arise when people aren't able to switch off. dinny melatonin can help people sleep in those cases he could own, but it won't help people whose insomnia has physiological causes initially and like

breathing or movement disorders during the night up such as heavy no gotcha jerks and the arms and legs socum dime, a more of an overactive fibroid from so i'm still going to vote on there are lots of products on the market, but many of them aren't subject to regulation. the purity in effectiveness are not always certified. so a manufacturer can say that their product helps you to sleep with no obligation to give scientific proof of melatonin products only help you to fall asleep. they don't guarantee better sleep development that fast acting, but that broken down by the body just as quickly. so they don't provide any long lasting effect, ah, whether supplemented or produced naturally. melatonin is broken down by our bodies with him in our that's why so many of the sleep products don't help. but there are

slow release capsules. these have the highest dose of melatonin, and release it gradually to keep the steady level throughout the night. ah. melatonin is mainly prescribed to people over 55. when natural hormone production decreases. horeb stressor, other medications are causing sleep problems. but caution is advised me, it's better to start off with a small dose. and it's not a good idea to keep taking more tablets if you wake up in the night and shut another problem, come to. so if you take it too late at night to fall asleep again in the middle of a night to get back to sleep. and again, shortly before you wake up and you and up with the opposite problem, you can go to the alba timothy, often you need to wake up. but the melatonin level is still rising still, and you're still tired due to blood. in the worst case,

it can throw the entire sleep wake cycled off. and just because melatonin is produced naturally by the body, that doesn't mean it's free of side effects. nucleus deal and copy can cause headaches. you might experience a slight fever, malaise, or nausea of treatment. sometimes i'm a victim mentality. melatonin every day can suppress the body's natural melatonin production. and even after short term use, some patients report nightmare. so my doctor's advised not to use melatonin for more than 3 months. without medical consultation, there are concerns that long term use may cause damage to the liver and kidneys has all that talk of sleep aid, you drift off. martin schmidt is here to bring you back with school today with practicing mindfulness at the bus stop. okay.

the next one is were 5 minutes. usually that's the moment where we pick our smartphone just to fill up the time. one alternative to that would be a mindfulness exercise with a simple 3 times 3 methods. you can playfully reconnect with your surroundings well that we perceive 3 impressions that we can see. 3 impressions that we can here and 3 impressions that we can send with our hands or feet. and as we begin with, the thing you might notice was maybe more in a distance, or here i can see a tree right next to me. now go to the hearing. so simply notice what you can perceive in the foreground, or in the better off of you hearing. and hear people walking by the footsteps. i hear a boss. and now what do you sense in your hands or in your feeds?

maybe the warmth of cold and or the contact the wrong. now i'd like you to go through all the impressions to just perceive through hearing, seeing feeling and choose one of those perceptions we want to stay with. for the next 30 seconds or $2.00 to $3.00 breaths, i would choose the tree. i would maybe notice that some lights on that tree, even still some leaves. but simply make sure that you do not with that. so for this edition, join us again next week on in good shape until then come by ah, with

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