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Saira Hameed

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“Starting out you're the next time the person walks into the consulting room and you're almost double checking the computer screen is that really you know because the last time you came you know maybe you were so exhausted you could barely convey your history or the last time you came Week was too high, you were finding the chair very uncomfortable, or you know, and the transformation from resetting one hormone, I still, like this is the 20 year anniversary of my practice, 2006 to 2026 need a little pluck in here. Still to this day, when you see those transformations, you just say, wow.”
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“I think the story that informed me hugely, and maybe when you're early on and you're absorbing so much and growing so much, was the story in chapter one. Now, maybe I don't want to give a spoiler too much. Bit, but I think it's the idea that when a hormone glitches in some way and what we see clinically, I do have too much of a hormone or too little of a hormone, all the body's become resistant to it. Those are the three scenarios we tend to see. Perhaps what you don't Appreciate enough when you're a student or early on until you are the one kind of in the driving seat and the patients are putting all their ice onto you, ideas, concerns and expectations, this idea that when you can fix one glitching hormone the magical effect is Revelatory, and it's revelatory to the patient, but believe me to the doctor, particularly.”
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“Concern, what are your concerns around this? Well, it's really difficult having a headache all the time and it's impacting my home and my big kids and so on. And I suppose your expectations, that also that taps into where do we go next? What do you expect in one person might say, I will feel very, very reassured if I can have an MRI scan? The next person would say, Well, I'd just like to try it maybe a pain relief strategy for three months and come back and then see now, as I say, you can't be completely led by the patient. You're obviously the expert on the other side of the desk, but the importance of gathering that information really can't be overstated. And so much of the time those, what I say in the book, the details end up not being the details at all.”
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“Ice was something my medical students taught me because it didn't feature in my medical training at all. ICE stands for the importance of seeking a patient's ideas, concerns and expectations. And the premise behind it is that we encourage our students and hence our future doctors and it's considered to be good practice at some point in the consultation, usually towards the end of the history taking, to seek that from a patient. So somebody comes with a headache and the idea is part would be what do you think is going on or to understand more from them so one person might say my mother used to have terrible migraines and she sometimes should be in bed for three days and you know and that's what I'm worried I might have the next person like say I'm worried I have the brain tuna so what's your idea that also then feeds into your”
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“No, exactly right. One of the key questions I've learned, I've been so lucky to train where I've trained under some absolutely phenomenal mentors and senior endocrinologists. And one question I've very much learned from one of them is to say, what do you want? I can't always give you what you want, what you want might not be possible or safe or I could cancel you that that wouldn't be the best next step. But that, you know, you can have 10 patients with the same condition and they might give 10 different answers.”
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“Women shouldn't worry about coming forward. It doesn't mean you will necessarily need HRT, but at least think about having that conversation with a GP or a specialist.”
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“And now it's so important to look at this on a case-by-case woman-by-woman basis. And there can even be questions, for example, the duration of treatment or what symptoms are we looking to address. What is your background breast cancer risk? And that's not just family history, because there can be other risk factors for breast cancer, you know, having a high body mass index and carrying extra weight and show on the amount of alcohol you drink. So various things can also feed into that decision making. I think it's important to say, you know, there's certainly women who go to menopause, whose estrogen will fall at that point in their life. They feel all right. They feel largely all right. So we don't want to over-medicalize those women. They're absolutely fine. But it's important to say that”
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“Exactly right. One of the concerns that lots of women have, and plenty of doctors have, Really, the question is HRT safe? That's a huge concern. And some women are really quite fearful to the point where even though they're having a really difficult menopause, they just say, well, no, I've read all these things or I've heard some scares or, you know, it's just not for me. Now, estrogen is a hormone that will stimulate certain forms of breast cancer. And some a trial that was done in the 90s and then sensationally halted in 2002, a very large trial of HRT seemed to suggest that there were increased rates of breast cancer in women taking HRT. But that trial, the methodology has subsequently been quite significantly questioned”
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“Probably in the UK, around the 15% mark, and he brings that represents quite a swift uptake, probably over the last five years or so.”
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“Know, I think the body is really, really precious. And I think my key message to listeners is if you owned a £1 million sports car and somebody at the gym or somebody online said, oh, you know, why don't you just sort of put this supplement in the engine? I'm sure it will make it work better. You'd say, well, this car is my pride and joy. It's million pounds. What can I take some random advice from somebody? Now, if it was the top sports car expert in your town who gave you that advice, well, maybe that's different. But the body is so precious. And sometimes I think we're more achieved sometimes to material possessions and understanding that, you know, let's people really, really careful about what advice we're taking and what we're putting into the body and does the body actually. Need it.”
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“So, you what happens is you turn off natural testosterone production, and if your natural testosterone production is absolutely fine, well, that's a problem because now you're testing on the TRT that you may not have needed, when you stop the TRT, let's say you say it's too expensive or I'm having side effects or I'm not sure this is safe or the turnoff of your own natural testosterone production can last up to a year sometimes. So you might have been in a situation where there wasn't really anything wrong with your testosterone before and maybe you had retired or your sex drivers bit off, but that was nothing to do with testosterone. Your testosterone production was fine, but then you took testosterone and now your testosterone production is not fine because the TRT turned off your testosterone production.”
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“Pathological testosterone deficiency isn't that common. And the real concern would be that if a man starts using TRT testosterone replacement without specialist oversight, without robust diagnostics, the body is really, really smart. If you're putting testosterone into your body, your hypothalamus and pituitary glands in your brain will go, great, tons of testosterone here. You can just switch off like nope. Why are we going to waste our resource internally making testosterone if there's all this testosterone swilling about already?”
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“In health, men produce testosterone lifelong. Yes, the lemonals will decline in the later decades. But remember, it's not uncommon to open a newspaper and see that somebody's fathered a child in his 80s. And we say, okay, good luck, mate, but we don't think that's, we accept that that can happen biologically. So the amount of, you know,”
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“Well, you know, if a man is feeling under par or sex driver's going through a bit of a fallow patch or he's not as buff as he once was, or maybe he's gaining weight and so on, could this indicate testosterone deficiency? Now, very clearly want to say to listeners, it might do if you're worried, definitely speak to your GP, get checked. Like, we don't want to miss you. We don't want to miss your diagnosis. But there is There's no male menopause, so there's not going to be a midlife point for a man where his testicles stop producing testosterone in the way that women's ovaries in midlife at menopause stop producing estrogen.”
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“Is definitely testosterone deficient, and we can. Check that, and we can make a very robust diagnosis, and those men we will prescribe TRT, testosterone replacement therapy. People are much more aware of this HRT in women to replace estrogen. Same premise. We'll replace the testosterone in a man who is deficient. Where testosterone has become a bit of a kind of social media superstar is the idea that testosterone is so important to men's health that”
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“And TRT is a medically recognized term, so if we are treating a man with testosterone, we will call it TRT Sit a valid term. Really what's happened is we talked about a woman's access being hyperphalamous petuitary ovaries. And in a man, it's the same aside from the fact that his will be hypothalamus pituitary testicles. And as we said in all women that all three of the glands have to be working correctly for her to have fertility reproductive function and so on. Same with a man. Hepathalamus has to be firing right, pituitary has to be firing right, testicles have to be okay. And when that happens, testicles will produce adequate testosterone. Now there are conditions in men where there will be either a congenital cause or more commonly pathology affecting the hypothalamus, the pituitary or the testicles. And that man...”
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“Two trees the size of a pea The control it has over the body's hormones is utterly fundamental. So I agree with you. It wasn't until the 1930s that it was worked out that it did anything of any importance. There was a time that because exactly as you say, it sits at the base of the brain, actually surgeons can access it sort of through the nose. So there was this idea that One point that it was just secreting phen through the nasal cavities and it was, you know, so what is less than a century that we've understood that this p-sized gland is, as you say, the COO of the body systems.”
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“In women, testicles in men, it will also send out signals to the adrenal glands, the thyroid gland, and so on. So the communication between the master gland, the hypothalamus, and the pituitary is absolutely key, and then the pituically being able to forward on those instructions is the next step. So listeners, viewers can already see that the endocrine system has these amazing levels of checks and balance. So it really lets if we talk about the ovaries, you actually need three glands to be working correctly for female fertility and correct A varying function. Hypothalamus has to be working well, the pituitary has to be working well, so the brain's too glands, and the ovaries themselves have to be responsive and so on. So three things have to go right. In order as you call it, the whole access to be ticking along correctly.”
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“The hypothalamus in the book I call it The Brain's Master Gland. This is essentially the conductor of the hormone orchestra, and the hypothalamus will set the tempo on what many of the hormones are doing. And if you think of the hypothalamus as sort of raising its baton, and the way it does it, is it will send out its own hormone signals, those hormone signals are destined for the pituitary gland. It's another gland in the brain. So essentially the hypothalamus is the master strategist. The hypothalamus will give its instructions via hormone signals to the pituitary gland and then the pituitary gland is like the enforcer. So it will then send out its own signals.”
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“Can we treat that autoimmunity in certain specialties? There's a lot of expertise in treating autoimmunity, the root cause of the condition. In endocrinology, we tend to be treating the end damage rather than trying to either prevent or dampen down the autoimmune attack.”
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“So, if you develop an overgrowth of the pituitary gland, we call it an adenoma. Sometimes there are genetic reasons. So there's some cases that very clearly run in families and you can do the genetic testing for that. But most of them, what we say is sporadic. They've come about by chance being picked up. There's no family history, etc. So, you know, a lot of endocrine conditions are autoimmune in origin, meaning the immune system has turned on the body. So it might be directing its firepower against the thyroid gland or the adrenal glands rather than directing its force against a virus or a bacteria as it should. But with autoimmunity, yes, we can say certain things like, oh, yes, it tends to run in families, tends to run down the female line. The age it tends to come on might be between 20 and 50 and so on. But we can't tell a patient why did this happen, you know, and therefore then it's hard to sort of then go one step beyond that and then say, well, how could we have prevented it? Or how can we treat this at the root cause? Because if we're saying the cause is autoimmunity.”
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“I think where lifestyle really can impact hormones and is the insulin resistance piece that it can. And the way so much of that advice I just gave was about reducing insulin resistance, staving off insulin resistance because insulin resistance kind of as it says on the tin, if insulin's message cannot get through to your cells, it can lead to many different illnesses, including prediabetes, type 2 diabetes. So many of the lifestyle bits that I went through will help with that. But as you say, in the book and in endocrine practice, there will be many illnesses that no matter how great your lifestyle, healthy you are, and if you're doing everything to an A-plus level, that illness will still come about. And I think the reason they consider, and we don't know what's causing a lot of these illnesses.”
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“Or not. I mean, it's up to you. And everyone's going to say, yeah, I could have told you that. You don't need to train as an endocrinologist for 20 years to know that. But actually, I suppose what I would say is if people are kind of playing around with that advice and they're thinking, you know, is that something I should do? I would say there's kind of good hormonal backing to it.”
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“None of it's very well, but for example, getting enough sleep trying to wake up roughly the same time every day, you know, to beat, you know, fanatical about it, but something along those lines. Doing a little bit of intimacent parting if you can, if that works for your life, works with your health and so on. Eating protein with your meals, getting enough fiber. Trying to manage your stress as best as you can. UV light every day, getting movement in every day, getting into a relaxing retreat mode by LNO, Unig as the evening is winding down. So you can go through sort of why some of those things will be helpful.”
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“So, what can you do to sort of live considerably, I suppose, alongside your hormones? Well, this would be a sort of short checklist. And these are, I guess it's kind of like the age-old wisdom as well. So there's not going to be, you know, there's nothing here that, I don't know if that would get you clicks or get you followers or because none of it hits better.”
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“Yeah, so I think you're absolutely right to say, and then I will give you the prescription for the endocrinologist A plus alpha lifestyle. Because hormones control really every aspect of day-to-day life from your energy to your stress, to your sex drive, to your thirst, to how hungry you feel, to whether you feel full, does my trousers fit me today, you know, whatever it is, it can be hard to disentangle when something goes off a little bit. Are we talking about life? Like, oh yeah, my trousers are feeling tight. Yeah, but that's because I've been having takeaways the last two weeks because I'm really like, you know, sprinting towards the deadline. Could be an endocrine problem that makes the detective piece really fascinating by the time the patient comes to the clinic. So life”
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“That's when it becomes very apparent something that was working absolutely fine is now not working well. So I think it's a tribute to the body's hormones that we don't really think about them or credit them very much because they by sort of pinging their messages around the body all day every day I mention in the book they are our idea of what a normal life looks like. So it's only when something goes wrong that we suddenly say something is really amiss here.”
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“Blood sugar goes up, my pancreas would have released the hormone insulin. Insulin would have cleared the sugar from my blood ate lunch a few hours ago. Now my blood sugar wouldn't be now back to normal. I haven't thought about that. I haven't done anything. I just ate my lunch and packed away my lunchbox and got on with my day. And so because that's working beautifully, I don't think about it. But if I have diabetes and that insulin signaling is not working correctly,”
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“So, there can be some dramatic presentations, a few of which are sort of discussed in the book, but on the whole, Horman illness can be very stealthy, it can creep up on you, it's hard to know how long I've been tired for, not quite sure how long my periods have been erratic. Yeah, the weight's been creeping up for a while, but you know, I... Put it down to sort of wear and tear, this and that. So often it is a bit of an insiduous onset. One of the quotes I use in the book is the 20th century French surgeon Ren ⁇ Leriche. And he says, health is life in the silence of the organs. So this idea that when everything is working beautifully, you don't notice so that, for example, you know, when we ate our lunch earlier today”
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“Communicate, it's a bit like the fuel gauge on your car. You've got to be able to understand how much fuel you've got on board. Your brain needs that same information. So that was discovered in 1994. Obviously, the gut hormones are having a bit of a moment right now. GLP1 and others coming through. So there are ones that are sort of very, very actively being worked on at the moment and others, I'm sure, will be discovered and suddenly will say, oh, I get that now. And maybe there have been patients out there who, you know, it wasn't clear what was going on with them as I make the case in my book that historically people with hormone conditions were misunderstood. It's only because we didn't have the knowledge at the time.”
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“Might be a top 10 things like thyroid, cortisol, testosterone, the pituitary hormones and so on. There are going to be more discoveries for sure. And one of the biggest discoveries has happened in my lifetime, the discovery of leptin, hormone secreted by body fat, because you ask such a question, you said, well, you know, is everything secreting hormones? And the point is really before leptin was discovered, that was 1994. That's a signal from body fat to brain that tells your brain how much fat you've got stored. The body fat on the whole was sort of seen a bit like we might see fat on a rib-eye steak, this sort of inert, slightly, you know, lump and thing. And actually now we know this hugely dynamic tissue. And then of course it makes perfect sense that your brain is stuck up here in the skull and your body fat is down here. Well, the two needs to”
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“Okay, so I very ballpark, we might have about 50 hormones 50. Linically, the ones that we see commonly, let me say, misfiring in some way and causing illness and those patients will come to our clinics. There might be a top 10”
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“Great in the end that they might have ended up with an eponymous syndrome or a Nobel Prize, but boy did they have to put up with a lot to get to that point. So I thought those stories were really, really worth telling to give the public, give readers a sense of what does it mean to be a scientist or do science. Sometimes you think it means, you know, wearing a white coat and pipesing things. And yes, it absolutely can mean that, but it can also mean different ways that these breakthroughs came about. So some of those stories were fascinating. I guess the tie that binds the whole book is really all about storytelling, whether it's my story or my patient stories or the stories of these sort of big scientific breakthroughs.”
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“I think the third thing that sort of I try to weave into all the stories is where did all this settled science come from? So I can tell you with sort of great certainty, I caught asleep as this or estrogen does that. But where did this come from and who were these amazing pioneers, our forebears who did that work to come up with these conclusions? Now I have to confess that before I started researching the book, I didn't know much about the history of endocrinology and I just thought that maybe some of these breakthroughs were sort of multi-million pound scientific grants and big teams and glistering institutions. Yes, sometimes that's the case. But actually maybe unexpectedly for me is that many of these breakthroughs they were these plucky underdogs who had a really good idea and they saw the problem in a completely different way to other people, sometimes really disparaged at the time.”
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“Is when they go wrong, somebody really feels it. And so to be able to convey what those hormones do, not in a textbooky way, but this is the story a patient would tell me, I think as humans we love stories. So that's the way I wanted to write about it. You, the reader, are sitting alongside me in the clinic room and we're listening to this story and now we understand, well, this is how a woman feels when her estrogen goes down that menopause or this is how somebody feels if their cortisol level is running far too high. And I think we remember it far more. It's far more hard hitting when we can think, okay, well, that's how that patient seemed when they came. Yes.”
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“And they say, What does that mean? I say it's hormones. They go, oh, you know, people kind of mean about HRT then, right? Maybe a little bit. It wasn't as much discussed as it is now. And bit by bit, hormones have kind of infused into the public discourse and the public zeitgeist. Lots of people have questions about hormones. Sometimes as endocrinologists, you know, we'll come across things in the media or on social media. Our patients will ask us things. I read, someone told me and you think, hmm, there's a lot out there that isn't quite sort of correct. And it would be great to have something expert written for the public so we can dispel some of the vibes that are going around at the moment. Some woman's have become like rock stars, quarterl and testosterone, GLP1. So those are the ones I kind of wanted to major on. And what's interesting.”
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“There's also, I think, what I've learned over the years is what medicine is about, or my reflections on what it means to me. It's something that certainly evolved within me, my thoughts on it now very, very different to when I was applying to medical school in 1996. Gosh, I look back and I think, did I really know when I was letting myself in for. So sharing that aspect of medical memoir, I thought was helpful. Endocrinology is the specialism concerned with the body's hormones and glands and the illnesses that occur when they go wrong. And hormones are having a bit of a moment right now. So definitely when I became an endocrinologist in 2006, I'd sit next to someone, I don't know, dinner, they say, what do you do? I say, I'm an endocrinologist. Can I talk to you about my hernia? I don't think, no, I'm not that kind of doctor.”
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“Firstly, Gonish, so nice to be in conversation with you, and thank you for inviting me on. It's lovely to be speaking to you. This book is really the synthesis of 30 years of my clinical work. So it really spans the time from right back to when I was thinking of applying to medical school to the present day. Medicine in itself is a fascinating career. You get these glimpses of people's lives, their turn of phrase, the way they're dressed, the way they're expressing themselves. They tell you their story. You see the impact of illness on their life. That in itself is pretty great way to spend the day.”
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