Why High-Achieving Women Lose Their Edge After 40

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0:58 Here's your host, doctor Eldred Tables. Hello. Hello is Wednesday morning, and that means it's time for the Age was Blueprint. And I'm excited about this episode because I'm bringing back a returning guest, this Jackie Roberts, and I just. Want to I'm gonna give you a brief introduction. I'm going to tell you why I wanted her to come back. So ms Roberts and now she's a menopause strategist who texts the executive performance of high achieving women through menopause. Now she has ASCP certification, which means that she is a laboratory expert, and that's what we want to talk about, is testing. And she also brings thirty years of being in the pharmaceutical industry and now she is helping women through this midlife change that seems to hit a lot of women, especially when they're high performing women. And so that's what we're going to talk about today. So if you are woman between age forty and sixty sixty five and you feel like you're not quite where you used to be, but you still want to be as productive or as productive as possible, then this is the episode that you want to see.

2:07 And so now we're going to bring in this Jackie Roberts. Good morning, Good morning. How are you to daylor all right, all right, good morning. And we talked a little bit before. But I'm excited about this because I think it was like two or three weeks two or three weeks ago you were on and we talked and then we talked afterwards, and you were interested in what I was introducing, So I kind of want to know, you know, what has happened between the last one and the last so then this one, and kind of how your perspective might have changed. And I really want to hear your expertise. Because you have a lab background, and I think the lab testing one of the important parts in this thing, in this whole evolution that I'm trying to, you know, get women to go through.

2:52 So that's really why what we want to talk about. And then anyone who's listening for the last twenty minutes, I'm just going to have questions answer because I know there's a lot of questions out there and I want to make sure that we answer those questions. So I'm going to stop talking to miss Roberts. The floor is yours. Thank you. Well, I can tell you I've been so excited to talk to doctor Taylor in the past you because perspective is everything when it comes to thinking forward when we should provide women what they're looking for. I just saw a blurb yesterday on the news where someone who was very affluent said, well, I couldn't get the help needed to figure out what was going on with my midlife crisis. That means it happens to all women, and so there's so many women seeking a root cause as to why they feel the way they do between forty and sixty five, and it could be outside of that because create menopause can last up to ten to twelve years. And I understand that getting to the root cause comes with making sure not only that we're looking at the patient's symptoms or a woman's symptoms, but also understanding which laboratory panels order and what type of panel to order. A lot of women go to their yearly visit and they hear, you know, my labs are normal, and then what happens? They go they leave after that fifteen minutes of talking to their physician to then say, well, how can I feel like crap and I have these normal labs. Well, it all has to do with having the correct labs during this timeframe and looking for the

4:23 right parameters. So if you've got the brain fog, if you've got the hot flashes, those are the things you hear of a lot. But there are, gosh, forty fifty five sometimes symptoms that women are dealing with that could be related to periodmenopause and menopause. So I say, what I've done in the past few weeks is just restructure the way I make sure that I'm helping women where I want to get to the root cause, first by doing some saliva testing on them, which is possible of course with my certification, and then sitting with them to have a strategy on what to do next, because what's most important is to listen to the woman, understand what the symptomatology is and the laboratory piece that which would be the correct labs meaning the hormones through saliva testing, and then give us the clues as to how do we treat that patient next, or how do we refer that patient to the healthcare provider so they have was truly needed to get the help needed to understand that their body can get better. A lot of our physicians don't even know what to look for when it comes to menopause for women. I'm here to make sure that that changes so that women can advocate for themselves to say this is what you should be looking for. Look for it.

5:37 So let me ask you this. In your certification for laboratory site, did they ever say anything about as. Being that soluble hertmone? No, No, I can tell you they didn't not in the time period when I was going through, and it was all about doing blood testing because you have to realize, when we're looking at normal everyday labs, we're looking for the absence of disease, not necessarily if that patient cognitively or physiologically is performing the way they feel they should. So a normal lab could be taken when it comes in context from people in any age group, all right, and so then they're putting that forty to sixty five year old woman in that age group and it may not match. So saliva testing was not something that we looked at quite frequently at the time that I was going through. Of course, I continue to educate myself and I understand not we have saliva testing, we have urine testing testing where we can look at hormones as well.

6:36 Now, yeah, and again it's all about I keep saying, hey, look, there's nothing wrong with blood testing. It will answer the question. It will tell you the whole amount of hormone that you have. No doubt about it. However, most of that ninety eight percent of that hormone is bound, and because it's bound, your tissue can't use it because as long as you're in your car on the highway which you're circulating around, you can't do much, So you have to get out of the car and go to the place where you work. Well, hermones work in the tissue. That's where they work, that's where they're stored. So if you want to know what's working and what the balance is, you got to go to where they work.

7:18 All right, now, once it's over with, and you want to see are your hormones getting metabolized in a safe way, because you can have metabolism that's detrimental and you can have metabolism that is beneficial. And if you want to know that, you go to the urine. And so I have a problem when I talked about SALIVI attest it doesn't match blood, it doesn't match urine. No, because they're different departments, they're different compartments. So that's how you have to look at it. But you know, Mss Roberts, I've been trying to do this for twenty years, twenty five years, and what I've decided is that the only way I'm gonna get this across is to have people like you spreading that message because if I go out and talk about it, I'm going to get attacked by all of the forces, but woman to woman, they can't attack you.

8:06 Okay. So so just like I presented the information to you, I want you to present the information. I want other people to present the information because once you see it is very convincing. I am my own Yes, you're absolutely right. And what when I started effectually strong wellness, that was exactly what I was looking to make sure I did that. I provided an avenue for women so that they would have someone they could speak to figure it out. So I remember someone someone asked me one day, they said, well, what are you going to call yourself your coach? Or this is truly figuring out the strategy for where do I go next? And that comes with a lot of having the time to speak to a woman. Healthcare providers don't always have that amount of time, and that's what's missing.

8:51 I'm so glad that you've gone into area functional medicine, doctor Taylor, where you can spend the time to seek to understand and actually put the clues to get for women. But for most of our healthcare providers, they have truly fifteen to twenty minutes sm max to talk to a patient. That's not enough. In the course of a year's time to figure out a puzzle that's been going on for years. So and you know, to change beliefs and paradigm shifts and all the four years we've looked in the blood for everything. You know, I'm going to get my annual blood last. I'm wanted to get my hand and you know, it's just we are so fixated that everything can be answered in the blood. But you know, in postal medicine, we do GID testing, we do food tests, we need to do food sysctivity. We look for moles and parasites and all those kind of things, and those are things that we were never taught to look for. We would talk to look for the end result the disease. Is it food causing it? That your gut causing you? So you know that's that's the problem. And I think that's the problem you have encountered, and I think that's why some people are frustrated.

10:04 So what are your thoughts about that? Yes, typically a woman's experience is that she sees several different specialists before someone starts putting together the puzzle. And we have some amazing specialists out there. I think my first specialist was a cardio cardio, a cardiovascular doctor, because I was having heart racing, and so I went to the doctor and he did an echo cardio echo cardio Grandmammy. He said, you know, I think your heart is fine, but something might be going on with your thyroid. After he got back my blood test. So then that sent me to my second doctor, who was of course of endocrinologists, who said, yeah, there's something going on with your thyroy, but there was a root cause to that happening. I was going into perimenopause. I didn't know that.

10:53 So by the. Time I actually figured out what was going on, I think I had seen probably six specialists by then, if you could include six or seven, if you include my normal everyday health care providers, like someone you typically see your internal medicine, you see your obgyn, I'd seen quite a few. And when you think of functional medicine, it's truly about being able to function in the way that you should every single day, versus just constantly looking for the absence of disease. So my experience did lead me to a functional medicine physician assistant, and I've been with her a number of years and she has figured out my puzzle for me. But I can tell you is when I first was looking for someone and I found out about her, the first thing someone said, oh, you don't want to go to that quack line because she was thinking outside of the box. She practiced medicine outside of the everyday box of what our health care providers learn from. But she was getting results. And because of that, I said, well, okay, let me trust her for a little bit to see if she can get me some results.

12:00 I've been getting those same getting the same results now for ten twelve years from her. So that experience is something that typically a woman is faced with each time she goes for another symptom that comes up. Let's say her shoulder all of a sudden locks up. Where's it going to send her orthopedic surgeon? Okay? After being referred, So you end up with all these healthcare providers, but no one's looking at the root cause, because no one's testing for the root cause. They're not thinking that that could be a positive relationship of your shoulder herting or freezing up on you are the ringing in your ear, let alone the hot flashes and not being able to sleep at night.

12:41 Yeah, so you know from from what you've learned or what I've may have exposed to you. What would you say, the root cause of most problems are most physical problems that people are going through at that stage, What would you say the what do you think the root causes. On who's going through that time period? Think of menopause. Okay, menopause is when your missus stops, But that's not just what's going on. Your hormones are changing, So the root cause is that your hormones are shifting. Plus, we have women in higher stress jobs than they've ever been in before. So if you were to look at my website Faithfully Strong Willness, she would see that I'm making sure that executive women understand that I understand what they're going through.

13:27 So this large amount of stress is compounded by the fact that your cortisol is changing as well, along with your estrogen and your progesterone. And when those things are going up and down, and you've got this compounding relationship of stress for me and gosh, I'm a high performer at work. Oh forget about the fact I have two young men that I'm raising in my house. Oh I happen to be African American too. Oh yeah, I've got a husband, I like to make sure that I'm with him. I'm working on my marriage less stress level of life continues to go up while your hormones are changing, which creates more stress on your body physiologically. All right, you're starting to talk like me, miss Robertson's that's yeah, it was. It was a little pop quiz.

14:11 I wanted to see if if you were going to say that stress is probably the cause, because you know, I'll tell you. I'll tell you two or three things that you won your shoulder hurting well, portosolls the natural anti inflammatory. If you don't have it, get inflammation. And let me talk about how many women have you seen that perimental pausally, all of a sudden, they eat thyroid medication. Quite a few, quite a few, and they don't even understand why that's happening. Like myself, I didn't know why was it that this person who worked out all the time ate correctly still had thyroid issues. And I never put that together either. So women typically may come with that being. One of the first symptoms that's happening is that they may have a heart breace from the viroid changing.

15:01 Because remember our drenals in our glands. They are all affected by this hormone change at the same time, so you can't have one go up and down and another one not be affected. That's why there's a couple of panels that typically women should go through first. That will include thory testing as well to see what's going on with thyroy stimulating hormone. And I can look at women and see this by their symptomatology that there's something going on with their thyroid. To have a close member of my family, I said, there's something going on which your thyroy just by looking at the symptomatology there. But it's so slight that sometimes women don't pick up on that piece and so they don't even know to bring that up with their healthcare provider because they may think, oh, this isn't nothing, it'll go away. But what it does, it compounds and it gets worse over time.

15:54 So let me let me propose the idea. Okay, so let me tell you what estrogen does. Estrogen increases something called thyroid binding glibrary. So it's mass thyroid all right. So now imperimental pause. Remember estrogen does not necessarily go down. Gesterone goes down because you stop ovulating. So then you have a lot of estrogen that is increasing thorough binding glibrunar and I don't want to get into these two your terms, but anyway, it slows down your thyrol. Okay, So esrogen slows down your thyrol, so it's not really a primary thyroid problem. It's really an estragen, progesterone and balance problem. And then you have cortisol, and cortisol blocks the conversion two three HE three is the active PARTAMA. So stress and estrogen will slow down your thyroil. So again, we fix the cortisol, you fix the estrogen progesterone balance.

16:48 Now all of a sudden you don't need thyroid medication for So that's when we really. Try and get all the way down to the root. Then you can see how those fifty symptoms can blossom. From two of the three or four root causes. Okay, now I know we have some questions here and I just want to show well, Okay, good question is going to be addressed after the break, So put your questions in here and we'll we'll answer those. And so that's what I'm talking about. Ruction is that a lot of times, when you really get down to it, that the way the body works is very simple. Okay, is always trying to maintain balance, and I always say the truth is simple and lies are competent. So that's what I'm trying to get with menopause menopause because we've had so much misinformation.

17:40 It's very confusing. But I want to tell you the way the body works is very, very simple, and it's very logical. And so if we start to look at the body like what. Logically makes sense during this a lot of times it'll become clear what's going on. And I always say that by the time you have the symptom, something's been going wrong for a long time, right, and so we need to figure out, you know, before you have fifty five symptoms, when you have. The first one or two, let's try and see what's going on. So let's see. I'm still can we have more time? So now you also left them. So we've been talking about testing, So let's talk about how the pharmaceutical industry was that period menopause and menopause, and how you being a hormone specialist really didn't help you in your journey. So that that's you know, I think that's the real interesting point. You were teaching this based on the pharmaceutical information, and then you went through and you're like, wait a minute, this doesn't work.

18:35 Yeah. Yes, I did have a time in my career where I was actually teaching health care providers about hormones and how to utilize hormones in patients. That was one of my products, and I remember at the time thinking about the amount of resources that I would bring in for the health care providers to provide to their patients. Well, we had a study that came out at the UHI study, and that study came out, it really just wiped out probably half of those prescriptions, like right away, because it put a black box warning into a product that was being utilized for patients with a lot of success. But that study told us some things that provided an opportunity to pause, which I think was important. I don't think it should have wiped out a whole couple of decades of utilization of estrogen patients. That's what I disagreed with personally.

19:30 But I can say during that time frame, what started happening for our health for our health care providers who were getting trained. They were getting trained about estrogen as like it was toxic waste. For instant and it's not. Now we're having to pay for that as women because when we go into our health care providers with that black box warning there, that was not going to be something they were going to reckon. So, knowing what I know about the estrogen that's out there in the marketket place now versus the one who was in the marketplace before, we're in a space where our healthcare providers now have the ability to prescribe medication that works for patients. But it's not only about prescribing estrogens. It's about understanding what else the body needs beside that, because, like doctor Taylor said, this is a balance of hormones across the body. It's not just estrogen. We got progesterone, we got cortisol, we got thyroid. We have to look at all of that.

20:27 So if you think about a pharmaceutical company developing something new in that space, well it didn't come out, it didn't happen, and you must know that it takes over ten years of time to get a molecule to market. So what does that mean. There's nothing. There's nothing coming. So that put us in a spot that was detrimental patients for women, and now you have women, it doesn't matter what background you're from struggling to be able to find out what to do or being put on some thing that may not necessarily be what they need. Because I'll tell you I'm not a proponent for every woman getting estrogen. I am a proponent for every woman figuring out what's going on with their body because they may not need it, okay, but what they do need is to understand the root cause of what's going on by getting the proper testing. And then you're able to get what you need from your provider because your provider is a partner with you. With the and this, you're collaborating together, and with that collaboration you come out with a good impact for the patient.

21:35 And see, you get down to the real problem right there at again, is that the problem is the testing, Yes. And the black box warning. All of the whis thirty, none of them talked about testing the hormones. All talked about symptoms leading to an outcome ten or fifteen years later. Okay, so you have a symptom of estrogen or whatever. And the only reason why we stopped the estrogen is if you had a mammogram that was positive or if you had postmonal puzsal bleeding. That mas absolutely no sense. We don't wait to check somebody's blood pressure after they have a stroke or after you know.

22:18 So that and. Now here's the problem with lifting the black box in morning. Now I feel like it's the wild wild West. Yes, it can go out. Everybody exactly everybody's talking about and nobody talks about testing. Nobody would take cholesterol medicine unless somebody get their lippid panel. Nobody would take blood pressure medicine if no one took their blood pressure. But women take parmones and no one gives them an accurate understanding of what's going on. That's why they say my laps are normal and I still feel awful. Okay, if you check your blood pressure with a thermometer, Okay, you're going to get a bad reading. Okay, you're not going to get the information that you want.

23:05 So that's what I'm telling you. I just it's so clear to me. It's just I just don't understand why we while we tolerate this confusion among professionals, among American college or obiju, I N they'll say you cannot use this for individual farmer minded boyd you can't use blood either, you can't use something either. None of that tells you. But in my twenty five years of clinical experience, I have seen some live attest match. But the patient, you know, reports and if I correct it, they report that it works.

23:46 Just like you said. At the pharmaceupal industry they had and it worked and then it got wiped out. So anyway, I know, I start to go too far when I start talking about this. Now. Yeah, it's just it's just a it's just been a lifelong journey. And now I'm like, Okay, just like your doctor got attacked, the quack and all of that stuff. But if you talk to another woman and you've had the experience, you've seen what doesn't work and what does work, nobody can really attack you. And and and let me tell you, woman to woman communication I believe is faster than the Internet. Okay, women talk to other women, especially about these issues. I see it on Facebook. I see it on everyone. Everybody's talking about.

24:39 Everybody's confused. There need to be some voices of reason out there. And that's why I'm trying to recruit people like you who have an audience women come to and just like I gave you a new tool to help you help women. I'm looking for more people like you who will say, hey, look, I've got this audience. I feel like there's just a few things that if I could have that I could really help these women. And I'm hoping this is one of the tools that therapists are even just regular people, because it really is simple and all you have to do is be exposed to it, and it can you know, it can change your perspective on things. So, I see, we have some questions stacking up.

25:23 You can take a look at them. Let's let's do about two or three more minutes and then I promise we don't have a break. Then we're going to come back and answer these questions. And if you've gotten more questions, please, you know, uh, put them in the chat and we will get to those. So, you know, maybe the last thing I want to talk about is that you are you are trying to go through this experience that my patients working. So so why don't you tell me, you know what happened you got your SOLVA says kind of tell kind of tell me, uh, you know, kind of the roadblocks that you've come through, and what you're going to try and what we're going to try and help you with, and what little symptom did you talk about this? Like, hey, maybe the friend that I might need this testing. Let's see think you said something about your sleeping feel a little bit offer, So why don't you tell why you even said, Hey, I want to do the saliva Okay.

26:13 Yes, because my practitioner, she's an amazing, amazing she does bloodwork on me every six months because yes, my hyroid is something she has to check on. And I'm also on a testosterone cream. Testosterone cream, do have to get your blood tested every six months? So I will say, what I wanted to understand and know is the experience for women who do the saliva testing. So I asked for the kid myself. But then I understood from that was how can I provide the root cause for a client I'm speaking with if they're still not getting the testing from their health care provider in that fifteen minute visit. So now I provide something called the executive Cognitivitch audit, where that test kit goes to the patient they can get their saliva testing done and then they can have an hour of strategy talking fine with me to figure out what's going on with the root cause of their symptoms.

27:05 So I ordered my test, I got it. I was so excited, and then I realized I needed to make sure I took my hormones at least twelve hours before my saliva testing. So I typically take them too late at night to do that, So now I have to remember to do that. But my kit came within a couple of days. It's very easy. I've got parts of a hero on my desk still it has an ice pack box in it. Back and send it back to the laboratory to have the testing evaluated and looked at, and then a report will come back to me. Of course that doctor Taylor provides this in his practice as well, and so then the patient can get the insights from someone who understands the testing, understands from listening to them about their symptomatology, and then put the puzzle together to come up with an action plan. That's why I call myself a strategist. Typically in corporate that's all we think of, is okay, root cause analysis strategy, Then what do we do next? Word? The tactics to it. The bottom line is that women feel like crap okay, and no one's been testing, so now we can. We can provide that for patients, and through the executive cognitive edge on it, we can figure out what's going on is causing the brain fog and all these symptoms that are happening to those high performing women out there, even those running households.

28:24 Of course, to make sure they get to a space where they feel much better with it they were feeling like yesterday. Yeah, So hey, rebel, right before we go and you pull up those slads, I'm going to take one minute, and I want to because I think these slads. Take a minute. Okay, So I think some of the questions you had this long, expensive path in confusion, multiple doctors, normal, that's what you're talking about. You get imaging, you get still no answer to get MRI and all this kind of stuff. Okay, So I told you all of this, Like you said. Timing matters, patterns matter, and blood free harmomatters. So that's the problem. Now, this is the saliva testament somebody's talking about, you know, like cognitive function. Well, your brain uses more energy than any organ in your body. And this is a quartosol c quotasole mobilizes glucles, so you have energy during the day.

29:16 That green is the normal area. This is this patient this energy. Look at this energy compared to this energy. Okay, are this anti inflammatory compared to this anti inflammatory? All right? And this cortosol. You wrote a book called the stress Connection because it's connected to everything. Your hormones, your joints, is everything. And this is the last slide I want to show you is that this is not rare. This is what I see all the time. Nobody's in this green area. That's why their brain doesn't work. That's why. So this is the criminal. This is what I said, Stress is the problem. Seventy five to ninety percent of the time is the root cause. So all of you people who are asking why don't I have enough energy?

30:00 Braining and all this, this is it. So now we're going to go to a break. I just wanted to see that. So now I think we have a reference point to answer some of these questions. Okay, so you can see how the testing increases our information. From which we can make a good decision. So let's go to break. There is all a question and answer after this. You're putting your questions in there. We're going to get through them as fast as we can. All right, thanks, We are going to a quick break, so stay with us as we explore the Ageless Blueprint right here on W FOURHC Radio and Talk for TV, an ancient secret with a modern twist for better health and vitality. Doctor Taylor will be right back. Taking care of your health shouldn't mean taking a handful of pills every day. At Tailor MD Formulations, they create doctor developed supplements that combine them best matchural ingredients so you get the results you need with fewer pills. Tailor m DE Formulations is backed by science designed for real life with real results, less pills, better health, doctor approved. Shop now at Tailor MD formulations dot com and discover smarter supplements for smarter health. That's Tailor MD Formulations dot com. We are back for more of Ageless Blueprint once again. Let's join doctor Taylor for more insights and research on the ancient secret to better health and a better life in

31:30 modern times. Here's your host, doctor Eldred Taylor. Okay, all right, the truks. Can you see these questions? No? I cannot see them. I see, let's see one see. The first one came up Okay, so here we go. Yeah, that's it. So how do hormone changes affect focus, memory, confidence and decision making? That's why I wanted to show that slab. Okay, so go ahead. So so, uh, I'll let you answer it and then I'll put in my two yes. So when hormone changes has then you have to keep in mind that it affects your insolent sensitivity, because happening is that your glucose is then changing. When that glucose changes, which sometimes can be up to thirty percent, you're basically starving the sales in your brain for what you need to lead and what you need to do every single day.

32:19 And because you don't know that's happening, you feel like, gosh, possibly I've heard women say I feel like I've got dementia. That happened to me. You start blinking in mid sentence. You can be in a presentation that you have provided probably several times over your lifetime and your career, and all of a sudden, cannot remember the next word, or you may not be able to remember a person's actual name. In my case, my mother did have dementia, so it concerned me that was I starting to get dementia as well. That wasn't the case. More hormones needed to be balanced. Once they were balanced, my words came back. Actually put a video about that on YouTube because I felt like other and needed to understand that they were not alone.

33:02 Doctor Taylor, what what would you add to that? Oh? Well, again, that's why I showed those slots you talked about glucose. Quartosole gives you a steady supply. Of glucose during the day, high at night, low in the morning, and you don't have it. One of the first things that the first symptoms is that brain fag. I think it's from the lack of that cortisol. So how do you how do you how do you self medicate yourself with carbohydrates? A thing? Why is there a line in front of Starbucks every morning? I think because everybody's cortosol is low in the morning. They've made an off of low morning cortisol. Because you if you have a normal supply of cortosol, you shouldn't need three cults or coffee to wake you. You shouldn't need stulant to wake you up. Okay, you shouldn't. So fixing that stress that quartisol that is the key to your memory. Because you're a high performing woman, you have stressed yourself out for twenty or thirty years. Now your hormones change. That's another stress. That's when it hits. So we've got to fix the hormones. So we got to fix the stress. Reason why we wrote the book the Stress Connection, after all your heartmones making you sick, because we found out that the stress made our regular treatment in effective because the quarter's always messing it up. So anyway, all right, so best diet for menopause, I think that's definitely going to be something sure you help people with.

34:25 Yes. Absolutely. Nutrition is a big focus of when I'm talking to women, and I can tell you the best diet for menopause is number one team. Okay. I've had so many women who start restricting their food because they're gaining the weight in the middle. What you do when you actually restrict your food is you're stressing your body out more, okay, and then you say, okay, well let me exercise more so that I can actually, you know, lose more weight. I was doing one hundred miles road biking a week, and I gained weight during that time. And every time I train for this charity ride that I do. I have to do that much mileage on the bike so I can make it through the charity ride.

35:08 But I can tell you that that adds to the stress I already have in my body. When you over exercise a periodmenopause or menopause or postmenopause body in my case, then what happens is you increase the cortisol. Yes, eat, but eat the right types of food. When it comes to going to the store, the middle aisles, forget about them. Okay, you need protein first, is what you're thinking about for the course of your day. If you're one hundred pounds, you should be getting about one hundred grams of protein. If you're one hundred and fifty pounds, one hundred and fifty grams of protein. I know that sounds like a lot, because what happens is that women start out in a deficit. They start with coffee first. Delay that coffee for ninety get some sun on your body, make your natural natural circadian rhythm up first. Then eat some food in the morning. Okay, start with the good protein source, be it eggs or be it some meat of some of some type. Women asked, they say, well, should I eat drink my protein shake. Well, a lot of the protein shakes that you get off the shelf, there's some good ones and some bad ones, and there's a lot of ingredients in there you probably should think through very carefully. So the best resource for a protein is actual food because your body apps absolutely will metabolize that in a way that makes you feel full, Versus a protein shake that will go through you very very quickly and you always start feeling hungry. You're like, well, I took my protein and at fifty grams of protein in the shape. Can't do that to your liver over and over and over again. Got to get some real

36:40 So start a protein source, a clean carbohydrate, and then then. Go from there. Okay, So you know, I see people I going to the gym, and I see these women and all these glasses and all this stuff, and I see that their body is not changing. And I sit there, I'm like, wow, look, I wish I could give them a line of test. You get some quote. This gym membership would go a. Lot further, you know, And I'm like, oh, I just wanted to like, hey, take this test. This will help you out in the anyway, all right now, This is what I want to talk about. Low estrogen fact on the card help. I know that that has been a big subject. This is what I believe estrogen and and our progesterone by themselves, I don't think affects the heart as much as estrogen progesterone balance because too much.

37:25 Estrogen increases cliding factors. Okay, right, So you don't want to say estrogen is good for the heart, especially even not testing it correctly. Okay, so you know why don't you get why don't when we get blood class when they're on birth control pills. It's the estrogen that increases clouding factors. So I hear all of this stuff about how estrogen helps the heart, but we always got to look at it's not estrogen, it's the balance of estrogen prodes. You can have estrogen all you want, and if your quotas are cur screwed up, stress kills people. You know, stresses what causes the heart problem. So I don't look at the er can help the heart. I'm not gonna say the progesterone helps the heart. The balance between ESWERG that protects the heart, It protects everything.

38:10 Is that balance protects it. So all right. We got ten minutes and we got one, two, three, five questions. So that's you can talk about heart health if you want, But that's my perspective. I don't like to say one hormone is good and the other hormone is bad. That's progesterone by themselves aren't good or bad. Imbalances bad, balance is good. That's my modjo. Yeah, and a lot of that may be left over as well from the WHI study. So you heard about that. There is a valid concern because that's what you heard the news. Doctor Taylor. I think you did a great job actually answering that because it has to be a balance and you have to make sure you look at each patient individually exactly.

38:52 So the next one, I'm struggling to focus. I'm gaining weight, and the hot flashes are affected my daily life. What would be your approach if if you are my patient, talk to you, I tell you I think I understand you, and then I hand you a salivity. Yes, it's like, hey, I understand You're not alone. I've been doing this for twenty five years. I hear this over and over and over again. Here's the saliva test. Talk about it. It will become clear to you and to me what we need to do. And that's that makes it a partnership, that makes us a joint She understands. I understand everybody's in agreement. Nobody's getting back on Facebook asking you know, how do you interpret my saliva test?

39:35 We got people all over the end of that's talking about blood testing. So so yeah, that's what I would do, all right, Jack, Miss Robertson, what would you do? Absolutely the same approach. I would say that she just provided fifty percent of what we need by giving us the symptomatology. When you give us symptomatology and then we have the testing, we put the two together. And that's why I say, there's that our long strategy session. So we do I say, okay, we have that testing. Doctor Taylor has the testing results as well, and then we look at that and we say, okay, this symptomatology tells us that this is what's going on, this is what we're going to change as a result, so then you can get the outcome that gets to those symptoms to a point where you can perform again. And that's what you're looking out.

40:19 And let me make clear I don't want to disregard blood testing because blood testing can tell you a lot. Okay, can you know they tell you about liver functioning, kidney functioning. He can tell you about inflammation with the the reactive protein. He can tell you about about heart health. We're looking at lipids and life protein, little la and homossisting. Blood testing is great to answer the right question. Okay, to thyroid, you don't look at thyroid and so alight because it is not a fact voluble or so you look at thyroid in the blood. So it's just a matter like this rob the saying, which test do I do based on the symptomatology that you gave me? Okay, so you do. The blood testing, and you want to do your testing to look at the metabolized especially in.

41:03 The cancer patient, Yes, you do that too. But the missing piece that nobody really talks about is that's aliva testing and measuring stress. You cannot manage what you cannot measure, So to to try and manage stress without being able to measure it through saliva testing or heart rate variability or something is very hard. To manage without that measurement. So anyway, this woman said, because Esragen eserg replacement therapy is safe. I think we already answered that question. Is that we don't like at least I don't like to look at carmos and isolation. So so yeah, so tell me what how would you answer if someone asks you, is es to replacement therapy is safe?

41:47 What would your answer be? Now? Okay, First, the question I would ask back to them is what do you get that? Where do you get that information from? Because we still need to understand where does that come from in someone's eyes, our mind's eye as to why they're asking that question. A lot of it is because of the study. And then number two, you have to think through estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, all the hormones in our body. You were producing so much more of that in your pre mental puzzle years than what you're producing now. So if you were to look at that on actual blood testing, gosh, that would mean the estrogen that your body produced over years was just not safe. You have to think through that. But what we're doing is not saying, okay, let's put estrogen in every body.

42:33 What we're doing is saying, let's test to find out where the balance is that's needed. And then when you provide the balance for a patient. Then estrogen is safe. Okay, that's what I would say. That's yep, that isunded. More and more like me is. But you know what, that is what I'm trying to do, and you know the other. Okay, so let's let's answer this and then should I have my quartosol level tested? So what is the all right? So I'll answer that. You can answer. Okay. Now here's what. Usually when people say that they look at their quartosol. They get a morning seven eight am quartersol in the blood.

43:13 Right, So it's a couple of problems wrong with that. One. When you have to get to the lab draw at eight o'clock in the morning, that means the arm probably woke you up. They're all discobobulated. You know, you usually sleep till nine, but you had to go to eight, so your quartosol is up. Okay, So when you actually woke up and during that normal day, your quartozol might have been down, but you had so many stress to get there. So now your blood quarters are like, oh, well, your morning portosol's planing. I want to know the quarta's always she woke up. We do the saliva testing thirty minutes after wake up. So then you're like, Okay, this is why she wakes up and still feels froggy or whatever. So you want to do saliva testing because then you can and who wants to get their blood round four times during the day, You can take the saliva sample four times during the day.

43:57 When you get that curve that I showed you in those slides quartisol, I think is the best way to do it, and do it through life, so. You can answer, you can give me your answer. I totally believe that to be the case as well, because when you go to your healthcare provider, you're getting one moment snapshot in time of what your cortisol is, and like doctor Taylor said, it changes throughout the course of the day. So to get a clear picture is better to be able to look at what's going on with those four time frames. But not only that, then it provides a clue for us that, oh, you're going to wake up at night because your cortosol is right here at this certain time of day, And then we can answer that puzzle for you and say, Okay, you say, why am I waking up? This is why you're waking up because this is what we see in your hormone panel and also what we see with your cortisol level.

44:49 Yeah, I think the last question is what's the biggest misconception we'll have about cortosol. Can you pull up that the slide that I have right now, and I'm going to say, here's the biggest misconception. When people feel like they're stressed, they say, oh, I know my cortisol is high. No, most of the time your cortisol is low. Cortisol is your adaptation harmone. So it helps you to adapt to changes in your environment externally and internal. So when you don't have enough, you cannot adapt appropriately. Okay, So now you're stressed because you can't. You don't have the energy to do what you used to do. So people try and act like cortisol is bad. Oh, it's a steroid. You can't take steroid harmones. You like Miss Robins said, when you were high performing, you had a lot of quartisol. I guarantee you you were up here, okay, and that cortisol made you stress, but you were productive.

45:42 But when you're down here, cortasov you're still stressed, but there's not enough cortisol to handle that. There's not enough glucos being mobilized to your brain and everything. So that is the misconception. I'm doing it. I'm doing a YouTube video about a book called The Safety is a Cortisol that was written by enyphrenologist in like nineteen fifty or sixty, and he's talking with it. That's that's where I learned this from. Cortisol is not bad. Cortisol is very but too much cortisol or too little quartisol is bad. And that's with any harmone. Too much estrogen or too little esergen bad. Too much progesterone or too little present, too much insulin or too little insulin is bad. Everything is like that. So the misconception is that cortisol is not your enemy. Normal cortisol is what helps you to adapt to this environment. But if you don't have enough, can adapt to new situations of menopausal too much exercise, it's your adaptation harmone. So anyway, that's my answer to that.

46:46 Everything that's the misconception about cortisol is not high cortisol. That's usually the problem is low cortisol that makes you feel like that. Yes, the only thing I would add to that is that what we end up doing as high performing women that we then self medicated with caffeine, or we end up trying to over exercise. We keep we start doing over too much to try to compensate for what's going on with our cortisol levels, and it only makes us function just above what we would want to be during the course of the day, but then it drops us back down with the crash, be it eating the wrong foods or having too much caffeine during the course of the day, and by three o'clock you're like, Okay, why am I jittery after I had my caffeine? I thought it would be okay. Well, you took a stressed out body and added caffeine on top of it. It's like taking jet fuel and putting into a race car. Those two don't go together at all.

47:41 And you know, the other thing that I want to show about that discrepancy and energy is that people feeling that with caffeine and carbohydrates. Yes, people will come in and they're trying to lose weight and they say, no, I crave sweet. I'm like, that's counterintuitive. You're a smart woman and you're eating carbohydrates and thinking of it, and I tell you, you have crazy. You're searching for energy. If we can get your quotas all up, your cravings will go away. Then you're going to be so hey, we're about to but I want to end this. I know you have the we have the things grolling. We're going to put her information in here. But this is what I want to say. If you're somebody who likes who is like miss Roberts, who would like to carry this information, because let me tell you, you can do it one on one, Okay, contact me, because this Robinson, I'm giving you a way to have a library of my information to help you learn how to help patience. And that's what I'm trying to provide for people. You're not learning this on our own. I have information to feed her and everything. And so we're entering too this kind of relationship.

48:42 And I'd like to have more people like her. And you don't have to have. Thirty years of experiencing pharmaceuticals, right. You just have to be a woman who is going through this and wants to find the answer and wants to help somebody else. See one, do one, teach one. That's what medicine is all about. This Robinson, we overtime but just give your list your party shots and what we will call them a day. Okay, Yeah, what I will say is, if you're seeking that help, which I know you are, go to Faithfully Strong Wellness dot Com and reach me there and we will get that executive cognitive edge on it. Done with you, I say, with you, because you're not alone in this, in this anymore. There's someone here, someone here who can help you, someone who's been through it, and someone who will help you figure out the strategy to get to the performance you are always used to doing every single day.

49:30 Yeah. And the reason why I'm doing this because hey, look, I'm at the end of my career. I'm into the end of my career and I'm trying to I'm trying to keep this going. So please company. I can't I can't see all these paces. I can't, but there's people out there who I want to help help other people. So join me next week and we'll we'll continue this journey. All right. Thank you everybody, Thank you for providing the questions. Thank you, Miss Roberts. It's always a pleasure to work with you. All right, see you guys. Right, thanks for joining doctor 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 nine am Eastern Time on W FOURC Radio at w FOURC dot com. Together, we discovered ancient secrets to better health through science and spirituality made for modern times.

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