Hi, this is Dr. Sandy helping you tame your sugar Gremlin. Your sugar Gremlin has formed alliances with many other chemicals in your body. In this lesson, we're meeting some of the influences. Because those body bodies can sabotage your efforts to tame your sugar Gremlin. We'll start out with the hormones your sugar Gremlin hangs out with. We already know sugar gremlins have a very special relationship with stress hormones because stressed bodies and minds need extra energy to cope.
In the last section. We stress the importance of de stressing at every level. But they are two other groups of hormones that can can create a little havoc when it comes to your sugar gram then the first are the thyroid hormones, which we'll talk about in this lesson. The other group are your six hormones, which we'll talk about in the next lesson. The thyroid hormones regulate your basal metabolic rate, which is really how much energy you need to run when you are just sitting on the couch. Obviously, higher your basal metabolic rate, the more fuel you need to keep going.
And if you need more fuel, well, it makes sense to be on the hunt for food. So thyroid hormones, keep the hunger neurons on the toes driving the munchies. In fact, people with eight helpings of fibroid hormones suffer from hypothyroidism. And they all be busy. Toby's. Just watching them can be exhausting.
They're buzzing all the time, and to keep themselves splitting always have their hand in the cookie jar. Keeping up with them is a full time job, and sugar gremlins in this situation feel like a track has written over them. Lucky for the person with this problem, that eating and eating and eating never sees them putting on weight. But continuously buzzing can lead to break downs and costs of fortune. They can eat you out of house and home. If you're exhausting your sugar Gremlin you need a chill Whoa, talk to your doctor about options to rein in that overzealous coach.
But most of the time sugar gremlins are not working in cahoots with the thyroid hormone. They just take advantage when the thyroid hormone loses its whistle. This problem is known as hypo thyroidism. With no coach to whip the cells into shape, they have a tendency to towards being couch potatoes, basal metabolic rate crops, so the demand for energy decreases but if your sugar granlund is interfering with your ability to To hear the I am full message you end up eating more than you need. And you need very little candy flossing can help because you end up being more sensitive to your I am for message. But you may need to get an additional help so that your fibroid gets its whistle back.
In the next lesson, we'll look at how sex hormones impact sugar greyman tivities