Can someone relate the effects of hormones on metabolism to symptoms of Cushings disease, Hyper/hypo thyroid?
Cushings disease affects glucocorticoids which are important in metabolism e.g. protein, lipid and glucose. The thyroid hormones also have many metabolic targets thus (altered levels of thyroid hormones T3 & T4) would effect these things too. Obviously, diabetes is concerned with glucose metabolism. Affects on protein metabolism can result in muscle wastage or pseudohypertrophy (muscle would look big but its dead tissue). Disrupted lipid metabolism results in breakdown of fat in certain areas but unusal deposition of fat in others e.g. truncal obesity in Cushings disease. Problems with glucose metabolism can lead to high blood pressure which may be seen in all of these conditions (except hypothyroidism). Thats just a starter but if you look in a human physiology book on glucocorticoids (for Cushings disease) and the effects they have on metabolism. The effects thyroid hormone have on metabolism and look up glucose metabolism. You can probably tie them together with the clinical feature
