Best endocrinology & metabolism books according to redditors
We found 12 Reddit comments discussing the best endocrinology & metabolism books. We ranked the 10 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 12 Reddit comments discussing the best endocrinology & metabolism books. We ranked the 10 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Endocrinologist here. Re strength and muscle mass, it's unequivocal that men are on average stronger, and unequivocal that this is largely driven by testosterone. Testosterone directly increases muscle cell cross-sectional area in humans; strength differences between men and women are directly attributable to muscle cross-sectional area; in any group of men and women with similar training histories, men will substantially outperform women on strength tests; and individual variation in strength is highly correlated to variation in circulating androgens. There's really no doubt about that one and there's lots of good studies with good control groups.
Your other points stand, but for muscular strength, one can't simply brush off the known effects of the androgens.
Reviewed here, here, here, here. The known biochemical effects of testosterone on human skeletal muscle are reviewed in this paper.
They used Greenspans Endocrinology at my university that had a top 10 ranked bio department. Pretty sure there’s a pdf rip floating around somewhere.
-1931 (Germany)- Dora Richter likely becomes the first person to undergo a vaginoplasty. This was an experimental procedure & extremely groundbreaking in its success. Richter had previously undergone the prerequisite operation of castration in 1922. Then she underwent the penectomy & vaginoplasty in this single surgery. Unfortunately she’s thought to have died in the 1933 incident mentioned later. Her patient details are here.
-1931 (Germany)- The 1st transgender celebrity, Lili Elbe becomes the second trans woman to undergo a vaginoplasty. Elbe is quite famously the subject of the 2015 Oscar garnering film “The Danish Girl”. Her penectomy and castration was performed a year prior. She underwent further operations after the vaginoplasty also in 1931 that included an orchiectomy, an ovary transplant, & an ultimately unsuccessful experimental uterine transplant which caused her death from infection, in that era where many antibiotics & anti-rejection drugs did not exist. She was likely the first attempted uterine transplant patient. (That particular procedure is something we are only now finding success on in our time.) A Telegraph article on her story.
-1932 & 1933 (Germany)- Non-medical but related events: With the rise of Adolf Hitler to chancellor and an increasingly extreme political atmosphere in Germany, Dr. Magnus Hirschfield (a gay man himself) is continuously persecuted for his progressive work and ultimately is forced to flee the country in 1932. Then in 1933 Nazi authorities organized attacks on Hirschfield’s Institute (mentioned here), destroying the building, burning its records, & overtaking anyone present. (Actual photo of the record & book burning). Former patient Dora Richter worked as a maid at the institute at this time. Along with other employees & patients she was attacked during the ransacking & is not known to have survived. These events effectively halted the progress of this work in Germany for the duration of the 2nd World War &the reconstruction afterward. Indeed many such transgender people of the country would come to be killed in the The Holocaust. They were included in the “Pink Triangle” classification of Nazi prisoners.
-1936 (London)- Olympic champion Mark Weston (won his medals as Mary Louise Edith Weston) undergoes reassignment surgery, in what is likely the first one performed in England. [Note we now begin to see the ripple effect process of the work done in Germany, having been shared & studied by other practitioners, begin to spread further throughout Europe.] A contemporaneous newspaper account of him from the Reading Eagle is here.
-1936 (Russia)- Dr. N. Bogoras (full name- Nikolaj A. Bogoraz) publishes the details of the first attempted total phalloplasty using skin grafts. (Many of the articles on him are locked behind research site access blocking walls, like these, but if you have academic access to them through a university affiliation you can read them in full, if not check the abstracts for summaries.)
-1939 (England)- By the end of the 1930s, a total of 25 "sex change" report stories have appeared in British newspapers. 11 having occurred in Britain, while the rest were mainly European. (Per "Bodies, Sex & Desire from the Renaissance to the Present" by Fisher & Toulanan, 2011, p. 107.)
-1943 (England)- Sir Lennox Ross Broster is sensationally reported to be performing sex change operations by The News of the World, that’s not exactly correct. But Broster is performing numerous genital operations on intersex patients. And would come to treat transgender patients later on in the 1950s, when he collaborates with psychiatrist John Randell. Broster is mentioned here.
-1946 (England)- Michael Dillon publishes the first major English language work recalling transgender patients experiences in “Self: A Study in Ethics & Endocrinology”. It is still available for purchase on Kindle here.
-1946-49 (England)- Michael Dillon becomes the 1st female-to-male patient to undergo phalloplasty performed & pioneered by Sir Harold Gillies, it is the 1st total technique for female-to-male sexual reassignment surgery. This is the exact procedure is still the modern standard. A NY Times article.
-1948 (USA)- Famous American sexologist Alfred Kinsey comes across a transgender patient, a child who expresses they "wanted to become a girl”. He met them in the course of working on his seminal research “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”. This is the 1st known reference to a youth transgender person. Kinsey had not see a such patient of the age of the child before & so consults with specialist Dr. Harry Benjamin about them.
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My program director, who is/was a GI PA exclusively out of school, really liked Current Diagnosis & Treatment GI. She actually had us read it for our GI class and it seemed like a good overview.
I had 'CFS' a couple of years ago, and it cleared up immediately with tiny amounts of desiccated thyroid. I'm now taking quite a large amount of desiccated thyroid and thyroxine, but I'm in apparently perfect health. (Full time job, cricket both days of the weekend). No symptoms of thyrotoxicosis at all.
Even my GP agrees that I seem to be fine, although he's worried by my 0 TSH and high Free T4, but every time I try to drop the dose the lethargy, depression, aching muscles etc come back.
Could you tell me what you think of Gordon Skinner's 'Diagnosis and Management of Hypothyroidism'? It's aimed at doctors but very light-hearted in a terribly serious way. (https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Diagnosis-Management-Hypothyroidism-Gordon-R-B-Skinner/0954774515/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502359925&sr=8-1&keywords=skinner+diagnosis+and+management)
Skinner reckoned that you could have the symptoms of hypothyroidism without having funny blood hormone levels, and that this condition would respond to thyroxine. He published an open trial with stunning results, which has sunk without trace. There was an attempt at a PCRT by some brave Scottish GPs, but they buggered it up and got no effect.
He is far from being the only person to claim this. I originally came upon and tried the idea through John Lowe treating Fibromyalgia with T3, but there are many others. (https://www.amazon.com/Metabolic-Treatment-Fibromyalgia-John-Lowe/dp/0914609025) Despite being a chiropractor, John Lowe seems to have been the most careful and thoughtful of all the people who've ever looked into this, and he also published papers, but all in bloody chiropractor magazines that I can't find.
In fact it looks to me as though the balance of the evidence in the medical literature is in favour of the idea.
I actually made a subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/thethyroidmadness/ to post evidence and arguments to, but no-one's interested, so it's just a list of most of the things I found.
This is the textbook we used in my undergraduate comparative endocrinology class. It should cover everything you'd like to know.
Diabetes definitely blows. Keep an eye on your foot. You're probably an early enough diabetic that it won't be a serious problem, but those sorts of things can take forever to heal on us if you don't take care of them from the start.
As for knowing so much, I feel like maybe I should actually do a post on this at some point. When I was first dx'd, I actually was discharged from the hospital without anyone teaching me to use insulin. I think there was a miscommunication between the day nurses and the night ones, and someone thought that I had already been diabetic for a while. They kept me a total of 5 or 6 hours while they got my bg back in range and then sent me home to call my endo.
I actually already had an appointment set up for one the next day (I was worried that all my weight loss might be some sort of thyroid issue). I went in cried like a complete wuss while he showed me how to give myself my first shot (I was scared as shit about needles). He sent me on my way with a meter, some samples of insulin, and little instruction on how to use either. 10 u of levemir at night, 2 u humalog before lunch and 4 u humalog before dinner.
My first 3 months, I followed those instructions and my bgs were all over the place. I'd call his office and be instructed to take 2 u of levemir in the morning as well. Pretty useless shit. My A1c barely dropped at all those first 3 months.
That's when I decided to stop following the instructions of anyone who didn't have to live with this on a daily basis. I got my first diabetes related book, Think Like a Pancreas, which I used to figure out my I:C ratio and correction factors. I started testing around 10 times a day to figure out what my previously dictated 4-times-a-day routine was missing. I also started tweaking my own basal amounts, splitting my levemir in two and shifting units around to develop the rates I wanted for different times of day (which was only possible because Levemir, unlike Lantus, is not 24 hours of steady absorption.)
I brought my A1c down from around 13 to under 8 in the next 3 months, and I got hooked on figuring out why I still had variations that my earlier math couldn't explain. I stopped buying books for patients, and started consuming books and journals meant for nurses and physicians. My bookshelf now includes:
I use the stuff that works, ignore the stuff that becomes outdated, and have about a thousand of those little, color-coded document flags marking different pages for the times when I need to look something up.
I've since switched endos to one who is fantastic and who supports me in the changes that I want to make.
I really like to use the Carbs & Cals counter book if I'm ever unsure of carb content. It contains pictures of the food on a plate and gives guideline carbohydrate contents for various meals and portion sizes which is super helpful to judge carb content: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carbs-Cals-Carb-Calorie-Counter/dp/1908261153/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536566992&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=carbs+and+cals+book+for+diabetics
If you're into history I'd suggest grabbing a copy of "Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology" by Michael Dillon written in 1946 by a physician who also happened to be one of the first (known) British FTM people to under go corrective surgery. Dillon also later assisted Roberta Cowell with her corrective surgery. The book itself is quite easy to read, though there are a few sections that may be difficult unless you know your biology. Fascinating frontier work.
This is a good one: https://tcoyd.org/national-conferences/orlando-fl-2016.html
It has separate T1 and T2 tracks and Dr Edelman (who runs TCOYD) has literally written the book on T1 management
Ur right but not just because endorphines, actually is the way the endocrine system work and the impact of excersize on it.
Theres no need to look for research because well, is like if u need to learn about the lungs, u can read research about the impact of pollutants of the lungs, but if u want to undertand the lungs u will simple learn about the respiratory system.
In fact pappers and research in the hands of most people instead of a tool to reach knowledge leads to a more severe and damaging form of broscience.
the problem here is people only thing in really simple terms about this things and if u try to explain them how the endocrine system works they cannot understand it beyond excerzise testosterone and the papers and webpages they read and missunderstood.
Ur right thoug.
This all the sources u all need:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1259589285/ref=s9_acsd_top_hd_bw_bkg3aF_c_x_3_w?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&pf_rd_r=DHRN87QTJB5AB5Y52959&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=dc7f6090-c807-5092-ab5d-5fb62b4ea1e4&pf_rd_i=689735011
https://www.amazon.com/Endocrinology-Physical-Activity-Sport-Contemporary/dp/1627033130/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525466601&sr=1-3&keywords=endocrine+sports
https://www.amazon.com/Endocrine-System-Sports-Exercise/dp/1405130172/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525466601&sr=1-1&keywords=endocrine+sports
This is where u glearn about endocrine system and sports instead of bathing on broscience covered in facts.
Im tired of people here only knowing about sports and testosterone spreading disinfo because they read an article writing from an scientific paper they failed to understand.