7 Tips to Prevent Hair Loss Hypothyroid Hair Loss Tip #5 of 7 – Blood Sugar, Adrenals & Hormones ​We understand that thyroid problems are complicated and that is why Dr. Shook has created several resources so that you can be your own advocate and take your health back!Dr. Shook created “The 6 Week Hashimoto’s Transformation Program” to help people figure out the diet, lifestyle and nutritional supplementation they need, and do it with a built-in support group. This is a clinically tested program that we can help people get their health back. 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Remember, this is a seven-part video series. This is tip number five, and this one's a biggie because I could actually break this one into three different things, but they're so closely related and so intimately connected that I don't want to talk about them separately. We're just going to call this tip number five. What we're going to talk about here is blood sugar, cortisol, and your sex hormones, testosterone and estrogen. These are all intimately connected. If you are a woman and you're having hormonal problems, you've got to look at your adrenal glands and you've got to look at your blood sugar. If you have blood sugar problems, what contributes to that, because it's not just diet and exercise. Blood sugar, we commonly find, there's several things that affect blood sugar. Let's get into this. When we start talking about things like blood sugar, and cortisol, and your sex hormones, there are things that affect them. For us to have an effective and efficient conversation that actually considers the drivers of the problems we have to talk about the things that can throw off blood sugar, that can throw off your cortisol, your stress hormone cortisol, and that can throw off your sex hormones, your testosterone and estrogen. That's what we're going to do. That's why this one could be a number of different things, but I think we need to talk about them together, because they kind of are under the same ... They're influenced by a lot of the same things. There are three things that I see that often cause blood sugar problems. Those are high levels of inflammation, number one. Number two, high cortisol levels, and then number three, xenoestrogens. These things called obesogens, these plastics basically. They're things that are environmental chemicals. Those are the three things that I see very frequently influence blood sugar. Now, the thing that's really important here is blood sugar, what it does is it makes your body less sensitive to your hormones, so insulin's one of your hormones. You don't want to be less sensitive to your insulin, because your insulin lowers your blood sugar. What we really want to do is we want to keep the blood sugar steady and insulin low, because when insulin spikes and blood sugar spikes it drives an inflammatory process. The inflammatory process itself can cause a spike in your cortisol, your stress hormone cortisol, and cortisol and the inflammatory process together, they can break down tight junctions or basically lead to intestinal permeability and leaky gut. Blood sugar's so, so, so important. Now, when cortisol spikes it has this very strong influence on your sex hormones, because cortisol ... When we talk about adrenal hormones and your sex hormones, they're dependent upon ... Well, put it this way. Your body will preferentially make cortisol, it will make the cortisol, your stress hormone, over your sex hormones, like testosterone and estrogen. If you're under stress, or you have high levels of inflammation, it will create a stress response, and your body will actually take hormones like, there's a hormone called pregnenolone, and it will take it and it will make cortisol before it makes your testosterone and your estrogen. Your testosterone and estrogen, it requires pregnenolone. If your body is stealing pregnenolone from your testosterone and estrogen, then you could be deficient there, and that's called a pregnenolone steal. Those things are really important. They're important because the cortisol is relevant. It affects blood sugar. The inflammatory issues are very relevant as well, because these things drive inflammatory processes. They can break down the tight junctions in the GI tract, and they can drive this inflammatory process, and when we talked about in other videos, remember, we talked about blood flow in tip number two. I talked about how inflammation can actually decrease blood flow, because of this thing called the endothelial nitric oxide system that influences blood flow, and I said inflammation, these inflammatory chemicals, …