Keto Naturopath

We have another exciting topic today. It is a fascinating ancestral story of Laron’s syndrome, Sephardic Jews, the Spanish Inquisition, a village in Ecuador, and a possible secret to longevity and avoiding cancer. Hint: IGF-1 plays a vital role in all of this. But how?We will be giving you some more information on Laron Syndrome, in addition to that which we shared in the podcast that we did on the same topic about two years ago, in order for you to gain a simple and practical understanding of some of the interplays of hormones and biochemistry.A genetic conditionLaron Syndrome is a genetic condition for which you have to be homozygous. The symptom is being small. That condition could be historically related to populations in the world like the Pygmies. Growth hormoneWe all have growth hormones that get sent out from the pituitary gland throughout our whole body. Laron Syndrome is a condition in which people have a genetically-altered growth hormone receptor on the liver. Ordinarily, growth hormone gets produ