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starts now. Here's your host, Doctor Eldred Taylor.
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Hello, Hello, Hello, this is doctor Taylor and I am
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the Spiritual MD, and I am also the hormone doctor.
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Now today I'm going to be more of a hormone
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doctor because I'm going to talk about something that I've
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been doing for over thirty years is talking about saliva
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testing and the difference between saliva and blood testing. Now,
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I recently got on TikTok and I started talking about this,
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and I have over ten thousand followers and I've only
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been on it for like about six weeks, so I
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know this is a subject that is near and dear
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to people's hearts. And I had a lot of questions.
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They were asking me, can you explain more. I've never
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heard about this. My doctor has never told me about this.
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So I said, I need to do a long version
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to really a long version video or do a podcast
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to try and explain this so that people understand it.
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Here's what I've learned. You know, we wrote the book
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Are Your Hartmones Making You Sick? And The Stress Connection?
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Twenty five years ago, and I spent ten years speaking
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to doctors and speaking to lay people about saliva testing,
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but that I stopped doing that about ten or ten
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ten years ago, really because it wore me out, you know,
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flying to different places, you know, sitting in airports, having
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canceled flights, all of that. So I stopped. And when
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my patients came and told me, hey, look, I've been
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hearing some things on Instagram and TikTok and they're talking
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about how blood testing works. And I had one patient
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who tried it and it just messed her all up.
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And she came back and asked me to redo what
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we had done before. And I asked, why did you
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why did you stop? Well, I saw these people on
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Instagram and they were telling them about blood testing and
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pellets and all this. I decided, Look, I've got to
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fight fire with fire. I've got to go on social
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media and try and debunk a lot of these myths
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and this misinformation. Because I've been doing this for thirty
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years when it wasn't popular and nobody was really doing yet.
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But now it's popular and a lot of people have
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jumped on the bandwagon, and I'm just going to say
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it like it is. They don't know what they're doing.
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They don't and there's they're putting out a lot of
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misinformation and I've got to I've got to go where
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they are. That's what my patient told me. She says,
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you've got to get on Instagram and TikTok. And by
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the popularity that I've gained on TikTok, I know that
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that patient was right. And again, I do a lot
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of things because the patient has asked me to do it,
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and this is one of those things. So I listened
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to my patient, because when I listen to them, a
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lot of times they tell me something that I don't know.
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A patient is the one who introduced me to saliva
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testing and introduced me to bioidentical hormones. So I make
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it a fact. I make it a practice to listen
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to my patients. So this is what I'm trying to do.
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I'm trying to educate you, the public, about the difference
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in blood and saliva testing, so you can go in
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and demand the proper testing when you feel like you
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have a hormone problem. So I'm counting on you to
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grasp this information and to take it to the doctors
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or whoever, because I do a live question and answer
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every Tuesday night at seven o'clock in Ageless Blueprint. And
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one of my patients who've been with me for a
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long time, she said, you know, all I know is
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saliva testing, doct tale. I never even did any testing
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until I came to you. And she said, I try
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to tell my other doctors and they keep trying to
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convince me to stop. They keep trying to tell me
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that it doesn't it's wrong, and she knows it. I mean,
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she knows that that's not true. And she said she's
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just tired of talking to them, And I understand because
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I've gotten to that point too. But I believe that
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if enough patients go in and start demanding proper testing,
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that doctors will have to change their mind. So I'm
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counting on you. So let's start rebel. All right, I'm
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just going to be the blunt that your hormone, your
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blood hormone test is dead wrong. It's just they're just wrong. Okay.
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For decades we've relied on blood tests and measure hormones.
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At least most docs have now making critical health decisions
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based on these results. But what if the foundation of
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hormone testing has been fundamentally flowed all along. Today we'll
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explore the standard blood hormone tests might be misleading you
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and what alternatives could transform your health journey. And I'm
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telling you, you know, to be honest with you, I
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did an Obgane residency at Emory University here, and we
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never drew blood to look at blood levels. We never
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even considered looking at blood levels. And I'll show you
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why in just a second. So I never drew blood
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levels for hormones, and all of the residents everybody who
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trained with me, we just guessed, okay, and here's the guests.
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If your pre mental pausal, if you haven't gone through
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menopause yet, and you have any type of hormone problem,
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we are going to give you. We're going to give
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you birth control pills. And the only the only difference
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is what type of birth control pill are you going
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to take? But if you have endometrosis, if you have PMS,
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you have irregular bleeding, whatever you have, we gave you
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birth control pills. Now, when your postmental pausal, what we
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did was we gave you permanent and pervera, which is
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an estrogen and a type of progestine or type of progesterone.
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If you still had your uters, we gave you estrogen
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and progesterone are permanent pervera. If you didn't have your uters,
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we said, hey, you just need to take estrogen because
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we thought all women who are postmonal puzzle were estrogen deficient,
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but we found out that's not true. And if you
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look at saliva testing, you will know that that's not true.
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So I don't want to get ahead of myself. I'm
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trying to stay on points so that you can get
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every detail. But I just want you to know that
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your blood tests are dead wrong, and I will debate
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anybody on that fact. Okay, let's go to the next slide.
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I think I control it all right. Why didn't we
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draw blood tests when I was a resident? Because the
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textbook says that blood harmone testing has its limits. The
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medical literature said serum steroid hormone levels have limited clinical
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useful information. This isn't a fringe of pendent opinion. It's
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straight from the medical textbook. There's a textbook called the
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gyn Endochronology and it was written by A Leon Spiroff,
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and that's no doubt about it. The gold standard when
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we're looking at female in indochronology, female hormones, and it
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says blood testing or serum testing has no clinical value.
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All right, now, practicing physicians know the truth. During my
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entire Objuan residency, we virtually never drew blood hormone levels.
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It's not virtual. We never did or diagnosis a treatment monitoring.
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Why Because experienced physicians understand the limitations. They don't match
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the symptoms. Have you ever experienced clear hormone symptoms while
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the blood test results came back normal. This disconnect isn't rare.
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So just think women. Have you ever gone in to
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an obguan's office with any kind of complaint and they
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draw blood tests and they show you a level and say, oh,
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here's your problem. We have too much estragen and not
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enough progesterone. It's not done. And if it is done,
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they come up with excuses why the blood testing and
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the symptoms don't match. And I think that's the next slide.
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Then you go to that one. Let me see if
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I can control my slaves, all right, So this is
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why saliva works better. The LIVA testing measures the free
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bioactive hormones, the only ones that active actually affect your
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tissue and create symptoms. So let me explain this. So
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hormones estrogen, progesterone, testosterone they are, and cortisol they are
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fat soluble hormones. That means they are made from cholesterol.
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That's why even though these commercials try and act like
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cholesterol is bad for you, and it is if it's
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too high. But cholesterol is important. You make a lot
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of your brain cells are primarily a lot of fat.
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But also your hormones are made from cholesterol, so they
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are fat soluble. Your blood is water soluble, and everybody
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knows that ail and water they don't mix. So what
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happens is when the hormone comes from the ovary, it
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gets packaged in something called sex hormone binding glibular I
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relate sex hormone binding globular like a FedEx truck. So
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it gets picked up from the FedEx truck. But the
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blood measures is how much estrogen is in the FedEx truck. Okay,
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So there's a lot of packages in the FedEx truck,
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but only a few packages get delivered to the tissue.
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And let me tell you what the difference is. Okay,
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So let's say there are a one hundred packages in
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the FedEx truck. So that's what you see in the
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blood rolling around all right. Now, only one to two
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percent of those hardmones actually get delivered to the tissue,
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all right. So out of that hundred, one to two
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packages get sent to get delivered to the tissue whatever
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that is. And what we're measuring is in saliva. So
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you get packages of estrogen and you should get packages
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of progesterone to balance each other out. All right. Well,
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let's just think, let's say three packages get off the
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FedEx truck, all right, And the normal in the FedEx
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truck is anywhere from zero to one hundred, and that's
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considered be normal. All right. So if I know it's
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a long explanation, but I want you to understand this.
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now the amount in the tissue has doubled. It's gone
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from two to four. But in the fed X truck
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there's ninety six packages. And so because it's in the
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normal range, we say, oh, it's fine, you got plenty
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of You have plenty of packages, all right now. But
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in the saliva, I get to see, Wow, there's four
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packages of estrogen and I only have enough progesterone to
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balance out two of them. It is two of them,
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all right. Somebody asked a question. We'll get to that. Okay,
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So now you're out of balance. You've got four estrogen
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packages and only two progesterone packages. But the FedEx truck
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look like it's totally fan. So that's the difference. Okay.
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You can't measure what's floating around on the fed X truck.
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You have to measure how many packages did I get delivered?
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And if we know the normal range and the balance
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in the saliva gland. We can extrapolate that out and say, wow,
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there should be the normal balance in other tissues. That
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is the difference. Now, let me tell you what happens
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in menopause, and I'm going to get to that slat.
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In menopause, there's no estrogen being picked up from the
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ovary because the ovary is not not producing anything anymore
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your menopausal However, the fat tissue can take castosterone an
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angstine dion that comes from your adrenal gland, and it
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can convert that it's called aromatization into estrogen. So I
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believe God made it where women could maintain their femininity
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and really be able to create esrogen through their fat tissue.
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That's why most women have more fat tissue when you're
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talking about relatively, they have more fat tissue than men
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because they need that fat tissue because it's an extra
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production center for estrogen even if the ovary doesn't make it.
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So now you have to say, well, now if I
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have esogen coming from the ovary, and then I also
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have esogen coming from my fat tissue, and you never
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see the estrogen coming from your fat tissue in the
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blood because it's in the tissue. Now you have all
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of this estrogen and you may not have enough for
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jesteron to balance it out. So that's it. It's a
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long explanation, but I need to get this across because
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there's so much misinformation about this. Let's go to the
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next line. So, now here's what happens when you do
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a blood test and they don't match your symptoms, so
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they'll tell you that, oh, hormones changed too much. You've
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likely heard that harmone levels fluctuate too much to measure accurately.
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This misleading claim ignores a fundamental reality. Everything in your
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body fluctuates. Blood, sugar, sodium, potassium all changed throughout the day,
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yet we still test them. So you're amount of sodium
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and potassium all that, and it's constantly changing. But we
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know what the range is and the reason why this
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works in the blood because they're not fat soluble. They
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are actually water soluble. So these you can measure blood sugar, sodium.
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They're perfectly fine to measure in the blood. But when
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they're fat soluble, it goes back to that scenario that
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I just explained. Because there is a steady state of
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heartmone in the saliva. Okay, it fluctuates, but then there's