Hormones and more...

Hormones and more

Professor John Wass

Hormones and Stress - how does stress affect our hormone health?

There is nothing like trying to keep a business afloat in a pandemic to take your mind of losing half your hair.  That's when I discovered that my thyroid had decided to stop working and a nasty little side effect of that was my hair coming out in handfuls.  I'm pretty good on bones, joints and muscles, the odd dodgy back etc but probably like many of us I didn't know that our thyroid affects pretty much every cell of our body.

An underactive or overactive thyroid can play havoc with so many aspects of your health, from how fast your burn calories causing weight gain or loss, how fast your heart beats to hair loss and so much more.

It affects a woman’s period, making it lighter or heavier, it can affect your chances of getting pregnant, it can be mistaken for menopause symptoms and hypothyroidism (low levels of thyroxine) is quite common post menopause.

It's one of many many hormones we need to stay healthy and life certainly is proving challenging for many of us. So when our system is out of whack, where do we go to get it fixed. Particularly when there are many ads now offering you blood tests for all sorts of stuff, do they work? Are they necessary? What do you do with the information once you have it?

Getting the right treatment has been challenging to get my thyroid levels back to where they need to be but thankfully I have been lucky enough to find Professor John Wass who has been immersed in the world of hormones for many years. He presented a wonderful documentary on BBC a few years ago The Fantastical World of Hormones and quite honestly I am beside myself that he’s agreed to join us for another NP Health Webinar to help us understand our hormones and where to go to find the right treatment when we are struggling to find answers.

Book in to our NP Health Webinar with Professor Wass on 8th October at 7pm., it’s an amazing opportunity to find the answers to your hormone health from a leader in this field. £2.50 and most of the proceeds will be going to the Hope Centre in Northampton.

Professor Wass is a Professor of Endocrinology at Oxford University and was the Head of the Department of Endocrinology at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital Oxford, UK until 2011. From 1989 he was Professor of Clinical Endocrinology and Sub-Dean, University of London at Bart’s. He founded and ran the Oxfordshire Osteoporosis Service in 1995 and is currently the Clinical Reference Group Chair.