What happens when you go to the doctor and your bloods all look normal, but you are still feeling suboptimal?  I have clients who feel chronically ill, fatigued and hormonal, yet at a glance, they can appear normal on standard blood tests.  So what then?
Well, this is one of the reasons I started The Body Never Lies because there just are too many people coming to me with this story and I am sure that is the same for my guest Keith Littlewood.
You might remember Keith, aka Tommo from the last series.  He has a masters in endocrinology and is currently embarking on his PhD in endocrinology.  If you’d like to donate to his much needed research project, please scroll down for the link
 
In this episode we discuss:

Tommos journey to a masters in endocrinology
Stress environment and inherited physiology 
Endocrine cascade and what makes blood tests inaccurate 
What is endocrinology ?
Dogma of nutrition and not affecting physiology 
Different hormones that aren’t sex hormones 
Thyroid and pregnancy and miscarriage 
Physiology suppressed by stressed state 
The effects of statins on blood sugar 
The problems with general practice 
The problems of functional medicine
Nutrition and stress are the driving factors 
Adrenal fatigue 
Blood vs cells
Why blood tests need to be looked in context
Blood values can be suppressed by stress hormones
What we should be looking at in blood tests and function 
What is thyroid?
Thyroid is so much more than thermogenics
Pollutants and thyroid physiology and reproduction 7:40 
Non. Alcoholic fatty liver disease
Oestrogen levels
Low heart rate 
Muscle pain and stiffness 
Stress and normal TSH
Low heart rate and the fitness response - adaptive function 
Health is the foundation for fitness not the other way around 
Coronary calcification
Long distance athlete physiology 
The cholesterol myth 
Lowering blood sugar with metformin
Longevity and anti ageing 
Research and its limitations 
Saliva tests 
Organic acids
Urine tests 
White coat syndrome 
The Dutch Test 
Misinformation about oestrogen and progesterone 
HRT for menopause 
High oestrogen states 
Lack of ovulation 
Menopause type symptoms
How we eat in our teens/twenties effects menopause 
The contraceptive pill 
Male pathology 
What you should be measuring yourself 
Basal body Temperature armpit and oral and central compartment theory
Heart rate and the staircase effect 
Achilles’ tendon reflex 
Low carb, Keto and physiology 
Fasting and auto phage and longevity 
Why you feel better when you don’t eat

 
You can find Keith Littlewood on instagram as @tommolittlewood and at www.balancedbodymind.com 
I highly recommend his Functional Endocrinology course if you are a practitioner and he also has a great course for the general population wanting to increase their knowledge and understanding of health.
 
If you would like to contribute to Tommo’s independent PhD study in endocrinology, please make a donation at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/independent-science-and-phd-research?utm_campaign=p_lico%20share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.