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This episode is bold, necessary, and deeply personal.
We’re diving into the truth about HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) and HGH (Human Growth Hormone), what women actually need, and why most of what you're told is incomplete, underdosed, or simply outdated.
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The real difference between HRT and HGH
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Why most doctors underprescribe (and what to do about it)
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What bloodwork matters—and what it’s NOT telling you
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Why testosterone is essential for women (yes, really)
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What happens when your progesterone disappears
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The risks and rewards of HGH (and how to do it safely)
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(00:10):
Hey there, listeners.
I am Joanne Lee Cornish, your Truth Bomb Dropper in the world of weight loss, body composition, and mastering the art of rocking the body you've always deserved and dreamed of in midlife and beyond.
Let's cut through the noise.
Society tells us it's downhill from now on.
We're told to embrace the middle age weight gain, embrace the muscle loss, and poor health.
(00:36):
If that's your vibe, then cool.
But if you're ready to defy the narrative, then I am your gal.
This podcast is.
A No Fluff podcast where we break down the essential truths of body composition, toss around some practical tips, and dissect the latest trends.
I'm not here to sugarcoat.
I'm here to show you what's not just possible, but down, out probable for you.
(01:02):
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Okay, let's get on with the podcast.
Enjoy.
(01:26):
Hey guys.
So I have quite a podcast series that I'm going to record today.
We're gonna be talking about HRT or H-G-H-H-G-H is hormone growth hormone.
We are gonna talk about, I'm just gonna run through some of the topics that I have planned out, but fat, estrogen and the cortisol lie we're gonna talk about, um.
(01:51):
The truth about what's being used off label for aging and fat loss.
We talk about peptides there.
I agree.
Look at some of the high level, what the high, high level athletes are doing.
I've gonna do one on menopause rage, libido lies.
Um, I'm gonna talk about, I.
(02:12):
Why you are not losing fat, midlife, thyroid, leptin, and reverse T three.
I haven't talked about reverse T three.
And we're gonna talk about filler fat transfers and biohacking your face in the midlife.
Um, and can you reverse aging or just delay it? What we know, what we pretend to know and what's absolutely bs.
So off the top of my head, there's some of the topics that are coming up in midlife mayhem, but I wanna go.
(02:39):
Back to my bodybuilding roots and go a little bit underground here.
And I wanna talk about HRT or HGH, what women really need and what no doctor will say about it.
So HRT, hormone replacement therapy, HGH, human growth hormone.
(03:02):
We are talking about here when the crossroads many women hit, many women and gentlemen hit after the age of 40, but especially after the age of say, 44.
And this crossroads is, should I consider hormone replacement therapy, human growth hormone? Either, either or none of them.
(03:22):
What most people are given, if they're lucky enough to get anything at all, is often a little too late and a little too little and a little too generic, you know, so they don't get enough.
They get it when they're already dealing with all the symptoms and they just get a one size pits all approach, which for women does not work.
(03:44):
And then when it doesn't work, you do your HRT, it doesn't work.
You having problems with it and then you're told, well, you know, it's just kind of part of aging.
It's a bit of hit or miss.
They'll say, well, swallowing it, it is not, or at least it doesn't have to be.
Now, the truth is that for women doing HRT and guys doing TRT, so women doing hormone replacement therapy and guys doing testosterone rep replacement therapy, it is a, it can be a very, very different experience.
(04:09):
So the ladies here are.
You know, juggling estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, thyroid.
I mean, the nature of a woman's body is that it goes through cycles every day.
Every day is a different level of hormones.
So you know, it, it gets a bit trickier and it takes more skill to be honest, to navigate that.
(04:31):
Whereas guys, you look at your testosterone, what's your free testosterone? Are you low? Here we go.
All right.
It's kind of a one jab, just different amounts.
So the women are a little bit trickier.
But what is happening about the, the midlife hormone? So for the ladies around the mid thirties onwards, hormone starts to decline.
So estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, they all take a nose dive, uh, but what's not talked about as much and what's not tested is hormone.
(04:57):
Human growth, hormone production also decreases, and it's decreasing about 15% per decade.
After the age of 30, the symptoms are of all.
Hormonal decline, brain fog, mood swings, dry crepey, skin, zero libido, belly fat that won't budge, loss of muscle tone, and so on and so forth.
(05:21):
We're told to that this is normal.
We're told to accept it, even celebrate it.
It's natural, but these symptoms are correctable.
But only if you're given the right tools.
And here's the kick up.
Most blood work comes back within range, even when the woman or the gentleman is suffering.
(05:45):
So this is because the ranges are built on averages.
They're not built on optimal or symptom-free living.
So you can be in range and still feel like.
A shell of your former self.
And also they'll say, oh, well you are in a normal range for a 58-year-old lady.
(06:06):
You're like, that's pretty crappy, right? I mean, I don't wanna feel like a normal 58 lady.
I wanna feel like, you know, I did when I was 30.
And there's nothing wrong with that, that is talking about being optimal.
None of us expect to go back and be like 22, and I doubt many of us would want to go back and be 22.
But most women have a pretty realistic.
(06:27):
Expectation or hope of HRT.
They just wanna get back to being themselves.
Uh, a happy mind, a responsive body, energetic, able to sleep, you know, turned on by the partner and, and, you know, muscle tone and a clear, non-anxious mind.
(06:49):
I think that's most what most women.
Are hoping for, uh, trying to get back to, and the guys themselves that, that they want their testosterone replacement and they, they're just wanting, they don't think they're gonna be some 16-year-old, like.
A kid with a, I dunno, acne face and a hard on or something.
I mean, you know, they just wanna get back to feeling energetic, you know, motivated, more driven.
(07:14):
You know, we're all just trying to get back to a, a, a place that we, we used to be, and that isn't necessarily, you know, in our teenagers or early twenties.
So with regards to HRT, what is prescribed and what.
Actually work.
So most conventional doctors will if they do anything at all.
I still have people contact me every single week asking for referrals for doctors, I have, I dunno what's going on in Los Angeles.
(07:43):
I have so many people in LA contact me because they can't get anybody to prescribe them, say testosterone.
It's loss angels.
How is this possible? So they're asking me in Idaho, if I can refer somebody to help them prescribe their HRT.
They're saying either the doctors won't do it or they're all now guru doctors.
(08:07):
And it's, you know, $2,000 to walk through the door.
Let's get real.
So what's mostly happening with conventional doctors? You come up with your own definition of what a conventional doctor is, but they'll offer a low dose patch or cream for estrogen.
They may be a little progesterone if you have a uterus.
They'll usually start with that and rarely will they prescribe testosterone and almost never at a meaningful dose.
(08:33):
And I have a real issue with that.
So let's talk about the, um, the patches for the women, the estradiol patch.
Now, personally, I've used the cream and the patch.
I have a much better result with the, the patch.
And if you haven't used them, it's the tiny, you don't even know if you've got it on.
You change it twice a week, uh, you can't see it.
(08:55):
It's amazing.
And the patches are, you know, 0.25,
uh, sorry, 0.22
5.05.
Uh, maybe one milligram.
Uh.
Believe there's also a 0.33.
Progesterone might be a hundred milligram oral, uh, tablet taken at night, and testosterone might be a one milligram compounded cream, which is, so a lot of the times that's, we'll get one milligram compounded cream.
(09:21):
Now I did that for a while.
One milligram.
It did nothing.
That's often that, that's often, if the doctors will even prescribe it, they'll give you such a ridiculously low dose and they'll say, well, testosterone didn't work for you because you gave me one, one unit.
I'm now taking, uh, four units and feel fantastic.
(09:44):
But there was a time that I took, uh, one, one unit for, uh, a long time and it did nothing.
Um, so what are the, the safer ranges, the safer ranges for women? Estradiol closer to a 0.75,
up to a 0.1,
uh, uh, 0.075,
up to a 0.1
milligram patch.
(10:04):
Personally, I am on a one milligram patch.
Now I will say that I've had ladies that started with that and it was too much, and they went down to the 0.05
milligram patch.
So that one definitely depends on what your, where your estrogen is to start with, you know, going by your blood work.
Um, progesterone optimal is gonna be more like a two milligram, um, especially for sleep.
(10:28):
So if you're a lady that's just getting into the throes of it and you just can't sleep, progesterone is like a natural Xanax.
I, I, I don't even know how else to describe it.
And that's actually my doctor's description.
Um, not my, not my own.
I'll tell you a story about progesterone.
(10:50):
My doctor in Los Angeles, very dear friend of mine, you might have heard me talk about him, and he died.
He passed away and I ran out of my progesterone and I had to find a new doctor to work with, and it was a couple of months where I didn't have it and I could not sleep.
Oh my gosh.
The anxiety came back.
The heart rate came back.
(11:12):
The, uh, just wired couldn't sleep.
The whole thing when I.
Um, met up with my nurse practitioner, Abby Rose, the lady I work with now.
And I got my prescription for progesterone now.
He meant to take it at night 'cause it'll help you sleep.
(11:32):
I literally like a drug addict.
I popped that pill in the parking lot of Walgreens.
I was so desperate to get, to get some progesterone in me and I felt instantly better.
And that's a, a 200 milligram, uh, capsule.
And of tool for testosterone is gonna be closer to two to five, um, milligrams a day In a topical form, I take an a topical form.
(11:56):
I use it on the inside of my wrist, inside of my thighs symptoms, women still have on the low doses, so they're being given HRT and what's happening when it's not working, when it's just too low poor sleep.
You're still not getting any sleep.
No libido, uh, weight gain or just weight not shifting.
(12:17):
The anxiety is still there.
Maybe it's vaginal dry dryness, and if you're getting checked, then bone loss.
And why is this happening? This is happening because the dosages prescribed are based on liability, fear, not on optimal outcomes.
And when it doesn't work, women are being told that the therapy fails.
Well, I guess you just weren't a good candidate.
(12:40):
And so women give up.
And, uh, uh, and you know, they, they, oh, didn't, it didn't work for me.
Well, women are a bit more complicated.
You know, our hormones are fluctuating in all the time, but you do have to find a health.
Provider that is confident enough to coach you in this.
And I think too often they are not confident in this.
(13:01):
They're not really even trained in this.
And because of that fear, which is actually probably a pretty legitimate fear, right? Because if you really don't know anything about it, you probably shouldn't be prescribing it.
Then they, uh, err on the side of caution with very low dosages, but that doesn't help the lady who's still suffering the arsenal of, of symptoms, which is.
(13:23):
Greatly impacting her quality of life.
So again, either they won't prescribe.
I had one friend who was told that, um, California, sorry, um, California, that HRT was just a in vogue thing right now.
Really, really in vogue.
(13:47):
Like female health is going to go outta fashion or something.
I personally was told by a doctor in Idaho when I asked about HRT and they actually said to me, that's very much a California thing.
Get that totally just disregarded it.
I was, was happy to give some referrals.
I can't knock him, but, um, that's very much a California thing.
(14:08):
Just didn't ask me how I was feeling if I was suffering about it.
You know, why I, you know.
Ah, so it's getting somebody to prescribe it, especially the testosterone.
Why on earth doctors are not willing to prescribe ladies testosterone.
I had, I have one lady in Texas and she had a doctor that told her, oh, well you've just, I see all these women going out round with muscular arms.
(14:36):
You don't want to look like that, do you? Well, that's nice for one.
Maybe she does wanna be the woman walking around with muscular arms.
Thank you for your judgment.
And I don't think TRT is actually going to do that, and he should know that as well.
So you've got this little bit of a, not little bit, you've got this bias going on with some doctors and you know, don't, don't even bother trying to persuade them.
(15:02):
Just, just move on.
I'm sure that skillset is somewhere else.
Um.
When it comes to your, your health and midlife, you haven't got a second to waste.
You haven't got a year to waste.
You certainly haven't got a decade to waste.
So again, the optimal are still safe ranges for women that, uh, are, I would encourage you to discuss is estradiol closer to 0.05
(15:24):
to 0.1
in on the patch.
However, it can be advisable to start lower than that.
Um.
The progesterone.
Awesome.
A lot of people start with progesterone.
I know the, the progesterone was the first thing I ever took.
Um, a lot of ladies.
It's, it's the sleep and, uh, low level of anxiety that's going on at first.
(15:45):
Everything else is kind of, okay.
So the progesterone, yes, there's a one mil, a hundred milligram, but you mean the 200 is, uh, is especially useful, especially for sleep and the testosterone, which is notoriously under prescribed.
We're talking about, you know, two to five, uh, milligrams a day.
(16:05):
What is the fear? Oh my gosh, you're gonna grow a beard.
Well, you're not just cooking.
No.
Have I heard of that? Yes.
With the ladies that were injecting it in higher doses, that some women do, um, inject lower doses.
Uh, and for me, the, the cream has worked fantastically, but it had to be in, uh.
(16:31):
A, a great enough compounded dose.
What then about HGH human growth hormone? Well, for one, if your doctor doesn't know anything about HRT, you can kind of forget HGH, right? This is, this is very taboo.
So human growth hormone is produced by the fatuity and it is critical for muscle retention.
(16:59):
Uh, skin thickness, back burning, tissue repair, sleep regulation.
Uh, but when's the last time somebody checked your growth hormone? When Well, or if it was checked when somebody, what's the last time a doctor actually pointed it out to you and was like, oh, wow.
Look at this.
(17:19):
Yeah.
So again, up to the age of 30, production drops significantly.
By the time you're 50, you're producing a fraction of what you did in your twenties.
So one that what then happens when human growth hormone is low sagging skin, poor healing, increased fat storage, loss of lean mass, poorer muscle tone, bit of a sluggish metabolism.
(17:47):
What then happens when we replace human growth hormone? You start to get leaner, especially visceral fat skin thickens, uh, muscle gains improve with training.
You don't just take growth hormone grow, grow muscle, you've actually gotta do something to stimulate the muscle.
(18:11):
But what happens is you're more likely to get the results of your training.
Recovery speeds up for sure.
And also libido and mood may improve.
What's the downside of human growth hormone? Well, one's gonna be expensive.
Um, I don't even know how much it is now, but I'm gonna guess it's about two grand a month.
(18:34):
It requires a doctor oversight.
I'll say that again.
It requires doctor oversight.
Don't just be going tapping some guy on the shoulder in the gym, uh, and getting the bros version, it's legal.
HCH is only, is only prescribed for a diagnosed deficiency or adult growth hormone disorder.
(18:56):
So that's when it can get a bit murky.
So you might have to get a doctor that, um.
Is creative.
Uh, but there has to be a legit, you know, a legit, legit deficiency there.
Uh, you have to have a doctor watch what you're doing on that.
(19:16):
The, the, the benefits are rather nice.
What is it? There's a lot of controversy.
People are terrified when they hear human growth hormone anyway.
I just, if I, I'm, I'm just talking about it.
I'm not taking it, but, um, certainly would be nice.
But the controversy, so, and, and honestly, what would, what would put a lot of women off, uh, myself included, there's a lot of water retention initially, so that is because of it triggering aldosterone and other guys don't mind that.
(19:51):
But the ladies, you know, if you are gonna gain, you know, five.
Eight pounds of bloat before the fat stops dropping.
That, that might not be fun.
Um, some people get joint pain and carpal tunnel like symptoms, and that's because of the water retention that can happen at first.
(20:12):
And there's definitely a concern about stimulating the growth of existing cancer cells, which is why you have to do this under a doctor's supervision.
Does everything grow? You know, human growth or you take growth from everything is gonna grow.
Uh, and you, it, gosh, if I go back to my bodybuilding years, but actually before my bodybuilding years, so when a lot of this stuff was legal and the, the guys' jaws used to grow, so the jaws would actually grow, the bones would grow and that's when they were using cadaver growth hormone and they'd get gaps in their teeth because they, their jaws literally widened, so their teeth became more spaced out.
(20:52):
That that was interesting.
I remember, I, so I won't, I won't mention the name because it's a pretty famous guy, but my dentist in Santa Monica, he was working on one of the bodybuilder's teeth, his teeth, and he'd asked him, are you taking anything? No, no, no, I'm not.
No.
Are you sure? Because you know it's gonna affect the, the work I'm doing on your teeth.
(21:14):
No, no, no.
I'm not.
I'm not, not.
So this guy was actually getting his gums, uh, cut back the gum.
What is it to to have cut some of the gums away, I guess? I dunno.
And No, no, no.
I'm not taking anything.
And my dentist was my friend and he told me this story and so he did this surgery on this guy and the guy's gums grew over his teeth and the guy was the bodybuilder, was furious with my dentist.
(21:42):
My dentist was furious with the bodybuilder and because he's like.
You know, if he's taking growth hormone and I cause injury to him by cutting his gums back, it's gonna cause hypergrowth.
And this guy's gums grew over his teeth.
How crazy is that? Uh, and they're all mad at each other, but, um, you know, it was a bodybuilder to blame.
So it does everything grow.
(22:05):
And if you're using excessive dosages, uh, this guy, believe me.
Walking on 300 pounds, he was using excessive dosages at a physiological or moderate therapeutic dose.
There's little evidence that normal use of HS grows tumors, but if you have an active cancer, and there begs the question, how do you know if you have an active cancer? Then you have to stay away because it.
(22:33):
Does, you know, cell proliferation and that's why the skin's so good.
It speeds up, uh, you know, speeds up healings, uh, wounds heal, uh, quicker, uh, recovery, uh, skin.
So, no, there is a, there is a legit risk with taking growth hormone, but especially when these people are taking excessive dosages and, you know, we can increase our own growth hormone by, you know.
(22:57):
400% by doing HIIT training, um, resistance training, getting enough sleep.
You know, growth hormone is produced when we sleep.
So if you're not sleeping enough, your growth hormone's gonna be low.
So right off the bat, we can improve our own growth hormone by sleeping enough and do resistance training with a little bit of hi, can increase our own growth hormone by a lot.
(23:20):
So.
For one, you'd have to find a, a creative doctor and spend a lot of money, and you can see how there's a little bit of, um, a little bit of stuff you don't want there.
The, the water retention will put me off right there, but, um, the guys don't care about that.
I remember there was another guy, he was, again, I'm talking about excessive dosages here, but, uh, his back would go numb.
(23:47):
So some, some type of neuropathy.
He was temporary, but.
Yeah, what are the other choices? So a smarter middle ground is the use of peptides, so the peptides that we can use for, um, to stimulate your own growth hormone and are CJC 1292 elin.
(24:08):
And there's, uh, Teslin and there's also five amino one mq, which I sell.
Uh, sell, uh, go to five amino.com.
Absolutely love that stuff.
I probably don't promote that enough on this podcast, huh? Yeah, five Amino is, um, an amazing peptide, and if you go to my YouTube channel, so Joanne, uh, at Joanne Lee Cornish, I, I've post a lot of videos about five amino on there.
(24:36):
But anyway, I feel like I'm always plugging something.
The peptides CJC, uh.
12.95
Upper Molin, uh, Tess Molin and five meter one mq.
These do not replace hormone growth hormone.
Instead they stimulate your pituitary to produce more of your own.
(24:57):
So why would you choose peptides over the real stuff? Well, it's cheaper.
Fewer side effects.
It's a more natural signaling.
Your body's creating the hormone.
It's not a synthetic replacement, and there's less risk, period.
I'm not saying there's no risk, but there's less risk period, and there's definitely less risk of, of overgrowth.
(25:19):
But again, that overgrowth really comes with abuse.
What can you expect? What can you, if you choose to use these peptides, what, what, what can you, what can you expect better sleep within a few days? Ladies, how many of you would like that? And imagine if you couple that with the progesterone.
Better sleep within a few.
(25:40):
Imagine some ladies are listening to this.
Imagine what life is like with sleep.
Well, I'll tell you, it is pretty nice.
What else can you expect? Fat loss over about one to two months.
It's not gonna be overnight fat loss of one to two months, and that's the way you want to lose fat.
Anytime you crash weight off, it's coming back.
(26:00):
Muscle recovery improves.
Skin quality may improve over time.
Oh my gosh.
Skin quality, probably Of all the questions I get, uh, crepey skin, sagging skin is in the top three.
Now I've done a podcast on, I have done a podcast right on loose skin and, uh, G-H-K-C-U.
(26:25):
So G-H-K-C-U is a copper peptide that I personally swear by, uh, for, and my skin's absolutely so much better for it.
But yeah, I did a po I did do a podcast on this.
Just go, just go back a few, maybe a month.
So you get better sleep within a few days.
Fat loss over say couple of months.
Muscle recovery improves, skin quality may improve over time.
(26:47):
It's not gonna happen straight away.
What is the cycle here? So, um, you need to cycle them.
So especially this aor and that, that if you're using 'em all the time, that they're not gonna work as well.
So you want to use them and stop for a while.
They also may not work that well if you're severely deficient.
(27:08):
So if you have got the growth hormone of a 200 year old, you know, you get my drift, then you know, you can't expect miracles.
So it might, it's not gonna work as well as obviously the real stuff, and it might not work as well if you're severely deficient.
So again, you've gotta start by doing your own work.
Are you sleeping enough? What type of training are you doing? You know, you've gotta help yourself and that these are supplement.
(27:34):
And the drawbacks.
They're, um, some of them can be injections, which, which a lot of people don't like.
Uh, I know the, the five amino that I sell is not an injection.
It is very stable.
It's in a capsule form.
So what should a woman do? We come about Ladies here, you No, no, I'm talking about people here.
(27:57):
Sorry.
Let me, let me.
You can do nothing and hope the situation gets better, which it won't.
Never heard that.
I've heard women get used to it.
I've heard of women that when they get through perimenopause and they just get into menopause, that they say life's a lot better because they, they're not in that rollercoaster of hot flashes and things like that, but better, optimal, no.
(28:26):
So you can do nothing about it.
Your choice, fine.
Some people sail through all of this.
Knock yourself out.
You can accept a minimal underdose hormone replacement and still struggle because you're working with a doctor that isn't confident, confident, confident enough to dose correctly.
Um, always not willing to listen to what you're dealing with.
(28:50):
Or you can find a pre practitioner who treats based on symptoms, not just lapse.
Someone who will prescribe the optimized doses of hormone replacement therapy or for the guys at testosterone replacement therapy therapy, somebody that is going to monitor your progress with regular follow-ups.
Now, ladies, that's really important because our hormones change so much.
(29:14):
You can't just go in once a year.
Uh, at least twice at first, you're probably gonna be going in there maybe every six weeks.
Every three months, it's worth it.
And a, a practitioner that maybe uses peptides is informed about peptides and maybe, maybe, uh, if indicated, maybe would prescribe a low dose of human growth hormone Things to check first.
(29:41):
You know, I always say the answers in your blood work, the answer is always in the blood work.
Check your blood sugar and your insulin levels.
Check your inflammatory markers, your CRP, your c uh, reactive protein, your homeo cysteine Check your IGF one.
This is an indicator of your growth hormone levels.
IGF one.
It might be in your blood work.
(30:02):
Look for that, but I bet nobody's actually pointed out to you.
Mm-hmm.
And also, you want a full thyroid panel.
So you want your TSH, your thyroid stimulating hormone.
You want your free T three, your free four, and your reverse T three.
Now I'm gonna do a, a separate podcast on reverse T three.
It is kind of fascinating, so your need to do your blood work, but think things like you need to understand that full thyroid panel because that can be, you know, thrown some of the symptoms at you.
(30:28):
But look for that IGF one.
You might benefit from the bioidentical, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone.
You might benefit from peptides to support your.
Natural growth hormone pathways, and you'll always benefit from strategic training and protein intake to, to maximize results.
If you are not training, if you are not sleeping, if you are not eating correctly, do not expect HRT or, or peptides or indeed human growth hormone to do the work for you.
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It won't happen.
So I guess my message here is there's a lot of stuff out there.
Uh, it is fascinating.
Some of it is bordering on miraculous.
Like for me, the five amino one MQ is, um, a game changer and the the copper peptide, the G-H-K-C-U is a, is a game changer.
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The BPC 1 57 for.
Uh, healing and, and skin also is a game changer.
Completely fixed my shoulder.
And again, go to my YouTube John Lee Cornish guy.
I just did a video on this.
There's some amazing, amazing protocols out there right now.
You do not need to settle for declining energy, poor sleep, and an unrecognizable body.
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If you are willing to do the work, then you deserve to work with a health practitioner that, uh, will work with you.
Uh.
You need information, you need opinions, and you need bold decisions made by people who treat symptoms.
I.
Now, I'm not saying that doctors are trying to fail you here.
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They're not, nobody's trying to do your harm or keep something away from you.
They're just trained within systems that prioritize disease over optimization.
And some of them are very nervous.
And maybe there's the legality of it, I mean of, of ever prescribing out of the, um.
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Suggested standard range, you know, that they, they, they vein nervous and cautious about dealing with optimization over just treating a disease state.
And if a doctor's not comfortable doing this, then give them a break as well.
Don't work with them.
It's, you know, they're probably fantastic at something else.
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I think too, after we expect doctors to do everything, we, we expect them to be jack of all treats.
Like my doc doctor didn't tell me what to eat, he's a doctor.
I.
He's our nutritionist.
He, he's your doctor.
Like, oh, I didn't even mention training.
He's a doctor.
It's, I think, 'cause sometimes we, we, we, we get a, we give him a hard time and it's, it's not fair.
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So if you wanna feel strong, uh, vibrant, hormonally supported, you have to get curious.
You have to get educated yourself, and sometimes it's worth at least looking outside of the box.
And, uh, the outside of the box is pretty visible right now.
So if you wanna help, I mean start with education, start with your labs.
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Start with looking at your blood work, uh, and start asking better questions.
If you ask better questions, you will get better answers, because midlife is not the end.
It's the beginning of your.
The next, next best chapter And for, for a lot of people, you know, once they get into the forties and fifties, I mean the, their sixties and even their seventies can be the most vibrant decade of their life.
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Some people, they have more time, they have a little bit more money, they, they're able to really, you know, live large.
In, in the sixties and seventies, even eighties.
But I mean it, the decades where people think it's downhill can actually be the best decades of people's lives.
And it's a shame that when people aren't feeling the best and they're doing the work, they're, they're, they're not supported.
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But I must stress that there's, there's a responsibility to educate yourself now, educate yourself through programs like mine.
Uh, but, but educate yourself so you can ask better questions.
And if you don't like the answers that you get.
Then you have to educate and source somebody else to work with you.
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And there are fabulous doctors out there.
And I, like I say, the lady I work with now is a nurse practitioner.
Uh, ladies, you can go onto menopause.org
and you can look for people that, um, that actually says that, you know, the, the people that actually prescribe HRT.
So that is it for HRT versus HGH.
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We live in exciting times, people.
This, uh, we don't have to Now, HRT isn't for everybody.
That's not what I'm saying.
And optimizing growth hormone maybe is of no interest to, to you whatsoever.
Some people, ladies and gents go through midlife, carefree.
They sail through it.
I have a couple of clients, totally fine.
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Good for them.
Why would you mess with that? They're great.
Why would you mess with that? But the majority, I mean, I'm gonna say, you know, 90% of people, uh, struggle.
And I'm gonna say, uh, I'm, I'm gonna say 40% of ladies really struggle to the point that it is life and relationship altering, and it just doesn't have to be that way.
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Hey guys.
So I have quite a podcast series that I'm going to record today.
We're gonna be talking about HRT or H-G-H-H-G-H is hormone growth hormone.
We are gonna talk about, I'm just gonna run through some of the topics that I have planned out, but fat, estrogen and the cortisol lie we're gonna talk about, um.
(01:51):
The truth about what's being used off label for aging and fat loss.
We talk about peptides there.
I agree.
Look at some of the high level, what the high, high level athletes are doing.
I've gonna do one on menopause rage, libido lies.
Um, I'm gonna talk about, I.
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Why you are not losing fat, midlife, thyroid, leptin, and reverse T three.
I haven't talked about reverse T three.
And we're gonna talk about filler fat transfers and biohacking your face in the midlife.
Um, and can you reverse aging or just delay it? What we know, what we pretend to know and what's absolutely bs.
So off the top of my head, there's some of the topics that are coming up in midlife mayhem, but I wanna go.
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Back to my bodybuilding roots and go a little bit underground here.
And I wanna talk about HRT or HGH, what women really need and what no doctor will say about it.
So HRT, hormone replacement therapy, HGH, human growth hormone.
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We are talking about here when the crossroads many women hit, many women and gentlemen hit after the age of 40, but especially after the age of say, 44.
And this crossroads is, should I consider hormone replacement therapy, human growth hormone? Either, either or none of them.
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What most people are given, if they're lucky enough to get anything at all, is often a little too late and a little too little and a little too generic, you know, so they don't get enough.
They get it when they're already dealing with all the symptoms and they just get a one size pits all approach, which for women does not work.
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And then when it doesn't work, you do your HRT, it doesn't work.
You having problems with it and then you're told, well, you know, it's just kind of part of aging.
It's a bit of hit or miss.
They'll say, well, swallowing it, it is not, or at least it doesn't have to be.
Now, the truth is that for women doing HRT and guys doing TRT, so women doing hormone replacement therapy and guys doing testosterone rep replacement therapy, it is a, it can be a very, very different experience.
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So the ladies here are.
You know, juggling estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, thyroid.
I mean, the nature of a woman's body is that it goes through cycles every day.
Every day is a different level of hormones.
So you know, it, it gets a bit trickier and it takes more skill to be honest, to navigate that.
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Whereas guys, you look at your testosterone, what's your free testosterone? Are you low? Here we go.
All right.
It's kind of a one jab, just different amounts.
So the women are a little bit trickier.
But what is happening about the, the midlife hormone? So for the ladies around the mid thirties onwards, hormone starts to decline.
So estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, they all take a nose dive, uh, but what's not talked about as much and what's not tested is hormone.
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Human growth, hormone production also decreases, and it's decreasing about 15% per decade.
After the age of 30, the symptoms are of all.
Hormonal decline, brain fog, mood swings, dry crepey, skin, zero libido, belly fat that won't budge, loss of muscle tone, and so on and so forth.
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We're told to that this is normal.
We're told to accept it, even celebrate it.
It's natural, but these symptoms are correctable.
But only if you're given the right tools.
And here's the kick up.
Most blood work comes back within range, even when the woman or the gentleman is suffering.
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So this is because the ranges are built on averages.
They're not built on optimal or symptom-free living.
So you can be in range and still feel like.
A shell of your former self.
And also they'll say, oh, well you are in a normal range for a 58-year-old lady.
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You're like, that's pretty crappy, right? I mean, I don't wanna feel like a normal 58 lady.
I wanna feel like, you know, I did when I was 30.
And there's nothing wrong with that, that is talking about being optimal.
None of us expect to go back and be like 22, and I doubt many of us would want to go back and be 22.
But most women have a pretty realistic.
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Expectation or hope of HRT.
They just wanna get back to being themselves.
Uh, a happy mind, a responsive body, energetic, able to sleep, you know, turned on by the partner and, and, you know, muscle tone and a clear, non-anxious mind.
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I think that's most what most women.
Are hoping for, uh, trying to get back to, and the guys themselves that, that they want their testosterone replacement and they, they're just wanting, they don't think they're gonna be some 16-year-old, like.
A kid with a, I dunno, acne face and a hard on or something.
I mean, you know, they just wanna get back to feeling energetic, you know, motivated, more driven.
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You know, we're all just trying to get back to a, a, a place that we, we used to be, and that isn't necessarily, you know, in our teenagers or early twenties.
So with regards to HRT, what is prescribed and what.
Actually work.
So most conventional doctors will if they do anything at all.
I still have people contact me every single week asking for referrals for doctors, I have, I dunno what's going on in Los Angeles.
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I have so many people in LA contact me because they can't get anybody to prescribe them, say testosterone.
It's loss angels.
How is this possible? So they're asking me in Idaho, if I can refer somebody to help them prescribe their HRT.
They're saying either the doctors won't do it or they're all now guru doctors.
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And it's, you know, $2,000 to walk through the door.
Let's get real.
So what's mostly happening with conventional doctors? You come up with your own definition of what a conventional doctor is, but they'll offer a low dose patch or cream for estrogen.
They may be a little progesterone if you have a uterus.
They'll usually start with that and rarely will they prescribe testosterone and almost never at a meaningful dose.
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And I have a real issue with that.
So let's talk about the, um, the patches for the women, the estradiol patch.
Now, personally, I've used the cream and the patch.
I have a much better result with the, the patch.
And if you haven't used them, it's the tiny, you don't even know if you've got it on.
You change it twice a week, uh, you can't see it.
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It's amazing.
And the patches are, you know, 0.25,
uh, sorry, 0.22
5.05.
Uh, maybe one milligram.
Uh.
Believe there's also a 0.33.
Progesterone might be a hundred milligram oral, uh, tablet taken at night, and testosterone might be a one milligram compounded cream, which is, so a lot of the times that's, we'll get one milligram compounded cream.
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Now I did that for a while.
One milligram.
It did nothing.
That's often that, that's often, if the doctors will even prescribe it, they'll give you such a ridiculously low dose and they'll say, well, testosterone didn't work for you because you gave me one, one unit.
I'm now taking, uh, four units and feel fantastic.
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But there was a time that I took, uh, one, one unit for, uh, a long time and it did nothing.
Um, so what are the, the safer ranges, the safer ranges for women? Estradiol closer to a 0.75,
up to a 0.1,
uh, uh, 0.075,
up to a 0.1
milligram patch.
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Personally, I am on a one milligram patch.
Now I will say that I've had ladies that started with that and it was too much, and they went down to the 0.05
milligram patch.
So that one definitely depends on what your, where your estrogen is to start with, you know, going by your blood work.
Um, progesterone optimal is gonna be more like a two milligram, um, especially for sleep.
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So if you're a lady that's just getting into the throes of it and you just can't sleep, progesterone is like a natural Xanax.
I, I, I don't even know how else to describe it.
And that's actually my doctor's description.
Um, not my, not my own.
I'll tell you a story about progesterone.
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My doctor in Los Angeles, very dear friend of mine, you might have heard me talk about him, and he died.
He passed away and I ran out of my progesterone and I had to find a new doctor to work with, and it was a couple of months where I didn't have it and I could not sleep.
Oh my gosh.
The anxiety came back.
The heart rate came back.
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The, uh, just wired couldn't sleep.
The whole thing when I.
Um, met up with my nurse practitioner, Abby Rose, the lady I work with now.
And I got my prescription for progesterone now.
He meant to take it at night 'cause it'll help you sleep.
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I literally like a drug addict.
I popped that pill in the parking lot of Walgreens.
I was so desperate to get, to get some progesterone in me and I felt instantly better.
And that's a, a 200 milligram, uh, capsule.
And of tool for testosterone is gonna be closer to two to five, um, milligrams a day In a topical form, I take an a topical form.
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I use it on the inside of my wrist, inside of my thighs symptoms, women still have on the low doses, so they're being given HRT and what's happening when it's not working, when it's just too low poor sleep.
You're still not getting any sleep.
No libido, uh, weight gain or just weight not shifting.
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The anxiety is still there.
Maybe it's vaginal dry dryness, and if you're getting checked, then bone loss.
And why is this happening? This is happening because the dosages prescribed are based on liability, fear, not on optimal outcomes.
And when it doesn't work, women are being told that the therapy fails.
Well, I guess you just weren't a good candidate.
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And so women give up.
And, uh, uh, and you know, they, they, oh, didn't, it didn't work for me.
Well, women are a bit more complicated.
You know, our hormones are fluctuating in all the time, but you do have to find a health.
Provider that is confident enough to coach you in this.
And I think too often they are not confident in this.
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They're not really even trained in this.
And because of that fear, which is actually probably a pretty legitimate fear, right? Because if you really don't know anything about it, you probably shouldn't be prescribing it.
Then they, uh, err on the side of caution with very low dosages, but that doesn't help the lady who's still suffering the arsenal of, of symptoms, which is.
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Greatly impacting her quality of life.
So again, either they won't prescribe.
I had one friend who was told that, um, California, sorry, um, California, that HRT was just a in vogue thing right now.
Really, really in vogue.
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Like female health is going to go outta fashion or something.
I personally was told by a doctor in Idaho when I asked about HRT and they actually said to me, that's very much a California thing.
Get that totally just disregarded it.
I was, was happy to give some referrals.
I can't knock him, but, um, that's very much a California thing.
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Just didn't ask me how I was feeling if I was suffering about it.
You know, why I, you know.
Ah, so it's getting somebody to prescribe it, especially the testosterone.
Why on earth doctors are not willing to prescribe ladies testosterone.
I had, I have one lady in Texas and she had a doctor that told her, oh, well you've just, I see all these women going out round with muscular arms.
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You don't want to look like that, do you? Well, that's nice for one.
Maybe she does wanna be the woman walking around with muscular arms.
Thank you for your judgment.
And I don't think TRT is actually going to do that, and he should know that as well.
So you've got this little bit of a, not little bit, you've got this bias going on with some doctors and you know, don't, don't even bother trying to persuade them.
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Just, just move on.
I'm sure that skillset is somewhere else.
Um.
When it comes to your, your health and midlife, you haven't got a second to waste.
You haven't got a year to waste.
You certainly haven't got a decade to waste.
So again, the optimal are still safe ranges for women that, uh, are, I would encourage you to discuss is estradiol closer to 0.05
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to 0.1
in on the patch.
However, it can be advisable to start lower than that.
Um.
The progesterone.
Awesome.
A lot of people start with progesterone.
I know the, the progesterone was the first thing I ever took.
Um, a lot of ladies.
It's, it's the sleep and, uh, low level of anxiety that's going on at first.
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Everything else is kind of, okay.
So the progesterone, yes, there's a one mil, a hundred milligram, but you mean the 200 is, uh, is especially useful, especially for sleep and the testosterone, which is notoriously under prescribed.
We're talking about, you know, two to five, uh, milligrams a day.
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What is the fear? Oh my gosh, you're gonna grow a beard.
Well, you're not just cooking.
No.
Have I heard of that? Yes.
With the ladies that were injecting it in higher doses, that some women do, um, inject lower doses.
Uh, and for me, the, the cream has worked fantastically, but it had to be in, uh.
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A, a great enough compounded dose.
What then about HGH human growth hormone? Well, for one, if your doctor doesn't know anything about HRT, you can kind of forget HGH, right? This is, this is very taboo.
So human growth hormone is produced by the fatuity and it is critical for muscle retention.
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Uh, skin thickness, back burning, tissue repair, sleep regulation.
Uh, but when's the last time somebody checked your growth hormone? When Well, or if it was checked when somebody, what's the last time a doctor actually pointed it out to you and was like, oh, wow.
Look at this.
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Yeah.
So again, up to the age of 30, production drops significantly.
By the time you're 50, you're producing a fraction of what you did in your twenties.
So one that what then happens when human growth hormone is low sagging skin, poor healing, increased fat storage, loss of lean mass, poorer muscle tone, bit of a sluggish metabolism.
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What then happens when we replace human growth hormone? You start to get leaner, especially visceral fat skin thickens, uh, muscle gains improve with training.
You don't just take growth hormone grow, grow muscle, you've actually gotta do something to stimulate the muscle.
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But what happens is you're more likely to get the results of your training.
Recovery speeds up for sure.
And also libido and mood may improve.
What's the downside of human growth hormone? Well, one's gonna be expensive.
Um, I don't even know how much it is now, but I'm gonna guess it's about two grand a month.
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It requires a doctor oversight.
I'll say that again.
It requires doctor oversight.
Don't just be going tapping some guy on the shoulder in the gym, uh, and getting the bros version, it's legal.
HCH is only, is only prescribed for a diagnosed deficiency or adult growth hormone disorder.
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So that's when it can get a bit murky.
So you might have to get a doctor that, um.
Is creative.
Uh, but there has to be a legit, you know, a legit, legit deficiency there.
Uh, you have to have a doctor watch what you're doing on that.
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The, the, the benefits are rather nice.
What is it? There's a lot of controversy.
People are terrified when they hear human growth hormone anyway.
I just, if I, I'm, I'm just talking about it.
I'm not taking it, but, um, certainly would be nice.
But the controversy, so, and, and honestly, what would, what would put a lot of women off, uh, myself included, there's a lot of water retention initially, so that is because of it triggering aldosterone and other guys don't mind that.
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But the ladies, you know, if you are gonna gain, you know, five.
Eight pounds of bloat before the fat stops dropping.
That, that might not be fun.
Um, some people get joint pain and carpal tunnel like symptoms, and that's because of the water retention that can happen at first.
(20:12):
And there's definitely a concern about stimulating the growth of existing cancer cells, which is why you have to do this under a doctor's supervision.
Does everything grow? You know, human growth or you take growth from everything is gonna grow.
Uh, and you, it, gosh, if I go back to my bodybuilding years, but actually before my bodybuilding years, so when a lot of this stuff was legal and the, the guys' jaws used to grow, so the jaws would actually grow, the bones would grow and that's when they were using cadaver growth hormone and they'd get gaps in their teeth because they, their jaws literally widened, so their teeth became more spaced out.
(20:52):
That that was interesting.
I remember, I, so I won't, I won't mention the name because it's a pretty famous guy, but my dentist in Santa Monica, he was working on one of the bodybuilder's teeth, his teeth, and he'd asked him, are you taking anything? No, no, no, I'm not.
No.
Are you sure? Because you know it's gonna affect the, the work I'm doing on your teeth.
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No, no, no.
I'm not.
I'm not, not.
So this guy was actually getting his gums, uh, cut back the gum.
What is it to to have cut some of the gums away, I guess? I dunno.
And No, no, no.
I'm not taking anything.
And my dentist was my friend and he told me this story and so he did this surgery on this guy and the guy's gums grew over his teeth and the guy was the bodybuilder, was furious with my dentist.
(21:42):
My dentist was furious with the bodybuilder and because he's like.
You know, if he's taking growth hormone and I cause injury to him by cutting his gums back, it's gonna cause hypergrowth.
And this guy's gums grew over his teeth.
How crazy is that? Uh, and they're all mad at each other, but, um, you know, it was a bodybuilder to blame.
So it does everything grow.
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And if you're using excessive dosages, uh, this guy, believe me.
Walking on 300 pounds, he was using excessive dosages at a physiological or moderate therapeutic dose.
There's little evidence that normal use of HS grows tumors, but if you have an active cancer, and there begs the question, how do you know if you have an active cancer? Then you have to stay away because it.
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Does, you know, cell proliferation and that's why the skin's so good.
It speeds up, uh, you know, speeds up healings, uh, wounds heal, uh, quicker, uh, recovery, uh, skin.
So, no, there is a, there is a legit risk with taking growth hormone, but especially when these people are taking excessive dosages and, you know, we can increase our own growth hormone by, you know.
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400% by doing HIIT training, um, resistance training, getting enough sleep.
You know, growth hormone is produced when we sleep.
So if you're not sleeping enough, your growth hormone's gonna be low.
So right off the bat, we can improve our own growth hormone by sleeping enough and do resistance training with a little bit of hi, can increase our own growth hormone by a lot.
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So.
For one, you'd have to find a, a creative doctor and spend a lot of money, and you can see how there's a little bit of, um, a little bit of stuff you don't want there.
The, the water retention will put me off right there, but, um, the guys don't care about that.
I remember there was another guy, he was, again, I'm talking about excessive dosages here, but, uh, his back would go numb.
(23:47):
So some, some type of neuropathy.
He was temporary, but.
Yeah, what are the other choices? So a smarter middle ground is the use of peptides, so the peptides that we can use for, um, to stimulate your own growth hormone and are CJC 1292 elin.
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And there's, uh, Teslin and there's also five amino one mq, which I sell.
Uh, sell, uh, go to five amino.com.
Absolutely love that stuff.
I probably don't promote that enough on this podcast, huh? Yeah, five Amino is, um, an amazing peptide, and if you go to my YouTube channel, so Joanne, uh, at Joanne Lee Cornish, I, I've post a lot of videos about five amino on there.
(24:36):
But anyway, I feel like I'm always plugging something.
The peptides CJC, uh.
12.95
Upper Molin, uh, Tess Molin and five meter one mq.
These do not replace hormone growth hormone.
Instead they stimulate your pituitary to produce more of your own.
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So why would you choose peptides over the real stuff? Well, it's cheaper.
Fewer side effects.
It's a more natural signaling.
Your body's creating the hormone.
It's not a synthetic replacement, and there's less risk, period.
I'm not saying there's no risk, but there's less risk period, and there's definitely less risk of, of overgrowth.
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But again, that overgrowth really comes with abuse.
What can you expect? What can you, if you choose to use these peptides, what, what, what can you, what can you expect better sleep within a few days? Ladies, how many of you would like that? And imagine if you couple that with the progesterone.
Better sleep within a few.
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Imagine some ladies are listening to this.
Imagine what life is like with sleep.
Well, I'll tell you, it is pretty nice.
What else can you expect? Fat loss over about one to two months.
It's not gonna be overnight fat loss of one to two months, and that's the way you want to lose fat.
Anytime you crash weight off, it's coming back.
(26:00):
Muscle recovery improves.
Skin quality may improve over time.
Oh my gosh.
Skin quality, probably Of all the questions I get, uh, crepey skin, sagging skin is in the top three.
Now I've done a podcast on, I have done a podcast right on loose skin and, uh, G-H-K-C-U.
(26:25):
So G-H-K-C-U is a copper peptide that I personally swear by, uh, for, and my skin's absolutely so much better for it.
But yeah, I did a po I did do a podcast on this.
Just go, just go back a few, maybe a month.
So you get better sleep within a few days.
Fat loss over say couple of months.
Muscle recovery improves, skin quality may improve over time.
(26:47):
It's not gonna happen straight away.
What is the cycle here? So, um, you need to cycle them.
So especially this aor and that, that if you're using 'em all the time, that they're not gonna work as well.
So you want to use them and stop for a while.
They also may not work that well if you're severely deficient.
(27:08):
So if you have got the growth hormone of a 200 year old, you know, you get my drift, then you know, you can't expect miracles.
So it might, it's not gonna work as well as obviously the real stuff, and it might not work as well if you're severely deficient.
So again, you've gotta start by doing your own work.
Are you sleeping enough? What type of training are you doing? You know, you've gotta help yourself and that these are supplement.
(27:34):
And the drawbacks.
They're, um, some of them can be injections, which, which a lot of people don't like.
Uh, I know the, the five amino that I sell is not an injection.
It is very stable.
It's in a capsule form.
So what should a woman do? We come about Ladies here, you No, no, I'm talking about people here.
(27:57):
Sorry.
Let me, let me.
You can do nothing and hope the situation gets better, which it won't.
Never heard that.
I've heard women get used to it.
I've heard of women that when they get through perimenopause and they just get into menopause, that they say life's a lot better because they, they're not in that rollercoaster of hot flashes and things like that, but better, optimal, no.
(28:26):
So you can do nothing about it.
Your choice, fine.
Some people sail through all of this.
Knock yourself out.
You can accept a minimal underdose hormone replacement and still struggle because you're working with a doctor that isn't confident, confident, confident enough to dose correctly.
Um, always not willing to listen to what you're dealing with.
(28:50):
Or you can find a pre practitioner who treats based on symptoms, not just lapse.
Someone who will prescribe the optimized doses of hormone replacement therapy or for the guys at testosterone replacement therapy therapy, somebody that is going to monitor your progress with regular follow-ups.
Now, ladies, that's really important because our hormones change so much.
(29:14):
You can't just go in once a year.
Uh, at least twice at first, you're probably gonna be going in there maybe every six weeks.
Every three months, it's worth it.
And a, a practitioner that maybe uses peptides is informed about peptides and maybe, maybe, uh, if indicated, maybe would prescribe a low dose of human growth hormone Things to check first.
(29:41):
You know, I always say the answers in your blood work, the answer is always in the blood work.
Check your blood sugar and your insulin levels.
Check your inflammatory markers, your CRP, your c uh, reactive protein, your homeo cysteine Check your IGF one.
This is an indicator of your growth hormone levels.
IGF one.
It might be in your blood work.
(30:02):
Look for that, but I bet nobody's actually pointed out to you.
Mm-hmm.
And also, you want a full thyroid panel.
So you want your TSH, your thyroid stimulating hormone.
You want your free T three, your free four, and your reverse T three.
Now I'm gonna do a, a separate podcast on reverse T three.
It is kind of fascinating, so your need to do your blood work, but think things like you need to understand that full thyroid panel because that can be, you know, thrown some of the symptoms at you.
(30:28):
But look for that IGF one.
You might benefit from the bioidentical, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone.
You might benefit from peptides to support your.
Natural growth hormone pathways, and you'll always benefit from strategic training and protein intake to, to maximize results.
If you are not training, if you are not sleeping, if you are not eating correctly, do not expect HRT or, or peptides or indeed human growth hormone to do the work for you.
(30:59):
It won't happen.
So I guess my message here is there's a lot of stuff out there.
Uh, it is fascinating.
Some of it is bordering on miraculous.
Like for me, the five amino one MQ is, um, a game changer and the the copper peptide, the G-H-K-C-U is a, is a game changer.
(31:26):
The BPC 1 57 for.
Uh, healing and, and skin also is a game changer.
Completely fixed my shoulder.
And again, go to my YouTube John Lee Cornish guy.
I just did a video on this.
There's some amazing, amazing protocols out there right now.
You do not need to settle for declining energy, poor sleep, and an unrecognizable body.
(31:48):
If you are willing to do the work, then you deserve to work with a health practitioner that, uh, will work with you.
Uh.
You need information, you need opinions, and you need bold decisions made by people who treat symptoms.
I.
Now, I'm not saying that doctors are trying to fail you here.
(32:10):
They're not, nobody's trying to do your harm or keep something away from you.
They're just trained within systems that prioritize disease over optimization.
And some of them are very nervous.
And maybe there's the legality of it, I mean of, of ever prescribing out of the, um.
(32:30):
Suggested standard range, you know, that they, they, they vein nervous and cautious about dealing with optimization over just treating a disease state.
And if a doctor's not comfortable doing this, then give them a break as well.
Don't work with them.
It's, you know, they're probably fantastic at something else.
(32:52):
I think too, after we expect doctors to do everything, we, we expect them to be jack of all treats.
Like my doc doctor didn't tell me what to eat, he's a doctor.
I.
He's our nutritionist.
He, he's your doctor.
Like, oh, I didn't even mention training.
He's a doctor.
It's, I think, 'cause sometimes we, we, we, we get a, we give him a hard time and it's, it's not fair.
(33:13):
So if you wanna feel strong, uh, vibrant, hormonally supported, you have to get curious.
You have to get educated yourself, and sometimes it's worth at least looking outside of the box.
And, uh, the outside of the box is pretty visible right now.
So if you wanna help, I mean start with education, start with your labs.
(33:36):
Start with looking at your blood work, uh, and start asking better questions.
If you ask better questions, you will get better answers, because midlife is not the end.
It's the beginning of your.
The next, next best chapter And for, for a lot of people, you know, once they get into the forties and fifties, I mean the, their sixties and even their seventies can be the most vibrant decade of their life.
(34:00):
Some people, they have more time, they have a little bit more money, they, they're able to really, you know, live large.
In, in the sixties and seventies, even eighties.
But I mean it, the decades where people think it's downhill can actually be the best decades of people's lives.
And it's a shame that when people aren't feeling the best and they're doing the work, they're, they're, they're not supported.
(34:22):
But I must stress that there's, there's a responsibility to educate yourself now, educate yourself through programs like mine.
Uh, but, but educate yourself so you can ask better questions.
And if you don't like the answers that you get.
Then you have to educate and source somebody else to work with you.
(34:43):
And there are fabulous doctors out there.
And I, like I say, the lady I work with now is a nurse practitioner.
Uh, ladies, you can go onto menopause.org
and you can look for people that, um, that actually says that, you know, the, the people that actually prescribe HRT.
So that is it for HRT versus HGH.
(35:06):
We live in exciting times, people.
This, uh, we don't have to Now, HRT isn't for everybody.
That's not what I'm saying.
And optimizing growth hormone maybe is of no interest to, to you whatsoever.
Some people, ladies and gents go through midlife, carefree.
They sail through it.
I have a couple of clients, totally fine.
(35:29):
Good for them.
Why would you mess with that? They're great.
Why would you mess with that? But the majority, I mean, I'm gonna say, you know, 90% of people, uh, struggle.
And I'm gonna say, uh, I'm, I'm gonna say 40% of ladies really struggle to the point that it is life and relationship altering, and it just doesn't have to be that way.
(35:55):
I haven't set a date yet, but my next program that's coming up after Type 28 will be Mastering with Life.
I'm gonna guess it's not gonna be till September.
But make sure you subscribe to the podcast, tell other people about it because, uh, once I set the date, I will definitely be plugging it on midlife mayhem.
I do hope you enjoyed this episode of Midlife Mayhem.
(36:19):
Be sure to subscribe and be sure to tell your friends about this wonderful podcast.
If you would like more of me, then on social, it's simple.
Just my name at Joanne Lee Cornish.
Uh, also my website, the shrink shop.com,
where you can see all my coaching programs.
There are many, many ways we can work together.
(36:40):
Obviously I do private one-on-one coaching.
I do the, all my programs are in a self-study form and all my programs are run as a live program at least once a year.
I try and do twice, but it usually ends up being once I have, um.
Mindset program.
I have my awesome five JP creek shred that people love.
(37:04):
I have the signature weight loss program.
I have tight 28, which is advanced weight loss.
I have, uh, muscle, uh, mastery, and I have midlife, uh, mastering midlife.
So six programs that offer a progression to fully understand the body composition through the ages.
If you have questions, if you're kind of wondering how I can help you, then simply shoot me an email.
(37:26):
At Joe j@theshrinkshock.com,
tell me what's going on and I'll get back to you and let you know the, the way I can help.
Okay, that's it for now.
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