ADHD, Perimenopause & the Nervous System: Why You Don’t Feel Like Yourself Anymore

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0:58 Here's your host, Dr. Eldred Taylor. Hello, good morning, and it's Wednesday, it's 9 o'clock, so that means it's time for Ageless Blueprint. And last week we had a guest on, Jamie Rundell, and she was talking about her book Armageddon. And I wanted to just follow up with that because I am doing this because I need... you guys to help me, okay? I have been doing this for two years. And when I hear people say they didn't know about perimenopause and they didn't know it was coming, and these are highly educated women and men understanding their wives. And I'm like, where have I failed? Okay. So what I want to do is I want to ask you, and I usually don't do this, but I'm learning this is what you have to do, is follow, please subscribe to the Aces Blueprint podcast. please subscribe. I have a YouTube channel.

1:57 I have like almost 200 videos on there. And I cover so many subjects. And when I'm thinking about a podcast, I'm like, man, haven't I already done this? So I want you to see the archived are the library of videos that I've done. And if you want something else or you don't understand it, please just ask and I will either find the video or whatever. So please follow me. All of this information, again, I feel like I've failed when someone says that they didn't understand perimenopause. So I actually took some notes and I wanted to make sure that I covered some of these things in more depth and Also, I want to give you some solutions because a lot of times you get a lot of information, but you don't necessarily get the solution. So I'm going to start giving you some solutions. And every week you hear about TaylorMD Formulations. And that's a company that my wife really researched and started because she had all of these issues that you guys are talking about. That's why we wrote our books, Are Your Hormones Making You Sick?

3:01 And The Stress Connection. I'd love for you to purchase those. But I want to just start from the beginning. So I talk about cycles, balance, and transitions, and that's what this is all about. And perimenopause is a transition out of being reproductive. You know, you have about 20 years of being reproductive from about age 15 to age 35. And all of the eggs you're ever going to have in your life, you've had 20 weeks before you were ever born. And those eggs, they slowly dissipate. Some ovulate, some don't. But by the time you're 35, you are scraping the bottom of the barrel of the egg basket. So those eggs don't ovulate as well. And the only hormone that is associated with ovulation is progesterone. So when ovulation becomes irregular... progesterone becomes irregular. When progesterone becomes irregular, your cycles become irregular. Your moods become irregular because progesterone helps to make a neurotransmitter or a brain chemical called GABA.

4:07 And I just saw a video this morning talking about how GABA is so important. And GABA is always around, but progesterone increases GABA. So anyway, so when perimenopause, what happens is is that progesterone goes down. You have an estrogen factory in your fat tissue, your ovaries, but as your ovaries begin to decline, then progesterone drops. That is perimenopause, okay? So when you say you don't understand it, that's it, perimenopause. Rebel, you know, they say when you're trying to explain something, you should try to explain it like you're talking to one person. So I'm talking to you, and you've heard me more than anybody. I know we have a lot of outlets. So can you tell them where they can find us? And one is, do you understand what I'm trying to convey to people? Do you understand perimenopause?

5:05 I am learning as you tell us things, Dr. Taylor, because I didn't even know any of this. Like, I was just amazed that these things even happened. We are not taught anything about these hormones in schools. We... We're not taught anything, and that is the point of some people's theory on what they do to dumb down America. We don't know what we don't know, and we never will unless we start looking and listening, and you are helping people. do this. And you can be found on platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, kick all kinds of places. And they can also reach you on your all my links.com.

5:56 Exactly. And I feel like I've failed. I'm like, I got to push this more because I can't, I can't see everybody in my office. I'm trying to do this to reach more people. So, I'm going to stop pushing this more because I'm sick of it. And this lady's in Australia. I've talked to people all over the world. This is not a United States problem. It is a, it seems to be a global problem in industrialized nations like, you know, Australia, like United States. But anyway, so now the other part of her book is talking about ADHD. And I've, I've read a book by Gabor Amati called Scattered Mans. And he talks about how, The genetic issue as being a part of ADHD is not the whole story.

6:46 A lot of that is how you were raised, if you're in a stressful environment, when you were raised, when you were a small child. It sets up your nervous system to be hyperactive. But a lot of times people can get through that until the internal environment changes. When you start to have a lot of stress, when your hormones start to fade, when your progesterone goes down so you don't have that calming hormone anymore, then what happens is your brain starts to get scattered. The name of his book is called Scattered Minds. And what happens if you don't have that calming hormone, you have all this stress, your brain starts to get scattered. It starts to get into this beta waves or hyper beta waves. That means you got all of these scattered thoughts. And it's primarily because that calming mechanism has gone away during perimenopause. And she talked about having a stressful job. She talks about having stressful relationships. That's the collision that she's talking about.

7:45 I call it the stress connection. We initially thought it was all estrogen and progesterone and perimenopause, but really stress is a big part of this. And that is what causes the brain fog. Now, what happens is if you don't understand this, you think that you all of a sudden got ADHD. Well, I agree that that can be a problem early on. But if it happens right when your hormones are changing, then we ought to look at that also. We don't want to just name it as ADHD. And let me tell you what the biggest issue is. And I keep saying this over and over again. The reason why we're so confused is because the testing that we use does not give us the information that we want. Okay.

8:31 The blood will not show these minor changes in estrogen progesterone concentrations. All right. I've been doing saliva testing for so long, and I know that clinically it gives me information that I don't get if I look at blood testing. When I went through my residency, we never looked at blood, right? So I know that it does not... tell us what is going on. And what happens is we'll check the blood levels. They don't tell us anything. And then we assume it's not a hormonal issue. Okay. But we still usually treat it with hormones. So that's, that's the, that's the crazy thing. And what I don't understand is that if you have a test that doesn't work, wouldn't you like to use a test that, and maybe it's not perfect, but it's a little bit better than what you're currently using that gives you no information. And that is the confusion, people.

9:26 It's confusing doctors. It's confusing these expert opinion bodies, you know, all of these American menopause societies, because we keep trying to use some testing that doesn't give us information and to make decisions off of that. Does that make sense to you, Rebel? Yes, absolutely. We're never going to learn unless we actually think about things and weed out what other things are saying and how things actually apply. And so here's what, so the next thing, note I have is she says she thought it was just her. She thought she was the only one experiencing this. And so where does she go? She goes to the Facebook groups.

10:09 And so they're telling her you have ADHD, you may need estrogen, you may need this. So she said, I went and I looked at her hormone replacement therapy. Well, She got on hormone replacement therapy. She probably got, they looked at her blood. They probably put on estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. And then someone told her that HRT causes cancer. This is another thing I want to show you, okay? Is that this is a book about estrogens and progesterones. It's probably backwards, but I want you to see how thick this book is. So when you try to say that all hormones do the same thing, exactly whether they are bioidentical or whether they're synthetic, That doesn't hold true with science. So you can't say one estrogen does this or all progesterones do this. There's strong estrogens, there's weak estrogens.

10:59 Tamoxifen that a lot of breast cancer patients are on, it's a weak estrogen to protect you from a stronger estrogen. So to say that HRT causes breast cancer, no. It's understanding what these hormones do and what the difference is between synthetic and bioidentical And this is mostly telling you what synthetic hormones do because estrogen and progesterone are very simple. Estrogen causes growth and it stores fat. Progesterone slows down growth. It slows down your moods and it slows down and it burns fat for energy. That's what bioidentical hormones do.

11:39 And if you balance those and you do the testing correctly, it can help you to make sense of what's going on with you. So that's one thing, is that you really got to understand, you can't just say HRT does this. You have to be more specific. And how do you get more specific? By testing more specifically. So I'm asking you again, Rebel, does that make sense? It makes sense, but tell me the best way to test if blood is not working. I know the answer because I learned it from you. Tell everyone else a better way to test things. Yeah. So saliva testing.

12:21 Okay. And I've done, I don't know how many videos on this. I can show you references. I can show you everything. Saliva tells you what is available for the tissue. So saliva, These are the issues. Blood is like a delivery truck. It delivers hormones. But it's a lot of hormones in that truck. But all you want to know is how many hormones come to your house so that you can use them. Just using that analogy. Well, saliva is one of those places, the glands around saliva is one of those places where packages get delivered. So if you look at the saliva, it can give you an idea of how much hormone and what the balance of those hormones are that were available to the tissue. Now, if you look on the internet, they'll say, oh, you can't judge hormones based on this. That's just what's on the internet, okay?

13:16 But I'm telling you what physiology says. So if you look through saliva, that's what you see. You can see what was available for the tissue and were those two hormones in balance. because remember, it's cycles, balance, and transitions. Were they in balance? Now, the other testing you can see is you can look at urine testing. Urine testing tells you how well are those hormones being metabolized, and are they being metabolized in a safe manner? So you can see if progesterone is being metabolized into allopregnanolone. You can see if the estrogen is being metabolized safely. So that's how you look at urine. So I'm not saying one test is better than the other. One test answers how much hormone is in circulation. One says how much is available to the tissue. And the third one says how were those hormones eliminated? How were they processed and eliminated?

14:11 So that's it. Blood testing is doing what it's supposed to do. Saliva testing is doing what it's supposed to do. And urine testing is doing what it is supposed to do. All right? So. I knew you already knew that. And what I want is that for people who see this, send it to someone else. I actually have explainer videos that go through this. I show this in the office. So I'm in an all out sprint to have women just to understand this. Just understand it just like you understand it. All right. Now, the next one, I was talking about scattered minds. And yeah, so I think I already talked about how he says that some people who are predisposed to it, And I think you're seeing ADHD earlier because we have so many things that are vying for our attention. So when you talk about attention deficit, this social media world is creating attention deficit disorder. I even see it in myself is that when I'm looking at YouTube and this, and I'm reading a book and all that, you get your attention so divided. Okay. And they say that divided distraction, leads to destruction. So when you're distracted by all of these things, it's very hard to focus and to move forward. So that's why you want to try and understand this. And if hormones will help or if adaptogens will help, whatever will help, that's what you want to do to try

15:41 and calm down the brain so that it can focus. Because I see women all the time who are talking about brain fog and how they can't concentrate. And she talked about the executive function. And that's where you really do your deep thinking and your logical thinking. And when you don't have enough energy because you're stressed and you're always in fight or flight, it's all you're doing is acting on instinct and you're acting emotionally. You don't have this front part of your brain that really helps you to be a high performer. That turns off very quickly and you don't know what's happening with you. and you go into psychiatrists and endocrinologists and all these things, but it really is something that's very predictable. All right. So one of, now, another thing that I did, and I told you I'm pushing some things, is that I created a course called Why Don't I Feel Like Myself Anymore?

16:38 Because that's what I hear all the time. You know, women come in and say, why can't I perform like I used to? Why can't I recover like I used to? And I'm trying to give you a clear explanation because even my guest said, if you understand something, it relieves a lot of the pressure. You're not going out to the Facebook groups and here or there are all of the different segmented doctors that you go to, the hematologists, the endocrinologists, all of these things. Once you understand it, you can be your own advocate and you can direct your healthcare and you can decide, what makes sense for you and what doesn't make sense for you. So that's what I'm trying to get. So if you are interested in a course, uh, just, I can send you the link to that. That is a course that you can take in my school, or you can also get it independently.

17:32 I have a landing page. I'll, I'll have all of that in the description below. All right. Now I said, I wanted to, to, uh, provide some solutions. Uh, You probably heard the advertisements that I have that TaylorMD formulations. TaylorMD formulations have been around for about 15 years. And we use it in our office all the time. So we know this work. We have a lot of clinical data. And I want to talk about one thing is when you're talking about scattered minds and ADHD, there's Some things that you can do, these are things that are called adaptogens, okay?

18:14 And I know you can't see, it needs to be mirrored, but it's a book called Adaptogens. We can see it. When you hold up the books, we can read them. Okay, great. All right. Adaptogens. So we have a product called Adrenacare Glandular, and it has all these adaptogens in it. And adaptogens are these herbs or these plants that can grow in very hostile environments. They get on high mountains or in deserts or whatever. And these adaptogens like ginseng, rhodiola, cordyceps, ashwagandha, all of these things, they are able to survive or adapt to their environment. And these herbs seem to be able to transfer that to you. And that's where you've heard about adrenal issues and all these. These are adaptogens.

19:02 They help you better adapt to stress. So we have a supplement called Adrenal Care Glandula that we use. And it's We do cortisol testing so we can see when your cortisol is low, and these adaptogens can actually help bring that up. And we can prove that with testing, and I can show you some examples of that. And that's what we try to do is we don't necessarily try to name things, but we try to support your physiology. We try to see what was depleted with all of this stress. And what we want to do is to try to replace that. We do it with IVs. We do it with supplements. And those are the solutions that I'm trying to expose you to. And if you are in another city, even big cities, they usually have these IV places. Now, some of them are just commercial and they can't really give you therapeutic doses of different things, but there's a lot of doctor's offices that provide these kinds of IVs. So that's how you correct some adrenal dysfunction.

20:06 But this is one that's very important. We have a supplement called Serencom that has phosphatidylserine in it. And phosphatidylserine, what it does, and it works great when you have a high nighttime cortisol, and we see this a lot, that tired and wired where you're tired all day, but then you can't sleep at night. And that's just because you have a high nighttime cortisol. So your body is running cortisol at night, just like it is at noon. But that's not enough cortisol to give you energy at noon and it's too much at night. So Serene Calm helps to reboot your brain and try and reset your circadian rhythm so that it's high at night and it's high in the morning and low at night. Serene Calm is one of our best-selling products. We were actually backordered on it for a while and we had a lot of angry customers, but we've got it back out now and that really helps in this type of environment where you are totally distracted all the time. Also, our serine comp has L-theanine in it. And L-theanine, what it does, those beta waves that are scattered, that this guy is talking about in Scattered Minds, that it changes beta waves into alpha waves. L-theanine comes from green tea leaves. And it's very calming if you are able to use a serine comp You can get your progesterone right if you need L-theanine. All of these things help to calm down

21:38 the system, calm down your brain, calm down your stress. And if we can disconnect from stress, we could disconnect from a lot of the things that we're dealing with. If we could disconnect from stress, then these transitions wouldn't be as bad. If we could disconnect from stress, we would have all of these imbalances that And our cycles, balances, and transitions. And that's why I talk about stress over and over again. And even our guest at the end, even though she was talking about ADHD, she talked about stress. And I think one of the most important things that I can help you with is helping you to see what stress is doing to you. You can do it by looking at cortisol curves that we do with the saliva testing. You can do it with something called heart rate variability that you can do on your Apple watch phone, or you can also do it. We do it in the office. It's more extensive. That really tells us if you have a dysregulated nervous system, and then we can do things to try and help regulate it. And I don't know if she said it. on this podcast. But what she said is that when you're trying to, we have all these people who are trying to change their mindset.

22:53 And that was what Ageless Blueprint was about, is how do you transform your life? And even she said is that if your hormones are out of balance, it's hard to change your mindset. It's hard to get your mind to go in the direction that you want it to go when your nervous system is disrupted. And so to move forward in life, is very important to calm down the nervous system. One last thing is that these neurotransmitters, the GABA, the serotonin, dopamine, all of them come from amino acids. Amino acids come from proteins. So that's why protein is so important. But here's what happens after age 50.

23:34 Your stomach acid goes down on almost everyone after age 50. You have to have stomach acid in order to break down protein to make amino acids. All right. So after 50, your stomach acid goes down. You're not able to break down protein. So you have less amino acids to help your immune system, your brain. Your proteins are very important in all these systems. And so there's so many people who are on these proton pump inhibitors that decrease stomach acid because of indigestion or heartburn. But when you decrease stomach acid, you decrease your ability to break down protein.

24:14 And there's actually an association between these drugs and dementia. This came out like five or 10 years ago, and it's kind of got swept under the rug. So we also have a product called Amino Restore that has these amino acids that are already digested, are already broken down. It has digestive enzymes in it to help you to even process it. Because if your stomach or your gut is not working well, You're not going to bring in the nutrients that you need for the energy for your brain to work. So those are the things we try to work with the physiology. Say, well, what can we help them with? We can help them to have more proteins. We can help them to sleep because sleep is the key to everything. So we use the Serinecon and we have some other supplements for that. But the phosphatidylserine and the L-theanine that's in there, no doubt about it, can help with that. And then the Adrena supplement to try and help you to better adapt to stress. And that's what is going on. You're decreasing your ability to adapt.

25:15 And that's what we want to help you with. We want you to understand what's going on. Once you understand it, then you can get your mind and your thoughts trained in that direction. Say, look, now I understand it. Now I have options. Now I'm in control of what is going on with me. And I want you to get on the Facebook groups, and I want you to talk about this so that it spreads. Rebel, if you're on Facebook, I'm depending on you to do this. I am on Facebook, and I pass Facebook and your TikToks. I keep putting them out there and reposting them.

25:55 This would really help me, and I see this on YouTube, where the host asks people to subscribe. So on YouTube, because those are longer videos and I have some shorts on there, my YouTube is AgelessBlueprint1. So please like and subscribe there. My podcast is AgelessBlueprintPodcast. and rebel, make sure that those things look good. And, and they're on all the other, uh, podcast sites. So I am depending on you guys to educate. Uh, I talked about see one, do one, teach one. So see one of these podcasts or any YouTube video, do some of the things that I, uh, I'm suggesting. And then if you understand it, try to tell someone else so that they're not getting this misinformation from Facebook, uh, Be the source of truth. And I want to say one last thing. When I first started this, I was really the outlier. I was the contrarian. But what I understood was that all truth initially is ridiculed.

27:06 They just ignore it. And then once it becomes popular, they violently oppose it. And I think that's what's going on right now when we're trying to understand hormones and all this. So it's validly opposed. And then eventually it becomes self-evident and it's going to eventually become self-evident what I'm talking about. It's going to be evidence that if you do the wrong test, you're going to get the wrong answer and you're going to get the wrong treatment. Okay. And that's it. Okay. That's the truth. If you do the wrong test and you get the wrong information, you're going to advise the wrong treatment. And I see that over and over again. So remember, first it's violently opposed, I mean, it's ridiculed that nobody even pays any attention to it. Then it becomes violently opposed and then it becomes self-evident. So I want you to help it to be self-evident. So does that make sense to you? Because I'm telling you, there's so many things, if you look at history, there's so many things that were about to be crazy. I'll give you one example since we have a little bit of time and Maybe we'll go through the commercial and come back. We'll see how this works.

28:18 But there was a guy named Semmelweis who said, hey, I think what these doctors were doing, they were leaving the pathology lab where they were working on anatomy. And if there was a C-section, they would go and do the C-section. And there was another section that had midwives, and they didn't do the anatomy stuff. So in the midwife section, none of these women died from childbirth. In the group that was handled by the doctors, they had like a huge supply, a huge number of patients that were dying from what they called childbirth fever. They were getting infections. And so this guy said, hey, maybe we should wash our hands. Maybe we're carrying something over because they didn't know about bacteria and things then. And he was shunned from the medical society. He was outcast. I think he died, you know, just a pauper. They just totally threw him. And now everyone knows that, yes, there are bacteria. So he was violently opposed, and then it became self-evident. So that's just how things work here, okay?

29:22 That's just how things work. When you go against the grain, you're going to be violently opposed. And then sometimes it becomes self-evident. All right, Rebel, this is kind of different. I kind of gave my own commercial for TaylorMD Formulation. So this is kind of a new setting that we have here. We may do segments and it may not be the whole hour, but I just want to try and get some things across to you that I think are important. And we'll see what we want to talk about next week. So Rebel, how do you want to do this? I like it. I think we've given them enough to think about, process, and share, and like. I think they need to do that for today, and we can give them more next time.

30:14 Okay. And what I want you to do is go and find more information. Go and go just look at all those videos see what interests you and comment subscribe do whatever this information needs to get out alright so we'll see you next week. Thanks for joining Dr. Taylor today If you missed any part of this show, just check out the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Angel's Blueprint is every Wednesday at 9 a.m. Eastern Time on W4HC Radio at W4HC. com. Together, we discover the ancient secrets to better health through science and spirituality made for modern times. Until then, feel free to check out Angel'sBlueprintPodcast.com and taylormdformulations.com for more information.