Dr. Arti Thangudu
63 episodes listed below
Hormone care without hype.
Endocrine Matters is a clinically grounded show about hormones, chronic symptoms, and the medical systems shaping patient care. It challenges vague wellness labels, social-media shortcuts, and rushed clinical assumptions with physiology, labs, nuance, and patient-centered judgment.
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Endocrine Matters is a hormone-health show with a clear editorial spine: symptoms deserve respect, and explanations should still be specific. The show repeatedly separates what patients are feeling from the vague labels often attached to those feelings. “Hormone imbalance” becomes a starting point, not an answer. So do online thyroid rules, adrenal-support protocols, and influencer claims about medications such as metformin. The episodes spend real time on the physiology underneath the language. Thyroid autoimmunity, celiac disease, Hashimoto’s, adrenal insufficiency, ACTH stimulation testing, A1c, PCOS, testosterone, libido, sleep, metabolic health, and perimenopause all appear as part of a broader clinical map. The pacing is direct. A short claim is usually followed by a careful distinction, because the show is most interested in where popular advice becomes too broad to be useful. That makes it especially strong on nuance. Gluten may matter deeply for someone with celiac disease, for example, without becoming a universal thyroid prescription. Testosterone may help some women with low libido, while still requiring caution, monitoring, and attention to stress, relationships, sleep, medications, body image, and mental health. The show also looks beyond individual lab values. Episodes on telemedicine, women physicians, patient dismissal, reimbursement, drug pricing, and healthcare reform ask why good care can be so hard to deliver. Its critique of healthcare is blunt but not careless. The show names paternalism, burnout, access problems, and profit incentives while continuing to center practical care. Guest conversations expand the lens from clinic-level decision-making to systems, technology, physician autonomy, and patient accountability. Endocrine Matters is not a wellness pep talk. It is closer to a clinical reality check for people tired of both dismissal and oversimplification. Its promise is not an easy fix, but a better question: what is actually happening in this body, with these labs, in this life?
Made for: For patients, clinicians, and medically curious listeners who want careful hormone-health explanations, especially around women’s symptoms, thyroid disease, metabolism, libido, and chronic care. It also suits people frustrated by both wellness oversimplification and rushed medical encounters.
What sets it apart: The show pairs endocrine physiology with a structural critique of healthcare, moving comfortably from lab interpretation to drug pricing, telemedicine, and the way women are treated in exam rooms. Its defining move is validating symptoms while refusing vague diagnoses.
Endocrine matters empowers women physicians to challenge conventional norms and enhance patient relationships. Through deep discussions, we aim to elevate the specialty and inspire future generations of women physicians, driving meaningful change in hormonal health.
Insulin prices, pelvic floors, and libido enter the exam room; you leave with better questions.
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A careful look at low desire that resists a one-hormone answer.
Endocrine Matters treats women's libido as a clinical issue that resists a single label. In the conversation with Dr. Anu Sidhu, the discussion keeps circling back to the same point: low desire can involve estrogen, testosterone, thyroid function, metabolic health, stress,…
A clear, unsentimental look at how healthcare pricing turns care into pressure.
Endocrine Matters turns a policy debate into something immediate, tracing how the U.S. can deliver extraordinary medical care while still leaving patients financially exposed and physicians burned out, especially in chronic care fields like endocrinology. Dr.
A grounded look at telemedicine, specialty incentives, and the pressures shaping endocrinology.
It treats telemedicine in endocrinology as something lived in practice, not a slogan. Remote care here still follows a familiar clinic rhythm: the patient comes in, a nurse rooms them, and the physician joins on an iPad, while labs move through a similar flow.
Clear guidance for vision, hearing, and inclusion.
Military medicine, explained through consequence.
Fast headlines with live-radio texture.
Careful medical answers from the prairie clinic.
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An endocrinologist explains why 'hormone imbalance' is not a valid medical diagnosis and how it's often used to sell supplements without proper testing.
This episode examines the evidence behind the common advice to go gluten-free for hypothyroidism, clarifying that gluten does not cause hypothyroidism but discussing the connection between thyroid autoimmunity and celiac disease.
["Endocrine Matters frames women's libido as \"hormones and context,\" with Dr.
This episode discusses how structural paternalism in medical training leads to the systematic dismissal of women's healthcare concerns.
This episode addresses common misconceptions about metformin, a widely prescribed medication for conditions like diabetes and PCOS, and explains its benefits and proper use.
Chris Deacon explains why PBMs need drugs to stay expensive enough to make rebates worth it.
Endocrine Matters part two with Dr.
This episode explores how telemedicine is transforming endocrinology care and empowering women physicians to improve patient outcomes while achieving better work-life integration.
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This episode explores moral injury in healthcare, defined as the distress clinicians experience when forced to make choices that violate their commitment to healing, with examples like pressure for high patient volume and revenue-driven decisions.
This episode features an interview with Dr.