Hormones: Women Live Half Their Lives Without Them – Video

I’m passionate about hormones.
This is before Christmas of 2022. New York Times publishes a big article on menopause. It’s finally being talked about. Average age of menopause in the United States, 51. There’s a very good chance a woman is going to live a third to half of her life without hormones. There are consequences.

There are consequences that we can talk about. Things like “I have hot flashes or night sweats“, or “my vagina’s dry“. And then there are the other things like “I’m having rapid bone loss“. And you don’t know until you break your hip. “I’m having a higher cholesterol, it’s putting down plaque in my vessels, and I have a higher chance of having a heart attack“.
In fact, the same chance of having a heart attack as a man within 10 years without estrogen.

You [also] have neurocognitive decline.

I don’t want any of those things for me or for my clients. I want to be going full steam until maybe a week before I go. Don’t slow me down.
So in 2001, a study called the WHI study, based on a sample of 60,000 nurses was published. Huge study, very expensive to do. They stopped the study early because there was a higher chance of breast cancer and heart attack in women who were on hormone replacement therapy. Sales of hormones fell.
It was only later that they’ve said “Why?” It’s because the progestin, the artificial progesterone they were using, is known to cause breast cancer, and they were using horse urine estrogens orally. And that puts you at a little higher risk for a heart attack if you take it more than 10 years after your menopause.
But those little caveats were not discussed.

We’ve done studies using bioidentical hormone replacement therapy in a thousand women. Not as big [a sample], but big. We have different results. It doesn’t increase your risk of heart attack, and it doesn’t increase your breast cancer risk. And it protects your bones, your heart.
The American Heart Association is now recommending hormones in order to heart disease is the number one killer of women. So we can impact that by putting people on hormone replacement therapy responsibly.
Long conversation, pros and cons, family history. Maybe we should be doing some testing to see how you metabolize your estrogen, because there are some supplements we can give you to help you metabolize with a little more safely.
If you have a lot of other medical problems, maybe they need to be addressed too. It’s not just the hormones.
But I’m passionate about people living their full potential and hormones allow them to have that. And I ask for some monitoring. I want you to come in and see me once a year. I’d like some breast monitoring every one to two years, just to be conservative, A little bit cautious.
And [let’s not forget] sleep… Let’s talk about sleep because if you don’t sleep, everything else is ruined. And the quality of sleep in menopausal women is reduced and their quality of life is reduced. Well, it’s unacceptable. And why aren’t doctors addressing it?

We address it at Root Cause Medical Clinic.