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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2023 18:58

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog A month or so ago I had a woman come to me for hormone replacement and one of the symptoms that bothered her the most was Lichen sclerosis on her vulva, the area around her vagina. The symptoms are itching, burning, intolerance to putting creams and gels on the area, pain on intercourse, and the skin is fragile and breaks open and bleeds with intercourse. My patient did not come to me to treat this problem, because she had been told by many other doctors that it was not going to get better. Lichen sclerosis (LS) is an autoimmune disease that affects the vulva and vagina. I know from reading the research and my 20 years of experience that our treatment with T pellets has decreased the symptoms and sometimes reversed many different autoimmune diseases, however I had not had a patient with lichen sclerosis before so I told her that I was hopeful that her lichen sclerosis would resolve with Testosterone and estradiol pellets. After 3.5 months when she returned to the office she was grinning and said that she no longer had the LS…her gynecologist said it was a coincidence, because she had not been trained with the use of testosterone for treatment of post-menopausal symptoms, and autoimmune disease. I had another surprise when I treated a patient who had become agoraphobic when her doctor had told her she couldn't have any more post-menopausal hormones, even though she had had her ovaries removed 10 years before and before her hormones she had multiple severe symptoms of estradiol and testosterone deficiency. The ERT had resolved her problems but now they all came back more severely…she became depressed and anxious and afraid of leaving her house. Her son is an Internal Medicine doctor and he called to ask for my help with his mother. He had tried everything he knew of medically and nothing worked. Agoraphobia is thought to be a psychiatric condition, but in this patient's case it was merely a chemical reaction caused by a lack of estradiol and testosterone. After 4 months of E+T pellets she was planning a trip to New Zealand and her agoraphobia was just a memory! I had no idea that that condition could be due to menopause and lack of E2 and T. In the end it was clear that hormonal deprivation can cause agoraphobia and replacement can treat it! I have prescribed T and E2 pellets to treat a different group of diseases, autoimmune diseases, like Lupus, Rheumatoid arthritis, Sarcoidosis, and Grave's disease of the thyroid. The testosterone pellets are very effective at modulating the immune system and normalizing it, which decreases the severity and symptoms of these diseases. Even though I know that every person with an autoimmune disease that I have treated with T pellets, has gotten much better the specialists who take care of them won't admit that it was testosterone pellets that improved their patient's quality of life. There is plenty of research on the use of testosterone for autoimmune diseases, but it is not in the journals that Rheumatologists read. The research is in the Journal of Metabolism and Endocrinology. Worse yet, These doctors have learned that “hormones” worsen autoimmune diseases, however the information they are quoting really only refers to oral estrogen replacement and not non-oral testosterone. This scares their patients from even seeking help for their hormone symptoms, and prevents them from improving their autoimmune diseases with a safer treatment, T and E pellets. Here are some examples of my patients who have had autoimmune (AI) diseases and have come to me for E and T pellet replacement. Women with autoimmune diseases improve drastically with testosterone pellets! Not only do their symptoms of low testosterone and menopause resolve, but their symptoms of their autoimmune diseases improve! The old belief that hormones make AI diseases worse springs from the fact that oral estrogen (Premarin) that turns into estrone can decrease a woman's free T and make her autoimmune symptoms worsen. However. Educated hormone specialists like Dr. Sullivan and me, know how to prevent this and in fact make the symptoms of AI improve. Here is the key to AI success: We give our patients with AI diseases a lower dose of estradiol in their E2 pellet, and a higher than average dose of T in their testosterone pellets, and we watch our patients get better! The Rheumatologists can't stop patting themselves on the back for the improvement in their patients after I treat them and tell their patients that the hormones should be stopped! Patients are smart and they know why their symptoms disappeared! They chuckle at the arrogance of their rheumatologist. The Rheumatologists just look ridiculous when they claim a patient's progress as from their own treatment, when it was really the addition of Estradiol and Testosterone pellets that improved their symptoms. Some autoimmune diseases are progressive and very hard to treat in any way. I was quite surprised when T and E2 pellets halted the progression of lupus blindness and the progression of MS (Multiple Sclerosis)! It is remarkable and a “surprise result” that I was not told about in my training. One Rheumatologist, who is an acquaintance, told me that he stopped sending patients to me for hormones because they never went back to him! I count that as success. There are many other diseases and symptoms that no one associates with Testosterone Deficiency or low Estradiol, that resolve or improve with the re-establishment of hormone balance. These include: · Stress urinary incontinence · Irritable Bladder · Recurrent Bladder infections · Interstitial Cystitis · Anemia · Painful intercourse · Arthritis · Irritability associated with Menopause · Hormonal Migraines We will discuss these other Unintended Benefits of T and E2 Pellets in Women in our next Healthcast and Blog. Stay tuned!

Understanding menopause

MedStar Health DocTalk

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2023 44:55

Night sweats, hot flushes, female discomfort and dryness, anxiety, and weight gain are just a few symptoms of menopause. How does a woman get there?What are the facts and myths about this change that can make a woman feel less feminine and outdated? On MedStar Health's podcast DocTalk, Christina Enzmann, MD, a gynecologist and menopause specialist at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, brings a fresh approach to explaining and treating menopause. She explains the stages of menopause, how it's different for everyone, and by making changes in your diet, sleep hygiene, physical activity, and more, a woman can live healthfully with the condition, entering a new chapter of life and feeling good about oneself. She also talks about the misconceptions of hormone replacement therapy as well as non-hormonal treatment options. Listen in at MedStarHealth.org/DocTalk. For more episodes of MedStar Health DocTalk, go to medstarhealth.org/doctalk.

Dr. Daved Rosensweet on Hormones and Menopause

Two Boomer Women & The Fine Art of Conversation

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2023 48:26

This episode is an important one for both women and men. Dr. Daved Rosensweet starts with an overview of hormones for both women and men and what they do for us. Interesting thought: not that many generations ago there was no such thing as menopause because lifespan was not that long. Dr. Rosensweet gives us the facts behind the breast cancer risk that was associated with HRT and discusses Premarin and plant-based bio-identical hormones. Two big take-aways: find a practitioner who is well-educated in hormones and check out compounding pharmacies. So much great information in this episode but please remember this is a conversation – you need to check with your own health (hormone) specialist before you set up your own random hormone cocktail based on Dr. Rosensweet's information. Interestingly, Dr. R was the medical advisor / trainer of the first nurse practitioners ever graduated. An aside: Dr. R also has a website called I Wonder Doctor for varied information – link in the show notes. Download Dr. Rosensweet's book Happy Healthy Hormones at https://iobim.org/book/ Find Daved at: https://brite.live/ I Wonder Doctor at: https://iwonderdoctor.com/#welcome Learn more about Dr. Daved Rosensweet and access all his links at: https://boomwithabang.com/dr-daved-rosensweet-on-hormones-and-menopause/

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Healthcast 629 - How American Medicine Changes its Mind.

STRONGER BONES LIFESTYLE: REVERSING THE COURSE OF OSTEOPOROSIS NATURALLY

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2023 21:42

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog In the history of medicine over the last 2 centuries there have been many changes in the recommendations given to patients by their doctors. In general, to change the way medicine is practiced improving the care of patients, a new treatment had to be opposed by one or two courageous doctors who were willing to put his/her livelihood and status in the society of medical doctors on the line. Any medical practice that was contrary to the dogma that had been taught to doctors in training was looked down upon by medical peers and often the doctors who were trying to improve the life of their patients were ousted from their practices and lost their livelihood. I have been one of those doctors trying to improve the practice of medicine in the face of criticism and “name calling” by other doctors who didn't want to change any of their practices. In all cases it took a decade or more to regain my status and acceptance by other doctors and in some cases the changes I have made for the sake of my patients are still not accepted, and most likely won't be for another decade. How and why medicine improves is a painful and complicated process that is always opposed at first. How Progress of Medical Practice Has Been Thwarted by Doctors' Dogma Example #1 Handwashing between examining patients, When Did That Become a Medical Requirement? Doctors now embrace the practice of washing our hands between examining patients, and the practice of wearing one-use disposable gloves to do a vaginal exam on pregnant patients. However, before 1847 doctors didn't believe in hand washing between examining patients. There were no sterile procedures or wash basins available in doctors' suites, and vaginal exams were done on many patients in a maternity ward, one after the other without handwashing. Bacteria had not been discovered in that century and therefore washing away bacteria was unknown, then bacteria were discovered and the presence of dangerous “bugs” that one couldn't see was questioned by the older doctors and the, but Ignaz Semmelweis proved that ha dogma of the day. With the discovery of bacteria by young doctors and scientists presented a change to the practice of medicine that the older physicians in charge didn't accept. Then Dr. Semmelweis showed up on the scene, touting the new knowledge, and insisting that he must wash his hands between Obstetric patients in the ward. This set off an explosion and pitted the old guard versus one young, new doctor. His insistence in washing his hands caused the doctors to throw Dr Semmelweis off staff of his hospital and peer pressure caused him to be shunned by all of the physicians on staff. He had a hard time finding a medical practice and ended his life destitute and without anyone recognizing that he was right the whole time. Medical handwashing became mandatory long after Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis discovered its effectiveness (in 1846) in preventing disease in a hospital environment. He was before his time, and if he had been listened to, thousands of laboring women would have survived childbirth, instead of dying from childbed fever! In retrospect we can sympathize with him because we now know he was right, and his refusal to accept a dangerous practice and to help women live through childbirth, was a personally costly stand to make, but was the first step toward an advance in the practice of medicine. Example #2 Is Estrogen Replacement for Menopause: Dangerous or Healthy? Reference--Menopause: The Journal of The North American Menopause Society Vol. 26, No. 12, pp. 1366-1374 DOI: 10.1097/GME.0000000000001405 ß 2019 by The North American Menopause Society Estrogen for menopausal women has always been a hot potato for medicine. Many studies done in the 1950s and 1960s documented the benefit of giving women estrogen after menopause. Medicine embraced this belief, and the majority of women were put on Premarin, the most popular estrogen replacement. All went well until late in the 1960s and early in the 1970s doctors noticed that women with uteruses were getting uterine cancer at a very high number and the majority of women were taking Premarin. Research confirmed that estrogen replacement without progesterone/progestin could cause uterine cancer! This caused two things to happen: Research began within the drug companies to see if giving Provera®, a synthetic progesterone, would protect women from uterine cancer; The second thing that happened was that women immediately stopped their Premarin therapy and were suffering all over the US. “Premarin” and “Estrogen” became bad words in the doctor's offices, on the front page of papers. This emotional response to a drug name was hard to erase when several years later, when I learned about Premarin replacement through medical school. About that time Premarin + Provera, Prempro® was introduced to the public as the answer to getting uterine cancer in menopausal women. That took over a decade to scientifically establish safety, and menopausal women were without their estrogen to relieve their symptoms. It took that much time to produce enough research to prove that estrogen replacement was not going to cause uterine cancer, but they were right. Estrogen of any type when combined with a progestin protects against uterine cancer, not every case of uterine cancer because there are other factors, but the majority of the time. All was well in regard to E2 during the 1980s-2002 when the next shoe dropped. In 2002 a flawed study was released from the NIH called the WHI or Women's Healthcare Initiative, which was published with a headline that startled doctors and women patients alike “Post-Menopausal Hormones Cause Breast Cancer and Heart Disease”. This Press Release Title was a misinterpretation of the data in the NIH Research article that claimed that Estrogen plus Progestin caused heart attacks and strokes! The truth has been excavated from the huge report describing the study, in the 20 years since the WHI article was published, but the original misinformation won't go away! The study scared millions of women off hormone replacement and caused doctors to stop prescribing them. The outcome of the WHI study is that one brand of estrogen, Premarin(estrogens) PLUS Provera a synthetic Progestin, together do cause heart attacks and strokes. However, estrogen (Premarin or estradiol) alone, does not cause either of these diseases and were proven to protect women from getting heart disease and breast cancer! The original press release of the WHI study should have been titled, Provera, a Progestin, Increases the Risk of Heart Disease and Breast Cancer, and the FDA should have pulled Provera from the market. If it had been properly titled and interpreted by the publisher, doctors would have just changed the Provera® prescription to a natural progesterone (bio-identical progesterone or Prometrium®, progesterone in oil) to take with estrogen, and women would not have had their quality of life changed for 2 decades without estrogen for their menopausal symptoms. I am shocked that Provera® is still on the market with this kind of study showing the damage it can do! I believe the FDA is protecting the pharmaceutical company that makes this substance. I, personally, have not prescribed Provera® since before the WHI when I tested blood levels of my patients and found very high levels of estrone. As is typical, a fearful headline always stays in people's minds even when it is proven to be a lie, so for 20 years, most women have not been able to treat their menopausal symptoms. Since 2002 a multitude of studies have been published (usually by women) stating the real benefits of estradiol replacement to prevent: Heart Disease, diabetes, obesity, dementia, arthritis, hot flashes, insomnia, longer life, and many more symptoms of aging. You might guess, I never stopped giving estrogen to my post hysterectomy patients, and bioidentical progesterone plus estradiol to my patients with a uterus, to protect their uterus from cancer, yet to allow them to have the benefits of estradiol after menopause. Because I read the whole WHI study, I realized that it was not estrogen, but progestin that caused the problem in the WHI study. However One very old doctor told one of my patients that I was going to “kill” her….he was just ignorant of the study. This seems to be how doctors react when they hear part of the information published about one of the medical treatments in question. Interestingly it is an emotional response that causes them to react negatively to new information instead of investigating it like scientists, which is what we are supposed to be! They have now been proven wrong and I look pretty good to the patients who remember. You can see why it is both difficult to trust the information given us as doctors, and why even if we know the truth, it is difficult to treat patients in the negative environment that is caused by careless journalists. This makes it difficult to make changes in medicine for fear someday, a researcher will find fault with it. Example #3: Medical Advice about Drinking Water with Your Meals 100 years ago the JAMA Journal printed an editorial that said no one should drink water with their meal because it isn't healthy. There was no scientific research to back up that medical advice and they didn't say what would happen to you if you did drink water with your meals, but they were adamant that it was dangerous. In the following century doctors have discovered and presented scientific proof that drinking water with your food helps your food digest, makes you feel full now doctors recommend that everyone drinks water with their food! This is proven with scientific research and finally replaced the previous dogma that restricted patients from the simple habit of drinking water with their meals. It took a long time to reverse the beliefs of people, and I remember that in the 1970s my parents believed that no one should drink water with food. The outcome of that habit was that they both had kidney damage as they grew older! They maintained an environment of dehydration in their bodies which is physiologically dangerous to kidney function. Conclusion: So why should we listen to these medical “experts” when they are not advising us in a healthful lifestyle?? Well, about half the time they are right, and half the time they are wrong---it's a toss-up! How does one tell the difference between bad and good advice from their doctor? You have to ask your doctor and trust her advice. As a doctor I read research that tests a given medical practice then I compare the outcomes of the research with the outcomes of my patients, and if their findings agree with my patients' experiences, then I embrace the research and include it in my medical advice. If not, I don't use that information and wait for a better study to parallel what I see every day. You can do the same thing. If you think that the advice a doctor gives you is not consistent with your own experience, then you have to decide whether you take the medical advice and use it or not.

12: How Your Hormonal Health Affects Your Bone Health with Dr. Wendy Warner

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2023 64:17

Is your lifestyle disrupting your hormonal health? Today on The Stronger Bones Lifestyle, we invite Dr. Warner to discuss how your hormonal health affects your bone health. After 14 years of working as a conventional ObGyn, Dr. Warner shifted to the practice of integrative holistic medicine founding Medicine in Balance, where she helps patients heal through a holistic whole-body approach. In this episode, Dr. Warner addresses the lifestyle choices that interrupt your natural hormone production and how this can affect your bone health. Conventional medicine is often 50 years behind medical breakthroughs, and in the hormonal space, doctors are often prescribing based on antiquated practices. Dr.Warner explains how far we have come in hormonal health and updates you on the innovative practices of today. It is her belief that we no longer need synthetic hormones, since the discovery of bioidentical hormones and she gives you the tools to advocate your concerns about these synthetic treatments to your doctor. Our culture downplays the importance of stress regulation, but it is the primary tool to combat decreased hormone production and imbalance. Dr. Warner shares her protocol for restoring testosterone production in both men and women, to ensure a long and healthy life. Join us as we explore how hormonal imbalance affects your bone health. Key Takeaways:[1:00] Hormone changes as you age [7:00] Stress regulation for DHEA and Testosterone [11:00] Lifestyle changes for adrenal health [13:30] Synthetic Hormone replacement therapy [22:00] Bioidentical hormone replacements [33:00] Stress-induced menopausal symptoms [36:00] Heavy metal exposure from smoking [38:00] Diet and supplements for bone health[42:00] How to address estrogen dominance [46:00] Taking Magnesium with Calcium [50:00] Calculating your nutritional needs [57:00] Committing to lifestyle changes Where to Find Our Guest:WendyWarnerMD.comInstagramFacebookMemorable Quotes:“If you can just deal with the stress, your DHEA will come back up. You will make your own testosterone ad you won't have to take this stuff.” [8:55] -Dr. Warner “The Premarin and Provera combination, if you take that for more than five years, you increase your chance of getting breast cancer, and it's from the Provera, not from the Premarin.” -Dr.Warner“Our nutrient needs are gonna change day to day, week by week, year to year, depending on what's going on, so that's why I'm saying don't get too hung up on the numbers.” [51:32] -Dr.Warner To learn more about me and to stay connected, click on the links below:Instagram: @debirobinsonwellnessWebsite: DebiRobinson.comHealthy Gut Healthy Bones ProgramScotland Retreat 2023Cultural Immersion to Bali 2023

75. Happy Healthy Hormones with Dr. Daved Rosensweet M.D.

Vitally You, Feeling Younger While Growing Older

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2023 41:16

Dr. Daved Rosensweet is the Founder of The Menopause Method, a comprehensive approach to treating the many symptoms and physical changes of diminished hormones that women experience in midlife.Dr. Rosensweet is a leader in the bioidentical hormone therapy (BHRT) field. In our conversation, he debunks the common myths that many women and physicians believe about BHRT and unpacks where most of the misinformation stems from. In 2002, there was a government-led study known as the Women's Health Initiative which claimed that hormones for postmenopausal women are harmful. Years later, that conclusion was proven to be false, but the damage was already done. Dr. Rosensweet and his team at The Menopause Method are on a mission to show women that they can have dominion over their wellbeing and thrive in menopause. Dr. Rosensweet highlights incredible success stories of women treated with bioidentical hormones like estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. He shares his recommendations for finding the right physicians and nurse practitioners who are also dedicated to advancing women's medicine and resisting the one-size-fits-all approach. Listen in to learn more about how to increase vitality and improve health outcomes in menopause. If you are enjoying these conversations, please subscribe and spread the love by leaving a review and sharing it with your friends.Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, or on your favorite podcast platform. Topics Covered: What's going on beneath the surface when women lose ovarian hormones What bioidentical hormone therapy is and how it worksDr. Rosensweet's top advice for women in midlife What you should look for when working with a hormone specialist and implementing a treatment plan How Dr. Rosensweet is embracing the challenges and breaking through barriers of the conventional healthcare model The truth about the Women's Health Initiative study Resources Mentioned:A4MIFMBrite Estrogen Matters by by Avrum Bluming, MD & Carol Tavris, PhDConnect with Dr. Daved Rosensweet: Dr. Daved Rosensweet's WebsiteThe Menopause Method WebsiteInstitute of Bioidentical Medicine WebsiteI Wonder Doctor WebsiteGet in Touch: My WebsiteInstagramSpecial offers: Download a free digital copy of Dr. Rosensweet's book: Happy Healthy Hormones, How to Thrive in MenopauseDownload the Daily Vitality eBook at danafrost.com/daily-vitality/Credit:Podcast Production by the team at The Wave PodcastingMusic by Phoebe GreenlandPhotography by Amy Boyle PhotographyPodcast art by SimplyBe. Agency

132 Women's Health: Vaginal Microbiome & Sex Drive, Hysterectomy, HRT, Estrogen, Premarin, Womens Health Initiative, Bioidentical Hormones and More

Healthy Vibrant YOU

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2023 34:43

Mentioned in this episode:Dr. Betsy Greenleaf drbetsygreenleaf.com and pelvicfloorstore.comhttps://www.drlisao.com/products/urinary-tract-supporthttps://crunchi.com/lisaolszewskihttps://dryfarmwines.com/healthylivingsimpleSynergy Science Hydrogen Water: https://www.synergyscience.com/shop/?afmc=1ivDr. Lisa's Cookbooks:https://www.drlisao.com/ketocookbooksDr. Lisa's Kick Sugar and Keto Courses:https://drlisao.com/kicksugarhttps://www.drlisao.com/ketokickstarterhttps://www.drlisao.com/ketoblueprintCheck out Dr. Lisa O's favorite things at drlisao.com/bioMentioned in this episode:Dr. Lisa O Nourish UT (Urinary Tract Support)Dr. Lisa O Nourish UT (Urinary Tract Support) https://www.drlisao.com/products/urinary-tract-supportNourish Balance Thrive SupplementsCrunchi Makeup and Beauty ProductsCrunchi: Smart. Conscious. Beautiful. https://crunchi.com/lisaolszewskiCrunchiKeto CookbooksGrab my keto desserts, appetizers, mocktails, cocktails and keto friendly meals at drlisao.com/ketocookbooksNourish Balance Thrive SupplementsDry Farm WinesClaim Your Dry Farm Wines Penny Bottle at www.dryfarmwines.com/healthylivingsimpleDry Farm WinesSynergy Science Hydrogen WaterSynergy Science Hydrogen Water https://www.synergyscience.com/shop/?afmc=1ivCheck out Dr. Lisa O's favorite things at drlisao.com/bioDr. Betsy A.B. Greenleaf, DO, FACOOG (Distinguished), FACOG, MBAPremier women's health expert, entrepreneur, inventor, and business leader, who specializes in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery for over 20 years, Dr. Greenleaf, is a trailblazer as the first female in the United States to become board certified in Urogynecology.She possesses a professional reputation that has led to being sought after by medical societies, associations, and corporations to provide lectures, teaching, and advanced training. In 2018, she was honored with the title of distinguished fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Obstetrics and Gynecology for her service and dedication to the field. She holds committee positions on many national women's health organizations. She is a board examiner for the American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She serves as a spokesperson for the American Osteopathic Association, with her quotes appearing in many major media outlets.Dr. Greenleaf is the CEO of The Pelvic...

S2E53 - Easing Menopause with Bioidentical Hormones

Gutsy Health | Nutrition and Medicine

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2023 49:22

Show Summary: "About 30 years ago, a patient stomped into my office. She wanted me to pay attention because she said she was going crazy, which was a surprise. After all, this is a very successful woman who retired in her mid-40s. She was in perimenopause, so I gave her some progesterone. Three weeks later, I got a letter from her saying, 'Oh my god, I can't believe this. I'm myself again, thank you so much.' That caught my attention because this was a dramatic result. It happened with so little time."Women who undergo midlife crises are often punctuated with the unpleasant effects of menopause. Aside from hot flashes, mood swings, sleeping disorders, body aches, muscle loss, osteoporosis, and incontinence can easily diminish their confidence and self-esteem. At the ripe age when knowledge, experience, and wisdom are supposedly at their peak, the sudden hormone shift can cause their life to fall over the cliff.Our guest, Dr. Daved Rosensweet, M.D., is a world-renowned menopause expert. Guided by a deep sense of purpose and passion for holistic medicine, his mission is to heal and turn the tide of this planet. Specializing in women's hormones for the past 30 years.In this episode, we shall know of the elegant benefits of bioidentical hormones in supporting the menopausal stage. Aside from easing the dreaded symptoms, women now have a choice to significantly extend and live out their gifts even past their prime years.Be empowered from needless suffering. Listen to Episode 53 of the Gutsy Health Podcast to learn more!Exceptional Highlights:For about 1000 years, Chinese aristocrats replenish their hormones by collecting the pee of young men and women. Rich in metabolites, dried urine served to maintain health and youthfulness.Premarin was the most popular and profitable hormone supplement in the US from the 1960s. Its name also comes from its origin known as pregnant mare urine.Show Highlights:The Women's Health Initiative study in 2002 has caused the majority of 18 million American women to miss out on the benefits of taking Premarin.Dr. Daved Rosensweet 13:31Horse-derived urine alone reduces the risk of breast cancer, heart attack, and stroke. But in the study, it was combined with the problematic artificial progestin. Despite the statistically insignificant 1.26 relative risk, the media sensationalized the findings that were redacted later on.Breast cancer is rare in pregnant women, whose estrogen and progesterone are a hundred times higher compared to non-pregnant women.Dr. Daved Rosensweet 21:23Though high levels of estrogen and progesterone have been linked to breast cancer, as a multifactorial disease, genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors also contribute to its development.The best time to consider bioidentical hormones is as early as possible. Women's estrogen and progesterone levels peak during their 20s, then decline.Dr. Daved Rosensweet 30:46Start paying attention to hormonal balance if symptoms include brain fog, irregular periods, breast tenderness, headaches, or PMS.Get 10% off your first order of Odyssey Snack Bars, a powerhouse snack for hormone and blood sugar regulation. Order yours at www.odysseysnacks.comSponsor Link:www.odysseysnacks.comImportant Links: Gutsy Health Podcast InstagramDaved Rosensweet WebsiteBriteThe Menopause Method

The neuroprotective effects of estrogen and estrogenic compounds in spinal cord injury

PaperPlayer biorxiv neuroscience

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2022

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.10.30.514438v1?rss=1 Authors: Shvetcov, A., Ruitenberg, M. J., Delerue, F., Gold, W. A., Brown, D. A., Finney, C. A. Abstract: Spinal cord injury (SCI) occurs when the spinal cord is damaged from either a traumatic event or disease. SCI is characterised by multiple injury phases that affect the transmission of sensory and motor signals and lead to temporary or long-term functional deficits. There are few treatments for SCI. Estrogens and estrogenic compounds, however, may effectively mitigate the effects of SCI and therefore represent viable treatment options. This review systematically examines the pre-clinical literature on estrogen and estrogenic compound neuroprotection after SCI. Several estrogens were examined by the included studies: estrogen, estradiol benzoate, Premarin, isopsoralen, genistein, and selective estrogen receptor modulators. Across these pharmacotherapies, we find significant evidence that estrogens indeed offer protection against myriad pathophysiological effects of SCI and lead to improvements in functional outcomes, including locomotion. A STRING functional network analysis of proteins modulated by estrogen after SCI demonstrated that estrogen simultaneously upregulates known neuroprotective pathways, such as HIF-1, and downregulates pro-inflammatory pathways, including IL-17. These findings highlight the strong therapeutic potential of estrogen and estrogenic compounds after SCI. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

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Ep 54 - Sex After Breast Cancer LIVE! Q&A #11-Hormone Solutions with Andrea Martin NP

Hope After Breast Cancer

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2022 56:22

Shared with love by Jan James, Hope After Breast Cancer If you value the information I provide, the time I put into serving our community, and would like to support my work, please consider subscribing with a paid membership to TEAM HOPE for just $5 a month at Buy Me A Coffee. And please pray for my efforts to have significance in the lives of the women we serve! Thank you! Find out more about our private Facebook support groups (Booby Buddies, Hope After Breast Cancer, Sex After Breast Cancer, Booby Buddies en español) here. Joining our Newsletter List will give you a monthly recap of our best content, as well as information about available training and support. Subscribe to our Hope After Breast Cancer Podcast on your favorite podcast platform! Check out http://sexafterbreastcancer.com/ for quick access to our Sex After Breast Cancer community, experts, and resources. Topics discussed— Vaginal estrogenVaginal estrogen does NOT cause breast cancer or breast cancer recurrence. SOURCE: https://www.acog.org/news/news-releases/2016/02/acog-supports-the-use-of-estrogen-for-breast-cancer-survivors Do your own research about the use of vaginal estrogen! A good starting point is the book Estrogen Matters. https://estrogenmatters.com What are the benefits of vaginal estrogen? What forms does it come in? Andrea recommends the use of Estradiol over Premarin (it's synthetic and has alcohol in it). Other vaginal estrogen products discussed: Imvexxy, Estring, Intrarosa Libido solutions discussed: Vyleesi, Addyi, systemic testosterone (OK on aromatase inhibitors) Follow Andrea on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrea.sexplains.it.all/ Andrea's medical practice: https://www.rachelrubinmd.com/ourteam Disclaimer: While professional experts and the Company address health issues and the information provided on this Website and its components relates to medical and/or health issues, the information provided is not a substitute for medical or health advice from a professional who is aware of the facts and circumstances of your individual situation.

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Hashimoto's and Birth Control Pills - Dr. Martin Rutherford

What is Hashimoto's Thyroiditis?

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2022 6:54

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's and birth control pills. It could be Hashimoto's sex hormone binding globulin and birth control pills, and you'll see why in a second here. Okay. So birth control pills. I am a big non-fan of birth control pills. I get it. I get it, but birth control pills change a lot of things. There are a variety of types, but there's estrogen, there's estrogen and progesterone. I don't know if anybody's even doing Premarin anymore. I haven't seen that in quite a while, but anyway, so it's the estrogen component that's a big deal. When you're taking exogenous estrogen, whether it's in a birth control pill or not, whether it's a cream, because you're in menopause and somebody gives you... Somebody says, "Okay, you're having all these symptoms, you're in menopause. So I'm going to give you estrogen." It's the brain dead.Let's not look at anything and give you estrogen type of thing. There's a lot of things going on there. Whether it's synthetic, whether it's natural, these types of things. How they're read is very difficult, synthetic doesn't really register in your brain. So you really can't tell what the person's estrogen is all about. So there's just a lot of problems when you're trying to deal with somebody who is on birth control or estrogen. Now having said that, I treat a lot of people on birth control and what happens is the birth control pill... Estrogen builds. In other words, you get estrogen into your system or you make estrogen, even for the people who aren't on birth control pills and are highly estrogenic, you have too much estrogen. Part of the reason is because it's not getting cleared out of your system properly. You need to make the hormone. It needs to go into your cell. It needs to be used. What isn't used needs to then go into the system and be cleared by your liver, gallbladder and your intestines. That's a big deal because especially if you're taking exogenous estrogen like birth control, you're never going to get it dosed properly for that person. There's always going to be building, there's always going to be stored estrogen and stored estrogen is not good. Most women now, if you take too much estrogen, it can cause breast cancer and a variety of other different things. So now thyroid. So thyroid, the way a thyroid works is... The way hormones work is they're made, they go into your bloodstream and they have to hop on a protein. It's called a globulin and it has to hop on a protein and attaches that pro... Then that protein takes it to where it needs to go. So the thyroid protein takes it to all the cells in the body, the estrogen takes it to all the cells in the body. http://powerhealthtalk.com http://drmartinrutherford.com Martin P. Rutherford, DC 1175 Harvard Way Reno, NV 89502 775 329-4402 http://powerhealthreno.com https://goo.gl/maps/P73T34mNB4xcZXXBA

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Ep 008 | Would You Rather

The Pharm Girls Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2022 35:12

Today, while we miss Marcia, our powerlifting, pickle-baller fellow, Raj, joins us on today's episode! He explains what the NPA has been up to and what is currently on the calendar. Raj is excited to share more about PharmD Fan Jie Chen from Malaysia that will be joining the team for a short time. Today's VIP (very important pharmacist) is PGY1 Resident Dr. Tess Lewis. Tess is originally from Omaha, NE, and enjoys physical activity and spending time with her cats. Her journey to becoming a pharmacist began when she was 16 and was reinforced when she aced Chemistry in college - something worth noting, for sure! She is passionate about emergency medicine and educating the public. It is important to Tess that students understand there is A LOT more to pharmacy than working in the retail space. Students should explore their options and utilize their mentor relationships to see where they fit in. Recently, Tess was awake for 33 hours. Her dedication to the world of pharmacy is inspiring and we are so thankful she spent time sharing her experience with us. Tune in as we learn her answers in today's game, "Would You Rather?" Today's Pharm Facts have some serious gravity. Premarin is the topic of discussion. Did you know that it comes from horse urine? Listen to today's episode to learn more about the controversy surrounding this drug. ___ Upcoming events: Oct 7 - Hospital & Health System Network Meeting in Lincoln at Cornhusker Marriott Fall Forum Oct 28 - ASP NPA Student Trivia Night ___ Connect with the Pharm Girls | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube To learn more about Nebraska Pharmacy Association visit https://www.npharm.org/ ___ This show is produced by Grindstone. Interested in starting a podcast? Visit grindstoneagency.com/podcasting to learn more.

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The Dangers of Indoor Air Quality

Her Brilliant Health Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2022 52:29

Have you ever considered the air quality in your home? If you're like most people, the answer is probably no. But did you know that the air inside your home could be up to five times more polluted than the air outside? And if you're a woman in her midlife years, that's something to take very seriously. Therese Forton-Barnes is an indoor air quality expert and she's joining us today on the Hormone Prescription Podcast to talk about the dangers of indoor air pollution and what we can do to protect ourselves. Therese is the Household Toxins Health Specialist and the Head Guru at The Green Living Gurus. She spreads the awareness of chemical exposure that could cause many autoimmune illnesses, cancer, and other ailments through her Green Living with Tee weekly podcast, her blog, the Green parent pioneer coaching program for families with children, and Tee's organics line of household cleaners and products. In this episode, you will learn: The dangers of indoor air pollution The things that contribute to indoor air pollution The toxins and carcinogenic chemicals found in indoor air How to protect yourself from indoor air pollution What you can do to improve the air quality in your home So if you're concerned about the air you're breathing, make sure to tune in and learn everything you need to know about indoor air quality and take action to protect your health. (00:00): Plan your life. Like you will live forever and live your life. Like you may die tomorrow. Therese's mom. (00:08): So the big question is how do women over 40, like us keep weight off, have great energy balance. Our hormones in our moods feel sexy and confident and master midlife. If you're like most of us, you are not getting the answers you need and remain confused and pretty hopeless to ever feel like yourself. Again. As an OB GYN, I had to discover for myself the truth about what creates a rock solid metabolism, lasting weight loss, and supercharged energy. After 40 in order to lose a hundred pounds and fix my fatigue. Now I'm on a mission. This podcast is designed to share the natural tools you need for impactful results. And to give you clarity on the answers to your midlife metabolism challenges, join me for tangible natural strategies to crush the hormone imbalances you are facing and help you get unstuck from the sidelines of life. My name is Dr. Kyrin Dunston welcome to the hormone prescription podcast. (01:04): Hey everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the hormone prescription with Dr. Kyrin. I'm so glad that you've joined me today. My guest today is Therese Forton Barnes and she is a toxin guru, or we're gonna be talking about the dangers of indoor air quality will be detailing the potential hazards to your indoor air quality and talking about what you can do about it. Her mom is the one who shared that quote that I offered in the teaser plan. Your life like you will live forever and live your life. Like you may die tomorrow. And I absolutely love that. I think it really speaks to addressing toxins in your life. They are long acting, and their effects temporarily are very delayed. So you wanna plan like you're gonna live forever, but you wanna live like you may die tomorrow. So we're gonna tell you the things you need to go in and get rid of to improve your indoor air quality and your health. I'll tell you a little bit about her and then we'll get started. Therese is a household toxins health specialist, and she's the head guru at the Green Living Gurus. She spreads awareness of chemical exposure that could cause many autoimmune illnesses, cancer, and other elements through her green living with tea weekly podcast, her blog, the green parent pioneer coaching program for families with children and teas organics line of household cleaners and products. Welcome Tee. Thank you for having me today. Looking forward to our chat. (02:42): I love talking about toxins because there's so many of them and I think that it can be overwhelming when people hear about this topic to think, oh my God, how do I even begin to detoxify my life? My home, my car, my work, all the things that they need to detoxify. And I love that we've decided to focus on indoor air quality. I don't think that a lot of people realize how vital this is. Why is this so important Therese? (03:14): So our indoor air is potentially two to 100 times more polluted than the outdoor air. And these are reports that have been put out by the environmental protection agency. And the reason why our indoor air in our homes, our offices, you name it is because our homes are now built to be airtight. Everybody wants to keep the air in to conserve energy. And the problem is you're not getting enough circulation throughout the home and enough clean air coming through your home. But the worst part about it is the amount of products that are being used in your home. Whether it's cleaning supplies, laundry, detergent, dry cleaning, coming in furniture. That's been sprayed with anti fire retardants and it goes on and on and on. And you're breathing these chemicals in all day long in your home. And so the indoor air in your home is just as important as your outdoor air or as important as a food you're eating too. So these are just things I love to focus on because it's something that people don't realize it, that they need to really look at their indoor air. (04:29): I think that's so true. And you, you highlighted a couple points. I wanna just emphasize that most people focus on aspects of the environment. They have no control over, which is outdoor air quality mm-hmm can you move? Sure. I had a patient a few years ago who lived in the middle of Iowa in the middle of farm country, and there were pesticides in her air and she knew it was a problem. And there was really nothing she could do about it other than move from where she lived while she wasn't paying as much attention to the air quality inside. And oh, when we did, she found out she had moldy things in her house that were affecting her health. So I think this is really where you have a large degree of control to change the outcome. And I also wanted to highlight when you were talking, I was thinking about a lot of people are very familiar with the discomfort that comes from rereading air inside a mask over and over again, since we've had to do it for the past few years. (05:33): And so think about that, your house is really like a mask, a big mask that you live in. And so if you have bad breath and you're breathing it in and out through a mask, you're getting that bad breath over and over again. It's the same in your house. If you have poor quality air, all the windows and doors are shut and they builders pride themselves on a well sealed home. That's energy efficient that really can have detrimental effects for us in terms of if we have poor air quality, we're rebreathing it over and over and over again. So let's start tea with the biggest offender. What is the number one offender you would say in the indoor air quality space that could potentially harm people? (06:21): Well, in my mind, it is the cleaning products people are using because the cleaning products, people are using them every day, potentially spraying some cleaning products on counters almost every day to clean up your kitchen, whether it's to floor. And then if you have children or dogs, so they're even cleaning more. And many of the chemicals in these commercial cleaning supplies have extremely toxic ingredients in them and many have cancer-causing ingredients in them. So those are getting into your lungs. They're getting into the dust, that's on the floor in your house, that's regenerating throughout your home, and you're not getting rid of those chemicals in your house because you're using them. It's not like you're washing with water right afterwards, too. That, and goes along with that is also cleaning supplies in a SA in a different category, but it's your laundry detergent. So that's a, another cleaning supply, right? (07:27): But that is now in addition to the chemicals that you're potentially using to clean your clothes, you're also breathing in potentially chemicals coming from your clothes, from your sheets. They could be out guessing all day long in your home. You could be breathing them in when you even leave the house. And they're venting. They're also venting into your house at some point, at some level, I know they vent outside, but you still can get those fumes inside your house. So those products, those chemicals, and if you think about walking down a laundry, I mean, a supermarket aisle where all your cleaning supplies are and you smell that smell. Those are all chemicals out guessing from all of those cleaning products that literally that's, what's happening in your home, too. Those chemicals just about gas. (08:21): So let's dive into specifically, what are the toxins and carcinogenic agents in cleaning products? Let's start there. And I will add that, you know, I read that that years ago, Madison avenue was trying to figure out how to increase sales or promote their product above others in terms of cleaning products and particularly laundry. And they discovered that the first thing that people did when their laundry came out of the dryer to see if it was clean, was they smelled it. And that's how this whole perfusion of yeah. Smells. And so when you walk down the aisle, you can smell it. But I think most people smell that and they go, oh, that's the smell of clean . Yeah, right. So can you break down? What are the toxins and carcinogenic agents and cleaning products and laundry detergents? (09:14): Well, one category is VOCs VOCs of volatile, organic compounds. Now there are hundreds, if not thousands of different chemicals that make those volatile organic compounds up, and those are ones that are just dangerous to get into your system. And you're breathing them every day. Now, the list of chemicals that potentially are made up of those VOCs and also all the other com is endless. I mean, there's been ammonia. Everybody knows ammonias in some cleaning products. There's, I mean, I can't, I'd have to pull up my, I have a list of all the chemicals that I could tell you that are in there. And I actually have that those chemicals that you can avoid in my free guide on my website, that I know you're offering your listeners. And it's a great guide because it lists what ingredients you should look for. The top ingredients you should look for in these cleaning supplies that are potentially getting into your house. (10:15): So, and benzene is another one that has been known to be in some products. The biggest thing, if anybody wants to make a change to look for in cleaning products and in laundry detergent, and you hit the nail on the head is when they smell something, they think that that's a fresh smell. Unfortunately, that's the word fragrance. And that's a fragrance that is in those products. That is, they think that that's a lemon fresh smell or a lavender fresh smell. But unfortunately there is most likely no lavender and no lemon in there. And if there is, and they say that it's ascended with lavender oil, they only have to have 2% lavender in there. Unfortunately, many of the cleaning products, many of the laundry detergents have so many chemicals in them. They have to put fragrance in them to kill the smell of the chemicals that you're cleaning with. (11:12): So you're getting twice as many chemicals as you really need to be cleaning with and putting in your laundry, but the word fragrance and people don't understand this when they buy products. And even it's in shampoo, it's in deodorant, fragrance is a trade secret. And it goes back that in 1940s, when the perfume industry and specifically Chanel number five was one of the companies that got our government to create this trade secret, because they did not want anybody knowing what was in their perfume. And so they said, okay, well, if you put the word fragrance on there, you do know how to detect, say what is in your product. This holds true today, still that law, that anybody can make a product, put the ingredients in there. But if you put the word fragrance on there, you do not have to tell them what's in there. (12:00): Well, fragrance is made up of a laundry list of different chemicals in it. And lately three different studies were done that they found benzene in fragrance. And benzene is a common ingredient in fragrance and benzene is a known carcinogen. So some of them potentially cause cancer, but that causes cancer and they found it in a sunscreen recently. So the list goes on and on and on. But if you can get away from the fragrance, you're making a great step in the right direction to reduce your toxic load inside your home. And that goes with candles too. I mean, everybody wants something that smells fresh. We all associate with that freshness with probably growing up and our mothers and whatever they cleaned with. But unfortunately in the past 40, 50 years, clean is not what clean should be. And the chemical company has really created this mess in my mind to make us think that that is the way a house should smell. And it's, unfortunately that's not clean. That's unfortunately making your house more toxic and dirty for your body. (13:18): So true. And everybody loves a new car smell, new house smell. And I say, run from the new car and the new house. So yes, the VOCs ammonia, benzene fragrance, which are mostly made from petroleum byproducts. So you wouldn't sit there sniffing gasoline at the gas station, nor do you wanna spray it on your fabrics at home or clean with it. And a question that I don't think a lot of people get is. And my kids used to say this to me all the time when they were growing up, when I kind of got on the bandwagon. Finally, when I saw the light about my own health at midlife, and I became trained in anti-aging metabolic and functional medicine and realized that toxicity was a problem. Cuz as a regular MD, we are taught, these are not issues. And that's how most of America and most industrialized countries are operating that this isn't a problem. But can you talk about cuz the next question my kids used to say, well, they wouldn't allow it. They wouldn't allow it. If it was toxic, they wouldn't allow it. If it caused cancer and I'd say, well, who's they to my kids first off. But I find this is the case with a lot of adults. They really think that there's some regulatory body that would not allow dangerous chemicals to be in our cleaning products. Can you address that? (14:40): Yeah. And this is a very common, I hear it all the time and what I try to get people to understand is a little bit of history. Cuz sometimes history helps people understand why things are the way they are today. You know the fragrance thing. Oh. And people start understanding, wow, I can see where that happened, but why did that happen? Well, in the United States, we have a law here that your product is safe until it is proven guilty in the European union. It's opposite. They have to prove a product is safe before it can even go on the market. So you take these products, let's just take the sunscreen. I mentioned that many sunscreens actually for that matter, they got pulled off the market last fall. They were all on the market with benzene in the product. Now that would've never passed in the European union because they would've never been able to prove that that was safe. (15:38): But unfortunately these companies here local in us, they now their back paling like, oh, we didn't know benzene was in our product and denying it. Of course they're gonna deny it. But so that is the biggest problem I see with products that is not food. Food has to be proven, safe and pharmaceuticals in that matter before it goes onto the market. So we have to be our own watchdogs here in the United States. We have to look at our labels. We have to read our ingredients. We have to know, unfortunately, no EPA is not protecting us when it comes to that. They are not. The FDA is when it comes to the food because as best they can, you know, I battles, I pick with that too. But with the EPA and all these products that are on all the shelves that we are buying in the grocery store, in the pharmacy, we have to look and see what we are using because either you are going to trust the company or you have to trust yourself because this, these have not been approved for human consumption or for cleaning. They might be say that they get rid of bacteria, but they are not going through all the ingredients and all those products and making sure that they are safe and the companies are not either. (16:57): Yeah. The other thing I don't think a lot of people get is that even the individual ingredients that could potentially be toxic may have a low level of toxic potential, but nobody has studied the cumulative additive effect of these toxins together. And a hundred years ago, we might come in contact with just a couple chemicals in our lifetimes. And now we have 85,000 new chemicals since 1950. And no one has looked at the effect on newborns or uh, fetuses or women who are pregnant or children or adults, the cumulative additive effects and interactive effects of these toxins. So I remember that being one of the most impactful sources of information that I learned during my fellowship training was just, we're kind of in the wild, wild west when it comes to chemicals, we're in a live human experiment. Yeah. Where we're saying, okay, let's take the population of the world and let's dump 85,000 new chemicals and let's see what happens because they really haven't been vetted. So now we've talked a little bit about the cleaning products, the double problem of not only are they, the cleaning products, agents themselves potentially toxic or carcinogenic, but then you add on top the fragrance. When I see that word, I run and laundry detergent. Now talk about other laundry substances like dryer sheets and bleach and things like that. (18:39): Dryer sheets, oh, dryer sheets. Oh, I can smell dryer sheets when I walk by vent. And when I walk by a person, I now have my husband. He can smell them on people these days, but dryer sheets are another one dryer sheets. You will not find the ingredients on a dryer sheet. Dryer sheets have known carcinogens in them. They are all chemicals that basically coat your clothing with these chemicals. So they don't stick together. Unfortunately they're loading them with other chemicals' fragrance to put them in there because those chemicals that they are coating your clothes with, they have to offset those to the smell of that chemical. So it's just like one bad thing after the next with dryer sheets. So that's another definitely bleach another, I mean you have to pick your poisons right. To try to get rid of everything right away. No, but you start with the most important things like getting rid of the dryer sheets, replacing them with wool dryer balls and some essential oils in those wool dryer balls. If you really want some sense and slowly getting rid of things that could potentially be affecting your breathing, which is our most important thing I'm addressing here because the indoor air in your home right now is so polluted potentially. So definitely dryer sheets are a big, big no-no in my book. (20:05): So what dryer balls, can you talk a little bit about what those are and what they do and how they work and also the use of essential oils if people really love that fresh scent? (20:17): Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I use dryer balls. I don't have much static, fortunately, because I don't have any chemicals in my laundry and washing machine or dryer because the chemicals will make your clothes tick even more. It's just a double edged sword. Speaker 3 (20:35): I have to say. I don't think that's a coincidence, right? So the more problems Madison avenue can give you the need to solve. And if they make your clothes, if the chemicals make them more static clingy, oh, well then you need something to treat the static clinging. I mean, that's true with women's hormones after they started using E equivalent or horse estrogen also known as Premarin in the beginning of the 19 hundreds for women, while then they created the problem of, um, uterine cancer. And instead of going back and saying, well, probably this was misguided, they just created a pro Jin to counteract the effects to prevent uterine cancer. So that is the way of industry, right? We live absolutely in that type of a capitalist society. That's always looking for advantage. So I wouldn't be surprised if there was some engineering to actually increase the static clinging. So you actually have to have dryer sheets. (21:33): Absolutely. And it all goes all big circle of money and pharmaceutical industry and the chemical companies. And they're all tied into one another and it's a monster and it toxic. And we have to really, again, rely on ourselves and people like you and me and many other people out there that really are knowledgeable stepping back and looking at the whole big picture. Why is all this happening? I look at cancer. I mean, my aunt had ovarian cancer and this is originally why I really got so involved in this. And she was so healthy, but she used baby powder every single day in her private parts. And she got ovarian cancer and now low and behold baby powder causes ovarian cancer and it's still on the market. So I always look at where cancer has came from, look at where it is now. Do you hear any big cancer Institute talking about preventing cancer? (22:34): We have a major one here. No, cause it's such a humongous industry. And the pharmaceutical industry feeds that industry. And I personally don't think they want it to go away because it would put out so many people out of business. I try talking about cancer prevention all the time, because I want people to prevent using chemicals in their lives that potentially can cause cancer or are known to cause cancer. But they don't talk about that. Unfortunately. And same it with Endocet disrupting chemicals. We could talk about that forever too. And what they're doing to kids, hormones and boys and the mess that's causing with kids' bodies and mimicking their estrogen and progesterone. So I think people get scared and I even have some best friends who are like, oh, it's so overwhelming. And I try to talk them through it. And it's just, you make little changes and the people that I've helped and a lot of different clients, you just take one step at a time. (23:37): And it usually is starting with your cleaning, starting with your laundry, detergents, getting rid of that fragrance. Once you start there, then you're gonna be, be more aware. You're gonna start. I get people sending me, oh look, you told me about these PFAS chemicals in my non-stick cookware that and they see an article and then they start making changes on their own, which I love seeing. I sort of get the ball rolling with them and then they're aware of it. And then they start seeing more and more things reports coming up. Luckily now it's all over the place. There's so many things going on out there that people are starting to realize how toxic so many of these products are, but it's taking those baby steps and really just reading ingredients and knowing what you're putting on your skin. You wouldn't eat those chemicals. Why would you be putting them on your skin? (24:29): So, and you made it such a great point. It's the cumulative effect. They might say that these chemicals in the lotion you're using is fine because it's, you know, low dosage. But how is that mixing with the chemical you're putting on your hair or your deodorant? They're all getting into your system somehow and through your skin or breathing or eating and how are they mixing in your body? I don't wanna know that, but I just think that this is just time for people to start looking at how they are in taking any of these chemicals. And you really have to look at everything you're using because we are living in a toxic world and it's getting worse. (25:13): Yeah. I think the other thing most people don't realize is the temporal nature of toxin exposure to time to disease is so long. The lead time that nobody associates that, oh, when they get cancer, they're not thinking about the 30 years that they use dryer sheets and a toxic laundry detergent. Nobody that doesn't flash before your eyes. Right? Most of us think genetics, which is really only five to 10% of cancer. It's what, whether we turn our lifestyle, turns those genes on or not. So there's so many exposures and they are over such prolonged periods of time that no one gets this Eureka moment of, oh my God, it was the dryer sheets. Right. Which is fortunate and unfortunate. I mean, you know, think toxins that are that quickly, identifiable are usually not legal for human use or consumption, but it makes it challenging for us. Let's step onto. So you said cleaning products, laundry, detergents, and laundry agents. What would the next category in the indoor air quality space? (26:29): Well, I mentioned candles candles. I'd like to bring up candles. And Kyrin on that last note that you just said, it's just this past weekend. I was at one of my best friend's homes and I was trying to get her to get a reverse osmosis system and, and talking her through how toxic our water can be, which we could talk about that too. But, and then I always am helping her at her house. She's like, oh, we're fine now. I mean, none of us have cancer now. And that's exactly what you just said. You don't wanna think about, you wanna prevent as much as possible. And I had to convince him like Kathy, so all the kids are going away to college, blah, blah. And like, you have to, if you really want to try to decrease your toxic load, you've gotta look at everything. (27:12): So it just hit me when you said that, like, that's so true. I mean, even though you're, we're, I'm almost 60, but you don't want cancer when you're 70, do you? I mean, we all don't want cancer. We all don't want illnesses and it's trying to prevent all these illnesses and not just, I feel like it's Russian roulette, we're all playing Russian roulette with all these products we're using. So candles. Yes. Candles. So many people love candles. Almost everybody loves candles. So many candles can be same thing. The chemicals that they're using in the wax, even if it's soy. So people think, oh, I bought a soy candle. It's okay. That's not necessarily true. And also the wick can be led. So if you're burning fragrance in your house with a lead wick, you are burning chemicals in the air while these candles are lit in your home. (28:08): I did not know that the wicks could be lead. Oh my gosh. (28:11): I'm yes. That's (28:12): Crazy. (28:13): Okay. It is crazy. And the fragrance, oh my God. When I'm in somebody's home with the candle, people are kind of scared for me to go in their home period. (28:21): Me too. Don't it's a compliment. (28:24): Oh totally. I enjoy it. I mean, my friends are always like Curring around. I'm like, don't you worry? I'll look it around, but get rid of that candle immediately over there. Cuz I look for candles. They're out gassing. Even if they're not lit with the chemicals that are in them. And again, people have to be careful because many of them will say SCED with essential oils. That's not necessarily fragrance free. So again, it only has to have 2% essential oils for them to say that on there. So cuz essential oils, which I love, I don't know if I told you this, but I have a cleaning product line. Very basic one that I use essential oils. They're very powerful. They're wonderful. Their cleaning properties are great, but you have to know what you're doing with essential oils too. And they are great and they're great to use in many products. So, (29:14): So what kind of candle should we be using Tee? (29:16): Well, there's some good ones out there on the market. Fontana is a great line. Look up Fontana. Fontana is a made safe product. Made safe.org is a fabulous organization. Environmental working group, EWG. Many of your listeners may have heard of them. They're fabulous. ewg.com. You can look on their website and plug in your products to see on a scale of one to 10, what kind of chemicals are in them? But a whole other step up from that is the made safe organization. They analyze products and they, if it's a made safe organization like anything made safe certifies, I don't even look at the label because I know it is made safe. And I know that organization inside and out, so font has gone through the process of having their candles certified. So love Fontana, but there's other ones out there too, but you just have to be careful what you're buying. There's so many sold at farmer's markets. I know that because I'll talk to the people that are making them and what is in it. What are you using? And you just wanna know what you're burning in your home. It's almost the same thing as an air freshener that you're spraying. You gotta look at those chemicals, anything you're spraying in your home, a candle will do the exact same thing. (30:36): Oh my gosh. Please tell me the next category is (30:42): Air freshers, air freshers. How about the ones when you get in an Uber or a Lyft and they put those plugins in their vents, almost every single one does it. It makes me insane. I've tried complaining to Uber and Lyft endlessly. It doesn't work, but those or plugins in your house or any kinda spray aerosol can be toxic in itself. But anything you're using to spray in your home is you're breathing it in, period. So if you're smelling anything that can potentially be cancer-causing chemicals or other chemicals that can cause other illnesses. (31:22): Yeah, this is really my pet peeve. I mean, partially because I had multiple chemical sensitivity a few years ago when I was made sick by a building and breast implants. But also because they're ubiquitous and they're highly toxic. And actually the studies do show that up to a third of people react. But the majority of them do not associate any health reaction with the air freshener, plugin, whatever, wherever the sense comes from because they're ignorant of the causal relationship. And I, I like to say that we're in the air freshener stage of where we were with cigarettes back when I was a kid in the sixties and seventies, right? Yes. Secondhand smoke. Wasn't a thing. Nobody was up in arms about it. And people freely smoked around their kids in the home. And now I know you probably can't go to jail or get a ticket for it, but it's not allowed. (32:20): Yeah. Yeah. Can't (32:21): Smoke, endorse. And so I think in another few decades, we'll get there when people wake up to the air freshener problem. (32:28): Yeah, I totally agree. And some of the same chemicals in cigarettes are also used in air fresheners and cleaning supplies. You are spraying chemicals in your home. I mean, there's no difference to me whatsoever. And you brought up, I often hear, oh, I have a sore throat, or I have a sniffles headache. I know I'll get a sore throat, sniffles headache. If I sleep in a bed with fragrance sheets, like I go to Airbnbs, I have to bring my own sheets, open up the windows. We just went to one and it was so toxic. I couldn't. And they used, I don't oh, she told me they used gain with lavender and that it, it wasn't toxic. It (33:08): Wasn't. Yeah. (33:09): I was like, uh, anyway, so I'm just used to bringing my own sheets and pillows and towels now (33:15): Towels I do too. Oh, (33:16): Absolutely. A hundred percent. And if I forget them, I go by them. I'd rather have, you know, the new ones than the ones washed in laundry detergent anyway. So we were getting air fresheners. (33:28): Yes. And I wanna add here, cuz I think you brought up a great point that we should highlight. Some people are sitting here. Going to Kyrin I have no idea what you're talking about. How would I even know if I had a problem in my house? And so I'm wondering if you can expound on that. I mean, I usually tell people, well, if you go out and spend a day at the beach or in the forest, camping or hanging out with friends, and then you come home in your locked envelope, and you notice certain things, nasal stuffiness, sore throat, itchy, watery eyes, itchy skin, maybe even rashes, stomach upset. It can show up as, or irritation. It can show up as mood irritability. I mean, it can be so subtle, and you think, oh, I'm just in a bad mood. Must have been that news report I listened to. And it may very well be that you are getting exposed to toxins in your home. (34:31): Two other big ones, snoring and also terrible sleeping patterns. And habits are two big ones. I hear all the time and your body has to work so hard, getting rid of these toxins and processing them. So your organs are constantly fighting off toxins. They're made that way. Right. But to do that. And so our bodies are not made to fight off all these chemicals that are coming at us left and right, you walk out the door, you can't help what you're going to encounter, but you can when you're inside. And we like to say, you don't know, you feel bad until you feel better and until you right. They don't know. They really don't. And they think it's the pollen. They think it's, you know, they'll make excuses, or they just have allergies or it's allergy season or a headache. Why do I have a, well, you got a headache for a reason and you gotta listen to your body, even acne for that matter. (35:36): Your skin's telling you something. And so many of these chemicals, I mean, I talk about cancer all the time, and we hear about them disrupting hormones. They can also be obesity, gens, too. Obesity. Gens are just like what they sound like. They cause obesity. So many of these chemicals make you fat. Many of them could potentially make your skin look older. You look older. So acne, many of them cause, but they all work differently in all of our bodies. Again, we don't know what they're doing to us and how they're mixing, but until you start getting rid of them and starting to clear the way for cleaner, fresher air, cleaner, fresher, and products in your home, I guarantee you especially get rid of fragrance. You will start to feel better and start realizing I hear it from every single person. Like I can't believe, I thought that was lemon fresh. I thought, I can't believe I slept in fragrance sheets for 20 years. Yeah. Okay. You might have felt fine, but what was it doing to your skin? What was it doing to your organ? So (36:38): Right. What are the other big categories that we need to take a look at in our homes? (36:43): Well, I mention what you cook your food with what you cook your food with what you store your food in. And of course food is huge. That's a whole, we could talk about food and organic food and making sure you eat as much organic food is possible and stay away from the pesticides that are being sprayed on all these non-organic foods that because once they start spraying them with pesticides, they gotta spray 'em with a lot more. And it's just a terrible cycle out there with Roundup and glyphosate and other chemicals coming on the market to take the place of glyphosate. So food of course, but what are you cooking your food in? So nonstick pans, which a lot of people used to know as Teflon were made with these chemicals, it's a whole series of chemicals called PFAS, P F a S or P F O S. And they're just coming to the surface right now and how toxic these chemicals are. And they're it's inflamed retardant, um, materials that firefighters use. They've used to put it on couches. They used to put it on furniture, on rugs, kids, (37:45): Kids, sleepwear, (37:46): Kids, sleepwear, dental, floss, dental floss, look for PFAS, free dental floss and kids, sleepwear and furniture. This is going back to the cigarette companies. The reason why kids slept wear and furniture is being was, but some of it still is being sprayed with fire. Retardants is because the cigarette companies, people were burning, and you know, were coming from the same generation. They fall asleep with their cigarettes in their hands in bed. This is the 1950s and sixties, right? And the government went to the cigarette company said, you need to put something in the cigarette. So they don't burn while people are burning their beds. And the cigarette company came back and said, oh no, we have a better idea. Why don't we spray all the furniture with fire retardant, spray, all the kids, baby clothes to sleepwear with fire retardant, baby's beds with fire retardants. And it's crazy to think about it, but that was the law. That's what (38:48): They did. No. I'm like let's stop smoking in bed. (38:51): Exactly. Hello. So that is where, and now you hear about all these firemen getting cancer from this fire. Um, not only from this stuff they use to put out the fire, but these houses that are burning down are loaded with toxic chemicals. So anyway, so, but the pans, when I was getting to the pans, those nonstick pans are made with PFAS chemicals. So I've gone through more people's homes and had them get rid of those pans, especially if they're scratched, which 99% of them are because you're only supposed to use wood on them and not metal. And most people don't use wood all the time. Anyways, I'll give (39:30): A hundred dollars to anyone listening who has a UNS scratched. Yeah. Uh I pan I can't for over a year. (39:40): Yeah, exactly. So a green pan is okay. That's a ceramic pan. People like their non-stick pans. The only problem is they last only a few years. So I like stainless steel, the old-fashioned way and my lodge cast iron pans. And I always say your pan does not have to be sparkling clean every single time you use it. If you ever go through a kitchen and look at all their stainless steel pans, it looks used. So that is one of my big things, is what you're cooking with. Because again, people are cooking every day and also those chemicals that you are cooking, those pans, those chemicals can also get in the air in your home as well. So, and what you're storing your food in? I do not like plastic whatsoever. I only use glass to store any of our food in because the chemicals in those plastic containers can leach into your food as well. (40:32): So, and of course never MWA or plastic if you ever do microwave. So those are the top things that I would do. You can take it to a whole other level. Like I have air quality monitors in my house. So I'm measuring the amount of chemicals that are in my house. It tells me if any chemical is exceeding what it should be in here. And it's usually if, uh, something's brought into the home randomly and then air purifiers are another way that people can reduce the chemicals in your home as well. Dry-clean is another one. Dry cleaning depends on where you dry-clean. But if you have the option of airing out your dry cleaning before you bring it into your house, that is great. Let it out gas in your garage or outside. Especially if you have it sitting in your car and driving with it, open up the windows, those toxic fumes from the dry cleaning can also irritate your lungs as well. And you don't even know it. So, (41:31): And there are a lot of now, now environmentally friendly, nontoxic, dry cleaners, and a lot of them, you can mail your dry cleaning to them and they will mail it back to you. So you don't have to live near one. Let's talk a little bit more about the air monitor and air purifier, cuz I think if people have listened this far and most of the people in my community, they get that this indoor air quality is a situation and then they wanna know, okay, well, do I need an air quality monitor? And if so, what are my options? And what should I look for? And do I need air filtration? And what should I look for? Can you talk a little bit about that? (42:09): Yeah, absolutely. So the air quality monitor that I really love, it's called hoo it's, U H O O. You can buy that almost anywhere. I love it because I can monitor it on my phone. It's hooked up to the wifi, but it measures for rayon as well. So in the Northeast where I am in Buffalo, New York, a lot of rayon is in the Northeast. And so it measures for VOCs and another series of chemicals on there for mail to hide. So in my home, it's pretty, you're not gonna find many toxic chemicals in here, but I like having that air quality monitor for a peace of mind. I take it with me too when I can just so I can see, you know, I have fun playing with it. I'll take it to people's homes and show them that, (42:58): Oh, I bet you are a favored guest. (43:00): Oh yeah. Oh aren't I though pulling it out of my purse. Well, I always, I'm pretty cautious. I know who I can pull it out with and who I can, but they love it because the shows them like, wow, this really measures. Where do you think the VOCs are coming from? And then we'll look around and there'll be a perfume bottle somewhere close by in the bedroom that could be out guessing into their bedroom. Or, you know, I look at the air quality monitor as for your home. It's like getting your blood work done for your body. You wanna know what's going on in your body. If you have any issues, outstanding issues or something is wrong, right? You go for a physical, the doctor sends you in for blood work. Everything comes back fine. Well this air quality monitor your home is so important. (43:44): Your air is so important to have it as a peace of mind to know, okay, I'm living in a clean air in my home. So in my mind, it's just, you know, gives me a peace of mind that it's a very clean air in our house. Then the indoor air purifier, which of course was a huge thing for COVID because it was cleaning the air for people and people wanted, I sold a ton of those. I actually represent one here in Buffalo. I love the most, not because it's in Buffalo, but it's Austin air purifier. It's 100% made in the United States here in Buffalo, all the parts, you name it because you have to be careful with that with a lot of things, parts that are made overseas, some of the plastics come out gas in your air purifier while they're running. So you have to be really careful with some of that. (44:35): So the, it collects 99.9% of bacteria and chemicals and VOCs and from aldehyde. So if you have any chemicals floating around, it will collect those chemicals in the filter, and it's, and there's a lot of other good ones on the market out there. I just love this one the most. And we have one in our bedroom and I'll tell you my husband. I tell people this all the time. I mean, he used to snor so bad. Like I thought the roof was gonna come off the house. And once we installed the air purifier, I can sleep with this Norrie now I barely even hear it. And I called Austin air and I said, could this be possible? It's the air pur where they're like, of course he said, you see those floating dust particles going around when the sun beams in, well, that's what it's collecting. And that can be getting in people's lungs and causing them to snort at night and dust mites and everything else, you know, that you could be sleeping and breathing in amongst the chemicals that could be out guessing in your bedroom from the sheets. So it's just being conscious of what you're taking in is the most important thing. And then trying to get to your house as clean as possible. (45:45): Yeah. I didn't realize we have gone so long. We're gonna need to wrap up. I did wanna just tie in this quote from your mom that I love plan your life. Like you will live forever and live your life. Like you may die tomorrow. I think that that really speaks to the whole toxin situation. If you're gonna plan, like you're gonna live forever, you need to address these things that you can't see and live your life. Like you're gonna die tomorrow, monitor your air quality, filter the air, get rid of these products. And I think we'd be remiss if we didn't talk about new construction and the dangers there you mentioned for Malda Hyde. I was made sick by a new office that I went and worked in because of the off gassing of the VOCs and their formaldehyde. I was actually rendered where I, I had a toxic and encephalopathy. Wow. Luckily what you was reversible, but can you talk a little bit about that? (46:44): Yeah. So new build is there's a lot of absolutely. And out gassing of all these products and windows is being made. So you don't have any air leaking in. I'm so happy. I live in 120 year old home where the air is leaking out and leaking in. But so you need air flow in a house. So you could be getting so tired in a home because I hear people all the time, how tired they are, not only you're being tired, but those new from paint to any kind of flooring to what they're putting on the flooring to the, uh, walls to the ceilings. I mean, those are all products that are coded in potentially, uh, harmful chemicals. Now, thank God paints. You'll see all the time, low VOC paint. There are some better products out there building materials that are better products. But I have a, a home inspector that I work with once in a while. (47:43): And he'll go through and homes just to see for different berries things that you know, he does, but he calls some of the homes. He said some of the homes I go in it they're like coffins. They're sleeping in these homes that no air is getting moving around. They're loaded with all these new products that have chemicals emitting off of them and they emit for a while. It's not something you have to get them out gas for a while. So new builds, I would definitely be concerned. And definitely if you're in a new build, I would absolutely have air purifiers running all the time. (48:19): Yeah. And don't bring a new baby home to a new build. Please it's just overwhelm their detoxification system. It drives me crazy when I watch HD TV, which is my absolute favorite channel. I love architecture and design and building. And when these people are like, oh, we gotta get the new bill ready. So we bring the baby home and I'm thinking, no, don't do that to your child. And most people are not aware of the dangers of that. So we would be remiss if we didn't discuss it. You know, this actually is in the mainstream information back when they had the hurricane in new Orleans and they brought in all these trailers for people to live in, in temporary housing, I think it was 30% of them got deathly ill for moving into these trailers all at one time. So this was a population study and they discovered it was from the formaldehyde. So because we all move into new homes, popcorn style there's no, it doesn't seem like there's causality, but this was very clear and undeniable. So hopefully this will lead to some building regulation changes. Thank you so much T for the wonderful information, you have a free gift that everybody can access and download top 10 toxins to avoid, uh, where it'll have the link in the show notes. Anything you wanna say about that? (49:42): Oh yeah. It's a guide. If you go to the shop tab and tab down, I think it's the top one toxins to avoid. So, and just read your ingredients, start reading your ingredients and knowing your labels, just like you would reading your ingredients and any food that you would eat as well, reading ingredients that you're using in your home and treat your home. Like it's your best friend because you need it as much as it needs you. (50:05): I always say that your home is your second body treat us like your second body but most people are so challenged in caring for their first body. uh, it's usually not the first thing I say, but it really is your second body mm-hmm . So T's also got a 15% off a code. Dunston two zero that you can use. Uh, we'll have that in the show notes as well. If you're interested in purchasing any of her products and I wanna thank you team for joining us today. (50:35): Oh, you're very welcome. And you know what? That should have been 20% off DUNS than 20. So even better, there'll be 20% off. So I'm gonna email you that link just so you don't make a mistake on that one. (50:47): Okay. We'll have it in the show notes for you. Thank you all for joining us today. Thank you for your interest in your health and for really creating the brilliant health that you deserve. I hope that you've enjoyed today's podcast episode and that you've learned something and mostly that you take the information you've learned and you take action. So I want you to think about the one change that you're gonna make based on this information, whether you're driving a car or you're working out at the gym, just make a note based on what I heard today, I am going to do X today. Just one thing. And you'll find if you hear good information and you just take action on one thing with every podcast episode you hear or blog that you read, you'll look back in a few months and you'll see how far you've come with your health and your life. So that's my instruction. (51:44): To you. (51:44): Thanks so much for joining me. I'll see you next week for another episode until then peace, love and hormones. Y'all (51:52): Thank you so much for listening. I know that incredible vitality occurs for women over 40. When we learn to speak hormone and balance these vital regulators to create the health and life that we deserve. If you're enjoying this podcast, I'd love it. If you give me a review and subscribe, it really does help this podcast out so much. You can visit the hormone prescription.com, where we have some free gifts for you, and you can sign up to have a hormone evaluation with me on the podcast to gain clarity into your personal situation until next time, remember, take small steps each day to balance your hormones and watch the wonderful changes in your health that begin to unfold for you. Talk to you soon. ► Get 20% off Tee's Organics - Use the code "Dunston20" https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/shop-tees-organics/ ► Grab Tee's step by step guide jam-packed with the toxins to avoid. Learn about the many toxins in our homes and products and how they affect your families health. This is an easy, actionable read, so you can get through it quickly and make the changes that will make an impact! https://thegreenlivinggurus.com/next/toxins-to-avoid-e-book/ ► Feeling tired? Can't seem to lose weight, no matter how hard you try? It might be time to check your hormones. 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170. - July Live Podcast - Sex and Mindfulness, Blood in Urine, and Hormone Q&A

You Are Not Broken

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2022 32:49

July Live podcast – Mindfulness, blood in urine, and hormone Q&A I quote from this book: https://amzn.to/3JhCfie Better Sex Through Mindfulness by Lori Brotto I talk about mindfulness What is Hematuria? Hormone Q&A 1) Breast Cancer and Hormones – Are Any Okay? I've been having issue getting sexually aroused and having an orgasm. 2) My mom is 79 with osteoporosis, she stopped her hormone therapy 20 years ago. Can she restart? 3) I'm going to talk to my doctor about HRT… I've been having hot flashes so bad! It's awful! I'm wondering what exactly I should ask for? 4) What risks do oral estrogen have? 5) Thoughts about Premarin? See you in the membership! www.kellycaspersonmd.com/membership

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Healthcast 608 - Titles of Research Articles on Hormone Treatment Are Often Misleading

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2022 22:23

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Don't stop at the headline of a written article or blog about hormones or you who take hormones will unnecessarily feel anxiety all the time. Journalists and bloggers often get you to read an article by first scaring you with a scary title….then reassuring you in the article. This is the first and primary problem with making assumptions about hormone therapy from, including estradiol, testosterone and progesterone. Research Translated into Lay Language Generalize All Hormones into One Big Group When reading anything about “Hormone Therapy being dangerous or safe, the author is lumping hundreds of types of hormones into one category and by doing that, dooming hormones to look like a failure, when they are not. Not all hormones are alike, and the difference between how you take a hormone (oral, pellet, vaginal, etc.) changes the safety and effectiveness. The other factors that change the effectiveness of hormones like estradiol and testosterone include: Whether they are they are synthetic or bio-identical (made from vegetables to look just like your own hormones) What type of hormone is it? For example Estrogen has 3 human forms: Estradiol (young women's estrogen), Estrone (old women's estrogen from adrenal), and Estriol (pregnancy estrogen)…the type you take matters. Horses have over 17 types of estrogen and none of them are human, but we use pregnant horse urine to make Premarin for humans. The dose (the amount given). By lowering the dose of any hormone, you can make it ineffective! The number of times you take it ( 2-3 times a Day, daily, weekly, monthly) determines whether you can keep up with the dosing or not. This determines compliance. How you take it : oral,. Transdermal, pellet, or intramuscular determines the activity and the effectiveness as well as the side effects of a hormone All of these factors change the effectiveness of a hormone treatment in humans. Most of the time, the investigator of a medical study uses one type of hormone for his scientific tests, but generalizes the side effects or the effectiveness of that one specific type of hormone, to ALL hormones in that category, eg. Testing Oral Premarin and generalizing it to every type and kind of estrogen on the market. For instance, Premarin® a synthetic estrogen from Pregnant Horses, was the estrogen used in a study that determined that “estrogen” causes a woman to be at risk for blood clots. This is true of the oral hormone Premarin and many doctors took their patients off all estrogens based on that one study. Much later, years, other types of estrogen were tested for increasing the rate of blood clots and were found NOT to increase the rate of blood clots. After many studies of different delivery systems of estrogen, the final agreement is that all non-oral forms of Estrogen Do NOT cause blood clot formation in women taking them. That sounds like justice was served, but for the 10-20 years in between the Premarin study and the other studies and the time it takes to get a final agreement of doctors, women were denied all forms of estrogen from their doctors based on this inaccurate interpretation and generalization of one medical study! For example, if a scientific study stated that all ice cream flavors tasted the same, could I convince you that all ice cream, of all flavors, taste the same? Of course not, because you have experience eating different flavors of ice cream and you know that every flavor of ice cream and even different companies making the same flavor tastes different! That is the biggest clue to doctors reading a study. If the results don't match their experience, they question it and should follow their experience until more study is done. Some doctors follow blindly the results of studies or follow the ones they WANT to follow because it relieves them of work. That is one factor in causing doctors to stop prescribing estrogen based on the study that said all estrogens caused blood clots, was that of laziness! Hormone therapy requires hours of explanation, which means time in the office and doctors who are overworked found a way out for themselves to shorten their days! Not talking about hormones and stating, “I don't believe in hormone replacement therapy”, was their mantra and the cause of so many women being untreated with postmenopausal estrogens! If your doctor says that, then flee! Find someone who can take care of you properly. The doctors aren't the only ones who create the atmosphere of false information. The medical research community is trying to do with the medications (hormones) called HRT (Hormone replacement therapy) and Testosterone. Researchers are trying to tell us that all hormone treatments are the same with the same side effects and the same qualities, no matter what they are made of (plants vs chemicals) or what hormone is contained in them (horse estrogen with 18 types of horse estrogen, none of which are similar to human estrogen) that the way they are given (oral, transdermal, injection or pellet) matters to the effect that they have on a patient. The effect the hormone makes, and the metabolic effects are all lumped together by the research community. It's like saying all Labradors are great hunters. They aren't, but to do a study you need to make a blanket statement to prove a point. This doesn't make sense in many areas of study, but it is really misleading in hormone research. To get to the truth one must use a specific hormone in their tests and to get anyone to read about it they must inaccurately generalize to all hormones! They spend their time writing papers about how “estrogen” (all of them) and “testosterone “(every type, brand, and delivery system) cause side effects and diseases. These grossly overgeneralized conclusions about hormone replacement, leads to false beliefs and fears that cause doctors and patients alike to be afraid of prescribing or taking any of these medications, hormones, that are desperately needed by women to feel and be healthy. Remember a title about hormones can be misleading! Even studies are often overgeneralized, so their results are alarming for no reason! You have to ask someone who sees many hormone replacement patients what they actually see! Experience is everything when deciding what research is really true!

Is The U.S. Healthcare System Failing Due to Greed, Ignorance, or Arrogance?

Feeding Fatty

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2021 69:02

Is The U.S. Healthcare System Failing Due to Greed, Ignorance, or Arrogance? Featuring Dr. Robert Yoho What's wrong with America's healthcare system? We are the richest most developed country in the world and we refuse to take care of our own. Even if you have decent insurance you have to fight for everything you get. Forget about those uninsured for whatever reason. We can and should be committed to doing much better. Let's start demanding more. Now!!! About Dr. Robert I was born in l953 in Richmond, Virginia, and grew up in Kent, Ohio, (known for the Kent State riots during the Vietnam war), was an Eagle Scout, and a Judo wrestler. I spent four years at Oberlin College and went to Small College National Championships in Varsity Wrestling my senior year. Then, was accepted at one of the finest medical schools in the United States, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. At 22 years old, one year into my medical education, I decided that I needed to “find myself” and took a two-year sabbatical. After starting and managing a tree surgery business, I went to Wyoming to work on oil drilling rigs, and then spent the next year traveling to rock climbing areas. I became a master climber and traveled to cliffs in twelve states. Additionally, I published articles in climbing magazines and made “first ascents” at Devil's Tower, Wyoming, and Joshua Tree, California. I made an early ascent of “The Naked Edge,” a classic climb near Denver, and climbed the Long's Peak Diamond. As recently as the mid-1980s, I climbed such difficult classics as Astroman, the west face of El Capitan, and the Crucifix in Yosemite, free climbing up to a mid-“5.12” difficulty level. I climbed the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome in 18 hours in 2004 and the Nose route on El Capitan in less than 24 hours in 2005. After returning to medical school in l978, I found that bodybuilding complemented my studies. With the added responsibility of specialty training and professional pressures, I had less opportunity for athletics in the past decade. However, I ran 14 triathlons in the late '80s and early '90s and made time for some Kempo Karate (though injuries sidelined me). I have practiced Astanga (flow) Yoga and trained with the legendary 70-year-old master Yogi, Frank White, at the “Center For Yoga” in Hollywood. More recently, I practiced Bikram Yoga and concluded, “it's way hot in there.” (105 to 115 degrees F). I currently practices Baptiste Yoga every day. I married a wonderful woman from Trinidad and had three kids. My son Alan became an All American cross country star in high school, and he and his twin Sarah graduated from Brown University. He now works at Google and Sarah at Nasdaq. Hannah, their older sister, managed a group at the Four Seasons Resorts by the time she was 24. Curriculum Vitae: cosmetic surgery career (now retired) DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1953 INTERESTS Children, weight lifting, rock climbing, psychology, writing, kayak, Ashtanga and Bikram yoga. Bookworm: Reading averages 3 new books a week. Climbed El Capitan 4 x, Half Dome, Sentinel, Astroman (5.11c), Crucifix (5.12b) in Yosemite. New routes: a grade 5 in Zion and El Matador (5.11) at Devil's Tower, others at Joshua Tree. Climbed regular route on Half Dome in 17 hours 2004. EDUCATION 1971-1975 : Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio 1975-1981: Case Western Reserve Univ. 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See also the first chapter of Butchered by Healthcare for the circumstances, included on this website under “Writing.” 1992-2019: Cosmetic surgery practice, Pasadena, Visalia, and Oxnard, California. Liposuction, breast implantation specializing in through the umbilicus (belly button), laser blepharoplasty, face-lifts, facial implants, laser resurfacing, vein treatments, hair transplantation. Operated medical hyperbaric chamber between 1996 and 2000. 1987-1994: General practice in Pasadena, California. 1984-1987: Employed by the Huntington Memorial Hospital Emergency Medicine Group, SPECIAL EXPERTISE One of the most extensive experiences in the United States with tumescent liposuction and Brazilian butt lift with fat. Some of our liposuction supply vendors say we are their largest account internationally for several years. Trans-umbilical breast augmentation is a surgery that many try, but few become proficient. Thousands performed. 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Robert Yoho Website – Hormone Secrets and Butchered by Healthcare www.robertyohoauthor.com www.feedingfatty.com Full Transcript Below Is The U.S. Healthcare System Failing Due to Greed, Ignorance? Featuring Dr. Robert Yoho Wed, 7/21 1:13PM • 1:08:42 SUMMARY KEYWORDS drug, people, doctors, studies, book, good, called, money, influence, fda, problem, patient, alzheimer, industry, patent, hormone, healthcare, crazy, years, standards SPEAKERS Dr. Robert, Terry, Roy Barker Roy Barker 00:00 One. Hello and welcome to another episode of Feeding Fatty. I'm your host Roy. Terry 00:08 I'm Terry Roy Barker 00:08 Of course we are the podcast journaling chronicling our journey through this wellness process. You know, in the beginning, we talked a lot about diet, not a necessarily a diet, but you know what we eat, what, what we're trying to cut down on and be more healthy eating. We also talk a lot about exercise getting out and moving. And we talk about mindset as well. That has kind of been the point it's led us to a lot of people know what they should be doing, trying to get in the right mindset to make the change, and then also to make it sustainable. That seems to be the difficulty and the challenge for us. But anyway, we also bring guests on from time to time experts in the field today is no different. We are very lucky to have Robert Yoho with us and I'm gonna let Terry introduce him. Terry 00:55 Now. Robert Yoho is 67 years old. He has spent three decades as a cosmetic surgeon after a career as an emergency physician. His generalist training gives him perspective and allows him to avoid favoring any medical specialty. He's had little deal dealings with hospitals, Big Pharma or insurance companies before he wrote his his book Butchered by Healthcare. No one has ever considered him a whale prescriber or device device implanter he retired from the medical practice in 19. Excuse me, 2019 1999. Dr. Yoho, thank you so much for being on the show. We're so happy to have you as a guest. Dr. Robert 01:38 Thanks, Terry. Well, let me just go over my sequence which led to my interest in this field. Yeah, I have all things. I did a career in cosmetic surgery, doing breast dog breast implants, liposuction, you know, facial, beautification, all that stuff. And I had two people in six months die in my offices. Oh, wow. And so that was quite a timeframe, introspection, and one of them I wasn't even operating on but it still was a heck of a shock. And, you know, cosmetic surgeons or plastic surgeons usually have one fatality in surgery during their careers. And I'd had to in a very short sequence, so I started thinking and reading and I started uncovering what I later became started to think of as medical corruption. And so the basic, you know, I'm listening to your guys podcasts. And I see, it's an interesting process, because you have not had chronic diseases, you haven't had to worry about your health, you're, you're pulling your way through this material and thinking you're smelling a rat somewhere, that there's some. And I can tell you, after four years of studying this material, there's a lot wrong. And the bottom line is that we spend twice what the other developed countries spend per person, twice what Japan, Great Britain, France, and so on, and Canada spends per person. In other words, we spent nearly 20% of our gross domestic product on health care, right? And twice as much per person. And the worst part is we get a bad product, okay? In other words, aren't we have earlier infant mortality. And it's not an academic controversy 50%, fully 50% of what we do, either doesn't work or actually is harmful. And there's many references for that you can look at my book butchered by healthcare to get more detail. But, but it doesn't work. Now, the simple bottom line for how this all developed is we raise money out of the sky, on our health care providers and the healthcare industry. We gave them our insurance money, we gave them our federal Medicare money. And it was when free money happens, there's a lot of people come around to scoop it up. And these are entrepreneurs, you know, or possibly criminals, you know, that that got into this thing. Now, I'm not saying it's all bad, I don't want to make that message. You know, half of it works, you know, and a half as important and we have new therapies for certain things that are profoundly effective. But and the way these people have influenced our prescribing and the medical devices, and the insurance industry, is essentially through bribery. Now bribery is a technical term, that term means something in legal jargon, so I really shouldn't use that term, but it's anytime money changes hands, the well is poisoned. And as we You see, you'll see when we go through these various medic medical specialty, there's a lot of money changing hands between industry and the rest of of the medical service providers. I mean, it's a phenomenal thing. And so the important point, which you can read, if you start looking at influence theory in psychology, is that any amount of money changing hands profoundly affects the person's behavior, even taking a woman out to dinner and serving her a nice meal, you can get benefits that are far beyond the the cost of that meal. You know, that's a simple thing that drug reps come into their offices feed us food. And we think it doesn't influence our behavior, but it does. And it's a terrible thing. So that's the basic setup of medical care worldwide, but particularly in America. And I'm, before I let you guys start the questions, I'm just going to tell you the three central insights I had during my study of this, and I didn't learn this right away. But the first one I've already mentioned, and that's the updated Golden Rule. And that is, those are the gold make the rules, right? That's, and the second is, science is being used to obscure the truth. Okay. So if you don't understand it ROI, that doesn't mean you're a dummy. What that means is somebody is BSE, you know, because you're just as smart. As a storyteller, you're smart as the average physician. And sometimes, if you learn too much detail, that actually obscures the truth, because you don't need to be an academic to judge ethics. The last thing is, and this is the important one, if there's controversy about something, that doesn't mean that there's controversy, that means that it doesn't freaking work. Right? If if there's controversy, confusion, or contradictory evidence, don't fall into the trap of believing reasonable people disagree? Because you know, and I know, they've studied hundreds, if not 1000s of patients to produce the controversy. So forget about it, it doesn't work. So you read a study that says, we don't know for sure they got these barely statistically significant figures or something like that, it means it doesn't work. So that's a good rule of thumb. I mean, I can't state that absolutely. Blanket fashion. But it, it is a good place to start. So ask me anything you want, I can develop the medical specialties or the insurance industry or, you know, a lot of other areas where we've essentially Roy Barker 07:31 gone off the rails and say, Man, I got a I got a flat. But let's start out with your first concept. The, you know, the golden rule the people with the money, Mike the rule, because there's not only a lot of influence between the the pharmaceuticals and the doctors, that I would suspect with lobbyists and everything else, there's a lot with our lawmakers as well. Dr. Robert 07:54 Yeah, the lobby for healthcare is far bigger than oil and gas and banking combined is, is monstrous. pharma has a $1.3 trillion gross worldwide, and it's something is well over half the profits occur in the United States and 40% of the sales, it might be 70 or 80% of the profits. So these guys have money to burn. Roy Barker 08:19 One of the things that just just now thought of this when we were when you were doing your intro is is there a way to track the if I'm a drug maker cannot track the the doctors that are prescribing as though Dr. Robert 08:33 they track a track exactly who it is. And I here's how they do it. They go to the pharmacy and they get the prescriber number, and then they go to the AMA, and the AMA sells them. The doctors name that associates with a prescriber number the AMA is a very economic organization. They shouldn't be doing this in my opinion. Yeah. Roy Barker 08:55 Yeah. Because it's good to Terry 08:56 know I was gonna say it's backlinks, it's like SEO, you know, computerized everything. It's all I don't even know where I was going with that, because I have so many things running through my head, I can't even form a good one. Dr. Robert 09:12 Let me give you a stunning example of how money pollutes I mean this, this one is going to be hard for you guys to believe. But oncology is one of the most heavily influenced or, you know, cancer therapy. The cancer doctors is one of the most heavily influenced specialties and the reason is, well over half of their incomes come from retailing cancer drugs, they get about 25% and the average cancer drug costs $100,000 a year. So these guys have these chairs, right the cancer chemotherapy chairs, the more chairs they have and the more patients they have, the more they can bill and they clip 25% off the top of the drugs price. Now you think this is terrible, but it's gets worse. It gets worse. This would be If a doctor sold them the drug, so another doctor, the drug, it would be called camping. It's a federal crime, they put both of them in jail. But the drug companies are allowed to do this because of some sort of exception. Now it gets even worse, they are rewarded, they are rewarded by the milligram. In other words, larger doses make more money for them. So they are incentivized to prescribe very high doses of whatever the most expensive thing is. Now, I mean, doctors have integrity, we're trained to have ethics in a way that no other industry is. And you know, we're pretty good bunch. But I just want to say that there's no way anyone can get around a financial incentive, even a small one. And these guys well over half of their income, on average comes from far from sales of these drugs that they deliver in the office. Some of the other specialties, like the guys doing the testosterone blockers like Lupron to the best of my knowledge, they get, you know, the shot costs $10,000 or whatever the heck it is, takes two minutes. The doctor gets 25% It's crazy. I mean, it's absolutely crazy. And that one that was a whole nother story. And that's it's a very damaging drug of questionable utility. According to Otis Brawley, who is the head of the American Cancer Society. Until recently, he thinks that it does more harm than good on average, because the drug actually, you know, the, the prostate cancer is cut by the fatalities are cut by a third, by using that drug. It sounds great, right? But the drug causes so many problems, the overall fatalities probably go up. I mean, it's just crazy. And you know, it's kind of not joke jokingly, but not jokingly, we listen to, especially during the evening news when we listen to these commercials, and they come out with the drug that helps you with this. And then they've got 10 minutes worth of countries in the world ROI that allow that, yeah, that's direct to consumer advertising. It's an outrage, it got slowly slanted into our system over a period of five to 10 years, when they finally figured out there were no direct laws against it. And it's a complicated political battle, but they these pharmaceutical companies, is very effective is very effective, even though you're not sure what the hell it is, when they're talking about it on the TV. Ask your doctor, and then they go in and ask the doctors and the doctors are so busy. What are they going to do a lot of times they just write for the drug? Yeah, Roy Barker 12:30 yeah. Well, nothing I was gonna say is they have like 10 minutes worth of but the side effects that this may cause, I mean, in some of the side effects that they list, it's like, wow, I would rather have whatever they're trying to treat is not near as harmful as all these potential side effects that they have. It's crazy. The studies are frequently Dr. Robert 12:51 obscure the side effects and they measure, they, they measure, they're looking under the money tree, and not the tree of truth. You know what I mean? So, Ben Goldacre wrote a book about the frauds involved in pharmaceutical and device studies. And there are there are, I mean, you cannot imagine what these guys do. They they mess with the statistics, they conceal studies that don't. Right, and they cherry pick their results in various ways. They change people and put them in the wrong group. So it looks like there are fewer fatalities. I mean, the HPV vaccine, you've heard of that it's a vaccine for venereal warts that supposedly affects cervical cancer. Well, they conceal 50% of the studies. And in my view, the best commentators at Cochrane you know, the Cochrane Institute in Europe, which does meta analyses, they don't think it works, you know, and at least the most sophisticated ones don't think it works. I mean, it's there. They're influenced by pharma money also. So Japan abandoned the use of HPV, or at least they said it didn't work to their populace, and their inoculation rate dropped to 1% in one year. So that's the truth. They've got a public health system at least as robust as ours. And they they don't use HPV vaccine in any consequential fashion. The rest of the world still on it, pretty much. Yeah. Terry 14:26 I was gonna ask, so what's the role? No, this is open up a can I was asked, What's the role of the FDA and all of this? Dr. Robert 14:34 Okay. So the, the FDA, I have a chapter in butchered by healthcare about the FDA and the FDA is the most effective regulatory agent see in the world, but unfortunately, they are since 2003. A law was signed into effect that we could no longer negotiate prices with these. These pharma companies and Since then they've they've just bought everything and the prices have gone way up. But the the the FDA is fed or their revenues come from what's called user fees that the pharmaceutical companies pay them and well over half of their some some sources say 75% or more of their total budget of $5 billion is it comes from directly from pharma. So they regard pharmaceutical companies as clients, rather than or entities to be regulated because if they refuse a drug, sometimes they can't make their own payroll. Now, you got to realize the the size of these entities they have to regulate, they have $5 billion, which sounds like a lot of money. But pharma is 1.3 trillion worldwide, 40% in the US, and the FDA doesn't have a prayer of watching all these factories in India and China. Inside the US, they inspect them once a year. And they you know, they do a little better job. But in China, they all these there are the all these stories about these FDA inspectors getting fed fake facilities and fake paperwork and room. It Catherine even wrote a book called bottle of lies, if you're interested in the FDA and, and all that stuff. It's very illuminating. And it really gives you the feeling that the generics, we were I think were 90% generics because we've been so we've been so overpriced by the patent drugs, the patent drugs are good quality, they're actually what they are. They're manufactured under strict controls, but they're so expensive. And they these guys have decided the price point of making them outrageous is the best strategy. And I guess it is they don't have to do as much and they sell all these things like, like bottled gold. And so we are buying 90% of our medications from India and China's about half and half. And these the generics often are adulterated with some in bad ingredient or they don't work as well. The long lasting generics physicians have often discovered that the long lasting generics are only they only last 12 hours instead of 36 hours. Cleveland Clinic It was so bad at Cleveland Clinic that they developed their own mini FDA and they started testing their own medications. And they they found out what worked and what didn't. In Africa and other third world less advantaged countries that don't even have an FDA. The physicians keep a small stock of the good drug, the actual patent drug to use on people who are dying, that were the other drug doesn't seem to be working. And so they have to experiment with their patients. But the FDA is a mess. I have insiders quotes from whistleblowers and so on and so forth. But, I mean, it's the best any country has it's better than the one in Europe, you know, or who are who are respected. Roy Barker 18:02 You know, also anyway. Yeah, unless it's a, you know, on the other show that we have, we've talked a little bit about the new release of the Terry 18:12 Doom, Doom, that new Alzheimer's drug. Dr. Robert 18:15 Oh, yeah, that's an outrage. Okay, so the there are about 10 of these patent Alzheimers drugs, and they cost probably a couple $1,000 a month. At a minimum, you know, they're very expensive. It might might only be $1,000 a month, what a bargain. But even the people who work with those drugs and you read their papers, they can't claim they freakin work. I mean, they, they have some small effects. But like the rest of these drug studies, they're basically half fake and half concealed. And they use contract research groups, and out of the country, and if these guys don't produce the results that they want, they never use them again, you know, so. So anyway, so Alzheimers is a special case. This is very interesting subject because it's Alzheimer's is arguably the most expensive if long term care costs are included is the most expensive disease of all, but we've got excellent, we have an excellent thing to prevent Alzheimer's, right. So in my second book, on hormones, I showed how Astra dial prevents 50 to 80% of all Alzheimers, I mean this could save billions of dollars if it was used and not concealed right and not not derided basically. Roy Barker 19:42 Yeah, well, this. I'll let Terry's speak a little more to it because she she's done the research but this new adullam it's $56,000 a year. But what they thought mine can't be what what they need, though, They found out two years from now. They found out that the committee that was assigned to assign it what our scientists study it, when they went ahead and said, okay, it's okay for sale. I think 10 of the 11 doctors that were on the panel all resigned because they had already it's it's not Terry 20:22 it was a it was a an 11 member panels, three of them resigned. And their their vote, the voting on it was there. 10 of them said no, don't release it. And then one was uncertain. And then the FDA went ahead and said, Okay, well, they manipulate it seems like to me, they manipulated the study process, or, you know, the results that they got, and and made it Roy Barker 20:48 and Okay, and then now I think there's an investigation. Yes, a lot. This Dr. Robert 20:52 is a, this is a story you'll see over and over and over. And I've got stories like that all through my book, The tragedy of this whole thing, as you guys are finding out, you if you have a chronic disease, and Roy has a problem here. I mean, I think your problems simple compared to someone with cancer, but and you know, the the, the variety of you anyway, so but the tragedy is that you almost need physician level expertise to decipher what the heck to do next, and ever you need and you've got you got your woman by your side there who can help? Yeah, Roy Barker 21:28 yeah. Well, and that's the thing to, you know, kind of get back to more general terms is, I guess what I see are concerned about is, instead of doctors taking the time to find out what is this underlying issue, they would rather prescribe to treat a symptom instead of actually having a conversation. Terry 21:46 That's where they get their money is if they like give them the pharmacy, you know, give them the meds, Dr. Robert 21:53 you know, they are trapped in a in a system that where they're their actions are dictated and even these guys who work for Health Maintenance Organizations, they if they don't have prescribing habits that mimic the, quote, standard of care, which is largely dictated by Big Pharma, influenced by the standards panels, who are paid each one of the persons on the panel has huge conflict of interest paid by two or three pharma companies, for example, antidepressants and statin drugs, right? Both of those are should be thinly used, and they're the damn no depressants must be 10% of the whole country is on antidepressants, like drugs is 15% or more. But the influence is so the industry influence is so heavy, that your primary care doctor is not an independent actor anymore. He's got an individual license, he's responsible, but he operates under protocols. So they're not they're there. They're not innocent, but they're not the they're not the real problem. The problem is they're in a matrix, you know, they're a matrix of control. And the money is so huge, that these companies are getting more overt or obvious about their influence. Now, in the last year, they all sort of came out of the closet and said, do as we tell you, or else you know, that's my opinion about what happened. Roy Barker 23:20 Wow, yeah, it's unbelievable. Yeah, I was just gonna go down I was looking at the second one is the science is obscured, to hide the truth. And so I just was going to ask, you know, in your opinion, are, are these clinical trials large enough? Are they lengthy enough to actually you know, and the problem with anything is that something may be something may be doesn't come to light in the short term, but after you do it for 10 1520 years, all of a sudden, now, there's a big problem. But, again, in your opinion, are we even taking enough time to evaluate these drugs before we release them? Dr. Robert 24:04 Okay, so Roy, you're asking the right questions, and you're trying, you guys are trying to Paul your way through this mess of data, and try to figure out what the heck is going on. But if you want to read about these clinical trials and the frauds I think the easiest and most approachable book is been gold acres, bad pharma, and that's 10 years old. But the answer is that the answer is that you can hardly trust anything. Now the doctors are. We are conditioned to think that double blind placebo controlled trials are the beyond handle, but it's a garbage in garbage out situation and Geico situation. And it depends on the intentions of the people who are doing the trial. And so the answer is now, anecdotal medicine is almost better than the clinical trials and I it's almost a waste of time to look at them. Because if you go to the back of the paper and they're sponsored by the the company selling the drug, he was a gold makes the rules right. So they I mean, it's a it's a tragedy but everyone thinks they mean something. One of my friends says the whole thing has been almost garbage since 2000 is not crazy. I because the the industry is just taking control of freakin everything now. So I don't say this stuff casually. I studied it for four years, I've got 500 References In this book, nothing I say. Everything I say is derivative of authors that have come before me. I didn't do original research. I I read the stuff that was available. And I looked at the references, you know? Terry 25:52 Oh, my gosh. Shocking, isn't it dairy. It's shocking. And you don't take anything. Dr. Robert 25:59 You don't want to take anything you want to you basically. And I think you guys are on the right track with your, your keto and your your controlled fasting and your prolonged fasting. I think all that stuff, there is better evidence than anything else we have. I think that the you know, all the fat stuffs turned around want to eat animal fat and all that all those narratives about about the animal fat is being bad for you. That's all wrong. I mean, it's and it's all that's all food industry driven. And as you may recall the Food and Drug it the FDA is food and drug, right? So they spend half their money half that billion $5 billion, regulating the food industry, and they don't do a very good job there. And I've got references if you're interested in that, if you're interested in the vegan stuff. I have references for that, too. Roy Barker 26:45 Okay, yeah, I mean, that that is because we are you know, we haven't gone total vegan, we are more what we call plant based. And, you know, we we do not, we eat protein, but not it's not the focal point of the meal. Like it used to be used to you had the, you know, the big meat and a side thing of potatoes or whatever. So, you know, we've tried to flip that. But, you know, it gets back to this this thing about I have read some research, this is not my my research, but I've read a number of studies that say, you know, kind of staying with Alzheimer's is that that can be traced back to the low fat diet of the 70s and 80s. Because we need this fat for our brain to keep those receptors lubricated. And, yeah, Dr. Robert 27:31 I thought that was interesting. I listened to you. interview someone who'd given cook it on the world for three months to someone and they freakin improved, you know, so who knows? That's that's another anecdote. I have no expertise about this. Roy Barker 27:46 Yeah, that was a very, it was a very, it was a one person, but it sparked some huge longitudinal studies on that just to, you know, see if this fat intake. But yeah, there's been a lot of saying that that's what has caused this huge spike right now is what we did. And I guess that's kind of our mission to it's changed a lot on this show. But you know, part of it is, you know, I'll speak for me, I'm going into an older phone into the older age brackets sooner than I would like to. And so I need to be sharing carry good health good habits into this. I mean, you can't wait to you're 18 years old and say, Wow, I need to change some things. I mean, yeah. Dr. Robert 28:30 Well, another clue about my other book, which is the hormone book is after reviewing all the data for hormones, it's my opinion, and brace yourself. It's my opinion, that hormone supplementation over 40 or 50 years old is more important than exercise. Possibly as important as diet, you get it. So there's a lot of there's a lot of data on that a lot of a lot of studies and the standards that are promulgated are a pack of lies, you know, it's crazy. I mean, then we've got, we've got black box warnings on testosterone, estrogen and progesterone. Those three are vital, and they they can save your life and likely make you live longer. They save your alertness decrease Alzheimer's, I mean it has they have multiple good effects. Anyway, Terry 29:23 is that why is that? I mean, do you do you think that is one of the reasons that all timers and dementia has increased, so Dr. Robert 29:32 no doubt about it. There's no doubt about it. And the hormone levels are dropping, sperm counts are dropping, and we have good measurements in men about these trends over the last 20 years. We don't know why. It may be stress, it might be chemicals, it might be who knows it might be nutritional, and it might be something else but they it for any given age. Those are dropping and it's if we supplement we can prevent many, many problems. Roy Barker 30:00 So I'm sure that this is difficult to prove collusion. But do you think that there's a link in not releasing certain products because we would rather sell the drugs on? Instead of being proactive? We'd rather wait and sell the drugs on the back end. Dr. Robert 30:18 Yeah, you, you have to realize that these companies, they're not evil, and they're not good. They're only interested in money. And so they're willing, they're willing to, there are speculations that they, they would or do sell things that absolutely don't work in order to make the money and they can, they can fake the studies. In other words, you do 20 studies, and one of them is statistically significant, you know, when you that's the only one you publish. So, you know, I mean, they can sell wheat grass and a pill for God knows what. But it's, it's it's truly a sad story, because some of the things are injurious. There's a class of antidepressants or anti psychotics, because it called atypical antipsychotics. These things are well documented to shorten your life by 10 to 20 years, through diabetes and all this other stuff. However, they're getting passed out like jelly beans to people who have simple depressions. The SSRI drugs like Prozac, they cause consequential violence and suicide in a small number. And those guys are passed out very casually, they're exceedingly addictive. And, you know, it's it's basically an outrage. And the whole, the whole thing has been covered up since the start, the initial studies for Prozac showed the suicide rate, and that they paid off plaintiff after plaintiff for these things, rather than have it brought out. So, I mean, there's a lot of drugs that are just that are no good. And in fact, the whole psychiatric formulary. And I'm not, I'm not one of those, what do they call it the anti psychiatry is religion. What is that called? The Scientologists are not a Scientologist right? The but the Scientologists got this one, right. The psychiatry is drugs are the way they're used. Currently, that means indiscriminately on almost everyone, with these standards that were essentially fabricated with hand in glove with the pharmaceutical companies. It's it's an outrage, and that's the most, that's the most expensive medical specialty. And that that whole thing is a mess. I mean, it's truly a mess. And there are a lot of psychiatry is the only specially that has a massive number of people who are essentially psychiatry deniers, they don't think they should be operating at all. Every other specialty, they're doing something, you know, they're, they're making some mistakes, but psychiatry, the drugs have never been subjected to proper double blind placebo controlled trials. I mean, essentially, if you can't find any, you can't find anybody to put on a sugar pill these days, because we've got 15% of the country taking these darn drugs. Yeah, Terry 33:08 it's crazy. Yeah. Which leads to which probably has led up to a lot of the violence that's happening, you know, all these I like to see it. Dr. Robert 33:18 Yeah. The mass violence. Yeah. Everyone knows seems to be associated with with a psychiatric drug use. But of course, everybody's on the damn drugs. So Terry 33:27 who knows? How do you know? Yeah, yeah. Roy Barker 33:30 Well, you mentioned something, too, about settlements. And I, I just have mixed emotions about that. Because I feel like if, if I'm able, if I'm a $1.3 trillion industry, I'm able to offer some pretty big dollars for you to not take this to court. You know, it's like, okay, Dr. Robert 33:50 it's this important point, right. The pharma industry, in terms of their settlements to federal prosecutors, is the most criminal industry in history. They have billions of dollars in settlements every year. It's an unbelievable scene. And essentially, they are paying everyone off to leave them alone and let them continue doing what they're doing. So I mean, it's, it's Terry 34:16 about it, what and to shut up about it not saying well, you know, Dr. Robert 34:20 they, when when they make a settlement, they don't admit wrongdoing. But when you give someone $2 billion to to to stop the prosecution, I mean, it's a rich pay off, and the prosecutors can stand on the pile of loot and say they've been, they've saved the world from, you know, one of these companies, and, I mean, it's crazy. Pfizer has profit margins of 40% for the last five years. So if you know anything about industry, a 10% profit margin is a very good profit margin. It's in a competitive industry, but this is in an industry where the money falls out of the sky on healthcare, and and Pfizer Pfizer for what Have a reason, you know, which we won't speculate about. But you can speculate privately about their profit margins are very high. It's crazy. Terry 35:08 And so what? How does that? So you mentioned Pfizer, so how does that tie into the COVID? vaccination? Maybe? Okay, Dr. Robert 35:18 so, here now, I just want to make a comment about doctors and politics, right? So if you go to a doctor, and he talks politics to you, that's called a boundary violation. It's not considered cool in medical ethics, ethics term, just like, just like in polite company, we don't talk about religion, politics or net worth, right? It's not it's not considered reasonable. So this vaccine has been kicked around so much. It's being censored by YouTube and all these crazy media people. So I think we can consider the vaccine a political issue. So I'm going to make a comment which will tip you off to what I think about these modern vaccines without specifically commenting on the COVID varieties. Right. So we have we have the the two vaccines that were have been promulgated in the last 20 years now, you know, measles vaccine, and all that was before that, and they all have robust effectiveness, right. But the two are the flu vaccine. And HPV, I already told you what I thought of HPV vaccine, Japan rejected it. And they've got a very good public health service that seems less influenced by pharma. But for the flu vaccine, this costs billions and billions of dollars every year, Britain and France stockpile this thing. And their governments are influenced by the manufacturers, obviously, because that stuff doesn't work very well at all, it doesn't do much of anything. It may decrease the length of the the severity of the disease by eight hours or some crazy thing. And this is not a controversial thing. You can go to Cochrane Reviews, you just Google Cochrane Reviews flu vaccine, you can read the summaries of the last few meta analyses and they, you know, read between the lines, but it does it doesn't say the freakin stuff works, you know, it doesn't work very well, it's very expensive. So we can, we can certainly extrapolate pharmas products, which we know a lot about the other products, I mean, these these site drugs, they've tracked the rise in disability very closely. So that is a suggestion that the drugs cause the rise and disability, right? These there's a lot of other drugs like the stat that basically, I mean, there is arguable small use cases for it, but they've, they've gone so crazy, we've got 8060 or 80 million people in the US on status. And they are toxic, they can cause an occasional fatality and muscle wasting a lot of stuff like that. So the only two use cases for that one is hereditary hypercholesterolemia, which means you have a super high cholesterol and post heart attack. If you're not in those two groups, you're better off doing Roy's method of fasting or being careful with your ketone, you know, or intermittent fast. Roy Barker 38:18 So what about Black Label or black? I can't remember, I think that's it, like off off label uses. Like, we designed this medicine for this because I hear that both ways. I hear there are some medicines out there that help other things they won't let them do. But then I also hear that there are some medicines for one thing that they're using for others that cause harm as well. Dr. Robert 38:42 Something between a third and two thirds of drugs are prescribed off label. So it's completely conventional to do that. The thing that's not conventional is for Big Pharma to advertise there. patented medication for every freakin use under the sun. And there's many, many examples of this in my book, and that's what they get the fines for. That's all this left on the books to get these guys. I mean, research fraud, they sometimes identify some of that, but it's largely done outside of the country. Those studies are accepted, analyzed inside the country. And I mean, that doesn't seem to do much. You know, they put an occasional doctor in jail for a couple of years for that, but they're, they're obvious their champion, their champion fraudsters, you know, but it's done universally. I mean, again, that Goldacre book is a good source. And I'll mention Whitaker's book about the psychiatrists in the psychiatry he uses. He's a seminal author about that, where he dislikes the data and shows that there. I mean, arguably, those drugs are if they work is for a very narrow group. Roy Barker 39:52 Is there any studies on on that at all? Do they have to do any research on the off label? Or do they go on go through a whole new clinical trial for those? Dr. Robert 40:01 Well, that's the thing they're on, you know, I mean, I suppose you see a clinical trials are done to create a patent, which is a monopoly for whatever it is 20 years, you know, from the very start of it. And that's the profitable stuff. When a drug passes off patent, other companies apply to produce it, right. And then in theory, it becomes a matter of supply and demand and whether this stuff really works. Right. But it's not that clear, because there are all kinds of lawsuits that fall that go back and forth between these these big groups, the patent drug manufacturers, and the generic drug manufacturers, and, and sometimes they're just paid. The generic drug manufacturers are just paid not to produce the drug. I mean, it goes on and on. I described that in butchered by healthcare. But Did that answer your question? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so. So there are many good uses, there are many good uses for off label prescribing. And in fact, ineligible for physician does that. And I think that there are many, many treatments that are not recognized because they can't be patented. And among these are bioidentical hormones, because pieces of the human body cannot be patented. In theory, they've got some loopholes, like they patent certain doses of these darn things, which doesn't make any sense to me so. So you go through what's called a compounding pharmacy, which is 5% or less of the total pharmacists, and they are allowed to make a drug only for one person, they can't mass produce the drug. So, and there, there are other constraints on those guys, too, that I Roy Barker 41:46 yeah. So let's talk for a minute about, there's so many drugs prescribed about polypharmacy. And I know that some in theory are, if we use the same pharmacy, they should catch that, but I'm going to tell you that we use a national brand and have had some that slipped through like nobody's even taken a look at that. Dr. Robert 42:11 So drug interactions are not studied when the drug is patented. In other words, only one drug at a time is, is studying, right? So we know, we know something about drug interactions from after market effects, and maybe studies that have been done on it. But in the modern nursing home, it's not uncommon to see patients on 20 drugs. And these include that a typical anti psychotic that shortens their lifestyle life lifespan, because it shuts them up. I mean, they've got to control them somehow, I guess. But 20 medications is a medication farm and not a patient, they are just farming the revenues. And you can imagine these things, the expense of them and the insurance reimbursement and the insanity of the whole thing is just a, it's just a travesty. There are people who are studying this that I cited in butchered by healthcare, and they there are specialties that revolve around trying to take people off of as many of their medications as possible. So if you're a patient and you're not sick, I would advise you just to be very careful about what you take. Because the indications for conditions that you can't feel like blood pressure have been trumped up. In other words, the standard for when you Medicaid for blood pressure, there was very little scientific evidence that medicating past the upper limit 160 or the systolic blood pressure that trying to get it lower than that there's very little evidence that it makes any difference. And there's certainly almost no evidence that medicating past 140 systolic makes any difference. And so, especially if you're a senior, that they that, you know, there's there's it's ridiculous, but but the standards have been changed progressively for cholesterol for blood pressure for other medical conditions that are medicated prophylactically. And it prophylactically means before you get sick. So I mean, it's crazy. The whole thing about the bone density drugs. I mean, that's a that's a crazy story. And these things are very toxic. And they create problems have their own, like fractures and certain long bones like the femur, they create rotty jaw bones, right. And in theory, they densify the bones as well. They are a net loss in my opinion, after reading all about it. I mean, it's it's a crazy crazy thing, and you get those things and they last years inside your body, and they're a shot administered in the office. So the doctor gets 25% of the gross revenue. I mean, it's just it's it's a conflict of interest. Nobody You can get around. Roy Barker 45:01 Well, some of what led to that, too was, you know, in, in the nursing home expecially was, you know, when physical restraints, you know, people started taking a hard look at that, and they outlawed them. It's unfortunate, but, you know, we call it chemical restraints, all they did was just moved from having them, you know, tied down in the chair with the belt to chemical chemical restraint of the medication that they give them. Dr. Robert 45:29 So I don't know what there's a good solution for that. But let me just draw a similar point in the insanity field in this psychotic field, right? Well, almost all psychiatric conditions. And these are defined as things for which there is no laboratory test. So the psychiatrists are going almost purely by their gut instinct and talking right, unlike any other medical field, but oh, let's see, I lost my thread. What was I talking about? Right now we're talking about the chemic, chemical restraints, right? Okay. So, in psychiatry, every single psychiatric entity, like schizophrenia, like anxiety, like depression, waxes and wanes, it goes up, it goes down, goes up and goes down, right? But when we start people on psychiatric medications, it habituates them to the medication, and produces chronicity. So this has increased, or it's thought to have increased the number of people on social security disability, all this crazy stuff. So anyway, that's an that's, I don't have an answer for people who are completely out of it, you know, and letting them go through their thing in a walk facility, and then letting them out when they're when they're doing okay, that might be the way to go. It's not inexpensive, but the drugs are not inexpensive either. Well, and the bad thing about the some of the, you know, worst cases in the nursing home, especially was it really wasn't about the patient acting out, it was just if you could medicate enough of them, you didn't have to spend time, you know, devote time and resources to them. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of expertise to carefully medicate these people. And you have to have someone who cares about often about people who are demented, you know, and it's, it's hard, hardly anybody. It takes kind of a safe saintly person to be interested in keeping these people clean and in the best possible condition. And there are private places that do a good job, but the usual nursing home, Medicaid is heavily. I mean, it's crazy. The pharmacies who supply these nursing homes, make millions and millions of dollars per nursing home. I mean, it's crazy. It's like, they turn out blister packs for every patient in the nursing home, often 20 medications, I mean, in the hundreds of dollars a month at a minimum for the for the moderately priced ones, and just break it in, you know, and the nurses pass them out. And go ahead. Terry 48:07 I was I was just gonna say I mean, that's. So what do we do back in the olden days, When, when, when Big Pharma wasn't in control? I mean, we they did, they did send people with senility and, and psychiatric issues, they did put them away for a while or a lifetime. But there weren't many of them, because they weren't taking the drugs to be able to cause whatever it is, they're Dr. Robert 48:31 right, we've got a control group for psychiatry, and that's called the third world, right. And they don't have the money to spend on these drugs. So Whittaker and other Robert Whittaker, and other people have looked at that. And they get better results than we do. Our drugs encouraged chronicity and dependency in the third world, they'd lock them up for a while, maybe give them a few drugs, but they don't give them the drugs and definitely the way the way our standards have developed to, to do this, you know, depression, that you know, this chemical, chemical fault in the brain that's supposed to be depression that the SSRI antidepressants are supposed to fix. You've heard about that. Right? It's a chemical deficiency in the brain. Well, that was made up, that idea was made up by a marketer. That was not there's no science behind that at all. We don't know what the hell's happening in the brain is made up by a marketer. So that thing took hold. And once a bell is wrong, it cannot be unrung. So everybody in the country thinks that the depressed people have a chemical deficiency in the brain. And that means that you have to take the drug forever and pay the pharma company forever. And, you know, I mean, it all falls right, made up by a marketer at Smith Kline and French. Roy Barker 49:48 So what about allergies have has this overmedication or maybe it's the food source or whatever that it's, you know, we had a casual conversation about this the other day That, you know, as I was growing up, and I'm not, you know, mostly back in the 60s and 70s It's been a while, but it didn't seem to be kids with the chronic asthma, the chronic allergies, peanut butter, you know, things like that. And it seemed like nowadays there are so much Terry 50:19 more. All right, yeah, they're all they can't have dairy, they can't they're an app have everything gluten free, no peanuts, all of that. Dr. Robert 50:28 I don't have any specific knowledge about that, except for it sounds to me, like it's part of the diagnosis creep, that has been fostered by industry and abetted by the doctors, you know, just like for the blood pressure, the cholesterol, you know, the the bone density, the bone density story is a is a six story that started in some, you know, medical meeting where they got together and they all decided that bone density below a certain amount was going to be called osteopenia, which is not true osteoporosis. But then they decided that osteo Pina peenya, had to be medicated with these toxic drugs to prophylactic or prevent osteoporosis, which that's the link was never proven. But now we've got, we got all these people on these drugs, they're getting less popular because their toxicities are more widely known. And who wants to have a patient who has a necrosis or a rotten jaw, you know, I mean, that's, but I guess if you're getting paid 20 $500 for a shot, you know, maybe you're risking, you know, you get a you get a herd of about 40 of men, they're coming in once a month, or whatever it is, you got a lot of money on your hands. Terry 51:41 So what's a patient to do? That's the hard part. Okay, what do you do? Dr. Robert 51:47 Right? Well, my wife has a chronic problem. And I be I become her advocate. And it's taken my background to keep her out of trouble. And she's doing very well. But I think that you guys, you guys don't have serious problems yourself. I think you can research what you're doing. You stay away from those drugs, Metformin is okay, but the rest of them are not good. And they'll keep you from losing weight. But if you have a complicated problem, you can go to the best doctors in the country virtually now. And Trump put out this executive order. And I don't think Biden is countermanded. That said that virtual consultations, even on the first visit, are cool, you get it. Whereas before, they would always insist that you come to the office to see them to see you. Because it was considered beneath the standard of care to see a patient virtually or on the phone, especially for the first visit, there's something to that an experienced physician can just look at somebody and they can see physical signs, they can see, they can see stuff they can't see as well over zoom. Although these are very clear images, it's not as good. You know, they get you get your clothes off and look even without even listen to your lungs or looking, you know, just kind of look them over. And and they get hints to what's going on. And they can lead to good ideas about therapy and diagnosis. But you can go to Stanford, and you can do a virtual consultation with these people. And if they won't allow a first time virtual consultation, fly out there, pay for the whole thing, and then do the subsequent visits, and then get your local doctor to do whatever the other guy tells him to do. So you can get the best care in the country, anywhere you live. You know, if you've got a few dollars to rub together, I mean, it's not free. But it's not so outrageously expensive that that you can't get it done. The Second. Second thing is, you know, the problem with healthcare is twofold. Right? Have I want to do too much those are the people on fee for service and fever services, enormous conflict of interest, right? It's impossible to get away from I mean, I was a cosmetic surgeon, I got paid for doing breast dogs. I wanted to do them, you know, and I would like to think I never oversold it on someone that had breasts that were big already or something but you know, you got to make the customers happy, right? But the problem is for fee for service, they want to do too much but the other guys the HMO guys, they're on salary, and they're often incentivized in various subtle ways to do less. So you got to watch those guys and make sure that you're getting the best care from them. They have all the modern stuff. They can do whatever they want, but it often takes a supervising physician outside the system. If you have a complicated problem. If you're have cancer, cancer is there is many different diseases. It's complicated. Many different specialties are required to manage it frequently. You get a cardiologist involved and you know the cancer doctor and he you know, I mean it just goes on and on and on. And there's many possible And the thing is an art, which doesn't work very well, if it's applied the way the standards go, two months of improved survival is what 95% plus of the cancers get from our chemotherapy. And that's not that's not controversial. Two months survival improvement, right? We can cure about five to seven of these cancers. If we catch them at the right stage. It really I mean, you know, what, testicular cancer, some lymphomas, leukemias, you know, some other some other entities get cured, which is, you know, that's a blessing. But the rest of it is, it's definitely an art. And if you establish good relationships with the people, if you don't, if you don't think that they're relating to you, personally, you need to go elsewhere. I mean, doctors are human beings too. And if they seem like they're pushing patients through the clinic, and that's what they're up to. You can sense it your your judgment is better than you think. And you go on and study everything you can, if you have friends that are nurses, or doctors who can help advocate for you and learn everything they can, they'll they possibly will be more sophisticated, although sometimes they are just part of the freakin machine. Roy Barker 56:11 So we're running way long. But I did want to ask you, you wrote another book about hormones. And so we just wanted to touch on that briefly. I know you talked a little bit about testosterone and estrogen earlier, but now kind of what's going on over in that realm? Well, Dr. Robert 56:28 the interesting thing is, the amazing thing is that every single hormone has been run down by standards groups, right? The FDA has, there's a thing called a blackbox warning the FDA puts on drugs, that it deems it's a postmarket thing, right? They put on rather than send the drug back to the manufacturer, which would, you know, it's very expensive. And in theory, the drug works, they put a warning on the drug. So theoretically, patients and physicians can be careful about it and not, not, you know, be aware that there there are risks, and they put black box warnings, unwarranted blackbox warnings on testosterone, estrogen and progesterone based on obsoletes drug studies. In other words, the drugs studies were done is called the Women's Health Initiative, which you probably heard of that thing evaluated drugs that shouldn't be used any longer for chronic care. Okay, like Premarin, Premarin is horse urine, estrogen. Now that stuff has its place. But for chronic care, it has some low level risks, that true estrogen that's Astra dial, which is the compound that should be used is bioidentical doesn't have, right. And, you know, there's a whole series of caveats. But But basically, in testosterone, it's practically unbelievable what's happened with testosterone, they put a blackbox warning on testosterone based on two studies, or they look through the wrong end of the telescope. In other words, they took people on testosterone and look for problems. So that's the wrong way to evaluate a drug. What you need to do is take 1000 people or whatever half up on the drug half, I'm off the drug and see what happens to them in the future. Right. So testosterone, they've stuck this blackbox warning on testosterone for stroke and heart disease, when this stuff has enormously beneficial effects on weight loss. It's the best weight loss drug we've ever had. It's much better than phentermine. It has many positive effects. And you guys, you know, are of the age group where you should consider this stuff and you read my book and see what you think I've got referral sources in there. And even a drug as harmless as progesterone, which is the other female hormone. There's a story they started about that was you don't need anyway. Terry 58:56 So it's it's a crazy I was put, I was given a cream. Dr. Robert 59:00 I mean, the cream is the cream for progesterone is ineffective. It doesn't give you enough to drop like, Terry 59:07 I quit. I mean, I didn't take it very well. Dr. Robert 59:09 You should take oral micronized progesterone, and the doses and everything are in my hormone secrets book. Okay. So that's something that the women should study any woman over 50 should be intimately familiar with all that material. Because you're not going to get it your it's going to be hard to get from anywhere anywhere else. I mean, you can if you go to the right doctor, they can help but there's there's a lot of quote, controversy and the the subjects been just completely covered up. Sorry, Roy. Roy Barker 59:40 Oh, no, no, no, I just I was thinking you might actually thought of something back kind of on the drug issue is that you know, we talked about how things kind of go around with the FDA looking down over this but I'm able to walk into any drugstore, any grocery store And by any form of some kind of a supplement, and they don't have a my understanding with them is they have little to no oversight except for the company. So most of them come from China to do like, okay, yeah. Oh, yeah, I guess the for briefly on that, you know the benefits versus the pitfalls of you know, walking in and, and one for me that I know as that I was told about was iron like, for most men, too much iron can be dangerous more dangerous than than low iron. Dr. Robert 1:00:36 Don't take iron, don't take iron, right? But yeah, Terry if you don't have menstrual periods you shouldn't need iron to see. But the reason why you have low iron in the blood blood is you have blood loss, either through mineral or if you have a GI bleed a slow gut bleed, you can get a lower iron. And if you have that you want to check it out. You don't want to just take iron. Roy Barker 1:00:57 Yeah, yeah, no, no, I wasn't taking it, I have a colon cancer. That was just an example of, you know, one that I know for certain that I've heard is detrimental to men. But then, you know, like some of the others I've heard that they can have interactions with, you know, certain medications that we're taking. So just you know, it kind of the more I've learned about the supplements, kind of the scarier that whole thing is, and the Terry 1:01:21 fish and fish oil Didn't we just learned about fish? Well, we cut out the fish oil supplements, because we spoke to a neural neurologist, who told us that how it was processed, processes that out of what you need. So to go and get, you know, they have to, they have to cook it at such high heat that it actually makes it detrimental. But you can take there's a liquid three, six and nine, that's a lot more. Roy Barker 1:01:48 It's more efficient. But it's also like it has all the nutrients that you really need. So little things like that, you know, like the Who would think you know, nobody ever talked to me about this whole thing with fish oil, everybody's like official is good, but it's the process that kills it. Dr. Robert 1:02:04 I'm not an expert on fish oil I but I understand it's out. The thing I do know about is vitamin D, which actually is not a vitamin, it's a hormone. And you can get your levels drawn of D, your primary care can do that. Or you can go straight through life ext

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Dr. Carolyn Dean Live

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2021 62:10

HOUR 1 Bodies, Women's Hormones-- Carolyn Dean MD ND Puberty is arriving years before it should, the birth control pill (BCP) is being given to twelve-year-old's and many women are infertile by the age of thirty. What are the connections among these facts? And what does a decade or more of using the pill, followed by a few years of taking fertility drugs, do to the delicate balance of female hormones? Millions of female baby boomers are trying to understand where—and if—hormone replacement therapy (HRT) fits into their lives. Today, more and more women are searching for safer ways to balance their hormones. Hormones are measured in tiny amounts called nanograms and picograms. Depending on the stage in your menstrual cycle, normal levels of estradiol for a woman can fluctuate from 50pg/ml to 300pg/ml. How small are these amounts? Consider the following: One milligram = one-thousandth of a gram One microgram = one-millionth of a gram One nanogram = one-billionth of a gram One picogram = one-trillionth of a gram Once you know that a nanogram is one billionth (1 with 9 zeros) and a picogram is one trillionth of a gram (1 with 12 zeros), you can get an idea of the power of hormones and better understand why our hormones can so easily be thrown out of balance using milligram doses of synthetic hormones. HRT has been used since the 1950s. It was in 1966 that Dr. Robert A. Wilson was commissioned by the makers of Premarin to sell a nation of women on the age-defying benefits of an estrogen substitute derived from pregnant mare's urine. In the seventy years since then, we have finally begun to learn more about the side effects of HRT. Over that same time period, the chemical xenoestrogens in our environment that mimic hormones have been jamming up hormonal receptor sites in a process that Dr. Candace B. Pert (in her book Molecules of Emotion) calls “chemical rape.” Hormones are chemical messengers that travel through the bloodstream to tissues and organs to help them do their work. They tell your body what to do, when to do it, and for how long. Hormones work slowly, over time, and affect many processes including bone growth, metabolism, mood, sexual function, and reproduction. When your hormones are turned on and properly balanced you have a stable cellular environment in which to function but an imbalance can send your entire system into disruption. When it comes to the thyroid, adrenal, sex hormone axis there is an ongoing debate among natural medicine practitioners about what comes first and what do you treat first? Dr. Dean has commented that she thinks it's a moot point because there is a primary cause to much hormone disruption – mineral deficiency and yeast overgrowth at the cellular level of all these organs. Think about that for a minute and really let it sink in because if you have struggled with thyroid issues, adrenal fatigue, hormone imbalance or insulin resistance there is a clear path of recovery before you. It's likely with proper remineralization your system can regain its balance and poise. Investigating the role of minerals in the creation of hormones is a critical step to resolving these imbalances and one that Dr. Carolyn Dean has thoroughly researched. Once you understand hormones are chemical messengers then it makes sense that if the chemical messengers themselves don't get the message that minerals and vitamins provide – then how can they do their jobs properly? Dr. Carolyn Dean invites you to join us this evening for another wonderful, information packed broadcast on Women's Bodies, Women's Hormones. If you yourself are unable to make the show, you have the option to email Dr. Dean and have your question or comment included in our MailBag. Remember, the valuable information, suggestions, and insights about your health choices can always be discussed with your doctor, should you choose to do so. About Dr. Carolyn Dean Dr. Carolyn Dean MD ND has been featured on national media for over 30 years offering practical strategies to improve health, vitality, and well-being the natural way. As a medical doctor, naturopath, certified clinical nutritionist and master of many modalities including acupuncture and homeopathy, Dr. Carolyn Dean MD ND has authored over 33 books and 100 publications including The Magnesium Miracle, 3rd Edition, Hormone Balance, Future Health Now Encyclopedia and Heart Health. Please note that the information and opinions expressed on these broadcasts are not designed to constitute advice or recommendations as to any disease, ailment, or physical condition. You should not act or rely upon any information contained in these broadcasts without seeking the advice of your personal physician. If you have any questions about the information or opinions expressed during these broadcasts, please contact your doctor. Video Version: https://youtu.be/U7roW2HjMak Disclosure: Dr. Dean does have a financial interest in the sale of all the Completement Formulas. Call in and Chat with Dr. Dean during Live Show with Video Stream: Call 646-558-8656 ID: 8836953587 press #. To Ask a Question press *9 to raise your hand Dr. Dean takes questions via email. Please write questions@drcarolyndeanlive.com We will be glad to respond to your email Learn more about Dr. Carolyn here: https://drcarolyndeanlive.com Chatline on Station: http://bit.ly/Dreamvisions7Radio_Network

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Dr. Carolyn Dean Live

Dreamvisions 7 Radio Network

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2021 57:14

HOUR 2 Women's Bodies, Women's Hormones-- Carolyn Dean MD ND Puberty is arriving years before it should, the birth control pill (BCP) is being given to twelve-year-old's and many women are infertile by the age of thirty. What are the connections among these facts? And what does a decade or more of using the pill, followed by a few years of taking fertility drugs, do to the delicate balance of female hormones? Millions of female baby boomers are trying to understand where—and if—hormone replacement therapy (HRT) fits into their lives. Today, more and more women are searching for safer ways to balance their hormones. Hormones are measured in tiny amounts called nanograms and picograms. Depending on the stage in your menstrual cycle, normal levels of estradiol for a woman can fluctuate from 50pg/ml to 300pg/ml. How small are these amounts? Consider the following: One milligram = one-thousandth of a gram One microgram = one-millionth of a gram One nanogram = one-billionth of a gram One picogram = one-trillionth of a gram Once you know that a nanogram is one billionth (1 with 9 zeros) and a picogram is one trillionth of a gram (1 with 12 zeros), you can get an idea of the power of hormones and better understand why our hormones can so easily be thrown out of balance using milligram doses of synthetic hormones. HRT has been used since the 1950s. It was in 1966 that Dr. Robert A. Wilson was commissioned by the makers of Premarin to sell a nation of women on the age-defying benefits of an estrogen substitute derived from pregnant mare's urine. In the seventy years since then, we have finally begun to learn more about the side effects of HRT. Over that same time period, the chemical xenoestrogens in our environment that mimic hormones have been jamming up hormonal receptor sites in a process that Dr. Candace B. Pert (in her book Molecules of Emotion) calls “chemical rape.” Hormones are chemical messengers that travel through the bloodstream to tissues and organs to help them do their work. They tell your body what to do, when to do it, and for how long. Hormones work slowly, over time, and affect many processes including bone growth, metabolism, mood, sexual function, and reproduction. When your hormones are turned on and properly balanced you have a stable cellular environment in which to function but an imbalance can send your entire system into disruption. When it comes to the thyroid, adrenal, sex hormone axis there is an ongoing debate among natural medicine practitioners about what comes first and what do you treat first? Dr. Dean has commented that she thinks it's a moot point because there is a primary cause to much hormone disruption – mineral deficiency and yeast overgrowth at the cellular level of all these organs. Think about that for a minute and really let it sink in because if you have struggled with thyroid issues, adrenal fatigue, hormone imbalance or insulin resistance there is a clear path of recovery before you. It's likely with proper remineralization your system can regain its balance and poise. Investigating the role of minerals in the creation of hormones is a critical step to resolving these imbalances and one that Dr. Carolyn Dean has thoroughly researched. Once you understand hormones are chemical messengers then it makes sense that if the chemical messengers themselves don't get the message that minerals and vitamins provide – then how can they do their jobs properly? Dr. Carolyn Dean invites you to join us this evening for another wonderful, information packed broadcast on Women's Bodies, Women's Hormones. If you yourself are unable to make the show, you have the option to email Dr. Dean and have your question or comment included in our MailBag. Remember, the valuable information, suggestions, and insights about your health choices can always be discussed with your doctor, should you choose to do so. About Dr. Carolyn Dean Dr. Carolyn Dean MD ND has been featured on national media for over 30 years offering practical strategies to improve health, vitality, and well-being the natural way. As a medical doctor, naturopath, certified clinical nutritionist and master of many modalities including acupuncture and homeopathy, Dr. Carolyn Dean MD ND has authored over 33 books and 100 publications including The Magnesium Miracle, 3rd Edition, Hormone Balance, Future Health Now Encyclopedia and Heart Health. Please note that the information and opinions expressed on these broadcasts are not designed to constitute advice or recommendations as to any disease, ailment, or physical condition. You should not act or rely upon any information contained in these broadcasts without seeking the advice of your personal physician. If you have any questions about the information or opinions expressed during these broadcasts, please contact your doctor. Video Version: https://youtu.be/U7roW2HjMak Disclosure: Dr. Dean does have a financial interest in the sale of all the Completement Formulas. Call in and Chat with Dr. Dean during Live Show with Video Stream: Call 646-558-8656 ID: 8836953587 press #. To Ask a Question press *9 to raise your hand Dr. Dean takes questions via email. Please write questions@drcarolyndeanlive.com We will be glad to respond to your email Learn more about Dr. Carolyn here: https://drcarolyndeanlive.com Chatline on Station: http://bit.ly/Dreamvisions7Radio_Network

S2-E51 - Precision medicine, Fibrosis, Liver Function and the Future: a Discussion With Scott Friedman

Surfing the Nash Tsunami

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2021 59:54

Scott Friedman, the "Father of Fibrosis", and Jörn Schattenberg join the Surfers to discuss Scott's recent Paris NASH and National Liver Congress talks on Precision Medicine, imaging and liver function.Scott Friedman's Paris NASH talk on Precision Medicine made a strong impression on Stephen and Jörn, along with our listeners. The conversation summary of that talk and Lars Johansson's (S2 E46.2) is the largest conversation and third largest post in the history of the podcast.Scott joined us to discuss precision medicine, imaging, stellate cells and an array of additional topics. Highlights include:4:08 – Scott Friedman discusses his career in studying fibrosis, stellate cells and a range of other liver function issues9:13 – Session icebreakers: Scott's fun fact and everyone's good thing from the past week12:46 – Stephen Harrison introduces Scott by discussing what he learned at Paris NASH16:00 – Scott begins his remarks and goes on to discuss Precision Medicine in the context of liver disease19:02 – Why it means so much that precision medicine includes precision of therapies19:39 – How the stellate cell got its name21:04 –The power of technologies lies in single cell sequencing and analyses, and what it means for “us stellate cell geeks”23:49 – The importance of senescent stellate cells24:45 – An exciting future for CAR-T cells25:40 – Jörn Schattenberg asks whether and how we can target drug therapies to specific patients26:38 – Scott: Pharmacogenomics are the “known” part of how precision might affect prescribing and drug selection in the future27:46 – The importance of endophenotypes: liver samples look the same under the microscope may reflect quite different causes of disease28:50 – The ambitious effort to develop software that takes the mass of patient information and distills it into a clear picture and simple recommendation30:02 – Stephen: do we know enough to target therapies to specific types of patients31:14 – Scott: What we know about PNPLA3 cells, their variants and patient diagnosis and treatment is a good example of what we can learn over time32:08 – Does part of the solution lie in pinpointing how a cell signals distress?33:16 – The significant role imaging can play in improving precision34:25 – Implications of precision medicine for drug development, and how being “yoked to biopsy” and the NAFLD Activity Score hold us back38:18 – Should we focus our endpoints more on liver function?39:38 – Is biopsy the “Premarin of diagnostics” – so highly and unreliably variable that we cannot replicate results?41:04 – Getting beyond the biopsy: the imperative, the path and the two major challenges44:02 – Putting existing tissue samples to better use: availability of sample, past discussions, potential solutions, practical considerations48:06 – “Very cool” research “cooking” in Scott's lab49:02 – The importance of mentorship49:24 – “Final question” to wrap up session52:52 – Scott: there are good reasons for optimism in our history55:21 – Business section

Zoe Littlepage | Rowatt, Forrester and Scofield v. Wyeth | $134.1 Million Verdict

The Great Trials Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2021 69:17

This week we're replaying a classic episode where your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Zoe Littlepage of Littlepage, Booth, Leckman ( http://www.littlepagebooth.com/ ). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Case Details: Three Nevada women who developed breast cancer as a result of their use of Wyeth's hormone replacement drugs, Prempro and Premarin. The jury found that Prempro and Premarin helped cause their cancers and that Wyeth misled the public about the drugs' health risks. The court ultimately awarded $22.8 million in compensatory damages and $35 million in punitive damages. Read/Download the Complete Trial Documents Guest Bio: Zoe Littlepage's practice focuses on complex cases including mass torts, defective medical product or drug cases as well as human rights issues. She typically spends months each year in trial, all across the country. Ms. Littlepage's jury awards made the list of the Top 10 Largest Verdicts in the country for 2007, 2009 and 2010. In 2011, Zoe Littlepage was induced into The Inner Circle of Advocates. Founded in 1972, The Inner Circle of Advocates is an invitation only group of 100 of the best trial lawyers in America who are selected for their character, experience and success in the courtroom. The Inner Circle of Advocates was described by The Washington Post as, "A select group of 100 of the nation's most celebrated trial lawyers" and is recognized as one of the most exclusive groups of attorneys in the nation. Inner Circle members often work collectively to share experience, skills and knowledge in pursuit of justice. American Lawyer magazine as well as Fortune magazine named Ms. Littlepage as one of America's “Premiere Lawyers.” She has also been nominated as a “Super Lawyer” as well as “Top Lawyer” in the country multiple years running. In 2008, she received the Clarence Darrow award for Best Mass Tort Lawyer. Texas Lawyer praises Ms. Littlepage's tenacity stating “all bets should be on Littlepage.” Chambers USA, a legal publisher, recognizes Zoe Littlepage as a leading lawyer in nationwide product liability litigation and notes that “Zoe Littlepage of Littlepage Booth does ‘a bang-up job for plaintiffs.'” According to lawyers interviewed by Chambers USA, “[w]hen you see her, you know you have a fight on your hands.” Read Full Bio Here Show Sponsors: Legal Technology Services - LegalTechService.com Digital Law Marketing - DigitalLawMarketing.com Harris, Lowry, and Manton - hlmlawfirm.com Free Resources: Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 1 Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 2

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Chapter 5 HORMONE SECRETS--PROGESTERONE AND TESTOSTERONE FOR WOMEN

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2021 11:58

Estradiol has the most dramatic effects of any hormone. Its benefits include:✪ Helps the heart more than other hormones. ✪ Decreases the risks of cataracts, vaginal atrophy, and macular degeneration of the retina. ✪ Reduces the chances of stroke, diabetes, colon cancer, Alzheimer's, memory problems, and osteoporosis. ✪ Cures hot flashes and improves sexuality. From the Los Angeles Times, 1999: I could live without my husband, children, or cats. But I could never live without my beloved estrogen. Who should use estrogen and how much? Menopausal women and sometimes men transitioning to women are prescribed estrogen. Men with prostate cancer are also occasionally treated with it. Women in menopause should start at 1.5 milligrams in the morning, then increase to 2 to 2.5 milligrams. This brings blood levels up to about 70 pg/ml, which protects the heart and other organs. We believe this is safe because young, healthy women have estrogen levels in the hundreds during parts of their cycle. Premarin, the horse estrogen, was the first treatment for menopause. It has many beneficial effects, but it causes a slight increase in blood clotting. This makes it obsolete for long-term use. Estradiol, the primary bio-identical type, is safer. Every study on it—KEEPS, EPAT, WEST, CORA, DANISH, and ELITE (those academics love acronyms)—found no increase in blood clotting. Although the estradiol transdermal patch may provide the best relief of hot flashes and does not cause blood clots, it does not protect against heart disease. In contrast, both types of oral estrogen protect the heart. This was proven in many studies, including the CORA, ELITE, WEST, and DANISH. Since many medical authorities think that oral estradiol and oral Premarin are the same things with the same risks, they often recommend using the patch if there are concerns about blood clotting. Doctors should instead prescribe brand name, generic, or compounded oral estradiol. These are safe and protect against heart disease and stroke. Doctors are usually hesitant to prescribe oral estrogens for sick patients or those with heart risk factors such as smoking, obesity, or a family history. They use the patch for them if they recommend hormones at all. However, as I describe in the Be Careful Whom You Trust chapter, these are precisely the patients who need cardiac protection the most. In nearly every situation, their risk to reward ratio favors the oral type. We should accept the minor hazard of blood clotting to protect their hearts. Dr. Rouzier describes these issues in a well-referenced article.Surgeons and anesthesiologists have many responsibilities, and they rarely read the confusing estrogen studies closely. Since blood clots after surgery are such a hazard, most of them tell their patients to stop all replacement before surgery. Some gynecologists are adamant about this. Estradiol is available as generic, compounded, or patented varieties. Hormone doctors mostly recommend a compounding pharmacy's product because generics are less predictable and the patent type is too expensive if not paid for by insurance. Brand names from foreign sources made by major manufacturers are often affordable and of excellent quality. Estradiol patches such as Vivelle Dot (twice a week) or Climara (once a week) may relieve menopause symptoms better than the oral forms. The higher dose of .1 mg a day works best. To help the transdermal patch stick, patients scrub the area with alcohol before they apply itSupport the show (https://paypal.me/dryohoauthor?locale.x=en_US)

Chapter 2: HORMONE SECRETS--LEARN A FEW DRUG NAMES

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2021 6:44

To understand this book, you only need to remember a few bio-identical hormone names—estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, and thyroids, which include porcine, T4, and T3. If you read outside sources, you must learn others. Return to this reference chapter as needed. Hormones work by attaching to receptor molecules in the human body, and since the natural ones are identical or nearly identical to those made by our glands, they fit like the real thing. Manufactured medicines are foreign substances never found in the body's ecosystem that are made from animals or chemicals. These do not match as closely as the bio-identicals, do not work as well, and have side effects. They are still useful in a few circumstances but should never be taken long-term. I call them “counterfeit” or “fake” to help you sort out the issues. For example, progesterone is bio-identical. In contrast, Provera is a synthetic progesterone imitation. It raises the chances of migraines, weight gain, heart disease, breast cancer, depression, and irregular bleeding. Pregnant women taking it get more miscarriages and their babies have more congenital disabilities. Drugmakers invent sexy copyrighted brand names for their profitable patented compounds. This allows patients to harass doctors by saying, “I saw an ad for…” Pharma also creates chemical names that are hard to pronounce and remember. The brand Celebrex, for example, is the chemical celecoxib—try saying that one. The advantage for the manufacturer is that when medications go off-patent and are sold as generics, the chemical is more difficult to recall than the recognizable brand. The drugmakers use the names to confuse. Progestin, progestogen, and Provera, the artificial ones, sound like natural progesterone. And Premarin, the horse-urine estrogen (this name was from PRegnant MAre's uRINe), gets mixed up with Provera, the synthetic progesterone. These strategies work, so the doctors are just as bewildered as you are:✪ Many journal articles make no distinction between bio-identical progesterone and progestins/progestogens such as Provera. They call both of these progesterone, which implies there is little difference. ✪ Likewise, medical articles call many related substances estrogens, which is accurate but fools both doctors and patients into thinking that they are all alike. Technically, estrogens include bio-identical estradiol, the counterfeits such as Premarin, and the other relatively weak human estrogens, estrone and estriol. These last two are bio-identical but are almost inactive and cause some health issues. ✪ Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) sometimes refers to treatment with bio-identicals and sometimes to treatment with the counterfeits!Support the show (https://paypal.me/dryohoauthor?locale.x=en_US)

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Chapter 4 HORMONE SECRETS--ESTROGEN FOR WOMEN

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2021 6:09

Estradiol has the most dramatic effects of any hormone. Its benefits include:✪ Helps the heart more than other hormones. ✪ Decreases the risks of cataracts, vaginal atrophy, and macular degeneration of the retina. ✪ Reduces the chances of stroke, diabetes, colon cancer, Alzheimer's, memory problems, and osteoporosis. ✪ Cures hot flashes and improves sexuality. From the Los Angeles Times, 1999: I could live without my husband, children, or cats. But I could never live without my beloved estrogen. Who should use estrogen and how much? Menopausal women and sometimes men transitioning to women are prescribed estrogen. Men with prostate cancer are also occasionally treated with it. Women in menopause should start at 1.5 milligrams in the morning, then increase to 2 to 2.5 milligrams. This brings blood levels up to about 70 pg/ml, which protects the heart and other organs. We believe this is safe because young, healthy women have estrogen levels in the hundreds during parts of their cycle. Premarin, the horse estrogen, was the first treatment for menopause. It has many beneficial effects, but it causes a slight increase in blood clotting. This makes it obsolete for long-term use. Estradiol, the primary bio-identical type, is safer. Every study on it—KEEPS, EPAT, WEST, CORA, DANISH, and ELITE (those academics love acronyms)—found no increase in blood clotting. Although the estradiol transdermal patch may provide the best relief of hot flashes and does not cause blood clots, it does not protect against heart disease. In contrast, both types of oral estrogen protect the heart. This was proven in many studies, including the CORA, ELITE, WEST, and DANISH. Since many medical authorities think that oral estradiol and oral Premarin are the same thing with the same risks, they often recommend using the patch if there are concerns about blood clotting. Doctors should instead prescribe brand name, generic, or compounded oral estradiol. These are safe and protect against heart disease and stroke. Doctors are usually hesitant to prescribe oral estrogens for sick patients or those with heart risk factors such as smoking, obesity, or a family history. They use the patch for them if they recommend hormones at all. However, as I describe in the Be Careful Whom You Trust chapter, these are precisely the patients who need cardiac protection the most. In nearly every situation, their risk to reward ratio favors the oral type. We should accept the minor hazard of blood clotting to protect their hearts. Dr. Rouzier describes these issues in a well-referenced article.Surgeons and anesthesiologists have many responsibilities, and they rarely read the confusing estrogen studies closely. Since blood clots after surgery are such a hazard, most of them tell their patients to stop all replacement before surgery. Some gynecologists are adamant about this. Estradiol is available as generic, compounded, or patented varieties. Hormone doctors mostly recommend a compounding pharmacy's product because generics are less predictable and the patent type is too expensive if not paid for by insurance. Brand names from foreign sources made by major manufacturers are often affordable and of excellent quality. Estradiol patches such as Vivelle Dot (twice a week) or Climara (once a week) may relieve menopause symptoms better than the oral forms. The higher dose of .1 mg a day works best. To help the transdermal patch stick, patients scrub the area with alcohol before they apply it.Support the show (https://paypal.me/dryohoauthor?locale.x=en_US)

Chapter 8 HORMONE SECRETS--HOW HORMONE USAGE WAS SUPPRESSED

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2021 18:34

Cui Bono, the Latin phrase meaning “who benefits,” says the motive for an act or crime lies with the person who has something to gain.Only twenty percent of our senior women and even fewer men take hormones. Outside Europe and the US, usage is rare. How is this possible? The “bio-identical” or “human” forms of these drugs are not promoted because they can rarely be patented to make the big money. But they work better and are safer than other medications such as statins, antidepressants, many cancer treatments, and the proprietary imitation hormones made by big Pharma. These industry cash cows are supported and protected, while in contrast, natural hormones are defamed and restricted. Chasing profits has ruined science. To explain, here is how the Women's Health Initiative study (WHI) was hijacked by its own authors and sabotaged patient care. This huge National Institutes of Health trial (published in 2002) examined 160,000 women aged 59 to 79. It found an increase in breast cancer for patients taking both Premarin, the horse urine estrogen, and Provera, the patented synthetic progesterone. But those who took only Premarin had a decrease in breast cancer. This proved Provera was responsible, and other trials confirmed it. The WHI should have ended this medication's use for long-term applications, but it did not.The WHI took 11 years, and by that time it was complete, the two drugs it examined were obsolete. But the study statisticians claimed they uncovered critical dangers, and the authors sensationalized and embellished their threadbare findings. Medical academics buffed their reputations by declaring that they, too, could see the emperor's clothes. The media joined the parade—baloney sells advertising—and the public soon believed that all female hormones were killers. This “man bites dog” story still terrifies everyone. Once a bell is rung, it cannot be unrung. In the public and medical eye, hormones were branded with cancer, dementia, and other problems. One reviewer wrote that the study authors were “overselling hysteria.” John Goldman, MD, wrote in Medscape, “[The study] has undermined the credibility of the research and the medical community as a whole.” Abraham Morgentaler, MD, and others (Harvard) explained how the panic was generated:The (WHI)… reported increased risk of adverse events of only 19 events per 10,000 person-years of exposure for the estrogen–progesterone arm [Premarin-Provera] compared with placebo. This means that if one woman in every generation of a family used estrogen–progesterone for 10 years, it would take 50 generations, or about 1,000 years, to see one extra adverse event in that family. The result may have been statistically significant, but they were clinically meaningless.Avrum Bluming and Carol Tavris described the study's statistical trickery and atrocious sensationalism in Estrogen Matters (2018), a superb book about the science and politics. One of the WHI's principal investigators, Rossouw, had an agenda to “change the thinking about hormones.” Six years before the WHI was published, he wrote it was time to put “the brakes on that bandwagon,” referring to the growing support for estrogen replacement. And so the WHI authors ignored their colleagues' advice and rushed to publication before completing the study. This spawned thousands of meritless lawsuits. Bluming and Tavris cited follow-up trials showing that estrogen decreases the chance of breast canceSupport the show (https://paypal.me/dryohoauthor?locale.x=en_US)

096 Demystifying Hormones for Perimenopause and Menopause

Health Mysteries Solved

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2021 62:05

The Case: Jill is suffering from hormone imbalances which her doctors chalk up to perimenopause She was experiencing hot flashes, irregular periods, PMS, dry skin, mood swings, and extreme brain fog She wasn't sure if these were all connected but she knew she didn't like the doctor's advice of waiting it out. Every woman experiences perimenopause and menopause differently. There are some common symptoms like hot flashes and irregular menstrual cycles, and some symptoms attributed to this hormonal shift that may or may not be related, like brain fog and dry skin. Jill and I both agreed that we needed to find out the root of her issues The Investigation When Jill came to see me, I took a look at her history and labs. I saw her declining hormones, so I knew that at least some of the issues could be because of this. I also know that as hormones decline, they affect our organs (including the thyroid) and can be triggers for autoimmunity like Hashimoto's. I knew some of the symptoms could be thyroid related (dry skin and mood swings) but was the thyroid the root cause or simply being affected by the hormone shifts of perimenopause? It was important to find this out before deciding on her treatment. Solving Hormone Imbalance Mysteries When it comes to female hormones, there are so many angles, confusion, and misinformation because the story is quite complex. No wonder Jill was struggling to figure out what was going on. I knew just who to turn to for help with Jill's case. Jim Hrncir is one of the pioneers of modern pharmaceutical compounding. Jim is responsible for the formulation of many bioidentical hormones, as well as dermatological, nutritional, and anti-aging compounds widely used throughout the U.S. Compounded Bioidentical Hormones vs. Hormones The main difference between hormones that a traditional doctor might prescribe (that you would get at a regular pharmacy) and compounded bioidentical hormones is that synthetic hormones first and foremost synthetic and foreign to the body and are one size fits all while compounded hormones are identical to our own hormones and customized to the specific need of the patient. Bioidentical hormones are just as the name suggests, they are exactly the same structure as the hormones that your body has been making your whole life. The second consideration when looking at synthetic hormones vs. bioidentical hormones is the detoxification process. We produce hormones, typically every day and the body has to metabolize and detoxify them. And so, whether it's our own hormones or other hormones, we have to make sure that they're leaving the body properly. The difference is that synthetic hormones take 21 days to be metabolized compared to the mere hours it takes for bioidentical hormones to move through the system. Risk Factors and Misinformation about Bioidentical Hormones It's a common misconception that bioidentical hormones increase a woman's risk of breast cancer, heart attack, stroke, dementia, and colon cancer - especially for those using these hormones for more than 5 years. Dr. Hrncir says this bad information comes from a study that was done in 2002. While it was a large study, the data was miscommunicated to the media and it stuck. Other researchers have tried to correct the damage of this study but many people still believe that hormones pose a risk. Dr. Hrncir believes that bioidentical hormones, because they are a match to what the body is already producing, are much safer than synthetic hormones that are created from non-human sources. For example, he explains, Premarin is created using the urine of a pregnant mare (horse). The second piece of false information to come out of that study, according to Dr. Hrncir, is that women should not be on bioidentical hormones for more than 5 years and this does not seem to hold true. Testing and Managing a Hormone Imbalance Continuing to monitor hormone levels is an important part of the process. The DUTCH Test (a urine test) looks at the metabolites to gauge how well the bioidentical hormones are being metabolized. This is especially important for anyone with the MTHFR defect because the methylation pathways are necessary to detoxify the hormones. Thankfully the methylation pathways can be supported and there is alot you can do to help. To learn more about the MTHFR and ways to understand and support it, please check out Episode 34. Blood tests and saliva tests may also be used and additionally Dr. Hrncir always has patients do a lifestyle questionnaire because test levels alone don't tell the whole story. Treatment of a Hormone Imbalance with Compounded Bioidentical Hormones As mentioned, this hormone therapy is customized to meet the patients needs and their hormone signature. Different hormones will be administered in different ways. Dr. Hrncir prefers to deliver estrogen transdermally. He encourages his patients to move the cream application site around the body so one area doesn't get a build up. In some cases, patients will apply the cream to the labia with the side benefit of treating vaginal dryness, supporting the bladder (and spontaneous leakage), and decreasing UTIs and bacterial vaginosis. Other hormones may be delivered in time-release capsules. Why aren't Compounded Bioidentical Hormones as supported by the FDA This is a very big question and good fodder for conversation. Dr. Hrncir has reason to believe there is bias against compounding in the FDA because it doesn't fit the business model of Big Pharma. Be sure to listen all of the way to the end of this episode for more on this. It's not just hormones related to menopause, there are many other hormones (including thyroid) that can be compounded and may be at risk. Jim is passionate about keeping compound bioidentical hormones available to the public. If you agree, you can visit this website to add your voice to the cause. Mystery Solved Hormone changes are no joke and can cause so many different symptoms making it difficult to know what's really going on. Jill saw all the research and felt natural hormones were the way to go for her. She wanted to feel better and prevent diseases that may result from low hormones. But first, we had to figure out which symptoms were related to her hormone imbalance. We ran a DUTCH test to get her baseline and look at her estrogen metabolism. Her overall hormones were low but we were able to evaluate their pathways. For her, she was converting a bit more to the 4-hydroxy estrogen which was not ideal, her homocysteine was high and her methylation capability needed support. We tested her thyroid and while everything was in the lab range, her TSH was a bit out of the optimal range at 3.5. Before starting compounded bioidentical hormone therapy, we had to fix a few things to make sure she would be able to metabolize the hormones once given. This included adjusting her diet to support a healthy gut biome. And, adjusting a few nutritional imbalances. We started Jill on DIM (Diindolylmethane) twice per day. We made sure she was getting enough methylated B vitamins including folate and B12 by giving her Homocysteine Supreme by Designs for Health. We also noticed that she had elevated beta-glucuronidase in her stool test. To reduce this we used Calcium D-Glucarate by Designs for Health. Her DHEA was low in her test so she started taking 10 mg of liquid DHEA - it's not a high dose but liquid DHEA goes a long way. Happy Ending Jill started to see some improvements with her brain fog, energy, and sleep from the nutritional adjustments and supplements but there was more to do. Her doctor was very open and we worked with her doctor to get her on bioidentical progesterone and estrogen (estradiol and estriol) as well as a small dose of testosterone. After four weeks, Jill was feeling even better. Her hot flashes were completely gone, she felt like her memory was back and she was not foggy anymore. Her skin was less dry and had more glow. A new DUTCH test revealed that her estrogen metabolism was normalized and her hormones were now in “normal range” for someone who is not in menopause. This is what we want to see when someone is taking hormones. We also retested her thyroid and while we didn't actually do anything for her thyroid, the changes we did make, resulted in her TSH coming down to 2.2 from 3.5. Eliminating Health Mysteries For Jill we were able to single out the symptoms and find the right combination of supplements, diet, and bioidentical hormone therapy to help her regain her health. Could a hormone imbalance be the missing clue for you or someone in your life? Links: Thanks to my guest Dr. Jim Hrncir. You can learn more about the movement to ensure women continue to have access to compounded bioidentical hormones, visit compounding.com. Suggested Products Homocysteine Supreme Calcium D-Glucarate DHEA Drops Related Podcast Episodes: The Case of Unrelenting Depression and Anxiety w/ Dr. Loren Marks Thanks for Listening If you like what you heard, please rate and review this podcast. Every piece of feedback not only helps me create better shows, it helps more people find this important information. Never miss an episode - Subscribe NOW to Health Mysteries Solved with host, Inna Topiler on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Podcasts and remember to rate and review the show! Find out more at http://healthmysteriessolved.com PLEASE NOTE All information, content, and material on this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to serve as a substitute for the consultation, diagnosis, and/or medical treatment of a qualified physician or healthcare provider. Some of the links provided are affiliate links. This means we may make a very small amount of money should you choose to buy after clicking on them. This will in no way affect the price of the product but it helps us a tiny bit in covering our expenses.

What drugs have increased in price?

Recovery Partner Network

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2021 0:15

Prescription medications such as Eliquis, Jardiance, Spiriva, and Tradjenta have gone up 6%. Drugs such as Truvada, Chantix, Flovent, and Premarin have gone up between 3 to 5 percent.https://recoverypartnernetwork.com/drug/how-much-do-drugs-cost-the-steep-price-of-addiction

Ep. 020: Menopause/hormone therapy, Pt. 2: fact or fiction? (w/ Avrum Bluming, University of Southern California)

Get Real Health with Dr. Chana Davis

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2021 46:02

Dr. Chana Davis hosts Dr. Avrum Bluming to discuss menopausal hormone replacement therapy, with the goal of empowering women to make choices rooted in science. Bluming explains the different estrogen replacement strategies, from bioidenticals, to Premarin, to patches, including what we know, and what we don't know, about these options. He also shares insights into the notorious Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study that sparked many common, yet unfounded, fears and explains why there is such a disconnect between the science and the headlines. This episode is the second of a two part conversation. Check out part one for an overview of the risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy. Dr. Avrum Bluming is a hematologist, medical oncologist, professor, and cancer researcher. In addition to treating women with breast cancer for four decades, Bluming was a clinical professor of medicine at University of Southern California and a senior investigator for the US National Cancer Institute. Together with Dr. Carol Tavris, Bluming literally wrote the book on post-menopausal estrogen therapies. Learn more about Bluming, Tavris and their book, Estrogen Matters, including links to the latest scientific studies at: https://estrogenmatters.com/

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71. Why you should get off menopausal pellet injections

Health By Heather Hirsch

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2021 30:04

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); As confusion and seemingly conflicting messages are being sent to women in menopause about the safety of hormone therapy, more and more women are choosing unregulated non-FDA approved hormone therapy. In this important public health episode, Dr. Hirsch discussed how this industry got its wings, and how it is taking advantage of women seeking help during menopause and midlife. In this episode, Dr. Hirsch discusses the history of compounded non-FDA approved hormone therapy, and the many dangers these compounds have on women. SHOW NOTES: Hey everyone, welcome back to this show. Well, it’s a little noisy in my house. We are excited because we are renovating the attic space and I just can’t wait because I’m going to put my office up there. We’re doing the shiplap, the whole HD thing, totally psyched about it, but they’re literally one floor above, pounding nails and hammering away. So if you hear any of that noise during this episode, that’s why. This episode today, I wanted to talk about pellet injections, as well as the other non-compounded, non-FDA approved hormone therapy regimens that are out there. And specifically, I want to talk about this because I want to explain a little bit more behind the boom in this industry and the dangers of using these types of medications and then ultimately a why and how to get yourself off of them. And if you have a friend in a similar scenario, how to talk her out of it as well, certainly she could listen to this episode, but my dream is that you also gleam some background information that can help explain this to someone else because when we can explain it to someone else, that means we’ve learned it. So for many of you who’ve been listening to my show for a long time now, you know that there was a lot of misleading information from the initial results of the Women’s Health Study or the Women’s Health Initiative that came out in the early 2000s. If you had not already listened to my podcast episode on the Women’s Health Initiative, it’s a few episodes down so scroll back and I would definitely listen to that before you complete listening to this, because it will put it in a lot of context. But because of those fears from the use of commercially available conjugated equine estrogens, which was Premarin at the time, and it’s combination buddy medroxyprogesterone acetate, which is the progesterone component if you had an intact uterus, there grew a new field of air quotes, safe, and air quotes, hormone therapy. Now, if you really think about it, this was a pretty genius move. People who were looking to invest, or to make money, or who were burned out of their traditional either academic positions, or some of these folks were pharmacists or other allied healthcare professionals looked around and said, “Ah, there’s a niche here for women in menopause who don’t feel good. There’s a niche to help women with vague symptoms. There’s a niche that women are going to fill. They’re going to do anything they can to improve the look and feel of their bodies, their sexuality, their hair, their weight, anything.” We certainly live in a society where getting a miracle cure is a really great marketing tool. So these wellness clinics formed. Now, I use the term wellness clinics, --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heather-hirsch/support

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Healthcast 529 - Why Do Women Need Estrogen?

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2021 23:25

See all the Healthcast's at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Today, women are very legitimately concerned about the risk of breast cancer. They regularly ask Drs. Maupin and Sullivan to just give them replacement testosterone and not give them estrogen because of this fear. What these women do not realize is that Estradiol does not cause breast cancer, and that Estradiol provides many benefits that lower their risk of other more common and dangerous diseases. Women should receive both estradiol and testosterone after menopause to receive the healthy benefits of both hormones as long as they live. The fear of breast cancer comes from outdated, faulty studies has been unfounded and has caused many women to miss out on the healthy benefits they could receive from replacing their Estradiol. Medicine has finally accepted that taking estrogen is safe for women, yet many doctors have not updated their recommendations since medical school. There is no need to be in fear of taking estradiol, and it is important to understand why women need Estradiol replaced after menopause. Estradiol prevents vascular disease: heart disease, stroke and arrhythmias. An article in Menopause 2017 reviews the importance of estrogen in preventing heart disease. Estradiol is the hormone that keeps the lining of our arteries free of plaque and keeps our arteries supple. Estradiol also stimulates the production of Nitric Oxide (NO) which allows our blood vessels to dilate when we need them to like when our bodies are preparing for sex, or when we exercise. These three actions of estradiol keep our cardiovascular systems healthy and prevent the diseases of aging, stroke, heart disease and heart arrhythmias. Estradiol is one advantage we have over men in regard to lowering our risk of cardio-vascular disease. Women have a lower risk of heart disease than men when we are pre-menopausal, but the risk soars when we become menopausal and do not replace estradiol! This particular study correlated hot flashes with loss of estrogen. They found that women with the worst hot flashes (and the lowest estradiol levels in menopause), had the highest risk of heart disease after menopause. The underlying science behind this truth is as follows: when a woman loses the ability to make estradiol, her pituitary gland reacts by sending out higher and higher concentrations of FSH (Follicle Stimulating Hormone) which sends the message to the ovary to make more estradiol. After menopause the ovary cannot respond with more estradiol production so the FSH level continues to increase above 23MIU, then the pituitary gland responds to these surges of FSH with an earthquake-like-reaction that surges neurotransmitters through the brain, causing the heat and anxiety centers of the brain to surge with. The lower the estradiol, the higher the FSH level, and the more severely the brain reacts to the FSH surge with heat, sweating and anxiety, and sometimes with a sympathetic surge in heart rate and even arrhythmias. In short, the more you need estradiol, the more severely you will feel the effects of FSH surges. Hot flashes, anxiety, sweating, sweating, arrhythmias and insomnia. These signs are not to be ignored. They will eventually result in disease and damage to the female body. Should you get these surges and symptoms, recognize that your body is crying for help, and get estradiol replacements appropriately. Now we know that lack of estrogen causes damage to our bodies beyond just the symptoms from high FSH surges called hot flashes, we also know that it can cause heart disease hardening of arteries and hypertension. Estradiol depletion also causes pre-diabetes and insulin resistance, atrophy of the vagina and the vulva, make having sex impossible, the drying up of sweat glands in the groin and vagina drying up lubrication, drying and wrinkling of the skin, frontal hair loss, sagging skin, and increases the risk of brain shrinkage causing Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. If estradiol is replaced in a high enough dose these outcomes will be averted. The study done on women taking bio-identical estradiol non-orally prolonged the time before women got Dementia by ten years. If you think about it, if your lifestyle and genetics put you at risk for dementia, adding estradiol will give you 10 more years of productive life. For example, if you were designed to have dementia at 80 then the use of estradiol after menopause would defer the onset of dementia until 90. As an aside, the use of T pellets adds another 10 years to the onset of dementia, so you would not get dementia until you were 100. What is the goal dose and blood level with estradiol after menopause? Many women come to Dr. Maupin already on oral estrogen, or nothing at all, because their doctors do not “believe in hormone replacement”. Hormone replacement is not something to believe in, it is a fact that before menopause women have estradiol and testosterone circulating in their bodies, and after menopause they have nothing. Replacing estradiol is just giving women back what they once had and what they desperately need all their lives. The safety of estradiol depends on WHAT KIND of estrogen you take, HOW you take it (oral, patch, vaginal, or pellet) and the metabolism of the woman who takes it. Let's look at the problems with oral preparations of estrogen. These oral preparations are made from pregnant horse urine (Premarin®) or made in the lab from chemicals. The horse urine estrogen is composed of 17 kinds of estrogen that are specific for horses and are not the same as human estradiol, and they are taken orally so they are converted in the liver into estrone (old lady estrogen) which stimulates the breasts and increases fat and belly fat. Premarin is definitely not bio-identical to human estradiol, so women don't feel the same as they did when they were young. The conversion of oral estrogens in to estrone leaves less pure E2 to do the work of protecting a woman's heart, blood vessels, vagina and bladder. The oral preparations also put women at risk for blood clots by stimulating the production of clotting factors from the liver as the estrogens have the first pass effect through the liver. Non-oral preparations like patches are a better delivery system because they do not cause blood clots, however, the blood level never gets high enough to shut down FSH and LH surges that cause hot flashes. Patches have the additional problem of coming off in the shower or bath or in the pool and it is hard to get replacement patches when that happens and insurance won't give you more, so women may have to do without, or pay a fortune to get an extra patch. These are just some of the reasons Dr. Maupin stopped prescribing oral Premarin®, Estrace® pills and estrogen patches, and only prescribes chooses bio-identical estradiol pellets to replace the estrogen in her female patients. When prescribing bio-identical estradiol pellets every 4 months for her patients, her goal for estradiol blood levels is the same range as a woman produces during her fertile years and is individualized to each patient. She adjusts the dose to stop all hot flashes, stop painful intercourse and a dry vagina and create an environment that makes women feel like they did when they were young. Everyone is different so she tries to find the perfect dose for the individual. She looks not just at the numbers but adjust the dose to resolve all symptoms of low estradiol (menopause): Hot flashes, dry skin, dry vagina, painful intercourse, dry mouth and other mucous membranes, anxiety and poor memory are what she is looking to resolve. She finds the blood level that is associated with the disappearance of all of these symptoms, and the level that corresponds with physiologic blood levels of E2 for the individual and adjusts the dose accordingly. If all of the symptoms and blood levels are normal, the last thing she looks at is if the dose of estradiol is enough to normalize the FSH and LH to

Fatigued to Fabulous! A Testimony by Guest Sherry Sheldon

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2020 19:29

At the young age of 29, Sherry Sheldon was experiencing dysfunctional uterine bleeding, low libido, and fatigue. Her doctor performed a hysterectomy and prescribed Premarin and other medications. Sherry spent the next 20 years suffering from weight gain, brain fog, depression, insomnia, fatigue, muscle weakness, cold hands & feet, painful, swollen joints, and no zest for life. One day, while out on a drive with her husband, she heard Dr. Hotze on the radio interviewing a woman with very similar symptoms. She and her husband decided to make the call to the Hotze Health & Wellness Center to schedule an appointment. The hospitality at Hotze was the best! Dr. Hotze was compassionate and listened. After a few weeks on a program of natural supplements and hormones, Sherry’s joy returned, her libido was back, and she had a zest for life again! Be inspired today as you listen to Dr. Hotze and his guest Sherry Sheldon as she gives her testimony of her transformation over the last 20 years of being a guest at the Hotze Health & Wellness Center. There’s no better time to invest in your health. Start the new year off right and get your zest for life back naturally! Watch now and subscribe to our podcasts at www.HotzePodcast.com. If you have any of the signs and symptoms mentioned on this podcast, take our free symptom checker test at https://www.hotzehwc.com/symptom-checker/ Receive a free copy of “Hormones, Health , & Happiness” and “Do a 180: Join the Wellness Revolution” by calling 281-698-8698 and mentioning this podcast.

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Fatigued to Fabulous! A Testimony by Guest Sherry Sheldon

Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2020 19:29

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Conjugated Estrogens Pharmacology

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2020 13:04

Conjugated estrogens (Premarin) are most often used in the management of menopausal symptoms. Estrogen therapy can increase the risk for breast cancer and the risk should be assessed before beginning therapy. Blood clots are a potential consequence from the use of Premarin. Premarin can oppose the benefit of anticoagulation. Conjugated estrogens are broken down by CYP3A4. Inhibitors may increase concentrations while inducers may reduce concentrations.

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Hormones and Covid (#185)

Dr. Berkson's Best Health Radio Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2020 26:41

The world is experiencing a pandemic from COVID-19. So research is looking at every which way various physiologic states might be protective or increase vulnerability. Across the world males seem more susceptible, compared to women (especially premenopausal women) to getting COVID. Once they get it, they are more susceptible to severe outcomes as well as fatalities, once again compared to younger women. It has been suggested that estrogen may be protective against COVID-19 in females and/or that androgens (like testosterone) worsen COVID-19 in men. As of this date, there are three studies being done giving males and menopausal females "estrogen" and/or "progesterone" replacement as it "may" be protective against COVID-19. In This Show You will Hear About Estrogen Is estrogen protective against COVID? Estrogen signals are critical in both innate and adaptive immune responses as well as in tissue repairing processes during respiratory virus infection. Estrogens can regulate the expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), a key component for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) cell entry. So estrogen may play a role as a protective COVID “gate-keeper”. The paper that discusses this is: Estrogen regulates the expression of SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 in differentiated airway epithelial cells. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2020;318(6):L1280-L1281. doi:10.1152/ajplung.00153.2020 In animal experiments, estrogen treatment silences the inflammatory reactions and decreases virus titers leading to improved survival rate. One article even said stated in it abstract, “Premarin (commercial patented estrogen from horse’s urine) is capable of stopping the COVID-19 pandemic.” (Prevention and therapy of COVID-19 via exogenous estrogen treatment for both male and female patients. J Pharm Pharm Sci. 2020;23(1):75-85. doi:10.18433/jpps31069) Estrogen (and progesterone) may be helpful as "anti-COVID-19 agents" for people with a high risk of cell stress like the elderly, cancer patients, and front-line medical staff. Doctors at the Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University in New York are conducting a randomized trial to determine if the use of a “transdermal estrogen patch” for 7 days in patients with COVID-19 might reduce the need for intubation in men and older women infected with COVID-19. What About Progesterone? Many of the sickest patients with COVID-19 have high levels of immune system proteins called cytokines in their blood. “Cytokine storm” is an overactive immune response to a viral infection and is one of the most devastating complications of COVID-19 infections. Cytokine storms are known to happen in autoimmune diseases. One study of patients who died of H1N1 influenza, for example, found that 81% had features of a cytokine storm. Researchers have looked at the anti-inflammatory properties of progesterone. Pregnant women, who usually have high levels of progesterone, tend to have milder courses of COVID-19. A new study will assess the use of a short course of progesterone therapy in hospitalized men diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. What About Androgens? In January, one of the first publications on those sickened by the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, reported that three out of every four hospitalized patients were male. But many men in China smoke while women don’t, so it wasn’t completely known if androgens (male hormones) were the issue, or smoking. But data from around the world have since confirmed that men face a greater risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19 than women. Androgens—male hormones such as testosterone—appear to boost the virus’ ability to get inside cells. Preliminary observations from Spain suggest that a disproportionate number of men with male pattern baldness—which is linked to a powerful androgen—end up in hospitals with COVID-19. Epidemiological data from around the world have confirmed the early reports of male vulnerability. In Lombardy in Italy, for example, men comprised 82% of 1591 patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) from 20 February to 18 March, according to a JAMA paper. And male mortality exceeded that of women in every adult age group in another JAMA study of 5700 New York City patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Several studies link baldness to higher risk of COVID and more severe cases. Baldness is associated with higher levels of the most aggressive metabolites of testosterone (DHT). Two small studies have reported that men with male pattern baldness are overrepresented among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. A paper by Markus Hoffmann of the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and colleagues in CELL, sent a lightning bolt through scientific community. This work showed Covid can gain entry into the body more easily by the action of an enzyme called TMPRSS2, a membrane-bound enzyme. The enzyme cleaves the “spike” protein on the coronavirus’ surface, allowing the virus to fuse with the host cell’s membrane and get inside the cell. Male hormones turn this enzyme on. In the prostate, TMPRSS2 is produced when male hormones bind to the androgen receptor. Researchers haven’t established if androgens control TMPRSS2 in the lungs as they have in the prostate. But Andrea Alimonti, head of molecular oncology at Università della Svizzera italiana, looked at data on more than 42,000 men with prostate cancer in Italy. He and colleagues found that patients on androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT)—drugs that slash levels of testosterone—were only one-quarter as likely to contract COVID-19 as men with prostate cancer not on ADT. Men on ADT were also less likely to be hospitalized and to die. In one Italian study, men with prostate cancer who received drugs that suppress androgens were much less likely to be infected with COVID. Prostate cancer researcher Catherine Marshall of Johns Hopkins University is preparing a trial of bicalutamide, an older, inexpensive androgen receptor blocker, in 20 patients hospitalized within 3 days after they tested positive for COVID-19. Women are being included in the trial, she adds, because they have androgens, too, although at lower levels than men. What You will Learn Overall Estrogens help heal acute lung injury. Progesterone tamps down inflammatory cytokines. Androgens might help the virus’s spike protein take grip inside the body. But does this mean high androgens compared to healthy normal levels? We don’t know yet. Drugs ( finasteride and dutasteride) that block the conversion of testosterone to DHT, the most powerful form of testosterone, seem to reduce ACE2 levels in healthy human lung alveolar cells. Androgen sensitivity would explain severe cases in female patients who present with metabolic syndrome or polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) or who are using birth control methods that include the use of hormones that bind to an androgen receptor (such as levonorgestrel and norethisterone). There is a lot we don’t know, but in this show you will hear the latest about the link between hormones and COVID!

Episode Four: Why Compounding Pharmacists are a Menopausal Woman's Best Friend!

Women Talking Frankly

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2020 70:09

In Episode 4 Kyle and Candace talk with Compounding Pharmacist extraordinaire, Natalie Gustafson, about how she fell in love with compounding and became determined to raise the bar on prescribed hormone therapies for women. Natalie explains how compounding pharmacists differ from those that fill our prescriptions at the local Walgreens, and why bioidentical hormones tailored to individual need are a better option than one-size-fits-all prescribing for women seeking relief from life disrupting symptoms during perimenopause, menopause and post hysterectomy. We learn more about the history, art and science behind compounding practices and dispel common myths. We also get to hear more about the good fight compounding pharmacists like Natalie and others have been waging on Capitol Hill for years to protect safe access to natural hormones, and we answer the all-important question: Can women rest assured that bioidentical alternatives to HRT are here to stay? Some additional issues and answers we delve into in this episode: How bioidentical hormones differ from synthetic versions (e.g. Premarin), which natural plant substances they are made from, the different forms they can be made into (creams, gels, patches, lozenges) to ensure efficient delivery and absorption, etc. How compounders are training providers to use hormone test results as a guide to safe dosing. Why a compounding pharmacist is an invaluable resource for women and how to find one in your area.

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What Is A Low Dose of Bioidentical Hormones? | PYHP 073

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2020

Michelle's Questions: I am 52 years old going through menopause since 48. I had a hysterectomy at age of 36 and kept my ovaries for the hormones. My ovaries are nonfunctional now. I was on Premarin, but when I sought out a specialist for hormone therapy, I was prescribed: Estradiol 0.5 Estriol one milligram, which is technically Bios. It's the combination of estriol and Estradiol. Estradiol was 0.5 milligrams, Estriol is one milligram. And I am also taking a hundred milligrams of Progesterone. I take this at night. I've had a weight gain of 40 lbs and suffer from anxiety at night since starting menopause. I was prescribed Propranolol, which is technically a blood pressure medication, but it does help with reducing anxiety. But she has prescribed the propranolol for this and it seems to take the edge off. I have poor sleep as well, where I used to sleep very well. What am I missing? Am I on the right track? I feel deconditioned fatigue and brain fog to mention a few. I feel poorly when I used to be a happy, healthy person. Please help with recommendations. Would testosterone help? My levels were not terrible enough to prescribe. Answer: In this episode, we discuss a question we received from Michelle that was started on Premarin but then transitioned to 1.5 mg of Biest cream. Of course, we are not fans of Premarin and would never prescribe this for our patients. However, we do prescribe Biest all of the time. There is very little similarity between Premarin and Biest. When transitioning from a tablet form of estrogen like Premarin to a transdermal cream, the dosing of the Biest needs to be definitely increased. For most women, our starting Biest dose is typically 3 mg to 5 mg. Full Transcript PYHP 073 Download Transcription PYHP 073 Dr. Maki: Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us for another episode of the progression health podcast. I'm Dr. Maki. Dr. Davidson: And I'm Dr. Davidson. Dr. Maki: So just as a warning before we get jumping into the episode, we are in our home office recording this. Our dog is with us as well. He's always with us. We can't really go anywhere without him, but he's laying on the floor with a bone. So, if you hear any strange noises or any banging around, he's just either repositioning or trying to find another bone. We can't really go anywhere without him. And he's happy as long as we're close by. Dr. Davidson: In some ways. He's kind of our first dog, 'cause our other one was a poodle, which they always say once you have a poodle, all the other ones are just dogs. So, he was completely different from this one. He follows us everywhere so if you hear him chewing, he's chewing on a bone. Thank goodness he doesn't chew on other things. It's just his bones. Dr. Maki: No shoes, no clothes, no furniture. Just bones. So, we're good, we're lucky about that. All right, so, now this episode and the next few, we know enough to

What Is A Low Dose of Bioidentical Hormones? | PYHP 073

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2020 20:58

Michelle’s Questions: I am 52 years old going through menopause since 48. I had a hysterectomy at age of 36 and kept my ovaries for the hormones. My ovaries are nonfunctional now. I was on Premarin, but when I sought out a specialist for hormone therapy, I was prescribed: Estradiol 0.5 Estriol one milligram, which is technically […] The post What Is A Low Dose of Bioidentical Hormones? | PYHP 073 appeared first on Progress Your Health.

Episode Four: Why compounding pharmacists are a menopausal woman’s best friend!

Women Talking Frankly

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2020 70:09

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LDL Letters 24: Dorothy on Pregnant Mare Urine and Other Beauty Tips

Latter Day Lesbian

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2020 24:30

The drug, Premarin, is not a good idea. In fact, it's really inhumane to manufacture. We advise against taking it. And in this week's Latter-Day Lesbian letter, Dorothy tells us all about that and other Mormon prescribed opposite-sex-attracting methods and treatments. Should be a good time. Each week we read and discuss 1-2 letters (depending on length) from listeners just like you! So please get in touch with us through our website at latterdaylesbian.org/contact. We'd love to hear from you. Thanks! Music provided by Purple Planet: https://www.purple-planet.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Zhou Nutrition: At Zhou Nutrition, we believe greatness comes from within. We make supplements in our own facilities in the heart of Utah with carefully crafted formulations to support essential wellness, mind, mood, beauty, and the keto lifestyle. https://www.zhounutrition.com/

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LDL Letters 24: Dorothy on Pregnant Mare Urine and Other Beauty Tips

Latter Day Lesbian

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2020 22:49

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How Intimacy = Hormonal Health & Youthful Longevity.

Awaken Beauty Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2019 72:52

Did you know that hugging can boost oxytocin and energizing testosterone levels?Or that regular intercourse with someone you love and feel connected to is one of the BEST things you can do to preserve brain health and prevent dementia?You’ll be blown away by this episode as we discuss healthy intimacy = hormonal health & vital longevity.Dr. Lyndsey Berkson is one of the most fabulous, smart, and strong guests we’ve hosted on the Awaken Beauty show.Dr. Berkson is an incredible female voice that is trumpeting truth and clarity for thousands of women as well as to Practitioners in the medical field around cutting edge truths on hormones, connectivity and removing toxicity in our everyday lives.I’ve followed Dr. Lindsey’s research for many years and she’s influenced my business ethos behind my organic salon after reading the pioneered book at its time: “The Hormone Deception.” I’ve discussed many times about the importance of how not just the levels of our hormones, but how the conversation of our hormones help us function and age optimally - or dysfunction and break us down.As infants, we require physical touch to ensure healthy development and brain maturation. Adults also require intimacy and connection to be mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically healthy. Sadly, the truth is so many of us feel alone and disconnected (hello technology).Get this ...a loving hug can increase oxytocin and decrease cortisol, deep conversations can be neuroprotective, and a true friend (in-person) connection can alter not just our emotional life but our biology.Join the round table of women as we dive into the role between intimacy, environmental castration and how to save your endocrine system.About Linsdey:My guest is Dr. Lindsey Berkson has been a leader in functional medicine and women’s health care for decades. She was a scholar at an estrogen think tank at Tulane University where she worked with the top scientists that have discovered how hormones function and dysfunction.Lindsey is now a professor and mentor for physicians, pharmacists and other health care professionals within continuing education courses on hormones, gastroenterology (and the gut-hormone connection), nutrition and the environment.Dr. Berkson has authored 21 books and hosts The Dr. Berkson’s Best Health Radio. She had breast cancer 24 years ago and has made “remission” her “mission”. Dr. Berkson now specializes, with science-based functional medicine tools, in working with breast cancer survivors to do the same.On Today’s Episode You’ll Awaken to:How the “DES” hormone was given to her mother as a prenatal vitamin which brought many cancers to her life even though she was healthy.Setting the “Anti-estrogen” Fear Straight.How toxicity overload is the number one increase to cancer, depression and advanced aging.How hormone therapy protects women from getting an increase and reoccurrence of disease.How women on Premarin had less cancer and disease compared to women not on hormones.New research on HRT and estrogen within the Bluming Study : Estrogen Matters.Moving out of fear and into self-love and intimacy in our lives.The belief that hormones keep humanity going and the importance of authentic connection.Is Oxytocin the next big hormone?How oxytocin is treating depression, pain, headaches and a replacement of epidural in the future.How chemicals block our joy and bliss receptor, keeping us from receiving the benefits.Our healthy gut is a parasympathetic gut and depends on oxytocin.How porn is ruining young minds.Hormone altering chemicals is the 3rd highest threat to humanity.Receptor functionality is more important than the amount hormones levels you test.The 10-day, Sex Hormone Receptor Detox to improve hormone signaling and intimacyResources:Dr. Berkson's WebsiteOne of her books: Sexy Brain: Sizzling Intimacy & Balanced Hormones Prevent Alzheimer’s, Cancer, Depression & DivorceConnect with Dr. Lindsey Berkson on Facebook, Twitter or InstagramShare the Love:If you like The Awakened Beauty Podcast….Subscribe, Rate & Review via iTunesVisit us at awakenedbeautyhq.com for updates.Businesses: www.evoqbeauty.com | www.beautyecology.comInstagram @awakenbeautyhqInstagram @evoqbeautyWatch on Youtube at my channel: Awaken Beauty Podcast Shop natural health and beauty products with EVOQHere’s how!Go to awakenbeauty-hq on ITunes and write your biggest takeaway in the rate and review section. 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Your review is not only paramount in helping others discover the show, but we also read each and every submission personally…and they mean the world to us.Love and Light! - KassandraIn the Meantime, STAY IN THE CONVERSATION! @awakenbeautyhq | #awakenbeautyAdditional Support and Proof!Listen and learn to this video more from leading PHD's from the 12th Annual SSEW Symposium, “The Exposome & Metabolic Health.” Speakers discussed the role of social relationships, chemicals found in everyday items like beauty and hair care products, and our food environments in encouraging negative health outcomes such as obesity and diabetes, breast cancer, and even Alzheimer’s. Listen Here

1359: Food Allergies vs Intolerances, Labial Adhesion, Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion, Celiac Reversible, Caffeine Heart Palpitations, Creatine Loading (HouseCall)

The Cabral Concept

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2019 21:54

Welcome back to our weekend Cabral HouseCall shows! This is where we answer our community's wellness, weight loss, and anti-aging questions to help people get back on track! Check out today's questions: James: Hello Dr Cabral, I have a question regarding food intolerances. Can you explain how we get these, are we both born with these and also develop them later in life or are we only born with food ALLERGIES, and intolerances are all later developed? Also can we cure all intolerances or is it possible we may have some intolerances for life? Please explain in as much detail as possible if the science is out there. :) Thanks so much for your continued support - James Michelle: My 2 year old daughter (turning 3 in late Nov) has a labial adhesion. This was found after we brought her in for "stomach" pain, which x-rays showed was severe constipation (even though she had been having BMs). The pediatrician's recommendation for resolving the adhesion was prescription estrogen cream to be applied to the adhesion twice daily (Premarin for 7-10 days). Since the x-ray confirmed the pain was caused by constipation, and not a bladder issue, I am NOT comfortable applying estrogen cream to my toddler, especially since hers is only connecting the middle third of her labia! Do you know of labial adhesions fixing themselves over time? Would you feel comfortable applying an estrogen cream to one of your young daughters? Thank you, and in particular, for your dedication to helping normal folks like me understand more naturopathic ways of approaching "medicine" via your podcast!! Carole: Hi Dr. Cabral -- I'm a big fan of yours and have been a dedicated listener of your podcast for a while. I look forward to waking up and listening to your words of wisdom daily. Thank you so much for for the information you provide. I was hoping to see if you have any natural suggestions/recommendations to help a person diagnosed with Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion (BRVO). Thank you! I really appreciate everything you teach! I wish there were more people in the world like you. :) Kelly: My 5yo was diagnosed celiac at 4. I realize this is not supposed to be a reversible disease. I do know that it is an autoimmune condition and since other autoimmune are potentially reversible why is this different? Jess: Hi Dr. Cabral! For the past 5 years or so I have had an intolerance to caffeine. I started drinking coffee in high school and continued until I was about 23/24. Out of the blue I began to have heart palpitations and trouble breathing. It almost felt like a panic attack that would last days after drinking a single cup of coffee. It got so bad that I ended up going to the ER where they determined I have an arrhythmia that worsens when I drink caffeine. Now at age 28 I avoid it at all costs in order to not have the symptoms. The cardiologist I went to did not have any answers as to why this started happening so suddenly and basically told me to stop drinking coffee. Is there a way to find out why this happened? I would love to have the occasional cup of coffee again! I am also currently doing the CBO protocol for SIBO and H.pylori. Thanks for all that you do! Darrel: Hey Dr. Cabral. During the phase of training where I would do a creatine overload is it okay to add creatine to regular water, Himalayan sea salt & lime drink first thing in the morning? Or is it okay to add anything else to that drink eg collagen, glutamine, citrulline etc? Or should it be just those 3 ingredients (lime, salt, water) with option of daily vegetable powder? 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457: Dr. Stephanie Gray: Screening & Treatment of Osteoporosis

Healthy Wealthy & Smart

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2019 36:00

On this episode of the Healthy, Wealthy and Smart Podcast, I welcome Dr. Stephanie Gray on the show to discuss bone health. Dr. Stephanie Gray, DNP, MS, ARNP, ANP-C, GNP-C, ABAAHP, FAARFM, is a functional medicine provider who helps men and women build sustainable and optimal health and longevity so that they can focus on what matters most to them. She is co-founder of Your Longevity Blueprint nutraceuticals with her husband, Eric. They own the Integrative Health and Hormone Clinic in Hiawatha, Iowa. In this episode, we discuss: -What is functional medicine and integrative medicine? -Hormones that impact your bone density as you age and how to find your deficiencies -The difference between natural and synthetic hormones -Your Longevity Blueprint: a guide to mastering each of your body systems -And so much more! Resources: Integrative Health and Hormone Clinic Website Your Longevity Blueprint Free gift: 10% off using code healthy10 Stephanie Gray Facebook Integrative Health and Hormone Clinic Facebook Stephanie Gray Instagram Your Longevity Blueprint Instagram Stephanie Gray Twitter Your Longevity Blueprint Youtube For more information on Dr. Gray Stephanie Gray, DNP, MS, ARNP, ANP-C, GNP-C, ABAAHP, FAARFM, is a functional medicine provider who helps men and women build sustainable and optimal health and longevity so that they can focus on what matters most to them! She has been working as a nurse practitioner since 2009. She completed her doctorate focusing on estrogen metabolism from the University of Iowa in 2011. Additionally, she has a Masters in Metabolic Nutritional Medicine from the University of South Florida’s Medical School. Her expertise lies within integrative, anti-aging, and functional medicine. She is arguably one of the midwest's’ most credentialed female healthcare providers combining many certifications and trainings. She completed an Advanced fellowship in Anti-Aging Regenerative and Functional medicine in 2013. She became the first BioTe certified provider in Iowa to administer hormone pellets also in 2013. She is the author of the FNP Mastery App and an Amazon best-selling author of her book Your Longevity Blueprint. She is co-founder of Your Longevity Blueprint nutraceuticals with her husband, Eric. They own the Integrative Health and Hormone Clinic in Hiawatha, Iowa. Read the full transcript below: Karen Litzy: 00:01 Hi, Dr. Stephanie Gray. Welcome to the podcast. I'm happy to finally have you on. This is taken forever between the two of our schedules. Stephanie Gray: 00:09 Thank you for having me on. I'm excited to speak with you today. Karen Litzy: 00:12 Yeah, I'm very excited. And we had met, Gosh, last year, maybe Stephanie Gray: 00:17 October. Karen Litzy: 00:18 Yeah, October of last year. Holy Cow. Yes. Well, I'm very excited to have you on because when we met at unfair advantage and I remember hearing your story and hearing you speak and I thought I need to talk to this woman because I think she's doing some really great work, so I'm happy to have you on and share all about what you're doing. We'll talk about your book, the longevity blueprint in a little bit, but first, can you let the audience know a little bit about your journey from your BS to your MS in nursing to doctorate to all these certifications and how that happened in the why behind it? Stephanie Gray: 00:58 Sure. Well, maybe the short version is that I was born and raised in the Midwest and I grew up in a very healthy family and I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do with my life as many people are I’m sure. My parents always took us to see a chiropractor, not a regular doctor. They were self employed, had a really high deductible. So they wanted to keep us healthy and growing up, I wanted to get into medicine. I kind of grew up wanting to be a doctor. I'd play with my doctor Kit, but I didn't necessarily want to prescribe drugs. And so I thought, well maybe I'll go into nursing. Right? So I went through the nursing program at University of Iowa and I love nurses, man, they're so important. We have a shortage, we need more nurses. But I thought I wanted to have more autonomy and more independence and I wanted to still be able to diagnose and treat patients. Stephanie Gray: 01:43 And so I did continue on to become a nurse practitioner and I ended up going through the master's and then the doctorate program. And I still was a little unsatisfied. I felt like, man, there's gotta be more to life than prescribing medications. Right? Nursing is a more holistic approach in general. And that's why I'm biased to nurse practitioners as primary care providers because I think they do provide a more holistic approach. I wanted some additional trainings so that I could incorporate nutrition, that I would have some credentials behind recommending things other than drugs. So I did also then pursue a master's in metabolic nutritional medicine, which taught me a lot about, you know, using supplements and herbs and whatnot, which I heavily applied in my practice. And then I also did complete the advanced fellowship in anti-aging, regenerative and functional medicine which helped me tremendously. I learned a lot about use of bioidentical hormones as well. And I really just became on fire for integrative and functional medicine and thought, this is it. This is what, especially my community in Iowa needs, because there weren't a lot of providers offering this sort of care. So that's, I guess that's kind of my story. Karen Litzy: 02:50 Well, that's a great story. I love it. Now you mentioned functional medicine and Integrative Medicine. Can you kind of help us out and talk about what those branches of medicine are? Stephanie Gray: 03:01 Sure. So integrative medicine combines or integrates conventional medicine with natural, uneven, complimentary forms of medicine. It's not, I'll say functional medicine also really more works to get to the root cause of the problem. That's kind of more of the definition of functional medicine. And I use both in my practice. I use functional medicine to kind of discover the why, but I also use integrative medicine because there is a time and place for medication use. Sometimes patients do need antibiotics or surgery. I've had to partake in them myself. But I want to provide my patients with the best of all worlds combined. So do I think chiropractic is important? Yes. Acupuncture? Yes. Use of supplements. Yes. Medications, all of the above. I think the major difference in the analogy I use with my patients that I did not create a colleague, Patrick, he mentions conventional medicine as being more of the fire department approach. Right? We need conventional medicine. If you have a big bad ugly tumor or whatnot, you need the fire department to put that out to remove it. But conventional medicines tools are drugs and surgery. Functional medicine is a little different. We described that in my practice as being more of like a carpenter approach and that's what I describe in my book. Really helping to repair and rebuild the body, figure out why the fire happened in the first place and try to get to that root cause of the problem, not just provide a bandaid approach. Karen Litzy: 04:16 Right. And that's a great analogy. Thank you for that. That’s definitely clear. It makes functional and integrative medicine a little bit clearer for everyone. Hopefully. So now I mentioned the book longevity blueprint and again we'll talk about that a little bit later, but there's a chapter in the book, Chapter Four where you discuss the importance of fixing nutritional deficiencies and specifically when it comes to our bones. So as mainly women, we all know as we get older and as we go through menopause, our hormones change and bone density can change along with that. So what nutrients I guess are specifically important for our bones? Stephanie Gray: 05:09 So I'll discuss several nutrients. So many women think calcium is a number one most important nutrient for their bones. And the truth is that your bones need a lot more than calcium. So vitamin D, magnesium, vitamin K2 and strontium are all nutrients that I recommend to my patients. I mentioned vitamin D in several different chapters of my book and that as many people know, helps your body absorb calcium and phosphorus from the foods you eat. And it helps with bone remodeling. Maybe I don't know how deep we should get into that. Maybe you shouldn't, but without enough magnesium though calcium can also collect in the wrong places in soft tissues and cause arthritis. And so magnesium is just as important as calcium. There have been several studies of women with Osteopenia or osteoporosis showing they're actually not deficient in calcium deficient, they’re deficient in magnesium yet. Stephanie Gray: 05:58 What's the number one most prescribed supplement? Menopausal woman. Again, it's calcium. I personally have had a kidney stone and they are not fun. So calcium can not only gain weight, it can cause bone spurs, but it can cause kidney stones. It can calcify our arteries. We don't want it getting absorbed in to the wrong places of our body. And that's where vitamin K2 comes in also. So vitaminK is really overlooked nutrient. It's one of the four fat soluble nutrients. So it really helps prevent calcium from accumulating in our vessels. And it can even, some people believe can help remove dangerous calcifications too. We know that low levels of k2 can directly be related to poor bone mineral density. So I like analogy. Stephanie Gray: 06:45 So here's another analogy on what vitamin K2 really does, and vitamin D. So vitamin D is the doorman that opens the door for calcium to enter the bloodstream. But once it's in the bloodstream, it could go anywhere. So I think if K2 is being that usher that's going to direct the calcium from the lobby, if we think of a hotel or whatnot, directing him to the appropriate seat in our bone matrix. So do we need vitamin D? Yes. Do we need magnesium? Yes. We also need vitaminK2. So there are different sort or different types of vitamin K. So vitaminK is broken down to K1 and K2. So if you are purchasing a supplement, if it just says vitaminK , you don't necessarily know what you're getting. Stephanie Gray: 07:26 You want to make sure that the label is really differentiating if specifying what is in that product. So vitamin K1 isn't as much needed to be supplemented. It's the deficiency is pretty rare. It's found in leafy Greens. Hopefully you're all getting your leafy Greens. But vitamin K2 comes from very specific foods and also bacterial synthesis. So think of it. Think of yourself as you know, if you don't have a healthy gut, unfortunately your body's not going to be able to convert. K1 to K2 in the gut if you've taken antibiotics, whatnot, if you have a lot of food sensitivities and gut inflammation. And so you really want to think about consuming foods with K2 and possibly supplementing in that as well. So vitamin K2 comes from fermented soybeans, which many of us probably are not consuming and also from the fat milk and organs of grass fed animals. Stephanie Gray: 08:16 So things like egg yolk, butter, and even liver with why we're coming, we're becoming more vitamin K deficient is that you are where you're what you eat, eat. So if you've heard of what Michael Poland has said, and I think that's really true with K2. So when we removed animals from the pasture, right? If we don't eat animals that are eating greens, they're not getting the K2 themselves and then we're not getting it from our products. So you want to make sure you are eating grass fed animals and think of wild game. Wild game is really what's can usually consuming the ingredients. So try to consume more pheasant, duck rabbit, venison, elk, or wild Turkey. I mean these are things that we don't all have access to, but that would actually help increase our K2 levels. So if you can't get some of those foods into your diet, then you could consider supplementing that. Stephanie Gray: 09:06 It could literally again consume the fermented soy beans. But MK7 has a pretty long half life, longer than MK4. So I recommend my patients take MK7, MK4 is actually extracted from a tobacco plant, which I don't like either, sometimes will come from fermented soybeans, geranium or chickpea. And the source that we use for our production is chickpea. It has a longer half life, so a single daily dose can provide longer protection. So many of my patients, we're putting on 45 90 or even 180 micrograms of MK7 per day. It's great to incorporate foods that have, you know, consumed grass Greens. You hit the chlorophyll to get the vitamin K and to have a great healthy gut that convert can indicate too, but if you can't, and supplementing with MK7 is what I recommend. Karen Litzy: 09:56 Yeah. And, just so people know, are you doing blood tests on people to find these levels? I just want to point that out so that people listening are like, well, I'm just going to go buy all this stuff, but you have to go and be evaluated first. Stephanie Gray: 10:15 Yeah. So in my book in chapter four I talk about, well, every chapter of the book discusses a functional medicine testing option that's available. And chapter four is all about examining micronutrient deficiencies. Which even my patients who eat organic, who grow their own food in their backyard are still nutritionally deficient because our food sources are just not as nutrient dense as they used to be. I mean, the magnesium content in our foods has been on a decline since the 1950s. It keeps going down and down and down, which is very sad. But because of that, we can see that evidenced on a test that we run on our patients. So one of the first tests for my patients with osteoporosis or Penia that we would run is this nutritional analysis, which is looking at vitamin, mineral, amino acid, antioxidant, and even Omega levels. And if you have the access to a functional medicine practitioner, definitely I would recommend getting this test because then you don't have to guess how much magnesium, how much do I need? It's better to really get the test to see what you need. Karen Litzy: 11:12 Right. Yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense. And I just wanted to point that out to people so that they know. I guess also, are there any dangers of taking these vitamins if you don't need them? Stephanie Gray: 11:28 So vitaminK to a high dose just can cause blood thinning. So if patients are taking anticoagulants, if they're on medications like Warfarin, you know, Coumadin, then this could potentiate those effects at really high dosages. So if you're listening to this and you want to take some K2, you probably need it. But talk to your doctor or nurse just so that they know so that they can monitor your levels. So that would the biggest, biggest side effects. Stephanie Gray: 12:04 The last nutrient for bone mineral density that I recommend to my patients is strontium. This was one of the first minerals that I really learned about for bone density. So I heavily used it initially even before I learned about the importance of K2. There have been randomized double blind placebo controlled clinical trials showing that strontium in a dose of about one gram per day could be equally as effective as a lot of the bisphosphonate medications without getting those nasty side effects. But I have seen this be effective in my patients too. Granted, I'm recommending they take minerals, optimize their hormones, reduce their stress, exercise, right? So all of those interventions are going to have an additive effect for improving bone density. But strontium can be very, very helpful for bone density as well. Karen Litzy: 12:48 Nice. All right, so we have vitamin D, vitaminK2, strontium and magnesium. Stephanie Gray: 12:56 And then calcium of course calcium. I don't put calcium on the top of the list, but yes. Karen Litzy: 13:01 But it's there. Okay. All right. Now you mentioned hormones for a quick second there, but is there value in optimizing hormones for bone density? Stephanie Gray: 13:13 You Bet. So about 25 well, I think it's 27% of women over 50 can have osteoporosis, right? Like a fourth of those patients of that population, which is pretty scary. Yeah. And I'll go 40% have osteopenia. There's also, I'm referencing women over 50 so what's the other common dominator for women over 50 usually you're going through menopause around that declining and this, the danger here is that this can increase risk for fractures. Of course, Osteoporosis Foundation says at 24% of those with hip fractures die within a year. That's, that's terrible. Very cool. So absolutely, I run a hormone clinic and I strongly believe that improving estrogen, progesterone, and even testosterone levels in women can help with bone density. And I can talk a little, I can go into depth with each of those hormones. Karen Litzy: 14:06 Yeah, I think I would like a little bit more in depth conversation on that and also the difference between synthetic and natural hormones. Stephanie Gray: 14:15 Sure, sure. So maybe first we'll talk a little bit about estrogen. So estrogen literally helps with a proper bone remodeling process. Progesterone helps promote osteoblastic activity. So osteoblast help build your bones while osteoclast break it down, right? So progesterone is going to help with the bone builders and testosterone has been proven to actually stimulate new bone growth and inhibit or block the osteoclastic that breaking down activity. Progesterone, I've even been heard called one time I heard it called a bone trophic hormone. Like it literally seems to promote bone formation, which is wonderful. So it's one of the first hormones I'll start my patients on even before their menopausal many peri-menopausal or younger are taking progesterone. And when I mentioned testosterone for women, some women kind of look at me sideways like, well I don't want to grow a beard or I don't think I need to. Stephanie Gray: 15:12 But actually it's extremely important if you even think of how testosterone helps with muscle mass, it can help strengthen the patient also, right? To improve balance, to minimize falls. Testosterone is great for many reasons. In my book I actually mentioned a study. I feel so strongly about how important testosterone can help really because of the study, because I've seen this, testosterone has shown an 8.3% improvement in bone mineral density, which is like unheard of. It's just dramatic. I've had patients who have received hormone replacement therapy, not overnight, but over a year, go from having osteoporosis, Osteopenia to even having normal bone density because after a year, their bones are improving and that is amazing. But conventional medicine, many times putting patients on drugs, we're just hoping that they don't have a decline. We're just hoping that they stabilize, not that they actually build bone density and hormones can really help do that. Stephanie Gray: 16:08 But in reference to your other question, anytime we talk about hormones, the cancer word is going to come up. So that's where I can differentiate between the synthetics and the naturals. And in my book in chapter six actually show the molecular structure of synthetic hormones like I synthetic progestin and natural progesterone aesthetic is faster on molecule and natural testosterone cause the hormones really need to fit like a key fitting in a key hole, right? And that's what the molecular structure of natural or bioidentical hormones are. I mean, they should fit like a key fitting in and thus caused your side effects. So most of the studies that showed hormones cause cancer were studies like the women's health initiative study, which was done on a lot of women, but they use synthetic horse urine and they use Premarin. Stephanie Gray: 16:54 That's literally what Premarin stands for, pregnant Mare's urine. So naturally I try to not replicate what was done in that study with my patients. I don't want to use synthetic hormones. I don't want to use oral estrogen either. That means estrogen taken by mouth in a pill form, right? Which is going to have to be cleared through the gut and the liver. So who was trained through, I should say in addition to the fellowship program that I went through was bio t, they're a hormone pellet company. They're the biggest hormone pellet company in the nation who very well trained their providers and their practitioners and they keep us up to date on all the current research and what's happening in Europe as well with hormones. And so they strongly believe that hormone is given an appellate version, which is an actual subcutaneous little implant that we put under the fatty tissue, kind of in the lower back. Stephanie Gray: 17:44 Upper bottom area is by far the safest. And that's what we're going for with our patients, right? We want to improve on density. We want them feeling better. We want to give them the safest version of the safest dosage. And so pellet therapy specifically is what can improve bone density the most. But again, we're using natural hormones that are plant-based, not synthetic. They should bind to your hormone receptors appropriately. And therefore the risks of, you know, what were shown in the women's health initiative study just can't be compared to what practitioners like myself use. Cause we're using natural hormones, not the synthetics and not by mouth. Karen Litzy: 18:19 And so what are the side effects or the downside of using these natural hormones versus a synthetic? Stephanie Gray: 18:26 Sure. So all of us are already making, well we should be making hormones, right? Which when we grow up we go through adolescence, our hormones peak and then in our twenties and thirties and forties and 50s we start seeing this decline. So really if hormones are dosed appropriately, patients shouldn't have side effects. However, if you think of younger women when they're cycling, sometimes before bleeding they may have some fluid retention or a little bit of breast tenderness or whatnot. And sometimes those symptoms can reoccur as we give patients hormones. The goal is that those would be very short lived. They wouldn't last once we refined the dose. But too much of estrogen can definitely cause fluid retention, breast tenderness, potentially some weight gain. Too much testosterone could cause acne, oily skin, hair growth. Too much. Progesterone can make you feel a little tired. Most menopausal women need help sleeping. So they like that effect, kind of calms them down. Or if women are real PMSing they need or have anxiety, they need some progesterone to calm them down. But we don't want to overdose patients. Right? We don't want to get them to high levels of the hormones, but we want to give them high enough levels that will protect their bones, that will help them sleep. Right. That will provide benefit. Karen Litzy: 19:34 Are there instances of cancer with the natural hormones? Stephanie Gray: 19:41 So there are always instances of cancer? I can't say definitively that. No, I've never seen it. I'd never had a patient ever have cancer. But from my experience, they're very rare. And Bio T are great to have as a resource because they track all of that. I mean, they're tracking all these hundreds and hundreds of thousands of patients with pellets and they're tracking the rights and if they confidently say the rates are extremely low. Karen Litzy: 20:07 Well, you know, cause we wanna give the listeners sort of like a balanced view of everything. So we want to give the, you know, as you know, and I'm sure this is the exact questions that your patients probably ask you. Stephanie Gray: 20:23 Yes. Karen Litzy: 20:25 Or hopefully that's what they ask you. Let's put it that way, So now talking about these hormones, how would one know if they are low on these hormones? Stephanie Gray: 20:37 Good question. Really get tested. Does every postmenopause woman with osteoporosis need testosterone? No, I can't say that I'm speaking to what has helped my patients. But the beauty of functional integrated medicine is that we personalize treatment, right? We test hormone levels to see what our patients need and we test them at the beginning of therapy and through the therapy and annually, right. To make sure we're not under or overdosing our patients. So, I recommend that women, even young women, and I should say men too, but we're kind of speaking to women today, get their hormone levels tested in their twenties, thirties, forties. Right? So they can get a baseline. They can track changes. So they start to feel different, start to feel something has gone awry, we can compare to see where their hormones were before. I think that's really important. But basic blood tests can tell you where your hormone levels are. Stephanie Gray: 21:27 And now that's for postmenopausal women and for men. Now if you're younger, another test that I utilize in my practice is saliva hormone testing. So for younger women whose hormones fluctuate, whose hormones fluctuate on a daily basis, many times I'll have them spit into a tube every couple of days over the course of a month so we can really see what's happening. Maybe they're getting headaches for population or maybe they're getting headaches before bleeding or having pms or whatnot. If we can correlate their labs with their symptoms, then we know exactly what's happening, which hormones fluctuation is triggering that, and then we can intervene appropriately. So that's the beauty of testing and not guessing. Really being able to examine on paper what's happening and match it with what the patient's plan. Karen Litzy: 22:09 And with osteoporosis or Osteopenia, let's say you are getting tested when you're younger to find out, you know, what are you deficient in vitamin or mineral wise and where are your hormones levels at? Can you through this process help to let's say ward off osteoporosis or Osteopenia even if it's a genetic thing within your family. Stephanie Gray: 22:40 I guess the easy answer there would be sure. That would be the goal of course. So we want to ward off all chronic disease. Karen Litzy: 22:47 Yeah, exactly. Stephanie Gray: 22:49 I'm sure there could be some rare genetic disorder. I'm not aware of that. Maybe, you know, we couldn't influence, but yes, that would absolutely be the goal is intervene soon. Absolutely. Karen Litzy: 23:03 Got It. And is there anything else when you're seeing patients coming to you with Osteopenia, osteoporosis, anything else that you're looking at or any other treatments that you may suggest? So that if anyone is listening to this, and let's say they are concerned that maybe they have osteoporosis or Osteopenia or they are post-menopausal or reaching that post-menopausal phase and they want to go to their doctor and they want to ask them about these tests, is there anything else aside from what we've already talked about that you would suggest? Stephanie Gray: 23:37 Oh, all kinds of things. So I'm back to the micronutrient deficiency possibility. Well, especially if that occurs, we're going to be looking at diet with the patient, right? I had a young woman my age who was drinking like six or seven cups of coffee per day. And I said, you know, that's just basically leaching minerals from your bones, right? It's a diuretic. It's essentially robbing you of all important nutrients, even nutrients you're supplementing with. So you still need to examine diet with all of our patients and make sure that we're eating well. Right? And not just drinking tons of carbonated beverages or caffeine or whatnot. So definitely looking at diet is important. Sometimes we do look at heavy metal toxicity with our patients, with these patients specifically. I don't want to say it's rare, but it's much more common and more easy to treat the patients, you know, by fixing the nutritional deficiencies and the hormones. Stephanie Gray: 24:32 But there are times where it is really important to look at heavy metals as well. And then I definitely always ask my patients about their stress, right? So if they have low hormone levels, that's part of that's natural, right? Your hormones are going to decline as you age, but you're super stressed out. Stress is your body's biggest hormone, hijacker stresses not helping your situation or your bombs. So we do need to think about lifestyle and really getting stressed under control, deep breathing, Yoga, meditation, and then examine if they're doing weight bearing activity as well. Yeah, of course. Needs to start really young, right? You build your phone mineral density in your 20s. So know that needs to start at a very young age. But I do want to make sure my patients are exercising as well. Karen Litzy: 25:20 Awesome. Well, I think that gives us a really nice holistic view of kind of looking at Osteopenia and osteoporosis from sort of bridging the gap really between that functional medicine and traditional medicine. As a physical therapist, I often get patients referred to me for osteoporosis to do those exactly what you said, those weight bearing exercises, stress reduction, things like that. And so it's good to know that as a physical therapist that we can team up with other healthcare professionals with our patient's wellbeing at the center. Stephanie Gray: 25:54 Absolutely, I would say that that's also a belief for functional medicine, that we need interdisciplinary care for our patients. You know, I don't have time during my visits to teach patients exercise for strength and balance. We have our own strengths, but we can work together as a team and really have a multidisciplinary approach for our patients, which is going to provide them with better outcomes. Karen Litzy: 26:17 Yeah, no question. I agree 100%. And now we had mentioned the book a little bit, it's called the longevity blueprint, can you tell the listeners a little bit more about the book and where they can find it? Stephanie Gray: 26:30 Maybe I'll go off on a little tangent here and just say why I wrote the book first. I think sometimes patients or consumers may think, oh, so-and-so just wrote a book, but she doesn't know because she hasn't experienced such and such or whatnot. And I'm definitely a provider who has gone through my own health challenges, unfortunately. But fortunately I've used them to my advantage to write this book. So I personally, I've struggled with a lot of things. The most challenging really was fast heart rate or a tachnocardic episodes, which, landed me at Mayo Clinic actually, well, firstly to be in the emergency room, but I eventually landed me at Mayo and conventional medicine's approach to my issue was to take a medication to control my heart rate. And although that could have worked and could have helped, I thought I need to figure out what's happening to me. Stephanie Gray: 27:25 I needed to figure out why my body's gonna ride, right, why my heart is racing like this. And so around the same time, my husband is actually our office manager at our clinic. We have integrated health clinic in Iowa and he said, you know, you should really use this to try to streamline the process as far as what we recommend to our patients. Can you outline all of what we offer? Because sometimes patients would come see a functional medicine practitioner who only offered gut health or only offered hormone health or detoxing or whatnot. And we really offered the whole Shebang. And so he said, why don't we try to create some sort of analogy to outline all of what we can offer patients really to provide them hope. And so I created this blueprint outlining a functional medicine and all the different principles of what we can offer patients with every organ system of the body. Stephanie Gray: 28:14 And then I kind of laced through my personal story as well as far as what I had to utilize to regain back my health. And so what I'm doing with the book is I'm trying to at least create this analogy between how we maintain our homes and the compare that to our body, right? So with our home, we have, well I have hair in my drain, right? I don't want hair clogging my drain. You probably mow your lawn. If you have a lawn, you probably change the furnace filters on your home right there. Just things you'd have, you know, you have to do to maintain your home. But we don't always know how to maintain our body. We don't know how to rebuild our body if we're sick or build that health period. And so I'm taking a room in each of our homes, right? Stephanie Gray: 28:55 And I'm comparing that to an organ system in the body. So chapter one is all about gut health because I believe that gut is the most important piece of our health, most important organ system that we have. And I'm comparing that to the foundation of the home. You have to have the strong foundation upon which to build good health. So then I go chapter by chapter. I'm comparing, you know, organ system. So we were talking a lot about chapter four today and chapter six, chapter six I'm comparing the heating and cooling in your home, right? And you don't want to be too cold, you want to be too hot, you have to have a good thermostat there. But I'm comparing that to the endocrine system in the body. And so I try to help patients rebuild their body, rebuild every organ system using functional medicine principles. So I talk about the tests that are important. I talk about the nutrients that are important and offer patients resources as well. Karen Litzy: 29:42 That's awesome and that's really great for patients. And just so everyone knows, we'll have a link to the book in the show notes over at podcast.healthywealthysmart.com. So if you're interested and you can go over, click a link and it'll take you right to Stephanie's books, you can read more about it and see if it's for you. And now, Stephanie, I ask everyone this question at the end of the podcast and that is knowing where you are now in your life and in your business, what advice would you give to yourself and in your case, since you have a plethora of degrees, let's say right after your bachelor degree, after you graduated with that bachelor's in nursing. Stephanie Gray: 30:26 Okay, so that's tough. I think what part of what I've learned through my health situation, I had to change my diet and nutrition and what not, but I also had to reduce stress big time. And so I think one I really recommend to all, well everyone but including the youth, I wish I would have as happy I as I am to be where I am and to have the knowledge I have so that I can ultimately help others. My health suffered along the way and so I could have, you know, done this over a longer period of time and instead of jamming it into fewer years, I think the advice to myself would be to physically set time in my calendar to deep breathe. Deep breathing has been extremely important to me to calm my nervous system. I'm obviously a fast talker and I needed to set aside time for my body to just mend and relax, rest and digest. So I think that's what my advice would be to take time for myself. As hard as it would've been, it probably would've been very difficult for me to do yoga. I probably couldn't have sat still, but I needed it. Yeah. That's probably the advice to just slow down, breathe slowly, take time. Karen Litzy: 31:39 Yeah. And that's great advice and it's advice that I give to a good majority of my patients as well. And so now is there anything else, I know that you had mentioned that you have an offer for listeners. Do you want to share that now? Stephanie Gray: 31:54 Sure. So if you're hearing about functional medicine for the first time today, I'd highly recommend you check out my book just because I think that it could provide you hope or hope for a loved one. I think many patients are just so dissatisfied, they keep going to the doctor, they keep being told that everything's normal and they know they don't feel normal and they know there are answers out there and there's a good potential that a functional medicine provider could help you. So I would definitely recommend grab a copy of my book, which is loaded with resources but also look for a functional medicine practitioner in your area. So the code on our website that can be used to purchase the book, although it's available at Barnes and noble and Amazon and everywhere books are sold is yourlongevityblueprint.com. So if you use the code healthy10, you can get 10% off order on the book or any of the supplements like vitamin K2 or anything you feel like you need. But after, you know, when you think of a home being built, there's always a contractor overseeing that process. And, that's what the last chapter of my book is about. Finding your contractor to help you personally as a community build your health. The book can help, but you do need a guide. You need a contractor. Karen Litzy: 33:01 Well thank you so much. This was great. I love learning different ways to kind of keep myself healthy and as I get older and I start, I mean I think I have a little while left, but kind of entering the phase of my life where a lot of this stuff is going to be very pertinent to me. So I thank you for sharing it all. Stephanie Gray: 33:25 Well, thank you for having me on. I hope this helps many of your viewers Karen Litzy: 33:28 And I think it will. Thank you so much Stephanie and everyone out there listening. Thanks so much. Have a great couple of days and stay healthy, wealthy, and smart. Thanks for listening and subscribing to the podcast! Make sure to connect with me on twitter, instagram and facebook to stay updated on all of the latest! Show your support for the show by leaving a rating and review on iTunes!

Zoe Littlepage | Rowatt, Forrester and Scofield v. Wyeth | $134.1 Million Verdict

The Great Trials Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2019 69:17

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Zoe Littlepage of Littlepage, Booth, Leckman (http://www.littlepagebooth.com/). Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review Case Details: Three Nevada women who developed breast cancer as a result of their use of Wyeth's hormone replacement drugs, Prempro and Premarin. The jury found that Prempro and Premarin helped cause their cancers and that Wyeth misled the public about the drugs' health risks. The court ultimately awarded $22.8 million in compensatory damages and $35 million in punitive damages. Click Here to Read/Download the Complete Trial Documents Guest Bio: Zoe Littlepage Zoe Littlepage's practice focuses on complex cases including mass torts, defective medical product or drug cases as well as human rights issues. She typically spends months each year in trial, all across the country. Ms. Littlepage's jury awards made the list of the Top 10 Largest Verdicts in the country for 2007, 2009 and 2010. In 2011, Zoe Littlepage was inducted into The Inner Circle of Advocates. Founded in 1972, The Inner Circle of Advocates is an invitation only group of 100 of the best trial lawyers in America who are selected for their character, experience, and success in the courtroom. The Inner Circle of Advocates was described by The Washington Post as, "A select group of 100 of the nation's most celebrated trial lawyers" and is recognized as one of the most exclusive groups of attorneys in the nation. Inner Circle members often work collectively to share experience, skills, and knowledge in pursuit of justice. American Lawyer magazine as well as Fortune magazine named Ms. Littlepage as one of America's “Premiere Lawyers.” She has also been nominated as a “Super Lawyer” as well as “Top Lawyer” in the country multiple years running. In 2008, she received the Clarence Darrow award for Best Mass Tort Lawyer. Texas Lawyer praises Ms. Littlepage's tenacity stating “all bets should be on Littlepage.” Chambers USA, a legal publisher, recognizes Zoe Littlepage as a leading lawyer in nationwide product liability litigation and notes that “Zoe Littlepage of Littlepage Booth does ‘a bang-up job for plaintiffs.'” According to lawyers interviewed by Chambers USA, “[w]hen you see her, you know you have a fight on your hands.” Read Full Bio Here Show Sponsors: Legal Technology Services - LTSatlanta.com Digital Law Marketing - DigitalLawMarketing.com Harris, Lowry, and Manton - hlmlawfirm.com Free Resources: Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 1 Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 2

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Estrogen Replacement In Women

The Future of Medicine Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2019 22:54

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT THE SYMPTOMS OF MENOPAUSE DIDN’T HAVE TO HAPPEN? And what if I also told you that by treating the symptoms of menopause with bioidentical hormones you could not only feel better, but you could live longer? Well, it’s true. SYMPTOMS LIKE HOT FLASHES, INSOMNIA, MOODINESS, AND WEIGHT GAIN….. GONE. In this post, we’re going to discuss one of the most controversial topics in women’s health, estrogen therapy for postmenopausal women. And, I’m going to give you three conversations to have with your doctor about estrogen replacement. WHAT IS ESTROGEN? Estrogen is a hormone that, in women, is produced in the ovaries and adrenal glands, and is massively important for health and well-being. It shows up around the age of 11-13 when females’ bodies start taking shape, they begin to ovulate, and they start their periods. It rises and falls each month until you either become pregnant, take birth controls to suppress it, or you hit menopause. When a woman hits menopause, the ovaries stop producing estrogen. BUT MENOPAUSE USUALLY DOESN’T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. About 5 years before menopause, ovarian estrogen production begins to lower and women don’t don’t produce enough to feel balanced, or optimal. This is called perimenopause — or “around menopause” — and it is when women begin to experience hot flashes, moodiness, weight gain, bloating, and brain fog. These symptoms are miserable in the short term. In the long term, inadequate estrogen levels can have devastating effects and put you at risk for a plethora of diseases. THE LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES OF INADEQUATE ESTROGEN ARE DEVASTATING. Women have been suffering with these symptoms unnecessarily because of confusion and fear around the safety of hormone replacement in menopausal and postmenopausal women. A lot of the confusion originated from a study called the Women’s Health Initiative which looked at long term effects of hormone replacement therapy in women. The study had three arms: Provera only (synthetic progestin) Premarin only (synthetic estrogen) PremPro (a combination of Premarin and Provera) MOST OF THE FEAR AND CONFUSION AROUND BHRT ARE ROOTED IN THE WHI STUDY WHICH ONLY LOOKED AT SYNTHETIC HORMONES. All risk and/or benefits of bioidential hormone replacement has therefore been extrapolated from the synthetic variants in this study — which you just can not do. This is a very important variable. When they fleshed out all the data, the culprit causing an increase risk in breast cancer, strokes, and blood clots in the WHI trial was the provera — the synthetic progestin. Not the synthetic estrogen, prempro. SYNTHETIC PROGESTINS ARE NOW KNOW TO BE THE PROBLEM. But what actually happened was that estrogen took the blame. It was then extrapolated from this study, that all estrogen use in postmenopausal women should be avoided. So because of misinterpreted and inaccurate data from the WHI, massive amounts of confusion and fear around hormone replacement was born. THE BOTTOM LINE IS THIS… Bioidentical Estrogen replacement in menopausal and post-menopausal women does not cause cancer. Synthetic estrogens (example: premerin) do increase the risk of clots and strokes in women over the age of 65. Synthetic progesterone (progestins) do provoke cancer. Bioidentical Progesterone is protective against cancer. HERE ARE THE CONVERSATIONS THAT I THINK YOU NEED TO BE HAVING WITH YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT. 1) Who gets estrogen replacement, and do I qualify? Estrogen replacement is not for women who are still having periods because, by definition, if you’

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Estrogen Replacement In Women

The Future of Medicine Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2019 22:54

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002: Hormone Replacement Therapy After Menopause

The Vibrant Life Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2019 10:29

Dr. Brittain: Good afternoon. This is Dr. Brittain. I want to share with you a personal story here about a patient that I saw in my office today. This is a woman who comes in who is interested in hormone replacement therapy. As you might know, women tend to lose their hormone production as they go through menopause around the age of 50, or sooner if they are surgical and have had their uterus removed. There could be some gradual or rather abrupt changes that occur because of the decline in hormone production. In menopause, women lose about 90% of their estrogen production. Estrogen helps with hot flashes, night sweats, concentration, memory, mood, vaginal lubrication, skin texture, joint lubrication. Women also lose a large percentage of their testosterone production, which happens mostly in the ovaries. Testosterone helps with strength, endurance, muscle mass, mental clarity, sexual desire. Progesterone levels decline dramatically during menopause. Progesterone helps with mood and has a calming effect and really works along with estrogen to help women sleep a lot better. This is really important because I don't know if you're aware of this, you can live 30 days without food, about seven days without water, but only five days without sleep, so in some respects sleep is more important than food and water, and we tend to neglect this as a health issue. I'm going to now present our patient, Mrs. Johnson, that's not her real name, and this is a real interview prior to examination in my office. Dr. Brittain: Hi there, Mrs. Johnson. How you doing? Mrs. Johnson: Just fine, thank you. Dr. Brittain: Well, welcome to our practice. I'm Dr. Brittain. Erica here is going to take some notes for us. How can I help you today? Mrs. Johnson: Well, I came in looking for some answers for hormone replacement I believe. Dr. Brittain: Okay. Well, what are your questions? Mrs. Johnson: The questions are you know, as you get older, the sex drive's not there and seeing what solutions is out there. Dr. Brittain: Okay. Well, what have you done so far? Mrs. Johnson: Not really anything. Dr. Brittain: Uh-huh. So suffered in silence? Mrs. Johnson: Yes, yes. Talked with my regular family physician and she referred me. Dr. Brittain: Have you mentioned this along the way that you're having some problems, have you mentioned to any other doctors? Mrs. Johnson: Basically I had talked to her about it for a few years. She just suggested maybe extra time and put forth a little bit more effort maybe. Dr. Brittain: Yeah, you know, that's a pretty common thing that a lot of doctors do and it's not because they don't want to take care of you but they're not maybe tuned in to what our bodies need and the proper interpretation of the literature. And it's unfortunate because there's a lot of things that we can do. As you know at menopause all this crazy stuff happens. You have hot flashes, night sweats, problems with concentration, memory, mood, vaginal lubrication, strength, endurance, muscle mass, mental clarity, sexual disorder. All those things suffer for want of hormones that are pretty easy to replace actually. It has to be done properly and under some supervision but there's some pretty cool things that we can do medically. But I'd like to educate you for just a moment if you don't mind, about what we know and maybe some things that you might think are going on or that you've been told that just aren't so. Let's start with the Women's Health Initiative which was begun in 1997 and in 2002 there was this report, "Oh, my God, estrogen is killing women. It's causing breast cancer. Quit taking it." I don't know if you remember that or not? Mrs. Johnson: Yeah. Dr. Brittain: Okay. Well, what actually happened was that these researchers studied placebo and Premarin and Prempro three different groups of women, large groups, 9,000 women in each group, and they wanted to look at different outcomes. Placebo is a sugar pill. Premarin is the old fashioned conjugated estrogen and then Prempro is the conjugated with a synthetic progesterone. After five years of this study they noticed that the Prempro patients had a little more breast cancer so ethically they said we need to stop that part of the study. But at the same time, the women who took only the estrogen had less breast cancer than the women who were taking nothing. Well, let's continue that part of the study. But the public media got a hold of this and all they could see was, "Well, there was estrogen in this pill. It must be bad. Everybody should quit taking it." Millions of women quit taking it. Thousands of doctors quit prescribing it without reading what the study actually said and meant. I read the study and I realized that this was a gold mine of information but the press was interpreting it incorrectly. The average person and the average doctor didn't read the study. So these doctors went ahead and continued studying these women who were taking just Premarin compared to the women who were taking the placebo for another eight years. At the end of 13 years of study, the women taking Premarin had more than 20% reduction in breast cancer incidence than the women who took nothing. So in that part of the study, women taking Premarin actually had less breast cancer than the women who took nothing. Mrs. Johnson: I have been advised by doctors that that would be my highest risk. If I would go on hormone replacement that it was a high risk of developing cancer. Dr. Brittain: It's a misinterpretation of that study that is still prevalent today that is scaring women away from taking hormone replacement therapy. What do you suppose is the number one cause of death in menopause? Mrs. Johnson: I don't know. Dr. Brittain: Heart disease. Mrs. Johnson: Heart disease. Okay. Dr. Brittain: So heart disease kills more women in menopause than the next 16 causes of death combined. There is a pretty great study out of Denmark published just about 10 years ago, where they have this healthcare system where everybody is in an electric medical record catchment, if you will. So, they can follow everybody. They looked at all the women who were between the ages of 50 and 59 and followed them for seven years and looked at what they took or didn't take and who got heart attacks, 698,000 women. And guess what? The women using estrogen properly cut their risk of heart attack in half compared to the women who took nothing. But the women who took Prempro, like the Women's Health Initiative, they had a higher risk of heart attack than the women who took nothing. The women who took just estrogen had a markedly reduced risk. So after years of studying and looking at this, the American College of Obstetricians/Gynecologists has said that in menopause women should take hormone replacement therapy unless there is some specific contraindication and that women who do, reduce their risk of death from preventable disease by as much as 50% compared to women who take nothing. So that's breast, heart, colon, less dementia, less osteoporosis. Oh, and you'll feel better. Mrs. Johnson: Alright. That's great. Everybody's looking for that magic pill. Dr. Brittain: Yeah, no kidding. Well, and if you think about it, you spent what, 40 years of your life making a lot of hormones? How did things work? Mrs. Johnson: Pretty good. Dr. Brittain: Yeah. So you had a life. Did you make babies? Mrs. Johnson: Unfortunately no. Dr. Brittain: Did you try? Mrs. Johnson: I tried. Dr. Brittain: Did that feel good? Mrs. Johnson: Many years of fertility drugs though, yeah. Dr. Brittain: But that felt good, right? Having the sexuality and expressing it with intercourse and all that. When you become menopausal around the age of 50, that hormone support disappears. What we know about this is if you can put those hormones back into you in a way that it makes your body think you're still making them, that's healthy and you can do it forever and you'll feel good. Mrs. Johnson: Okay. Dr. Brittain: Are you ready for that? Mrs. Johnson: I am ready for that. I definitely am. Dr. Brittain: Let me ask you a couple more questions. What seems to be bothering you? What prompted this visit? Mrs. Johnson: I think the low sex drive which in turn causes marital issues. Dr. Brittain: Yeah. I hear that a lot. Mrs. Johnson: Yeah, yeah. You don't want to be traded in for a 20-year-old so ... Dr. Brittain: Or a couple of them. Mrs. Johnson: A couple of them, yeah. Dr. Brittain: Are you having intercourse? Mrs. Johnson: Yes. Dr. Brittain: Is it painful? Mrs. Johnson: At times, yes. Dr. Brittain: Are you getting satisfied? Mrs. Johnson: No, I mean my sex drive has been pretty low for a while. Dr. Brittain: So you feel like just a passive recipient or just a ...? Mrs. Johnson: Yes. Dr. Brittain: So you're not getting anything out of it? Mrs. Johnson: Exactly. Dr. Brittain: But you did in the past? Mrs. Johnson: Oh, definitely, yes. Dr. Brittain: So you're not even able to have an orgasm now? Mrs. Johnson: Not with normal intercourse. Dr. Brittain: Yeah, yeah. But you wouldn't initiate that kind of thing now? Mrs. Johnson: Well, I still do, yeah. Dr. Brittain: Do you have to use a lubricant? Mrs. Johnson: Yes. Dr. Brittain: Do you get infections? Mrs. Johnson: No, no, haven't had any issues with that. Dr. Brittain: Good. Do you have any bladder irritation? Mrs. Johnson: No. Dr. Brittain: Do you get hot flashes, night sweats? Mrs. Johnson: I don't. I went through menopause probably at about 43. Probably because of a lot of years of fertility pills. Dr. Brittain: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mrs. Johnson: Actually I've been one of the fortunate ones about ... Didn't really have many side effects from menopause. Dr. Brittain: Okay. So not a lot of the hot flashes or night sweats you said, okay. Do you get irritable? Mrs. Johnson: I don't think so. Dr. Brittain: How's your sleep? Mrs. Johnson: Good. Dr. Brittain: Have you had a bone density scan? Mrs. Johnson: Yes. Dr. Brittain: How long ago was it? Mrs. Johnson: Actually I just had one about a month ago. Dr. Brittain: What did it show? Mrs. Johnson: Not good but I've had some issues for about ... I guess my last one was probably six years ago and it showed not osteoporosis but ... Dr. Brittain: The osteopenia. Mrs. Johnson: Yes, yes. Dr. Brittain: Where did you have that done? Mrs. Johnson: IU Health. Dr. Brittain: Okay. Well, we can actually reverse that trend and improve your bone density with proper hormone replacement therapy. Has anyone ever looked at your female hormone levels? Mrs. Johnson: Yeah. Dr. Brittain: Okay. That's a pretty important thing to follow and, of course, your symptoms and your physical exam. So we put all that together. We look at what's going on with you with the various symptoms, vaginal dryness or whatever it might be, or low libido. And then we look at your blood work and we look at a physical exam and that usually matches up. Then we come up with a plan if you're interested. Mrs. Johnson: Um-hmm. (Affirmative) Dr. Brittain: And then we do some surveillance. Mrs. Johnson: Okay. Dr. Brittain: So what I tell my patients is that I'm glad to follow you. I love to do this work and to me it's not even work. To me it's emotional enrichment. But we're going to be metaphorically joined at the hip because you want to get a good result. You want to feel better and I'd like you to also and so that is going to involve, at least initially for a little while, a periodic exam, a reassessment of what's going on with your symptoms and some labs. Mrs. Johnson: Okay. Dr. Brittain: I may have to do this two or three times to get the proper balance of what works for you, that makes you feel better. Does that sound like sort of a plan? Mrs. Johnson: Sounds like a very good plan. Dr. Brittain: What kinds of questions does that bring up for you so far? Mrs. Johnson: Basically I guess just your guidance, what you recommend. Like I said, the doctors that I dealt with before was reluctant to put me on anything because I do have breast cancer in my family and they didn't want to do anything that might initiate on the cancer side of things. Dr. Brittain: Right, right. Mrs. Johnson: So I just came to you to see if there's better answers out there than what I've been given. Dr. Brittain: Well, I think there are and I have a lot of patients who think the same way. Once they get going it's like, "Oh, man, I'm never going back to the way it was before." Well, I'm going to start an exam here in just a minute and I'm going to turn off the recorder. If you have some questions at the end we'll sure take care of that too. Mrs. Johnson: Okay. Dr. Brittain: Thank you very much. Mrs. Johnson: Thank you. We just concluded our interview, examination, and an exit interview on Mrs. Johnson here. And, we came up with a plan to begin some vaginal Estrogen, some oral Progesterone. And both of these are bioidentical. And keep in mind that women are not deficient in Conjugated Estrogen like Premarin. They're deficient in biologically identical Estrogen. And, there's no reason in the world to consider using other than bioidentical hormone therapy. Even though some of the medical societies and so forth say, "Well, there's really no qualitative difference." Well, there is, and my wife is a family doctor. She and I attended the International Menopause Society's World Congress Meeting in Vancouver, Washington a few months ago and smart doctors from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, Australia get together every couple years. And people who attend these meetings are experts in treating the menopausal woman. And to a doctor, they advocated the use of Estrogen, Estrogen, Estrogen and don't quit. And, they also say it matters what you take, what form of Estrogen you take, and how you take it. And, the North American Menopause Society went a step further and issued a paper last fall. And put physicians on notice to remember that menopause is forever. If you have a 65-year-old woman, just because she's 65 doesn't mean she has to quit taking hormones. She can take them forever. Doctors in the past have frequently told their patients at about that age that, "Oh, you need to quit taking it." And that's not based on any evidence whatsoever. And one of the things that I pride myself on in my practice is to practice evidence-based medicine, and stuff that makes sense. So, we started Mrs. Johnson on some vaginal Estrogen, which is bioidentical Estradiol and some oral Progesterone at bedtime. And, got a series of labs which are pending. And then we'll do a follow-up examination after a couple months of doing just that simple intervention. And reassess how she's feeling biologically and emotionally, and with her vaginal lubrication and so forth. And then we'll get some follow-up labs at that time, and probably do a little bit more vigorous therapy. So this is kinda how I approach the menopausal woman. In this particular case there's variations of this, but this is a pretty basic look at the care of the menopausal woman. Now, if you have questions, I'd invite you to visit my website www.drbrittain.com Facepage that we have is Vibrant Life. That is the trade name of my private practice that I use for my hormone patients. And, you can call our office at 812-331-9160. Once again, that's www.drbrittain.com Vibrant Life on Facebook, and 812-331-9160. Hope to see you soon. Thank you.

Susan Wagner: Stop sending our horses to the slaughterhouse.

Species Unite

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2019 41:45

Susan Wagner is a hero to horses everywhere. She is the President and founder of Equine Advocates, a horse rescue in Chatham New York. They rescue horses from horrifically abusive situations and have saved hundreds that were literally en route to the slaughterhouse. For decades, they have been an enormous force in the fight against horse slaughter. We don’t slaughter horses on American soil anymore – the last horse slaughter plant closed in 2007, instead we send 100,000 horses a year to horrific deaths in Mexican and Canadian slaughterhouses. The horses are from every industry, including: quarter horses, racehorses, draft and plow horses, summer camp horses, wild mustangs, and even backyard pets – the slaughter pipeline doesn’t discriminate. It’s gruesome, terrifying, and way too popular. The horses are sent to auction by their owners and are placed in filthy, over crowded pens with a ton of other horses - many of whom are sick and injured. From there, many are purchased by kill buyers – who are specifically at the auctions to fill their trucks with enough horses to head either directly to the slaughter plants or they’ll take them to a feed lot to fatten them up pre-slaughter and then transport them to the Mexican and Canadian plants. The horses can spend up to 30 or 35 hours on these trucks, packed in without food or water. Once they arrive at the slaughter plant, they are soon after stunned and then killed. The process is cruel and often the stunning doesn’t work because the horses are afraid and duck and dart their heads so that the guns miss them, so a few moments later when they are hung by their back leg and have their throats slashed, they are still totally conscious. It is a barbaric and cruel industry – so horrible that we don’t allow it in the US yet somehow, we are totally fine with shipping tens of thousands of our horses over the borders to go through these agonizing miserable deaths. Susan founded Equine Advocates in the 90s, after having spent 15 years working for the racetrack. During her time at the track, she had no idea that the slaughter industry even existed – neither did many other people back then, it was a secretive world and that unless you were directly involved it was a complete unknown. It wasn’t until she left the racing world and got a job at the NY zoological society that she learned that we slaughter horses that was the moment that she changed everything. She started Equine Advocates from her apartment in Queens in 1996, rescuing and saving abused and slaughter bound horses while working to change laws and policy all over the US. In 2004 Equine Advocates established a 140 acre sanctuary in Chatam, NY. There are 82 horses who have permanent homes at the sanctuary, most of them came from horrifically abusive situations, or were on their way to the slaughterhouse or both. It’s like they all won the lottery – they live safely, in beautiful surroundings, with everything they need – including a ton of love. The lucky horses that have made it to Equine Advocates come from every industry including the horrible world of PMU. PMU horses are horses used to make Premarin – a hormone replacement drug made by Pfizer that women have been taking since the 1940s for menopause. It was discovered years ago that it causes cancer and a whole lot of other terrible things, but there’s still a huge market for it. In order to make it, horses are kept pregnant kept in tiny confined stalls with concrete floors. It’s a living hell – they can’t move or lie down, they can’t do anything except eat, drink and urinate. Their urine is captured to make the drug. Shortly after the horses give birth, the babies are taken away from them soon after so that they can be impregnated again and produce more of the drug. The foals are either brought to feed lots, fattened up, and slaughtered or they become Premarin horses. It’s a bizzaro, unnecessary, and horrible business, but it seems, if there’s a market for it big drug companies don’t have a problem with all the abuse behind it. I think a lot of women still don’t know what’s involved in this drug. Susan has rescued a ton of PMU horses and their off spring and has also been a big opponent of the Premarin industry. Actually, anywhere that horses are being abused or sent to slaughter, Susan is out there fighting.

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066: Confused About Bio-Identical Hormones During Menopause? w/ Dr. Edwin Lee

Couch Talk w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2018 55:34

Controversy and Clinical Insights into the Health Effects and Breast Cancer Today on Couch Talk I am talking with Dr. Edwin Lee. He is a past Couch Talk guest and one of the best physicians I know. And we’re talking about one of my favorite topics, the use of bio-identical hormones in the treatment of menopausal symptoms in women. Dr. Lee believes that the best way to treat hormonal imbalance is by natural bio-identical hormone therapy. Natural hormones are the exact and identical hormones that are made in your body (versus synthetic hormones which are not chemically structured the same as in your body). He feels that the use of bioidentical hormones with estradiol, estriol, progesterone and or testosterone in women is essential, whereas the use of testosterone in men is crucial to prevent early mortality. Dr. Lee combines functional medicine to determine the root problem with the use of bioidentical hormones to help his patients achieve wellness – along with an emphasis on improving on diet, lifestyle, and nutrition. Listen to the interview: A Great Way to Kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month! It’s the start of Breast Cancer Awareness month, so this Couch Talk interview was very well timed! We talked a lot about our own patient and clinical outcomes over our decades of combined practices in using bio-identical hormones to treat hot flashes, depression, anxiety, mood swings, vaginal atrophy and other symptoms commonly seen in menopause. We also talked a lot about the confusion relating to breast cancer risk. In thisinterview, you will learn, Why Dr. Lee tells his menopausal patients that menopause itself is a dangerous disease with a higher rate of Alzheimer’s or dementia, heart disease, and osteoporosis…and what he feels they can do to prevent all of this. The importance of both an individual patient’s ability to detox and their current lifestyle (diet, exercise, sleep, etc.) in determining the right menopausal treatment plan for them. Why he doesn’t recommend oral estrogen therapy (Premarin, Prempro) ever be used. Why bio-identical progesterone is truly the “wonder hormone” that helps with sleep, anxiety, irritability, PMS…and more…and how it is protective against breast cancer (and could save your marriage!) Why oral synthetic progesterone (Provera) is a bad choice, clearly linked to increasing the risk of strokes and heart disease. Why just taking a hormone is never enough (hint: you need to improve your lifestyle decisions)! What plant-based estrogen SERM (Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator) Dr. Lee has recommended that helps with hot flashes (and is safe). And We Covered So Much More! Why is it that less than 1% of women who have taken HRT therapy in his clinical practice have developed breast cancer (compared to 11% of women developing breast cancer in the general population)? We discussed both of our clinical observations as to what the answer to this might be. Finally, we talked about our “polite disagreements” with the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (of which Dr. Lee is a member) recently stating in a position paper that they do not recommend the use of bio-identical hormone therapy in many cases… What? Well...we both feel that endocrinologists already use bio-identical hormone therapy all of the time for standard care with insulin, cortisol, thyroid, progesterone, testosterone, transdermal estradiol, etc.! So what is going on in this position paper? Is it the definition of what is “synthetic” versus “natural”? Is it a bit of bias from the Big Pharm companies? Such an interesting discussion with my favorite endocrinologist! Meet Dr. Edwin Lee A little bit about Dr. Edwin Lee, and I hope you’ll listen to our interview in the audio posted above! He’s board-certified in internal medicine, endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism, and has completed special training in regenerative and functional medicine. He is an author and an international speaker and educator. Dr. Lee founded the Institute for Hormonal Balance in 2008. Currently, he is the Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. In addition to writing his books, including two awesome children’s books, one called, Your Awesome Brain, and the other is Your Amazing Heart—I highly recommend these—he’s written, for those of us that really want to get a better understanding on hormones, a couple of other books. One is called Feel Good, Look Younger: Reversing Tiredness Through Hormonal Balance, and the book, Your Best Investment: Secrets to a Healthy Body and Mind. Dr. Lee has also published many articles on internal medicine and endocrinology. He is an author in the fourth edition of Textbook of Critical Care. He’s an active member of the Age Management Medicine Group and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology. Find out more about Dr. Lee at http://instituteofhormonalbalance.com/

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Confused About Bio-Identical Hormones During Menopause?

The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2018 55:34

Controversy and Clinical Insights into the Health Effects and Breast Cancer Today on Couch Talk I am talking with Dr. Edwin Lee. He is a past Couch Talk guest and one of the best physicians I know. And we're talking about one of my favorite topics, the use of bio-identical hormones in the treatment of menopausal symptoms in women. Dr. Lee believes that the best way to treat hormonal imbalance is by natural bio-identical hormone therapy. Natural hormones are the exact and identical hormones that are made in your body (versus synthetic hormones which are not chemically structured the same as in your body). He feels that the use of bioidentical hormones with estradiol, estriol, progesterone and or testosterone in women is essential, whereas the use of testosterone in men is crucial to prevent early mortality. Dr. Lee combines functional medicine to determine the root problem with the use of bioidentical hormones to help his patients achieve wellness – along with an emphasis on improving on diet, lifestyle, and nutrition. Listen to the interview: A Great Way to Kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month! It's the start of Breast Cancer Awareness month, so this Couch Talk interview was very well timed! We talked a lot about our own patient and clinical outcomes over our decades of combined practices in using bio-identical hormones to treat hot flashes, depression, anxiety, mood swings, vaginal atrophy and other symptoms commonly seen in menopause. We also talked a lot about the confusion relating to breast cancer risk. In thisinterview, you will learn, Why Dr. Lee tells his menopausal patients that menopause itself is a dangerous disease with a higher rate of Alzheimer's or dementia, heart disease, and osteoporosis…and what he feels they can do to prevent all of this. The importance of both an individual patient's ability to detox and their current lifestyle (diet, exercise, sleep, etc.) in determining the right menopausal treatment plan for them. Why he doesn't recommend oral estrogen therapy (Premarin, Prempro) ever be used. Why bio-identical progesterone is truly the “wonder hormone” that helps with sleep, anxiety, irritability, PMS…and more…and how it is protective against breast cancer (and could save your marriage!) Why oral synthetic progesterone (Provera) is a bad choice, clearly linked to increasing the risk of strokes and heart disease. Why just taking a hormone is never enough (hint: you need to improve your lifestyle decisions)! What plant-based estrogen SERM (Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator) Dr. Lee has recommended that helps with hot flashes (and is safe). And We Covered So Much More! Why is it that less than 1% of women who have taken HRT therapy in his clinical practice have developed breast cancer (compared to 11% of women developing breast cancer in the general population)? We discussed both of our clinical observations as to what the answer to this might be. Finally, we talked about our “polite disagreements” with the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (of which Dr. Lee is a member) recently stating in a position paper that they do not recommend the use of bio-identical hormone therapy in many cases… What? Well...we both feel that endocrinologists already use bio-identical hormone therapy all of the time for standard care with insulin, cortisol, thyroid, progesterone, testosterone, transdermal estradiol, etc.! So what is going on in this position paper? Is it the definition of what is “synthetic” versus “natural”? Is it a bit of bias from the Big Pharm companies? Such an interesting discussion with my favorite endocrinologist! Meet Dr. Edwin Lee A little bit about Dr. Edwin Lee, and I hope you'll listen to our interview in the audio posted above! He's board-certified in internal medicine, endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism, and has completed special training in regenerative and functional medicine. He is an author and an international speaker and educator. Dr. Lee founded the Institute for Hormonal Balance in 2008. Currently, he is the Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. In addition to writing his books, including two awesome children's books, one called, Your Awesome Brain, and the other is Your Amazing Heart—I highly recommend these—he's written, for those of us that really want to get a better understanding on hormones, a couple of other books. One is called Feel Good, Look Younger: Reversing Tiredness Through Hormonal Balance, and the book, Your Best Investment: Secrets to a Healthy Body and Mind. Dr. Lee has also published many articles on internal medicine and endocrinology. He is an author in the fourth edition of Textbook of Critical Care. He's an active member of the Age Management Medicine Group and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology. Find out more about Dr. Lee at http://instituteofhormonalbalance.com/

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[Special Report] - Premarin, the drug killing Trans people

GaySA Radio Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2018 32:10

We are taking a closer look at the fight to have Premarin banned in South Africa. This alleged highly dangerous drug is South Africa's primary transgender hormone replacement therapy. www.gaysaradio.co.za

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[Special Report] - Premarin, the drug killing Trans people

GaySA Radio Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2018 32:10

GaySA Radio — We are taking a closer look at the fight to have Premarin banned in South Africa. This alleged highly dangerous drug is South Africa's primary transgender hormone replacement therapy.

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What is Estriol Made From? | PYHP 050

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2018

When we started this podcast and writing articles, we were very naive about who would want to read this stuff. Honestly, I didn't think anyone would want to listen to a husband/wife couple-docs that only dealt with hormone balancing. Being an introvert, I am really pushing myself outside of my comfort zone with these articles and podcasts. I cannot believe how many readers and responses we have gotten. I am absolutely amazed at how many responses we have gotten from people outside of the USA. I am truly flattered and amazed that people from all over the world are reading and listening to our content. With that said, we have gotten lots of comments and questions from readers/listeners. It is hard to answer them one on one. So I wanted to write an article answering some questions that we have gotten. Some of these questions are from the states and others outside of USA. Regardless of where we are from, we still experience hormone issues. I believe these questions might help others going through the same hormonal imbalances. And help us to know that our concerns are valid and we are not alone. Question – Sherry Hi, What is Estriol made from? I know that Estradiol is from equine urine, and I stopped taking it for that reason and also it caused my breasts to get really large and very tender. I want a natural menopause supplement that isn't animal derived. Does Estriol fit this description? Thank you, Sherry. This is a great question. Many people are not sure of what BHRT and hormones are made from. Actual estradiol is not made from horse urine, or also known as equine estrogens. There are conventional hormone prescriptions that are made from horse urine. These are commonly called Premarin and Prempro to name a couple. But estradiol is a bioidentical hormone. But as we talk about on this episode, estradiol is the strongest form of the bioidentical estrogens. Estradiol is an amazing hormone. It helps with bones, mental energy, hot flashes, sleep, libido, and vaginal atrophy to name a few. But like I mentioned, estradiol can be quite strong. That is why Sherry is having the breast tenderness. For vaginal atrophy, we use estriol, which is the weakest, most gentle of the estrogens. It is great for vaginal dryness and atrophy without the side effects that estradiol can cause, such as breast tenderness and uterine thickening or spotting. So to answer Sherry's question, both estradiol and estriol are bioidentical. But the estradiol may have been too strong for her, and that is why she had the breast tenderness. Question – Rachelle I have vaginal dryness, and I noticed a little bit of spotting today. I haven't had sex in over 3 yrs, but I do walk a lot. And I use cream from time to time. I also have a lot of burning off and on. The cream seems to help, but I don't want to use it too much. That laser sounds worth it but too expensive for me. I was concerned about the spotting. I just had my pap smear done, and it came back good. This questions came from an article that we wrote about vaginal dryness. The laser that Rachelle is referring to is a procedure that doctors are using to relieve vaginal dryness and incontinence. It works really well for both, and usually, only three treatments are necessary. But the drawback is that it can be costly, and insurance does not usually cover right now. We have seen many patients that have vaginal pa

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91 - Undoctored with William Davis MD - Why Healthcare Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Medical Practice Trends

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2018 44:19

William Davis MD, author of the NY Times bestseller "Wheat Belly" discusses his latest book "Undoctored - Why Healthcare Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor". Dr. Davis shares his years of first-hand treatment of patients with cardiac disease and diabetes and how elimination of grains and sugars has reduced and in many cases reversed disease. This issue (44:18): how "Wheat Belly" came to be the dirty little secret of how diabetes is treated by physicians the myths around cholesterol why there is no such thing as a health grain the unrecognized importance of Vitamin D the tragic story of Premarin estrogen replacement therapy why organizations such as the ADA and AHA have a serious conflict of interest how mistaken recommendations to cut sodium intake have led to a resurgence of goiters misperceptions regarding calcium supplementations and osteoporosis new research in gut biome health and its potential impact on healthcare some Undoctored protocols to get you started Resources mentioned: Undoctored Facebook Undoctored Blog Wheat Belly Book Wheat Belly blog Wheat Belly Facebook Wheat Belly 10-Day Detox book

Dr. Carolyn Dean LIVE

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2018

According to a March 30, 2017 press release by the WHO, depression is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide with more than 300 million people living with depression. This is an increase of more than 18% between 2005 and 2015. Trauma, grief, financial troubles, unemployment, SAD, smoking, thyroid disease, poor sleep habits, Facebook/Instagram overload, the end of a TV series or movie, urban environments, too many choices, lack of omega-3 fatty acids, BCP, anxiety and insomnia drugs, including Valium and Xanax; Lopressor, for high blood pressure; cholesterol-lowering drugs including Lipitor; and Premarin for menopausal symptoms are all cited as possible causes of depression. Wow. Fortunately, there is such a simple, elegant solution for many who suffer from depression! A breakthrough nutritional study conducted at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and published in PLoS ONE has found that just 248mg of magnesium per day leads to an astounding reversal of depression symptoms in study subjects. “New clinical research results show magnesium is effective at addressing symptoms and is safer and easier on the wallet than prescription therapies,” reports Science Daily, echoing information that Dr. Carolyn Dean has published in her landmark thesis on magnesium deficiency, The Magnesium Miracle, published in 2004 and recently updated [2017 Edition]. Today, even mainstream science is now confirming that magnesium is a safe, affordable and effective treatment for depression. As Dr. Dean has written in her many books, blogs and seminars, stress, hypothyroidism, insomnia, anxiety, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and menopausal symptoms can all be related to magnesium deficiency. What if magnesium deficiency is the underlying cause of what eventually develops into depression? Let’s look at the symptoms of depression and how they relate to magnesium deficiency: * Seep disturbance – definitely a symptom of magnesium deficiency * Fatigue or loss of energy – definitely symptoms of magnesium deficiency * Psychomotor agitation or retardation – definitely symptoms of magnesium deficiency * Diminished ability to think or concentrate – definitely symptoms of magnesium deficiency When you fail to treat the above symptoms with magnesium, then the following symptoms can develop: * Diminished interest or loss of pleasure in most activities * Depressed mood * Appetite disturbance * Feelings of worthlessness * Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide Around 2008 several studies reported that antidepressant medication might only work 40% of the time, which is little better than placebo. Even so, allopathic medicine continues to tell us that antidepressant medication, with or without psychotherapy, is the best treatment for depression. But from our vantage point, for or mild to moderate depression Dr. Dean recommends ReMag Magnesium Solution. Just 1 teaspoon will give you 248 mg highly absorbed picometer elemental magnesium recommended within the parameters of the clinical study. Dr. Dean also urges you to use ReMag in appropriate doses for stress, insomnia, fatigue, agitation, and poor concentration and not succumb to the temptation of quick-fix drugs for these magnesium deficiency problems.

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Dr. Carolyn Dean LIVE

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2018

Don't Let Premarin Ruin Your Life Cindy's Story

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2018 23:48

Cindy was placed on Premarin by her doctors, which caused her to develop huge fibroids and have a total hysterectomy. Later, her doctors put her on Premarin again, and she began to wonder if this is how she would feel the rest of her life. Like all of us, she needed energy to live her life to the fullest, but by taking harmful pharmaceutical drugs, it just wasn't happening. How did Cindy do a 180 and take charge of her health, naturally? Watch to learn how Dr. Hotze helped Cindy get her energy and vitality back! Visit hotzepodcast.com to find more of our podcasts!

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Don't Let Premarin Ruin Your Life: Cindy's Story

Evolving Past Alzheimer's

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2018 23:48

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Hormone Replacement for Alzheimer's with Anne Hathaway, MD

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2018 51:12

Today we tackle one of the more controversial topics around brain health and Alzheimer's - hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Our guest is Dr Ann Hathaway (no...not the actress) a hormone expert. We have an extended conversation about the history of hormone replacement, where the fear of using Premarin (estrogen) and Progestin (Progesterone) in the form of medroxyprogesterone has come from. We discuss drops in estrogen and its role in Alzheimer's disease. These changes happen up to 30 years before actual memory problems occur. We discuss the difference between standard hormone replacement and Bioidentical HRT. Dr Hathaway answers the question "Why take estrogen and progesterone if nature is saying your levels should be low after menopause?" Dr Hathaway shares some of her experience with patients on hormone replacements and some of the benefits they have seen and some of the scenarios that she has observed do not respond to HRT. We discuss testing options and ideal hormone levels for estrogen and progesterone. Discussion of some other things women can do to optimize their estrogen (eg vitamin D, b-vitamins, dietary strategies). Dr Hathaway relays statistics on risks vs benefits from the medical literature around the use of estrogen and progesterone hormone therapy. Learn more about Dr Hathaway here

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Do You Have a Dry Vagina During Sex? | PYHP 034

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2018

Painful intercourse is a very common complaint I get from patients going through or have gone through menopause. They do feel awkward speaking of vaginal dryness, especially with their male gynecologists. This is one of the most common symptoms of menopause, second to hot flashes and night sweats. Menopause is an inevitable course of life that all women will go through. In menopause, the ovaries are going to reduce and ultimately stop making estrogen and progesterone. The average age of menopause is 51.5 years of age. Also, commonly some women have had a complete hysterectomy and oophorectomy which is complete removal of the uterus and ovaries. This can be due to many health conditions such as Endometriosis, heavy/frequent bleeding, or fibroids. These women will go through what is called, surgical menopause,' but either way, menopause can have a variety of symptoms. Unfortunately, dry, painful sex commonly occurs before, during and after menopause. A female may opt to take hormone replacement during menopause, or she might not choose to take hormones because she may not be a good candidate. This can be due to personal reasons, health conditions, family history, physician recommendations. Whether taking hormones or not for menopause, painful dry intercourse is a common symptom. It should also be noted that perimenopausal women can also have vaginal dryness. As we get older, our hormones inevitably decline. Even women as young as the late 30's to early 40's can have pain with intercourse due to the slight drop in estrogen. Why is there painful dry intercourse due to menopause? Estrogen feeds the vaginal cells. Immature vaginal cells are called Parabasal cells. Having estrogen in the system will help convert the parabasal cells into mature vaginal cells. If you have vaginal atrophy, that means you have mainly parabasal cells in your vagina. If you have ever gotten the full report from your last pap smear, you will notice the report will say there is predominantly parabasal cells. The lack of estrogen in menopause is the culprit for painful intercourse and/or dryness. Options for vaginal dryness and painful intercourse: Personal lubricants are the first line of choice for painful intercourse, which can be helpful. However, in vaginal atrophy, the walls of the vagina can become narrow. You still might experience pain even with the lubricant, or the vaginal tissues are very fragile, and the lubricant cannot protect from the tearing. The next level of treatment is using estrogen topically. Your ObGyn may give you estradiol or Premarin cream/inserts for vaginal dryness. The problem with this is estradiol and Premarin are both very strong forms of estrogen. They usually enter the bloodstream if you use them vaginally. Estradiol is ‘bioidentical,' but it is the most potent form of estrogen we make. So estradiol may not be appropriate for you or intended to be used long term. Premarin is made from pregnant horse urine and is not bioidentical. The entire ethical implications behind horse/animal treatment and Premarin is a whole other topic itself. For the appropriate candidate using estriol (E3) vaginally can help hydrate the vaginal cells and make them more resilient to tearing. Estriol is the most gentle estrogen that our bodies produce. Estriol is bioidentical and very helpful for skin and mucous membranes like the vagina. Unfortunately, your conventional doctor or ObGyn is not going to prescribe estriol for you. Now, this is where I am supposed to tell you: this information is intended for information only. It does not replace medical advice and it just at the disclosure of the reader. There is a product I like from the company Bezwecken, which is called

Dr. Carolyn Dean LIVE

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2017

HRT has been used since the 1950s. It was in 1966 that Dr. Robert A. Wilson was commissioned by the makers of Premarin to sell a nation of women on the age-defying benefits of an estrogen substitute derived from pregnant mare’s urine. In the forty years since then, we have begun to learn more about the side effects of HRT. Over that same time period, the chemical xenoestrogens in our environment that mimic hormones have been jamming up hormonal receptor sites in a process that Dr. Candace B. Pert (in her book Molecules of Emotion) calls “chemical rape.” In my book, Hormone Balance, written back in 2005, I describe the incredible orchestration of hormones in the body and the many ways that balance can be disrupted. This loss of balance can lead to symptoms of mood swings, PMS, weight gain—and even seizures. Hormones (or her-moans, as my sister Chris calls them) are definitely something that women moan about, and there are a multitude of reasons why. I am happy to say that there are wonderfully different ways that you can be involved in taking care of your hormones. These include diet; exercise; herbal, vitamin, and magnesium and mineral supplements; and bioidentical HRT. With the right information and support, you can make your all your years happy and healthy. Tonight on our internet based radio show, we'll be talking with Dr. Carolyn Dean about how Hormone Balance along with a wide range of health topics and safe solutions. You will love hearing the beneficial interactions with our callers and hosts alike including the body/mind connection, identifying the 'conflict' in the 'conflict basis' of disease and much more!!

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Dr. Carolyn Dean LIVE