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Sarah Phillips

Sleep, stress and sunshine: endocrinologists on 11 ways to look after your metabolism

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Lack of sleep promotes poor metabolic health. Composite: Guardian Design; Jacob Wackerhausen;Yevgen Romanenko;unkas_photo/Getty Images

Get to know your hormones

“Most people would like to have more energy and be leaner,” says Prof David Ray, an endocrinologist at the University of Oxford who also provides NHS services. “There is a connection between how we choose to live, what our bodies look and feel like, and the hormones that are going around the body. What endocrinologists deal with is disorders of either a lack of hormones, or too much of a hormone.”

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