Aug. 12, 2026

Hormone Replacement Does Not Mean Hormone Clarity

Hormone Replacement Does Not Mean Hormone Clarity
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Why women can be on hormones and still be hormonally confused - and how understanding patterns, balance, and cortisol rhythm restores agency.

Women are prescribed hormone-altering treatments throughout life - from birth control and Depo-Provera to fertility therapy and menopausal hormone replacement - but many are never taught what those hormones do, how they interact, or why they may still feel exhausted, foggy, anxious, or unlike themselves. In this episode, OB/GYN and functional medicine physician Dr. Eldred Taylor explains why hormone replacement can provide relief without creating Hormone Clarity. He introduces a pattern-based way to understand estrogen, progesterone, and cortisol, and explains how timed saliva sampling can reveal the daily cortisol rhythm that a single measurement cannot show. The goal is not to oppose hormone therapy. It is to help women become informed participants in their care rather than passive recipients of prescriptions.
The promise to the listener
By the end of the conversation, the listener should understand that symptoms are signals, hormone therapy is not self-explanatory, and persistent exhaustion deserves a broader look at sleep, stress physiology, and cortisol rhythm - not reflexively another prescription.

The strategic distinction
Not anti-hormone replacement. Anti-confusion.
Not a debate about pellets or testosterone. A conversation about understanding the full pattern.
Not saliva versus every other test. Right test, right question, right pattern.
Not education for education's sake. Understanding creates agency, better questions, and better follow-through.

Dr. Eldred Taylor | Hormone Clarity
PODCAST PREPARATION | HORMONE HEROES
The central definition
Hormone Clarity means understanding what each hormone does, how the hormones relate to one another, what pattern is driving the symptoms, why a particular intervention was chosen, and how the response will be evaluated.

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Here's your host, doctor Eldrid Taylors.

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Hello and good morning. It is Wednesday, and that means

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it's time for the Ageless Blueprint. I'm doctor Taylor. I

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am the hormone doctor and the spiritual MD, and as

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always I'd like to talk about what life is about,

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about these blueprints, about how the mistial cycle and hormones

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and reproduction and all of that, all of that is

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ageless And here's what I want to talk about today

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is that there are a lot of people who are

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on hormone replacement. There's a lot of UH physicians and

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healthcare providers who are providing hormone replacement. But the key

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is are they really clear? Okay? Is the patient really

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clear about what this hormone is, what it does, How

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does it affect me, How does it affect my mistil cycle?

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How does it affect cycles, balance and transitions. That's what

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I talk about, is how is this monitor or how

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what am I supposed to do if this happens? What

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happens if this happens. That's why I'm saying I don't

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think there's a lot of clarity. That's why in the study,

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only nine percent of physicians felt like they knew how

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to handle menopause. So that's a problem. That's why I'm

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saying there's a lot of harmone replacement advice being given

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out on social media. I hear it all the time,

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and that's one of the reasons why I did this

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podcast to try and bring some clarity into this hormone

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replacement arena, because now I learned this, you know, almost

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thirty years ago, and the problem is is that I

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changed and switched because I saw what I was doing

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was not helping people. So it's like, you know, if

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my labs are normal, why do I feel so bad?

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And that's what was happening with my wife. So what

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I did is like I had to look for an alternative.

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And the problem is is that we are most physicians

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and most of the governing bodies are still basing their

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treatment on these old ideas. And here's the other confusing

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problem is that the statements that come from these governing bodies,

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it seems to change over time. It seems to change

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over what's popular at that time. So now it's estrogen

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and testosterone pellas. Back then it was permanent provera, and

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then in the middle there was no harmones. So there's

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all of these changing ideas. But if there is an

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original blueprint, why don't we follow that blueprint and stop

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trying to go with the with the latest fad with

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harmone replacement or the latest ad on TV, no matter

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who the movie star is who's advertising it, if it

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doesn't follow these certain guidelines, you need to I won't

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say rejected, but you need to examine it further. So

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we're going to talk. We're going to talk about the

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ten ten mistakes that are found on the internet or

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that you may have heard from a doctor or you

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may have heard from one of your friends that this

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worked for me. And I see that on the Facebook groups,

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is that people are asking other people how to handle menopaus.

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And so again, all of those women are on hormone replacement,

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are there thinking about harmone replacement, and instead of having

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one source material, they go and they it's just crowd sourcing.

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So I don't think we should crowdsource harmone replacement. I

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believe that we should follow the blueprint and not go

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against what nature and how the hormones actually work. All right,

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so let's go to the slats. Now, I put on

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my glasses so I can see my slats. But I'm

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trying to cut down on this glare. But let's look

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at this, Okay, the ten myths that keep harmone confusion alive.

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Wrong test, wrong hormones, wrong pattern. And that is the

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main problem, is that we start out with the wrong test,

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and that begins this whole cascade. Is that we look

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at the blood, We look at everything as normal when

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they're priminal pazzal and then when they're postminal pozzle. All

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of a sudden, everything's low and we don't understand it. Okay,

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doctors don't understand that. I didn't understand it. But you

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have to do the right test. And blood is not

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the right place to look for fat soluble hertmones. Okay.

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When I say fat soluble, that means the sex steroids.

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All of those are made from cholesterol. And that's why

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you don't get fooled in thinking that you don't need cholesterol,

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because you do. You just don't need too much of it.

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Right now, let's go to the next lot. I think

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I can control these myself, all right. See here's the

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other thing. Women will come in and we do these intakes,

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and they'll list all of these problems brain fag irregular cycles,

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can't sleep, migraine, headaches, all of these symptoms, anemia, and

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everybody they partioned them off to whatever specialists they think

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might be able to handle the problem. So if you

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can't sleep, you get a sleep study. If your moods

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are abnormal, then you go to a therapist, or you

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go to a psychiatrist. If you're diroid, it's all of

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these symptoms, pcos fibroids, all of these symptoms, they actually

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do have one common denominator, and that is that it

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is a hormone issue. But what happens is you're looking

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in the blood and the hertmones look normal. You know

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there's a hormone problem, even though you don't have proof.

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Most of the time, you're still treated with hormones. You're

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still giving birth control pills, you're still giving estrogen or testosterone,

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even though the blood tests said that there's nothing there.

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So you've got to question it. That's what I'm saying.

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If my hormones are normal, then why are you treating

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me with hormones? There must be an explanation for that.

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All right, ex sent, there we go. All right, So

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here's the core mistake. We think that everything is separated out. Okay,

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we think that, you know, the everything works in isolation.

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So if you look over here, over here on this one,

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you see that everything looks like it's all separated out.

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You know, you have your lungs, you have your heart,

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But you have to understand that all of this is connected.

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If you look at that second diagram, all of it

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is connected. And if you look at that middle part,

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that middle part is the rest and digest system, and

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that's what mostly gets turned off. That's why your heart

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beats fast, that's why you breathe shallow, that's why you

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have brain fog. That's why your gut doesn't work because

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those are parasympathetic, and you see that on the muscles

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that's sympathetic. And when you're in fight or flight, all

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the blood goes to the exterior. It all goes out here, okay,

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And that's why that's so detrimental, because the organs that

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restore you, restore your memory, restore your your gut function.

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All of that is when you're resting and digesting and

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rees it helps you to do that. We are so

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focused on estrogen and testosterone, but what we have to

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understand that this system is all interconnected. So if stress

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is an issue, it's going to cause a problem with

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everything in the middle, and that includes your reproductive system.

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It's going to have a problem with your gut, with

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your livery. All of that is going to be affected

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when you're in survival mode because all you want to

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do is run a fight, so all of the resources

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goes out here and none stays there. That is a

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major problem, and that's why when you don't get this right.

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It seems to be a whole body effect. Okay, you

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can't sleep, your joints hurt, everything gets thrown out of

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balance when you're in this fight or flight state, when

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you're in this sympathetic state. So a better framework is

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to look at it on a different way. You can't

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solve the problems that you have thinking the same way

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you've always thought. So the only way you're going to

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be able to solve a problem that we created by

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looking at blood only, the only way you're going to

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solve that problem is about is to think about that

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problem differently. That's what I had to do. I was like,

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if the blood is not telling me what I wanted

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to tell me, what could I look at that may

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give me a better picture of what is going on? Now?

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I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you

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I did not think of that on my own. I

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actually had a patient who came in who asked me

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if I knew anything about saliva testing and progesterone, and

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she gave me a cassette tape and it talked about

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what I'm telling you right now, and it changed the

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course of my career twenty five years ago, and we

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wrote a book All Your Harmones Making You Sick. And

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we wrote another book called The Stress Connection, because we

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finally understood when I say we my wife and I,

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but she is really my test case. She's a physician also,

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and that is the key. You have to test to

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give you something that you can work with. I was

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a guest to talk about how they feel awful, but

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their lab tests are normal. That's because you haven't done

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the proper test all right now, so we overlook progesterone

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and cortisol, and that is the key. Is that you

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have to make sure stress is not involved. That's why

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we wrote the book The Stress Connection. And you need

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to make sure that you're looking at all of the hormones. Estrogen, progesterone, testosterone,

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thyroid hormones, all of that needs to be a part

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of the picture. So let's go through some of these myths,

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so I really want you to even write these down.

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Is that menopause means you have no estrogen. That is

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a myth. Now I will tell you where that myth

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came from. It actually came from doctors like me, because

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that's what I was taught thirty years ago. It was

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just cut and dry. All menopausal women are estrogen deficient.

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I started using the correct tests. When I used the

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correct tests, and I saw the estrogen that's being made

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in the fat tissue. So even though you are mental pausal,

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your fat tissue still makes estrogen, but you don't see

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it in the blood. And I'll tell you why in

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a minute. And the only way you're going to see

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it you have to see what the tissue is doing.

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Because estrogen is made in the fat tissue. It's made

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in the fat tissue, I believe because women, even though

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they're not reproductive anymore, they still want to keep their femininity.

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So God made it where you have extra fat tissue

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so you can make extra estrogen. So just because your

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mental pausle does not mean you have no estrogen. You

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may not be able to see it in the blood,

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but you still have estrogen around. So I want you

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to write that down. Menopause does not necessarily mean that

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I'm lower estrogen. It is not a cut and dry.

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Everybody is victim to that. That doesn't if that's not

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the case, right, next lab right, so blood testing, So

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the next thing I want you to write down, is

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that blood testing is not telling you the full story.

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So you can stop going and getting your blood round

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and asking them to test your hormones. It's not going

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to tell you anything. And so don't get so frustrated

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when your labs are normal, because you got to understand

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the blood test is not the only lab in the world. Okay,

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that's what we Those are routine labs, and that's fine

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to look at liver function all of that, but you

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have to do specialized tests if you want to specialized

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question answered. If you want to know what your gut

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help is like, the blood is not going to tell

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you anything. You have to get a stool sample. If

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you want to know if you have a bacteria in

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your urine, a blood test is not going to tell

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you unless you're a septic. That means that the infections spread,

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so you have to do a urine test. If you

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want to know what a piece of tissues, you have

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to do a biopsy. So so what you can say

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is that my blood tests are normal, but I don't

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know about my actual hormone test and how that is

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affecting my tissue, my organs. That's what you want to know.

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So don't believe that the blood test tells you everything

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about everything. There's food sensitivity tests, there's all types of

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tests that you can have if you want a special

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question answer. So don't think that you know, if my

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blood tests are normal, that means everything in my body

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is normal. That's just it just doesn't happen, all right,

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So what is this myth number three? Yeah, this has

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been a recent development because twenty twenty five years ago,

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we never thought about giving women testosterone for energy. We

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didn't think about as Obi Juanne. We didn't think about anything.

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We thought about energy like most doctors do. Now, how

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is your thyroid and what does your blood count look like?

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But there's another source of energy called cortisol that really

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nobody measures. I won't say nobody. Most doctors or patients

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don't understand. They don't know about it. But testosterone is

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not a natural source of energy for women. And I

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don't know how many times I have to say this,

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but it's not. And here's what I want you to

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understand is that you may use testosterone for muscle man

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some people use it to for like sotietis or whatever.

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But for energy, it may give you an initial boost,

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but that is not your long term source of energy.

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And that's why I did one I did a podcast

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just last week. It's saying that the number one symptom

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in perimenopausal women was not low libido or weight gain

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or and I would have thought it was sleep, but

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it was exhaustion, that that was their main symptom. Fifty

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two percent of the women said exhaustion was their main symptom.

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And so I think that's where the testosterone and energy

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energy production entered the arena. But the real is you

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is cortisol, and cortisol is your daily energy supply. It

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goes along with your Cicadian rhythm. I was rebel we

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were talking about, is that the Sun's supposed to turn

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on your Cicadian rhythm, give you a cortisos surge during

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the when you wake up, to wake you up, and

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then it should dissipate along the day along the day.

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But when you're under a lot of stress for a

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long time, this symptom, this system gets depleted, and some

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people call it a drenal fatigue. People don't like that,

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but that's what it is. It gets worn out because

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you've been under so much stress. And that's what happens

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during perimenopause. A lot of things are going on. Your

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body is changing, your family life is changing, kids are

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going off to college. You have elderly parents that you're

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feeling responsible for. So a lot of things drain your energy.

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Now here's the problem. When you look in the blood

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and women testosterolis is always low. That's what I learned,

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and that's what's in the test text book. Women always

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have a low amount of testosterone in the blood. So

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all of a sudden, just because you came in and

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complain of energy, Now someone tests something that may have

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always been there, that was not affecting you before, but

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they see something that looks a little bit out of

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reference range, and then you get testosterone. And then after

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a while, it may work for some women, but I

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won't say usually, but several women will report that they

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begin growing hair where they don't want it and losing

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hair where they do want it. So they get thinning

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hair here, and they also get mustaches and all of

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those types of things. And we'll talk about how that

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happens as you get older. Anyway, but testosterone is not

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your energy source. So I would really recommend that you

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do the saliva testing so you can see what is

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actually going on in your tissue. Your tissue may have

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plenty of testosterone, but if you look at your cortisol,

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I will tell you I have done a lot of

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these quartosol tests, and I would tell you ninety percent

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of those are abnormal. So by the time you come

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to me, I can almost guarantee you that cortisol has

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gotten involved. And that's why it's been confusing for you,

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and it's been confusing for the doctors because they don't

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see that hidden element. And I didn't see that. We

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didn't see that hidden element until about two or three

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years after we wrote the book All Your Heartmones Making

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You Sick, and we said, there's something else involved here,

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and then we discovered that, Hey, it's cortisol. These women

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are stressed, and cortisol is throwing off their ovulation, is

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throwing off everything in that middle part of the body,

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their gut, their brain, everything there gets depleted of energy

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sources because everything's going to the muscles. So I hope

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that's a clear explanation of that why your energy gets redistributed,

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and what needs to be done to try to get

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that energy distribution corrected and that's what we talk about

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with nervous system regulation. How do we regulate the sympathetic

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impair of sympathetic nerves. And that's what meditation is about,

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that's what prayer is about, that's what breath work is about.

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All about how do we turn back on that rest

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and digestis system because the sympathetic system is overload with

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all of the information that we're getting, information that we want,

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information that we don't want. It's always putting us in

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fight or flight. The news does it. It's a great

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marketing tact. It is a tactic. It's a political tactic

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to keep you in fear, keep that sympathetic nervous system

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rolling so that you don't have the energy to really

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think through problems. And that's why you get all of

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these simplistic answers about everything. So let me move on,

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all right, this is this should be for me. This

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is like the most irritating one is you don't need

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progesterone if you don't have a uterus. And again that's

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what I was taught thirty years ago. You don't need

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progestere on if you don't have a uterus. Now, let

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me explain this. Back then, we weren't even using progesterone.

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We were using something called madroxy madroxy progesterone acetate. That

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is what you may call Privera depro bavera, and that

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is really not progesterone. That is a subset is actually ay,

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it's actually synthetic progesterone. And what they do is they

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add a little add a carbon, add a hydrogen or

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whatever to make it different, and then you can patent

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it so you don't need Pervera because the only reason

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why they made Privera is when they were putting people

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on estrogen, when they thought everybody had an estrogen deficiency.

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They saw that these women were getting into mutual cancer.

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They were having heavy bleeding, so they made Brivera in

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order to control the bleeding if you had too much estrogen,

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if you had a uterus. So they thought that the

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only reason why you need progesterone is too slow down

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bleeding if you had too much estrogen. But that's not

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the whole idea around progesterone. That's what the progestine did,

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the altered progesterone. But progesterone affects all portions of your body.

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It affects your brain, it affects your heart rate, it

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affects your sympathetic nervous system because it's calming. It affects

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your sleep, it affects your stress, It buffers you against

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stress because it's a calming hormone. It makes GABA in

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the brain. Gaba is a calming neurotransmitter. So if you

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don't have progesterone, even if you don't have a uterus,

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you're going to have trouble with sleeping, You're going to

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have to trouble with brain fog, you're going to have

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to have trouble with your moods, you're going to have

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trouble with your stress if you don't have enough progesterone.

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That's why you measure that so you can see the

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balance of estrogen and progesterone. And the other reason why

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you want progesterone because estrogen store or fat for energy

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and progesterone burns that fat for energy. So if you

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don't have enough progesterone, that's why you're going to you

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can gain weight in perimenopause and menopause just because of

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this lack of progesterone. And let me make this very clear,

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is that remember how I told you that you have

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a backup estrogen system. Even if you are a postmenopausal

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you still can make estrogen. Well, let me tell you

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what one hundred percent of women will do if they

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live long enough. They will stop ovulating, no doubt about it. No,

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there's not a lot of Serrahs in the bound to

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have babies in their nineties. But when you don't ovulate,

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you don't make progesterone. So now you have a backup

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estrogen system, but you don't have a backup progesterone system

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if you don't ovulate. So instead of being taught that

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one hundred percent of women are estrogen deficient in postmino pause,

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I would say that one hundred percent of women will

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stop ovulating. And the only hormone that is associated with

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with ovulating is progesterone. So now I hope that makes

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it clear if you are on hormone replacement, or if

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you are if you're prescribing hormone replacement, is that if

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you want a generalized statement, the generalized statement should be

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the opposite of what people believe. You do need progesterone.

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If you do or you don't have a uterus, you

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need progesterone. And here's The other thing I want to

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I want to get across is that most people look

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at the blood and they see no estrogen, and so

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they think you need estrogen. Also, that's why you look

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at the saliva test. First. Eighty percent of my patients

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aren't on estrogen, They're just on progesterone. Because I can

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see what's really happening in the tissue and not just

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what is circulating in the blood. So that is why

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saliva testing gives you much more information than you could

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find in blood testing. And again, I know I'm not

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the only one talking about this, but it's so hard

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to change change marketing and public opinion and what the

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public thinks is true. And we think a lot of

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things are true. But I want you to really get

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clarity about this and not just follow what your girlfriend

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said or what this one doctor said, or what one person.

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Even me. Question what I'm saying. Look it up, Go

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ask chat GPT. Now, I will tell you chat GPT

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is going to look at everything that's on the internet,

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so you have to be careful, but look up some

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specific things. I actually have a school that you could

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join for free and you could get a lot of

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information there. We have it on our website. We'll have

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all of that in the description in the podcast. Right. So,

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but this is something I just want I really want

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you to write that down and put that somewhere we can.

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Is that, even though I don't have a usurers or whatever,

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if I'm mental pazzal, you must have progesterone. You must

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have it. And I will tell you that. I've talked

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about this and some people have an adverse reaction to this,

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but I want you to make sure you get micronized progesterone.

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It's usually best from a compounding pharmacy and not taking

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a progest stine something that does not say micronized progesterone.

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That's what you want to look for, all right, So

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let's go to the next I'm trying to make sure

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I'm making good time here, all right. Hot flashes are

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only about estrogen? Wow, I see this. That's what I'm saying.

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What's so focused on estrogen? How? And you've already seen this.

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If I give you, if a woman gets estrogen and

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they don't have enough progesterone, a lot of times it

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may take away the hot flashes, but it may not.

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But a lot of times it increases their fat so

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they get they start to gain weight, which is very

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distressing to women. If you have too much estrogen and

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not enough progesterone, there's other issues. Especially you have a uterus,

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you must use progesterone. And I always tell people you

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never take estrogen by itself, whether you do or do

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not have a uterus, you always have to balance it

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with progesterone because estrogen cause things to grow that you

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don't want to grow, like breast cancer. That's why they

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always look at does it have an estrogen receptor or not,

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because then they can manipulate it. So anyway, we know

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that estrogen causes a female sensitive tissue to grow. So

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that's why you don't want to just give estrogen to

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get rid of one symptom. You have to make sure

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you're giving it in the right amount and you have

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it have it balanced by progesterone. And again that's why

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I like to use progesterone only so that I don't

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have to worry about increasing this woman's risk of breast cancer.

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And you can talk about a lot of things, but

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that is a woman's worst fear is breast cancer. And

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that is why I want to really know what is

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going on not just what I think is happening, because

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I have a test that really doesn't tell me what

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I want. Right, So this is the gaining weight when

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and you know, I may wait for this one until

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after the break, because this is something I think women

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I really need to understand because a lot of times

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women come in and one they'll say, Hey, my doctor

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put me on this estrogen. I gained twenty thirty pounds,

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but he tells me my laps don't show that I

451
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have too much estrogen. So I don't know why I'm

452
00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:17.759
gaining all this weight again, It's because all of this

453
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is happening in the tissue, is not happening in the blood.

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So I'll leave you with that as a little teaser,

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because I know women want to know how they can

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lose weight or control their weight again. So let's go

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to the break and then we'll be right back.

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We are back for more of Ageless Blueprint once again.

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Let's join doctor Taylor for more insights and research on

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the ancient secret to better health and a better life

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in modern times. Here's your host, doctor Eldred Taylor.

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All right, welcome back. It is Wednesday, It's Ageless Blueprint time,

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00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:53.279
and today we're talking about how harmone replacement does not

476
00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:57.640
necessarily mean harmone clarity. And that's what is missing in

477
00:27:58.119 --> 00:28:03.400
harmone replacement arena. There's just no clarity. There's so many

478
00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:06.720
people talking about so many different things, and people are

479
00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:09.839
talking about this new study, about this new study, about that.

480
00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:14.039
I always say, does this new study correspond with what

481
00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:18.599
I know about how the body actually works? If it

482
00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:22.000
tells me that estroden is something great without telling me,

483
00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:25.759
how is it being how is it affecting other tissues?

484
00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:28.920
Is it balanced with progesterone? Because if you only look

485
00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:32.359
at a narrow outcome, then you're going to get a

486
00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:34.599
narrow answer. So you need to know what's going on

487
00:28:35.160 --> 00:28:39.119
in the entirety, not just this one, one little dot.

488
00:28:39.200 --> 00:28:43.480
So here's how this works. See when you're stressed, because

489
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the reason why I remember I said when you stop

490
00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:51.880
augulating at menopause, then what happens is at menopause and

491
00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:57.200
ovulation you stop ovulating. Now here's another thing that can

492
00:28:57.240 --> 00:29:01.119
stop you from ovulating is stress. So when you're stressed,

493
00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:03.160
your body says this is not the time to put

494
00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:06.160
a physical stressor on you, like pregnancy. So what it

495
00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:09.079
does is it says we are going to stop ovulation.

496
00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:11.960
We just we can't afford for you to get pregnant.

497
00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:15.240
You're already stressed. Stops ovulation. So what does that stop?

498
00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:18.279
It stops progesterone. And if we're in the arena of

499
00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:22.400
weight gain, remember progesterone burns fat for energy, So if

500
00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.559
you stop ovulating, you're going to have a abundance of estrogen,

501
00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:29.559
and estrogen is going to start to store that fat.

502
00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:34.000
And here's The problem is that estrogen stores fat and

503
00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:37.480
then that fat tissue makes more estrogen, So you have

504
00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:41.240
this vicious cycle. Estrogen stores the fat and then the

505
00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:44.480
fat makes more estrogen. That is a real problem and

506
00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:47.319
that's why women feel like they lose control of their weight.

507
00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:50.279
They say, hey, look, I haven't changed a thing. I mean,

508
00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:54.519
either I've even working out more, I'm doing intermittence fasting.

509
00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:57.400
I'm doing all of this and either I'm not losing

510
00:29:57.440 --> 00:29:59.880
a pound or I'm still gaining weight. But you have

511
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:05.799
look at cortisol. Is a cortisol stopping ovulation and progesterone.

512
00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:09.640
If it's stopping ovulation, how much progesterone is she making

513
00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:12.400
and how much estrogen is she making. If you look

514
00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:14.960
in the blood, you won't see all of this activity

515
00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.599
that's happening inside the cell. But if you look in saliva,

516
00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:21.599
it tells you. It you I won't tell you. It

517
00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:23.880
tells you exactly what's going on. It gives you an

518
00:30:24.039 --> 00:30:29.279
idea of the distribution of these two hormones or any hormone.

519
00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:32.519
So it gives you an idea of the distribution. Even

520
00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:35.640
if you get a blood test and it's sodium potassium,

521
00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:38.799
that's a normal range in the blood, but the heart

522
00:30:38.839 --> 00:30:42.519
and the brain may have totally different concentration. But we

523
00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:44.839
know we see this level in the blood that then

524
00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:47.839
your sodium and potassium everywhere else should be okay. That's

525
00:30:47.880 --> 00:30:50.400
the same way with saliva. I'm not telling you that

526
00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:52.680
saliva is telling you exactly what went to your unus

527
00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:55.559
or your brain, but we know I know clinically that

528
00:30:55.640 --> 00:30:58.640
if it's in a certain balance that usually most of

529
00:30:58.680 --> 00:31:01.200
these symptoms go away. And if I look at their

530
00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:04.680
cortisol and I show them what is going on, they

531
00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:08.880
get clarity. They see what's going on. So if you

532
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:12.000
give them the right information, that gives them clarity. But

533
00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:15.519
if you give them confusing information, they're never clear. So

534
00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:18.599
they're always going to bounce around. And that's another reason

535
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:20.519
why I started this podcast, so that you can have

536
00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:25.680
a constant reminder of what is what is actually physiology

537
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:29.400
and what is actually marketing and a fad are the

538
00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:32.759
latest development. So that's what I want to want you

539
00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:35.039
to understand. That's why I'm trying to break these myths.

540
00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:38.920
Oh this is a real big one. Pcos is the

541
00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:41.519
problem and I just want to read this is that

542
00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:44.599
what medicine provides is a lot of labels. Okay, they

543
00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:46.720
look at symptoms and a cluster and they call it

544
00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:52.160
a syndrome. So when you see polycystic ovarian syndrome or

545
00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:55.039
anything like that, is that it's saying it's a syndrome.

546
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:57.480
It says it's a cluster of symptoms and we're not

547
00:31:57.559 --> 00:32:00.920
quite sure where it comes from or how to cure

548
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:02.400
it or how to treat it, but we know these

549
00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:06.079
symptoms go together. So when you look at polycystic ovary,

550
00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:10.920
these these cysts that the ovary makes prior to ovulation,

551
00:32:11.440 --> 00:32:14.279
what they do is as the cyst grows, it makes estrogen,

552
00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:17.039
and the estrogen makes the tissue and the lining of

553
00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:20.039
the uters grow. So if you don't ovulate and you

554
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:22.759
have polycysts, you're going to make a lot of estrogen

555
00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:25.160
and you're not going to make a lot of progesterone.

556
00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:28.839
And so that's where the symptoms come in, because the

557
00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:31.440
lab patterns will tell you what is actually going on.

558
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:35.160
So pcos is not the problem, and ovulation are no.

559
00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:38.319
Ovulation is the problem. You have too much estrogen, you

560
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:41.279
don't ovulate, you don't make enough progesterone. Now I'm not

561
00:32:41.279 --> 00:32:43.440
telling you that's one hundred percent of the time. But

562
00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:46.720
that is a way to understand it. Because I ask

563
00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:49.519
women all the time, but tell me they have PCOS.

564
00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:52.920
I ask them, what does that mean? What does it

565
00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:55.319
How is it affecting you? Well, they'll tell me how

566
00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:58.240
it's affecting you, how it's affecting them, but they don't

567
00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:01.880
really understand what it means. What it means is that

568
00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:05.640
you're not ovulating, you're not making progesterone. Some of the times,

569
00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:07.240
this is what I do in my office. You can

570
00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:09.880
give them progesterone at the right time in their cycle,

571
00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:13.039
and most of the time it will help to reverse this.

572
00:33:13.599 --> 00:33:15.799
And after a while I've seen that now they start

573
00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:19.839
having regular cycles again. Once we fix their cortisol, once

574
00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.920
we help them to manage their nervous system, and once

575
00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:27.200
we give them progesterone to kind of kind of prime

576
00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:29.400
the body to know what to do, a lot of

577
00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:32.039
times we'll see their cycles return. So you need to

578
00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:35.519
understand that pcos And so what the symptoms that you

579
00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:38.400
give with that is that when you don't have enough progesterone,

580
00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:42.079
your body starts to make testosterone in order to try

581
00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:44.640
and balance out estrogen. So it says, I know, I

582
00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:47.319
need to balance out estrogen with something that does the

583
00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:50.119
opposite of what it does. And testosterone is the closest

584
00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:54.119
it's the closest ursas around or the closest harmon around.

585
00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:56.319
So you start making testosterone, what does that do? It

586
00:33:56.319 --> 00:33:59.359
gives you acne, It makes you have chin hairs, it

587
00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:02.160
makes you lose hair where you want it and get

588
00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:04.799
hair where you don't want it. That's the same way happens,

589
00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:07.319
the same thing that happens in menopause when you see

590
00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:10.199
these older women with thin hair and they have a

591
00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:14.480
mustache because progesterone has gone away. Testosterone has tried to

592
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:17.320
come to balance things out, but then it causes its

593
00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:21.000
own problems of problems because that is not the normal

594
00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:25.159
balancing harmone. So that's I think that's key to understand,

595
00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:29.199
is that testosterone will try to correct the situation. So

596
00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:33.599
every symptom, this is why women get shuffled around, because

597
00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:38.320
every symptom has to be seen by a different doctor.

598
00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:42.039
So now I will tell you when you talk about anderipressants,

599
00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:45.039
I say gynecology made simple. It's like this is that

600
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:48.400
if a woman is young, less than forty forty five,

601
00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:50.760
she comes in with any problem, she's going to get

602
00:34:50.760 --> 00:34:53.440
birth control pills. Now, it's not telling her what the

603
00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:57.800
problem is. It's just she's got irregular bleeding. No lab

604
00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:01.599
values or telling her anything, but we of birth control pills. Now,

605
00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:05.199
if you are over forty five, we gave you hormone replacement,

606
00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:07.320
and we ask you if you had a uterus, and

607
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:09.000
then I say, if none of that words, you get

608
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:11.679
an antidepressant so you don't feel so bad about how

609
00:35:11.679 --> 00:35:15.159
bad you feel, but are you'll get sent to a

610
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:18.440
psychiatrist or your PCP will tell you, oh, let's just

611
00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:20.920
put you on an and a depressant because your labs

612
00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:23.880
are normal. And again we say, well, let's put you

613
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:26.519
on these sleep medications since you can't sleep because your

614
00:35:26.599 --> 00:35:29.280
labs are normal. Let's put you Let's send you to

615
00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:32.320
a psychiatrist and say you have an anxiety disorder because

616
00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:35.960
your labs are normal. Let's use these weight loss drugs

617
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:38.880
because I don't know why you're gaining weight because your

618
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:42.159
labs are normal. And then I'm not sure why you

619
00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:45.679
don't have any libido, But I know testosterone helps with

620
00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:48.239
libido and men, so let's try it in women. And

621
00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:52.480
I will tell you is that testosterone is tightly associated

622
00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:56.840
with libido in men, but not so with women. And

623
00:35:57.079 --> 00:35:59.800
now some women will swear by it, but I will

624
00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:02.599
tell you that I also see either the same or

625
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:05.239
maybe more women complain that it may have worked for

626
00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:06.920
a while, but they didn't want to deal with the

627
00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:09.639
side effects, or it didn't work at all, because I

628
00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:12.760
don't think that testosterone can cover up a cord of

629
00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:16.320
a pattern abnormality, and it doesn't cover up well a

630
00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:19.800
progesterone deficiency. That's why you want to know what harmone is.

631
00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:22.719
The problem? Is it in balance or out of balance?

632
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:25.400
How can I get it back in balance? That's how

633
00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:29.920
you keep from sending these patients to five different doctors

634
00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:34.079
thinking they have fifteen different symptoms when it's all can

635
00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:38.800
be explained. If you understand the mistial cycle and you

636
00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:43.239
don't succumb to these myths and acting as that they're fact.

637
00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:47.360
You need to be able to have enough information to

638
00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:51.360
make good decisions, ask the right questions, reject the wrong

639
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:56.679
the wrong treatment plan, and understand whatever you're going to do.

640
00:36:56.679 --> 00:36:59.360
Don't ever do anything that you don't understand completely, that

641
00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:02.679
you don't have clarity about. Just don't do it. I

642
00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:05.800
wait till you get enough information to be clear. I

643
00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:08.360
always ask patients if I tell them something they're unsure.

644
00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:10.800
I was like, look, you research it for yourself. I

645
00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:12.760
want you to come back and say I know this

646
00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:15.519
is right for me because of all of the information

647
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:18.559
I've told them and what they have researched on their own.

648
00:37:19.159 --> 00:37:22.800
That is a patient who is clear, and she's going

649
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:26.280
to be an active part of her recovery or her

650
00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:29.400
feeling better, or her you know, getting back to feeling

651
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:32.800
like she felt before. Right, let's go to the next one.

652
00:37:33.079 --> 00:37:35.320
See how much time I have. All right, so be good.

653
00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:38.480
All right, if your doctor says everything is normal, nothing

654
00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:41.079
is wrong. So I just went through that. They're going

655
00:37:41.159 --> 00:37:42.679
to tell you, hey, we're going to send you to

656
00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:46.320
all of these people because your lab tests say that

657
00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:49.440
everything's normal. Now, I will tell you again, a lot

658
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:52.440
of times they grab at that little testosterone. The other

659
00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:54.800
thing that we were always taught is that if they're tired,

660
00:37:54.840 --> 00:37:56.599
you look at their blood count. If they're exhaustly, you

661
00:37:56.599 --> 00:37:59.000
look at that blood count. What is their hemoglobin and

662
00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:02.159
her manocret and we also look at the ferreton. Now

663
00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:04.519
a lot of I've had a lot of patients come

664
00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:07.079
in and say, my Ferreton is low. I think that's

665
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:10.519
why why I'm tired. And again I think that is

666
00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:13.280
that can be a problem. Ferreton is where you store

667
00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:15.400
iron so that you have enough iron to make new

668
00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:18.880
blood cells. So I understand why that could be an issue.

669
00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:21.199
But most of the time when I talk to these women,

670
00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:24.920
they also have they have signs of having a quartersole problem,

671
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:28.039
and they also have a sign of maybe estrogen and

672
00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:31.599
progesterone problems, because usually they can't sleep, they're exhausted, they're

673
00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:33.960
all of these things. And so that's why you have

674
00:38:34.039 --> 00:38:37.280
to have to broaden your horizon a little bit and

675
00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:40.280
not just say, oh, if it's if the blood tests

676
00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:43.360
are normal, then I need to go and look somewhere else.

677
00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:47.800
So common problems with standard testing, incomplete testing panels, symptom management,

678
00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:50.400
over root calls. We just try and it's almost like

679
00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:52.679
whack a mole. You know, you got one symptom, less

680
00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:54.719
whack it with this. You got this other symptom that

681
00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:57.280
pops up. Let's whack it again. And then this other

682
00:38:57.320 --> 00:39:00.519
symptom pops up, so you whack that one. So normal

683
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:04.719
does not always mean healthy. And again you can't think

684
00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:07.880
that this one blood test tells you everything about your body.

685
00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:11.480
It just doesn't. And one of the reasons why I

686
00:39:11.480 --> 00:39:13.199
did this age s boop print is partly for me

687
00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:16.159
and my wife too, is to say that even though

688
00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:20.000
we're getting older or more mature, that we still have

689
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:23.760
a lot of wisdom that we can distribute. I try

690
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:25.320
to do it in my office. I try to do

691
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:27.840
it in the podcast. I try to do it is

692
00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:31.440
to distribute some of my life experience, and that's how

693
00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:33.960
you get wisdom. And I still don't think I'm wise,

694
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:37.280
but some of the things through this experience I have

695
00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:41.280
found to be clinically true. And so I've been using

696
00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:44.440
saliva testing for a long time and nothing has given

697
00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:47.159
me more clarity that I can distribute to the patient

698
00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:50.159
or to my client than having a clear picture of

699
00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:52.840
what is going on. And so I don't have to

700
00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:56.039
play this trial and error game with hey, what did

701
00:39:56.039 --> 00:39:58.880
this drug do? What symptoms are you having? All right,

702
00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:02.280
let's switch to this one, and you end up going three, six, nine,

703
00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:06.199
twelve months without an answer, and that just causes more

704
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:10.280
stress or just causes more confusion. So I don't want

705
00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:12.920
you to think that your best years are over. If

706
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:16.920
we can get you back to feeling like you felt before,

707
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:21.039
feeling like yourself again. Then there's all kinds of possibility

708
00:40:21.559 --> 00:40:25.039
possibilities as you age. And I see these women who

709
00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:28.960
are distraught at forty, even women at twenty twenty five

710
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:31.199
who are having these issues and they think they're never

711
00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:33.519
going to have children, They're always going to feel like this,

712
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:38.840
and that's not the way it is. There are solutions

713
00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:41.639
out there, but you can't keep doing the same thing

714
00:40:41.679 --> 00:40:46.679
and thinking something different is going to happen just doesn't happen. Hey, Robert,

715
00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:48.119
we have questions at all.

716
00:40:48.360 --> 00:40:54.119
Yes, go ahead, Yes, if you have highcholesteros that are

717
00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:57.039
build up or a lack of the correct hormones, now

718
00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:00.760
I will tell you that stress sometimes can increase your

719
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:04.679
cholesterol because it's trying to open up more cholesterol.

720
00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:06.920
For you to make more cortisol. But I would not

721
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:10.119
necessarily tell you that the hormones are causing you to

722
00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:13.360
have a high cholesterol. H but I will tell you

723
00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:17.840
that probably whatever you're doing to cause a high cholesterol

724
00:41:18.079 --> 00:41:22.480
is affecting your hormones. Okay, so if you are are overweight,

725
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:25.280
then that's going to make you make more estrogen. It's

726
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:28.360
going to cause you to not ogulate as regularly. So

727
00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:32.000
if you have a high cholesterol, whatever is causing that,

728
00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:37.599
it's probably also has a contributing factor to whatever hormone

729
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:41.800
symptoms that you are you are experiencing. Okay, so how

730
00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:44.519
would you know if you are having a hormone issue, Well,

731
00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:48.760
it's usually it's usually symptoms and where if you're a woman,

732
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:52.599
is it happening? Are you having regular cycles? Are? Do

733
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:56.920
you can you clock anything by your cycle? Can you

734
00:41:57.000 --> 00:41:59.440
say a week before my cycle this happens? Or a

735
00:41:59.440 --> 00:42:03.320
week after cycle? Are a week or two before my cycle?

736
00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:09.000
Whatever underlying issue you may have, maybe your thyroid works,

737
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:13.480
thyroid medicine doesn't work. Are there's some underlying problem that

738
00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:16.360
you have by acting gets worse? So those will the

739
00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:20.760
hormone issues. Now, the classic ones is hot flashes, can't sleep,

740
00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:25.159
weight gain, everything that I've been talking about are usually hormonally.

741
00:42:26.079 --> 00:42:31.480
It's a hormonal involvement in it somewhere somehow, because hormones

742
00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:35.199
are a big part of your whole system, because you

743
00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:39.480
are actually created to reproduce. In ancient times, you need

744
00:42:39.519 --> 00:42:42.719
is to live long enough to propagate the species. So

745
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:45.840
that's how important the reproduction is. That is like the

746
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:49.239
main goal in life is to reproduce, and that's why

747
00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:51.440
everything has to be just right for that to happen.

748
00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:55.360
So what if if women don't have low testosphone, if

749
00:42:55.400 --> 00:42:58.559
it's not tested from puberty, how would anyone know? It's

750
00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:00.639
how I look now, I will tell you that is

751
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:05.159
the problem. Is that testosterone in the blood is normally low.

752
00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:09.280
And when I was learning about this, they said, a

753
00:43:09.320 --> 00:43:12.639
woman can be hersuit. That means she can have totally

754
00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:18.679
masculinized presentation or you know how she looks or whatever.

755
00:43:18.719 --> 00:43:21.199
She can bear hersuit, have hair all over, and the

756
00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:25.039
blood testosterone can still be low. Because again it's all

757
00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:28.480
about the tissue. So let's look at this. The blood

758
00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:30.920
is a reservoir for hormones and only a small amount

759
00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:33.440
that actually goes into the tissue. But what happens is

760
00:43:33.480 --> 00:43:35.679
there could be a small or no change in the

761
00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:38.880
blood level. But if instead of one percent going to

762
00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:43.280
the tissue, two percent goes there. Now the tissue level

763
00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:47.000
has doubled, and in the blood you can't even notice

764
00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:49.480
it because it was only it was only two out

765
00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:53.440
of the hundred testosterones actually went into the tissue. So

766
00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:56.880
that that is the problem is that you don't know

767
00:43:56.880 --> 00:43:59.400
if you have a lower or high testosterl and women

768
00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:03.079
normally have a little testosone. What would tell me that

769
00:44:03.159 --> 00:44:05.360
you need a testosterone If you were losing muscle mass,

770
00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:08.920
that might be an issue, But normally testosterone is not

771
00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:13.880
a female major hormone, just like estrogen is not a

772
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:17.679
primary male hormone. But men need a little bit of

773
00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:22.280
estrogen also key, so your men can aromatized testosterone and

774
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:26.360
esergen too. Just about how women make estrogen in their

775
00:44:26.360 --> 00:44:29.760
fat tissue, men can make it also, So that is

776
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:33.039
why you want to make sure that you're not giving

777
00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:36.400
too much testop You're not giving a male hormone to

778
00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:38.840
a woman or too much woman harmone to a male.

779
00:44:39.239 --> 00:44:41.159
So if you are gaining weight after you stop having

780
00:44:41.159 --> 00:44:43.599
your period, what didn't mean you are needing progesterone? More

781
00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:46.360
than likely because hey, what did you learn today? When

782
00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:51.039
progesterone goes down, it stops burning the fat that estrogen stored.

783
00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:54.760
So you are asking. By you asking that question, I

784
00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:58.239
know you're starting to understand and get clarity. More than

785
00:44:58.360 --> 00:44:59.559
likely you may need progesterone.

786
00:44:59.559 --> 00:44:59.679
Now.

787
00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:01.880
The best way to find out is through saliva testing.

788
00:45:02.239 --> 00:45:05.039
But if you want to experiment, and you can't because

789
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:08.920
progesterone really doesn't hurt you. It doesn't cause cancer or

790
00:45:08.920 --> 00:45:12.920
anything like that because it's actually blocking or slowing down growth.

791
00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:15.840
So if you wanted to try, you can. There's progesteron cream,

792
00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:20.800
progesterone prescriptions, there's supplements and you can. You can go

793
00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:23.360
to our website and we can show you some of

794
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:26.360
the things that can help you there. All right, So, yes,

795
00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:30.039
how do you get your body to start making it again? Uh?

796
00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:33.599
You can't. You can't start ovulation again. Okay, so you

797
00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:36.960
really can't. Now you can use vitexts or chase barriers.

798
00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:39.119
We have a supplement that has that in there. It

799
00:45:39.159 --> 00:45:41.760
can help you to make a little bit more progesterone,

800
00:45:41.840 --> 00:45:44.760
especially if your pre menopausal, can help balance you out.

801
00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:47.760
But you can't really get your body to make any

802
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:49.599
That's why it's so crucial and that's why I say,

803
00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:52.559
if you want to have a blanket statement is that

804
00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:55.559
one hundred percent of women will stop ovulating at menopause,

805
00:45:55.840 --> 00:45:57.719
and that means one hundred percent of women are going

806
00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:01.199
to have a serious efficiency in resta. So did you

807
00:46:01.239 --> 00:46:04.440
say the cycle can return after hormones are regulated? Why

808
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.719
would anyone. No, not in menopause. I'm talking about someone

809
00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:13.280
with PCOS. PCOS happens in women who are young ten, fifteen,

810
00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:16.480
twenty because they haven't really started to ovulate on a

811
00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:19.199
regular basis. All right, that's so I'm not talking about

812
00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:21.719
postmenopolls of women. No, that's not going to start again.

813
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:25.079
But in PCOS, they usually have no period. Are they

814
00:46:25.119 --> 00:46:28.079
real heavy periods or they're real irregular periods? So you

815
00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:31.079
give them the progesterone for the two weeks each month,

816
00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:35.440
two weeks on, two weeks off, and sometimes their period

817
00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:38.159
will come back normally and now all of their PCOS

818
00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:41.000
symptoms go away too. Do you prescribe bur control pills

819
00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:44.000
after a woman has stopped her cycle? No, okay, no,

820
00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:46.719
because that's you're not when you stop your cycle, you're

821
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:50.519
not low in birth control pills because that birth patrol

822
00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:52.440
pill does not have progesterone in it. It has a

823
00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:54.920
progestion in it, and a lot of times if you

824
00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:58.480
have that plus estrogen, that increases your weight gain because

825
00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:03.599
now you don't have progesterone anymore, slowing down or burning

826
00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:07.760
the fat for energy. It is a substitute progesterone are

827
00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:11.519
It's called a progestine. So no, you don't take berthatrol

828
00:47:11.599 --> 00:47:15.920
pills after your cycle has stopped. If your postmenopausal, all right,

829
00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:20.039
do you use iodine? Do you survid and change? Yes?

830
00:47:20.360 --> 00:47:25.679
Iodine is a building block for for thyroid harmone. When

831
00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:27.960
you talk about this something called T four and T

832
00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:32.880
three thyroid four, that's thyroid three. So T four has

833
00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:35.519
four iodns on it. He three has three io ends

834
00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:37.400
on it. You actually have to remove one of the

835
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:39.840
iodines for you to have the active form of the harmon,

836
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:42.119
which is T three. So another thing I want to

837
00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:44.960
tell you about menopause. Are we almost done? Another thing

838
00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:47.960
I want to tell you about menopause is that estrogen

839
00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:51.800
actually slows down our block styroid harmone. So that's why

840
00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:54.760
a lot of women at menopause are told that they

841
00:47:54.760 --> 00:47:58.639
are hypo thyroid. But really is the estrogen that's looking

842
00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:02.440
at making them look hyper thyroid. If you balance the

843
00:48:02.599 --> 00:48:06.199
estrogen with progesterone, now that's burning the fat for energy,

844
00:48:06.519 --> 00:48:10.360
and now they don't look hypo thyroid anymore. How much

845
00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:12.599
time do we have? I'm done. I didn't put my

846
00:48:12.599 --> 00:48:14.480
glass off so I couldn't see the timer. All right,

847
00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:17.440
So we're done here? See you next week. I hope

848
00:48:17.559 --> 00:48:19.320
I have a guest next week, but I'm going to

849
00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:22.719
talk about it, so hopefully, hopefully you learn something, Hopefully

850
00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:26.320
we've burst a few myths, and I will see you

851
00:48:26.360 --> 00:48:26.920
next week.

852
00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:31.639
Thanks for joining doctor Taylor today. If you missed any

853
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854
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857
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