The Myths of Pathology with Keith Littlewood

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: