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Here's your host, Doctor Eldred Taylor.
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Okay, this is doctor Taylor and this is the Ageless
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Blueprint and we are so blessed to have someone here,
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Jackie Roberts. This is someone who I met and we
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just kind of gotten got a line. The reason why,
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I think is so important because she is actually an
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insider in the pharmaceutical industry and she actually understands how
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the pharmaceutical industry looks at women and how they may
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have not actually done everything for women, and they should.
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So this is Jackie Roberts. She spent thirty years in
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the pharmaceutical industry and now she helps high performing women
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get through difficult stages in their life. And I'm just
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so happy to have her here and I'm hoping that
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this is something that can enhance our audience and her.
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So Ms Roberts, how are you doing.
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I'm doing great today, doctor Taylor.
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Thank you so much, tend I just want to make
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sure your viewers understand as well. I came from a
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medical background, so I spent years in laboratory medicine before
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I transition to pharmaceuticals, so I know the lab site
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is along with the other side of things as far
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as what's going on in the pharma in the market
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industry as well. I retired from that industry in November
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of twenty twenty five. So here I'm helping women every
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single day.
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Well, well good, I think the reason why we align
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because I'm, you know, trying to do the same thing.
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You know the lab part, you know the drug and
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medicine part, and then you also know the spiritual part,
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and so that's That's kind of what I've been trying
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to do is to is to have objective testing, to
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have you know this, understand how it affects the body,
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how you can change it, and then that also helps
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you to connect spiritually. So that is my whole thing,
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is a doctor trying to connect body, mind and spirit.
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So that's enough about me. I really want to know
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how you got down that transitional road to where you
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are now, where you're actually helping other women. So let's
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hear your story.
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Well, I'd love to share that. I can tell you
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that I'm sixty three. I'm proud to say that because
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I know I looked good. But one of the reasons
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why I looked good is because I figured it out.
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A lot of women go through what we call the
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change or menopause, and they never figure out how to
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transition because they have fifteen minutes of time with their
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healthcare providers.
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Thank you, doctor Taylor for being one of those.
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Providers who actually spends the time to figure out the puzzle.
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But mine didn't.
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So when I went through menopause, I had you know,
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surgical menopause that stopped my periods, but then I still
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had the symptoms related to it, and I had to
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really figure out the puzzle myself to be able to
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thrive again.
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And other than that, I was just blanking on words
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at work.
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I was having symptoms that were disrupting my life when
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I was talking to healthcare providers or professionals in my industry.
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And once I figured that puzzled out, puzzle out, I
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figured out that other women didn't know what either. So
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when I came out of the industry, I said, how
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can I help women? With my laboratory medicine background, my
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pharmaceutical background, I used to sell formal replacement therapy as well,
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along with understanding the market when it comes to managed care,
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because a lot of women don't understand when they're in
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front of that provider, and even if they have the
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right question, they may not get the answer they're looking for,
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or they may get lab results to say that they're
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normal and they go home and they say.
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Well, I feel horrible. What am I supposed to do
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with that? You know?
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So I want to make sure that those women who
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are high performers, which all of us are, have somewhere
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in someone to be able to help them figure that out.
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So that's why I start a faithfully strong wellness. And
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basically what I do is I'm the menopause strategists for
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them woman to help her figure out what's going on
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with her biological physiological state at the moment and how
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she can change that to make it better, not necessarily
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starting on HRT right away, but to figure out where
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they are first. A lot of times they are highly stressed,
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as you well know, whish their core is all that
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was through the roof.
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And they don't even realize that that's what's happening to them.
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So I found some success.
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Some women are really happy that they met me, and
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I want to make sure I help some more.
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Yeah, So you know, that's that's I think where we
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are alying because I started looking at this because I
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saw people on Facebook group and these women are so confused.
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They're saying, hey, they're asking other women to help interpret
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their lab results, and I'm like, oh my goodness. And
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I see one that you know, they'll say, hey, I
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tried my estrogen it was up here. Oh well, and
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these women are I was like, wow, you know, dude,
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I don't see people talking about that about gallbladders or
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you know, our heart. You don't see people you know,
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trying to give other people of medical advice. But you
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know that's why I, you know, I started this campaign
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called hormone Confusion. Is that everybody seems to be confused
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about hormones. And to be honest with you, I was
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confused about hormones when I finished my Obguayan residency. I
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talk about this a lot, but there's a lot of confusion.
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And this is uh, you know, I talk about my
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labs are normal and I still feel awful. Where did
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I get that from? I got it from all the
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patients who came in and were telling me that. So
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it's a lot of the women that you see. So
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but anyway, can you kind of tell me because most
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of the time people have a personal story. It's like
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I was doing all of this and that was mine.
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I was doing the things for my wife, who's a
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high performer and again all women are high performance, I believe,
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and it wasn't working. And so that's when I started
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trying to figure out something else because I was seeing
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at twenty four to seven in my household that it
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was doing all the things that you're talking about. So,
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so what made you transition from hey, I'm selling this
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hrt that the pharmaceutical industry is telling me to promote
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and how you kind of said, Hey, maybe this is
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not exactly what I should be doing.
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Yeah, Well, it's interesting to note that because there's been
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so much that's happened since I used to actually sell
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the drug that I did. And one of them is
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a study that came out that made women feel like
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they had to come off of their estrogen completely because of.
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A black box warning.
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And so by time I got to a point in
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my life where I could go on an estrogen, that
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estrogen no longer existed in the marketplace really in the
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form that it used to. And I can tell you
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that my symptoms that came on board were for me
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weight gain. I've always been very athletic, and I would
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work out like, no, tomorrow, do more working out, and
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I would.
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Gain weight in my middle.
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And I didn't understand that it was the cortisol that
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was happening from my job and the cortisol for me
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being trying to work out more that was causing me
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to gain more weight.
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Why because I had less estrogen.
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So once I got with the functional medicine provider, I
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begin to understand that you have to make sure you're
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balanced first, and your provider can give you a blood
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test or even a saliva test, but you have to
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also understand that those ranges are looking for disease, You're
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not looking for your optimal performance. So the healthcare provider
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will look at those ranges like they did for me
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and said okay, where everything is okay? And I said, well,
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it's not okay, and I advocated for myself and I
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found a functional medicine provider who said, okay, these say
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one thing, but your symptoms say another. Your symptoms speak
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louder than your labs do, and that's where we have
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to be able to advocate for yourself like I did,
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and say this isn't right. I'm gaining weight like I
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shouldn't be. I'm bleeding all day long and for weeks
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or time, I'm bleeding heavier than normal.
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Or either I'm having.
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Periods at fifty five when I didn't have one at
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fifty four. So all these things pop up for women
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and they don't understand it's the transition of their estrogen,
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their testosterone, their quartisol, their progesterone. There's other hormones involved
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as well as far as your follicle stimulating hormone is
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going down because you're going through the actual change, and
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that's what makes sure ovaries actually produced the egg. So
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for me, being as smart as I was, I was
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at a quandary. And once I figured out the puzzle
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by talking with the functional medicine provider and looking at
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the results with her, then I got on something that
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helped me.
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I want to buy you identical hormone.
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I love it.
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I've been on it for years.
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I will not go off of it, and it keeps
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me functioning. But not only that, my diet had to change.
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I had to make sure that I wasn't putting things
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in my body that were causing some of the issues
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that I was having. For instance, I'm not really good
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with gluten, but my dad was a baker, so don't
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work out that means I know how to bake, and
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I know how to bake very well, but I only
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have it.
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Doing the holidays. In a minute I do, it affects
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my body, so I don't have it as much.
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Like my son was banana bread. I said, you got
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to make it. I got everything out for him to
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make it.
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I'm not so yeah, So I think we talked and
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I told you that, you know, I look at it
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a little bit differently, you know, for twenty years, and
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so this is what I'll tell you. I mean, when
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I did my Obguan residency, we never really looked at
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blood because the blood was so confusing because one of
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the things is is that pre mental pozsal women could
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have irregular bleeding, they could have endemy trucks and you
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will look at their blood work and it would say
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it's normal, right, and you know, it's like, okay, that
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can't be right, okay, And then you you know, then
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I started seeing people who were post metal pusal they
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had endometrial cancer and their blood estrogen would be normal,
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and I'm like, that doesn't make sense, okay. So then
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I had a patient came in and asked me if
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I knew about saliva testing, and I said no, and
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I started looking at it and for and this is
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the thing that changed me, is that I finally found
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a lab that helped me match the symptoms. Because this
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is my thought, is that symptoms come after you've had
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a long line, you've had a lot of dysfunction. I mean,
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things have gone wrong for a while. By the time
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the symptom shows up. So I started saying, how can
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I get there before the symptom gets there? Because now
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this is what I'll tell you. When I was doing
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my residency, we stopped estrogen if they had a positive mammogram.
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Well, Well, this is what I'm saying is that the
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reason why there was a problem is because we didn't
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understand the balance between estrogen and progesterone. That's my whole thing.
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Estrogen causes growth, progesterone slows down the growth and increases development.
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So you're right, the stress causes you not to ovulate.
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When you don't ovulate, you don't make progesterone. When you
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don't make progesterone, you don't you don't have anything controlling
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the growth of the lining of your uterus. And also,
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ovulation is the menstrual timekeeper, so if you don't ovulate,
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your body doesn't know when to bleed, how long to bleed,
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all of that stuff. So what I found in saliva
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testing is that you can look at that balance of
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estrogen and progesterone, and if you keep that in balance,
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you can get you can prevent the symptoms from showing
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up because because you're helping them to maintain that balance