September 10, 2025 • 48 mins
Confused about hormones? In this episode, Dr. Taylor explains the biggest hormone myths women face about HRT, progesterone, and cancer. Learn why so many women feel overwhelmed by conflicting advice from doctors, friends, and social media—and how to cut through the noise. Discover when to test, not guess, how to make safe decisions about hormone replacement therapy, and why understanding your body makes you an honorary gynecologist.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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(00:42):
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Here's your host, Doctor Eldred Taylor.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Hello and good morning. I am doctor Taylor. I'm the
hormone Doctor and the Spiritual MD. And this may be
one of the most important podcasts that I will do
because this is patient education. And the reason why I
think this is so important is I almost every day
(01:23):
I see a patient that comes in and this is
what really sparked me. I told you, you know, usually
Monday or Tuesday, I get an inspiration of what I
should talk about on Wednesday. And so I had a
patient on Monday who I had seen two or three
years ago, and I had her hormones al corrected and
she was fine. And this is like two years later,
(01:46):
and she came back to me and said, doctor, I
need you again. And she said, you know, I was
on progesterone. I was doing FAN and then I started
talking to my friends and my doctors and they kept
telling me, oh, you shouldn't be on that because it
can cause cancer. And she got confused and she stopped,
and now she's miserable and I had to re educate her.
(02:07):
So one of the reasons why I started this podcast
and I'm on all the social media is because I
need patients to understand their body and not be influenced
by anybody, not a doctor, not a friend, not a relative,
no one. That you are the expert on your body
(02:28):
and I can teach you. I did a I used
to do a lecture and I'm going to start at
again that I can teach you to be an honorary
gynecologist in about five minutes and four slats. Now, I'm
going to take a little bit longer, but I'm going
to really educate you on how the female body works.
And the reason why I'm focusing on females is because
(02:51):
they have the most issues, they go through more changes,
They go through puberty, and it's a little different than men.
They have their reproductive cycle that's very delicate, has to
be just right in order for that to work correctly,
and then they have menopause. Now I know men may
have andropause, but it's not as significant. And another reason
(03:12):
why is that there was a study that came out
that said only nine percent of doctors felt like that
they could manage menopause. Now, one hundred percent of women
who live past forty five are going to go through menopause.
So how could ninety one percent of doctors not know
how to handle it? And when I talked to doctors,
(03:33):
and I just talked to a doctor yesterday who wants
to work with me, I can see she doesn't understand menopause.
And that's what I have to teach her. And I
want to teach other doctors. And so if I can't
teach the doctors, and I'll tell you this, it's unlearning
is twice as hard as learning and so whatever the
(03:54):
doctors have learned, it's going to take them some time
to unlearn it. It took time for me to learned
what I did and my residency program, so patients haven't
learned some of this stuff. So I think it's easier
to teach you and you can go in armed with
information that you are one hundred percent certain about, so
that you can discern what is true and what is false,
(04:18):
and you can do it. Don't think that because I
have a white coat on, or that somebody else who
you think is smarter than you, tells you something that
is true. It's it doesn't have to be. You need
to know enough that you can make decisions about your
health regardless of whatever is out there on the media,
(04:40):
on TikTok, on Instagram. And I've seen some of the
stuff and it angers me. And I told Rebel before
I started this, I'm going to try and get through
this without being becoming angry, because it angers me that
so many people are out there just talking nonsense. So
they're trying to promot something that they're trying to sell.
(05:02):
So whatever I tell you today is going to come
straight out of the OBGYN textbook. The textbook that was
supposed to teach any physiology, but it really taught me
more pharmacology. So I'm going to just talk about physiology today,
all right, So I have a lot of information to
get through. I'm actually going to going to make sure
(05:24):
that this is on YouTube so you can go back
and reference it. It'll be on the AGI's Blueprint podcast
dot com. I'm going to make clips of it and
reels of it because I really want patients to be
able to fill in the gap that these doctors don't know.
Only nine percent of doctors feel like they know how
(05:44):
to handle menopause, and I'll question if either those nine
percent understand it. So anyway, let's let's get started with
the slats. I don't want to feel too much, all right.
That's a little bit bit often because the g is
down there. But anyway, learning is remembering. So there's a
quote that says, if you want new ideas, read old books,
(06:05):
and so that's that's why I started the Age's Blueprint
because if you really want to know good new information,
you need to go back and look at old information. Okay,
because I'm going to tell you, as time goes on,
things get distorted. So the closer you can get to
the original truth, the better off you're going to be.
(06:28):
So I don't I don't. I don't concern myself with
new studies because anytime man is making a study, they
can manipulate it to make it say whatever they wanted
to say. So I want to look at the basic, old,
foundational information and that is what you can rely on.
And that's what I learned by going to ancient Egypt
(06:50):
and I look at all this stuff. Is you want
to go back to remember what has already been discovered
and not always looking for the new thing, right, So
learning is remembering. Now, here's another big problem is that
popular thinking. I'm going to show you what the popular
thinking is on menopause now. But there is a problem
(07:12):
with popular thinking because the problem with popular thinking is
is that it does not require you to think at all,
because it's easier to do what other people do and
hope that they thought it out. And that's the problem.
We look at the news, we look at these expert panels,
we look at doctors and we like, oh, I know
(07:34):
they thought it out. Or you look at your friends
and family, Oh they've been through menopause and they did this.
So they know more than I do. But that's not
the case. You need to think for yourself. Don't assume
that somebody else has thought it out for you. You
need to be the master of your self, of your body.
(07:56):
You need to know your body. You do know your
body better than anybody else. And when somebody tells you
it's just normal or it's just aging, you need to
fight against that and say, no, I know my body.
I don't care what you're telling me. Something is wrong.
Because the doctor is usually telling you that you are
not sick, but you know that you are not well,
(08:20):
and that is the key. You want to be well,
you want to be whole. And I will tell you
in medical training that is not taught. We are taught.
I'll just give you an example. When you are in
medical school, you're primarily in the hospital. So in the hospital,
you're taking care of sick people. You're taking care of
(08:40):
people who need a hysterectomy, you're taking care of people
who need the baby delivery, You're taking care of people
who have abnormal papsmens. You have all of this. But
in the real world, when you're in the office, patients
aren't hospital sick. Okay, they have functional problems. They have
things that aren't functioning correctly, but they're not at the
(09:01):
stage of disease. So the popular thinking is to treat
people like they are sick. Okay, So that's why you
get all these drugs and they suggest surgery and all
of this. Because we are primarily trained in the hospital,
we don't do a lot of office work. So when
I got into the office and I saw all of
(09:22):
these problems, I really didn't know what to do. Okay,
I'll just be honest with you, and so we just
throw drugs at you because that's what we did for
sick people, all right. So when they say that you're normal,
they're just saying you're not sick. But again, you know
you're not well. So let's go to the next life.
So here's popular thinking. I don't know why this got
(09:43):
off like this where my letters are off, but never man,
this is the information that's important. So here's popular thinking.
You measure hormones in the blood wrong, give estrogen and
testosterone and pellets. I can't tell you how many times
I've heard people talk about I got pellets for estrogen
(10:04):
and testosterone. And pellets are not magic. Pellets are just
this new thing that people are promoting. Doctors can get
paid for it. The company. There's a company out that
is really promoting this. But there's nothing magic about pellets.
What is magic is balanced, and we want to always
(10:24):
balance hormones. And the only way you can balance hormones,
the only way you can balance anything, you have to
measure it appropriately. Okay, you can't balance something if you
can't measure it. So they also they give progesterone orally,
which is fine, but here's what doesn't make any sense.
You give pellets because you only have to do that
every three or four months. Okay, you come in, you
(10:46):
get the pellets put in. You don't have to worry
about anything for three or four months. So that increases compliance.
But the problem is most people don't have progesterone pellets.
I can offer those, but they don't have progesterone pellets,
so you have to take the progesterone orally. Still have
to rely on you to do something every day. And
I'll just tell you, the more a doctor has to
rely on a patient to do something, the less likely
(11:08):
it's going to get done. So a lot of times
these patients they have the pellets, but they don't do
the progesterone orally just because life gets busy and they
don't do it. And now you're dealing with unopposed estrogen,
which is always not a good thing, and you'll see why.
And then I keep seeing that testosterone is important for energy,
and I will tell you that that is not the case.
(11:30):
And I'm going to try to get to that point too,
is that testosterone is not important in women for energy.
The problem is qurtisol. But most people don't test for
cortisol appropriately, so they don't see that that is the
real problem. And I can do a whole podcast just
to show you the importance of cortisol and energy and
how you correct it. But giving testosterone for energy is
(11:53):
not supported by the literature. I'm just telling you it's not.
All right, So let's start with the first part, thinking
that you can measure hormones in the blood. And this
is from SpeI off the textbook on gyn Interchronology and Infertility.
And this is an old book. It was in nineteen
ninety four. But let me tell you, blood and serum
(12:15):
has not changed since nineteen ninety four. Okay, so just
because this is what thirty years old doesn't mean it's outdated.
It's always been like this, Okay, So it's unable to
easily distinguish between bound and free estrogen and testosterone. It
has a large normal range, and this is the key
provides limited clinically useful information. Okay. So if someone is
(12:39):
drawing blood on you, they're not getting any significant clinical information.
They're just not And that's why in a gyn residency
that I did at Emory University right down the street
from where I am now, we never were taught to
draw blood levels. Never, okay, because it didn't tell you anything.
And I can go into the reasons why it's fat
(13:01):
soluble against water soluble. Hertmones are fat soluble, and I'm
going to show you this and why I do saliva testing.
It's based on physiology. But if you are having your
heartmones tested by blood, I'm just going to tell you
the doctor is guessing. You're being treated by trial and error,
and they say, I go by symptoms. So if I
(13:23):
give you a dose of something, I have to wait
and see what kind of symptoms you have before I
change it, And then I have to change it again,
see what kind of symptoms you have. Do you know
how much time can pass when you're doing trial and error,
and I hear patience all the time. Oh, my doctor
keeps adjusting my dose. If you had good testing, you
wouldn't have to keep adjusting the dose. I hardly ever
(13:43):
have to adjust the dose because I can test it
and see where the imbalance is, and most of the
time I can get it right the first time. So
that's the difference. All right. So this is what I
want to teach you is what is the minstreal cycle.
The only reason why women have mistral cycles is to
get pregnant. Okay, that is for reproduction, and this is
(14:08):
how it works, and I'm going to show you a diagram,
but I want you to take a note of this
is that estrogen is dominated the first two weeks of
your minstral cycle. The reason why is that last month
you didn't get pregnant. So all of that tissue that
was there preparing for a fertilized egg to nourish that
fertilized egg, it gets washed away because it says you
(14:30):
didn't get pregnant. So estrogen comes around to stimulate the
regrowth of that tissue. All right, So esergen stimulates growth.
Now what I want you to understand is that esergen
stimulates growth of any estrogen sensitive tissue. So what's esergen
sensitive tissue, the breast, the uterus, your fat tissue, all right,
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So if you have more estrogen around, you're going to
overstimulate your breast, so you can get fiber sistic breast,
you can get breast cancer. You also can have fibroids
because it's stimulating the abnormal growth of that muscle tissue
in your uterus. So estrogen creates growth. Now, progesterone should
(15:12):
be dominated the second two weeks, and progesterone stimulates development
and slows growth. So progesterone slows down the growth and
it wants to develop that tissue to get prepared for pregnancy.
So if in any system you have growth without development,
you have an abnormal system. And the definition of cancer
(15:34):
is undeveloped undifferentiated growth. So if you have estrogen around
without progesterone, you can have overgrowth of tissue that's not
developed normally. Okay, So that's why you get fibrous, that's
why you get fat around your hips, That's why you
can get breast cancer. That's why you can get abnormal
(15:56):
moods because you have this imbalance of growth and development
and differentiation. All right. So just think, whenever you hear estrogen,
you think growth. Whenever you think progesterone, you think slowing
down growth and stimulating normal development. All right, So let
me tell you how this system gets screwed up. Okay,
(16:19):
I know this looks complicated, but I'm going to go
through it one by one. All right. Now, this is
the lining in your uterus that grows and goes away
based on whether or not you're pregnant. This is your
ovary making a cyst, and this is an egg that
comes out all right. This is estrogen the first two weeks,
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and the blue line is progesterone the second two weeks
all right, And this is the uterus. This is that
fertilized egg. All right. So we're going to go through
a mistal cycle. All right. So last month you didn't
get pregnant, so that tissue from last month went away.
That's why you have your mistel cycle. All right. So
during that time, both of these hormones are low. Now
(17:01):
what did I say. Estrogen causes growth and it's dominant
the first two weeks, right, So now here comes estrogen
regrowing the tissue. Right, So you wanted to growth. Now
how does that happen? Well, you have this little follicle
in your ovary that tries to develop into an egg
(17:22):
that ovulates, that comes out waiting for sperm to fertilize it.
All right. Now, after this egg comes out, and only
after that agg comes out, Only after ovulation do you
make this thing called a corpus ludium. All right. So
that's the remnant from where this egg came out. The
corpus ludium makes progesterone. Progesterone slows down the growth. Okay,
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see the growth slowed down and it developed that tissue
waiting to see if you're going to get pregnant. If
you don't get pregnant, the corpus ludium fades away and
the tissue fades away. You have another minstral cycle. All right.
Here is the key. This step right here is very
delicate and sensitive. In order for you to ovulate, everything
(18:08):
has to be just right. You can't be under too
much stress. You have to have you can't have too
much fat tissue. It just it's very delicate. Things in
their environment can affect it. So that's why you know
that's infertility is most of the time it's anovulation. You're
not ovulating, and if you don't ovulate, you don't make
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this thing called a corpus lutium, and so you don't
make progesterone. Are if this egg has somehow been damaged
just due to age, because you don't make new eggs.
The eggs you have at forty you had them all
your life, and they can get damaged by radiation, they
can get damaged by toxins that you've taken in. So
(18:50):
as you get older, ovulation becomes more irregular because these
eggs are these follicles are trying their best to ovulate,
but sometimes they don't. So now you have a lot
of estrogen being made and maybe not enough progesterone. Now,
progesterone also acts like an anti anxiety and an antidepression
(19:14):
type harmone. So in the second half of your cycle,
if this curve is blunted, you're going to have anxiety
and depression, You're going to have bloating, you're going to
have weight gain because estrogen also stimulates fat production and
progesterone helps you to burn fat for energy. So that's
why I measure this balance right here this is what
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is important. And if you can understand this, you'll be
able to discern a lot of information and you'll understand
that estrogen is not your problem. Estrogen is not the
problem because you can make estrogen if you don't ovulate.
And that's what PCOS is when you have a lot
of these because what happens is your body will make
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a lot of these follicles just hoping one will ovulate,
and if it doesn't, what you have is you have
a lot of cysts making a lot of estrogen. So
that's why they call it polycystic. And what you have
is that you're not making progesterone, all right, And then
what happens is your body tries to maintain some type
(20:21):
of balance, so you begin making testosterone to counteract the estrogen.
So that's why in PCOS, you can get hair under
your chin, you can get thinning hair, you get you
start to gain weight because you have all this estrogen
and then you have testosterone trying to balance it out
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because you don't have progesterone. The treatment for PCOS is
to restore your progesterone. That is the key, all right, So, Rebel,
I'm trying my best to simplify this as much as possible.
But women need to understand their minstry cycle. So tell
me where I'm not clear, or where anybody has any questions.
(21:05):
I'm trying to show you that everybody, everybody's heard of estrogen,
and estrogen's the easiest thing for you to get. You
make estrogen here. They give estrogen to cow, so it's
in the meat. There's estrogen in your water, there's there's
pesticides that act like estrogen. So to think that the
(21:26):
deficiency and estrogen is the problem in women, it's totally backwards,
all right, So rebel Have I explained that enough? Or
do I need to go further?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
No?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I believe that we are all sitting here with our
pencil and paper, taking notes, learning and remembering things that
you know we should have been taught a long time ago.
But yes, you are perfectly clear.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Because you do this every month, and you need to
know what's happening with you. And don't listen to a
doctor or anything, because I'm going to tell you I
did not really understand this, and I did a four
year residency. What I learned was, if there's any problem here,
give you birth control pills. That's what I learned now.
I know I may have passed a test on this, okay,
(22:12):
but I never really put it into practice. I just
gave women birth control pills, and that's what they get.
Nobody sits down and explains this to you. They just
write a prescription for birth control pills, and then in
three months, when you say that it's making me gain
weight and all this stuffing, they change you to another
birth control pill. Is that? Is that true or not?
A rebel?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I am. I'm sorry. They put me on them once
and I said, this is not something's not right with this.
Something something just don't sit right with me. Because it
says birth control. That means you just wanted us time.
I'm like, well and at the time they trying to
put me on it, and it's like, I'm not sexually active,
so I don't need those things.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah, and that's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's a contraceptive.
It's not made to balance hormones. So I want to
get to this because I know we're getting close to
the break and I want to go to some other issues.
That's popular thinking. So this is a quote and I
and I used to say this is what I live
by is this quote right here that's from spir Off.
It says the ultimate biologic response. So that's what That's
(23:19):
what everybody wants. We want the ultimate We want our
biology to work as good as possible, and the ultimate
biologic response reflects the balance of action of the different
hormones with their respective receptor. All right, So I'm going
to work backwards. So you don't have receptors for what's
in birth control pills. Okay, you have something called progestins
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that aren't really progesterone. So those are chemicals that you
really don't have receptors for. And in order for it
to be a drug, it has to be something that's
not found in nature. So any drug you take your
body does not have receptors for it. So I need
to use the hormones that you have receptors for, and
those are the bioidentical hormones that you're overy maade. So
(24:06):
when I'm giving you a hormone, I'm giving you a
hormone that you have receptors for. But then I want
to balance it. And the only way you can balance
something is to measure it. And I just showed you
a slab that said serum measurements are don't have any
clinically useful information, so I can't balance anything in the blood,
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So I have to figure out another way to balance it,
all right, and that is in the saliva gland, and
I'll try and get to that. So in order for
you to have the ultimate biologic response, we have to
give you hormones that you have receptors for which are
bioidentical estradiolin progesterone, just like I showed you in your
mistra cycle. I'm giving you those exact hormones, but I
(24:49):
have to balance them, and you balance them by looking
at saliva, because serum is not going to do it
accurately for you. All right, And some people say, okay,
why I'm measured in the urine. Let me tell you
what the problem with is that? And that biologic and
metabolic effect is determined by the cell's ability to receive
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and retain the hormone. For estra diol to have an effect,
it must be grasped by the reception within the cell.
So I know that maybe, so this is what I
want you to see. Estra diol may produce its effect
several times before it is metabolized, So in urine you're
looking at estrogen metabolites, but it could still be in
(25:30):
the cell and it could be acting like estrogen and
you don't see it in the metabolites because it's in
the cell, it's not being metabolized by the liver. So
if you look at urine metabolites, you're not really seeing
that the hormone is being retained and it's having its
effects several times before it's metabolized. So there's some people
(25:52):
who like to look at urine metabolites. They can be
useful because you want to see how your body is
dealing with the estrogen, but they don't really give you
information so you can give a person the ultimate biological response.
That's what we're looking for. So we got three minutes
and I'm going to try and explain this to you.
So this is why I look at saliva because this
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is the blood, okay, And because these hormones are fat soluble,
they're really carried around in these little things called sex
hormone binding globulent and I call it a FedEx truck.
So the FedEx truck is traveling through the highway system here,
which is your blood, and it releases hormones into the
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fat tissue that surrounds the cell, or we call it
the extra cellular space, all right, So all of this
hormone is here that you don't see in the blood, okay,
all right. So now this hormone that's here, it has
to go into the cell and that's where it will
do what it's supposed to do, either have growth our development.
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All right. So if you're looking at the blood, you
don't see this hormone here, and this is what is
affecting the cell, all right, So what do you do? Well,
this right here is the fat tissue around the saliva gland,
all right. And this is one of the places whether
the FedEx trucks delivers hormones. So if I know what
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the normal range of hormone is in the saliva gland,
and I see that that's imbalance in balance, then I
can assume that the hormone is in balance in other places.
So that is why I use salivary testing, because it
shows me the hormone that is available for the cell
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to use, not just what's floating around in the blood,
and only one to two percent is actually in the tissue.
The rest of it is in the blood being bound
and it is not available for the tissue. So just
think if the blood, So let's say ninety nine percent
of it is supposed to be in the blood and
one percent is here. So let's say two percent is
(27:59):
here two percent of estrage. So now your estrogen has doubled.
That is affecting the tissue, but I barely see it
in the blood, okay, and then it can be retained
there for days or weeks or whatever. So whatever got
delivered on Tuesday and it's not in the blood, it
(28:20):
could still be here Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday because
it can be retained outside of the blood. All right,
So it's time to go to break. So am I
making myself clear? Because the next thing I'm gonna do
is talk about the fallacy of testosterone? So can you
understand the mistral cycle and why the blood doesn't tell
(28:41):
you anything? And you in order to balance hormones, you
have to look where the hormones are and balance them
there and not balance them on the FedEx truck. So
that's the takeaways before we go to break. So let's
come back and I'll review this and then I want
to go and I want to tell you about the
other fallacy. Is all of these women taking testosterone. So
(29:04):
let's go to break.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
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All right, we are back, so rebel Uh tell me am,
I making myself clear? Uh here so here at the takeaways.
Esrogen causes growth progesterone slows down growth and stimulates normal development.
Growth without proper development can lead to problems. The worst
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problem is leading to cancer, because uncontrolled, undifferentiated growth is
the definition of cancer. All right, So that's the worst
case scenario. But also growth without development can cause irregular bleeding,
heavy bleeding, iron deficiency, anemia, fibroids, triosis, b MS, E COOS.
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So almost every problem that a woman has is due
to an imbalance of estrogen and progesterone. I can almost
say that as a as a blanket statement. It's always
an imbalance. And I'll tell you I do solivary testing
amount of office and if I find these symptoms, I
can't remember when a test came back normal when I
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thought that there was a hormone imbalance. That's how prevalent
this is, all right, So anything I need to clarify
rebel in your mind?
Speaker 4 (31:36):
I wish they would go like prior to a girl
getting her period, why you know you didn't know these things?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I know this is nice.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
So here, how do you get rid of it? If
like all of these things that happen, how do you
get rid of growths that you know, these things that
can grow?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
What happens. How do you well, it's by giving progesterone.
Your progesterone orally you can get progesterone as a cream. Yeah,
you can give it as a cream, you can give
it as pellets. It's all about balancing estragen, progesterone, and
then this cortisol. I tell you, we wrote two books,
are your Hormones Making you sick and the Stress Connection.
If you understand those two, you will be well on
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your way to good health. Okay. And you have to
eliminate stress or you have to manage stress. You have to.
You have to measure it and calm down that nervous
system that fight or flight. And then you have to
balance hormones. And so the best thing to do is
to balance them before you get any of these growth,
especially cancer and fibroids and all that. But you're right,
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a lot of that you're exposed to early on in life,
before you even know anything about this. And that's why
you see you can see twin year olds with fibroids, okay,
And some of it's not because of them taking estrogen
or whatever. I tell you. It's in the food. It's
in the meat that we eat. It's in the air
that we breathe. It's it's in the pesticides that they're
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spraying on these crops that we're eating. That's why you
want to eat organic. So it's almost hard to avoid estrogen.
But everybody thinks that they're low in estrogen, which makes
no sense. And part of that is because they're measuring
it in the blood and it's not telling you anything,
and so you make decisions based on bad information. So
I want to go to I want to share my
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screen because I want to I want to talk about
testosterone because that's another popular thing is that women need testosterone,
and that is just simply not true. Okay, So uh,
if I can go to share my screen, let me
let me go to that real Okay, So this is
what I want to share, all right. So testosterone in
the menopausal transition. All right, Understanding how testosphone production changes
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during menopause is crucial for member's health. While estrogen levels
dropped dramatically from the ovary, and I'm going to talk
about that the ovary, it drops from the ovary, but
it doesn't necessarily drop totally. Testosterone follows a different pattern
that may surprise you. All Right, So here's the number
one thing. That testing testosterone in women is almost always inaccurate. Okay,
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Measuring testosonal levels in women's significantly more complex and often
unreliable due to several inherent limitations in current testing methodologies.
And I went on deep research and chat GTP to
prove this point. Okay, So if you want the references,
I can send it to you. These essays are optimized
for men, Okay. Men have much higher testosterone levels and
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it's much more important than me and than it is women.
There's cross reactivity. These assays have to be very specific
for testosterone in women because it's always so low. It's
a very poor level, low level of precision, because testosteral
levels in women are supposed to be low, and they're
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so low that these tests that are optimized for men
won't show it. So it's always going to look like
women need testosterone. If you're looking at it in the blood,
you have to have very specialized methods. And even if
you look at free testosterone, it's not telling you what's
available for the tissue like I showed you with the
saliva gland thing. So clinical signs are paramounts. So due
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to testing limits, clinical signs and symptoms are more reliable
indicators of testosterone status than isolated blood test results. So
in Spiro office says, a woman can be her suit,
and hersuit means that they can have a beard and
testa and you look at their you look at their
serum measurements and it's still low. So if you're looking
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at that, it's going to look like every woman needs testosterone,
but it's not. It's due to bad testing, all right.
So the sources of testosterone in women now, the ovaries
make about twenty five percent, the adrenal glands, which are
these glands that are right on top of your kidneys
that make cortisol and testosterone and andstin dio, they make
a lot of the hormones and peripheral tissues fifty percent
(35:58):
from harmone conversion issues throughout the body. So you can
make testosterone in multiple ways and the ovaries are not
a big source. And here's the deal. There are There
is not a sharp drop of testosterone in menopause. There
is no dramatic fall at menopause like there is with
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estrogen cross sectional studies, so little to no change in
testosterone during the menopause transition. Now again, the drop in
estrogen comes from the ovary, but your fat tissue still
makes estrogen. I'm going to try and get to that
slab before we finish this. Gradual patterns contrasts sharply with
the steep decline in estrogen made by the ovary that
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defines menopause, and ovariant activity continues after menopause. Even after
your period stops, the ovarian, the ovary continues producing testosterone.
You have elevated pituitary LH and FSH actually stimulate these
cells to produce androgens, which is testosterone. Despite low estrogen
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levels coming from the ovary. The adrenal glands, which are
the primary source of testosterone in women, they are not
affected by menopaus. Okay, this doesn't have anything to do
with your reproductive cycle, So adrenal glands continue producing dhia
and other testosteronal precursors at the same rate during menopause.
Testosterone sources decline gradually with aids, not because of menopause specifically.
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All these postmenopaus of women are told they need estrogen
for me testosterone for energy. So now if you have
surgical menopause, you will have a drop in testosterone, all right,
the difference is dramatic surgical removal or causes a significant
testosterone drop, but you're not going to see it in
the blood, while natural menopause may even see slight increases
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after seventy so your testosterone can go up even during menopause.
The sex hormone bind so remember those FedEx trucks. This
is the FedEx truck. So after menopause, sex hormone binding
globuy levels decrease. This protein normally binds testosterone also estrogen,
making it inactive. If you lower the number of FedEx
truck you get more free testosterone. So sex hormone binding
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globulin goes down with menopause, so now you have more
free estrogen even though it doesn't come from the ovary,
and you have more free testosterone. So here's testosterone levels.
So as you age, okay, if you have natural menopause,
testosterone starts to go up as you age. That's why
you see these women who are postmenopausal grow a mustache
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and lose their hair is because of testosterone. It's going up,
all right, because it's trying to take the place of
the progesterone that you lost because you don't ovulate. Anymore.
So we all see these older women. They have real
thin hair, just like my hair is thinning, okay, and
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they grow a mustache, they have chin hair, they have
all of this stuff. It's not due to a lack
of testosterone. Their testosterone is going up. That's why I
say you have to look at the clinical picture and
not at the blood tests. So for natural menopause, testosterone
deficiency symptoms may not be directly related to menopause itself,
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but rather to normal aging. Women with surgical menopause is
a problem. So each woman's harmone profile is unique and
requires personalized evaluation rather than assumption based on menopausal status alone.
So we all see these older women. Their hair falls out,
they have these ball spots. They have too much testosterone,
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and if you give them more estrogen without progesterone, they're
going to make more testosterone. Sometimes I get so estrogen
production after menopause. They kept saying that, hey, estrogen pump
plummets at menopause. That's not all the way true. While
ovariant estrogen production sharply declines after menopause, the body maintains
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a vital secondary source the conversion of androgens to estrogen.
So androgens are things like interestine dione and testosterone. You
can convert testosterone into estrogen in your peripheral tissues, in
your fat tissue primari merely. This process, known as aromatization,
is crucial for postmenopausal health. So I always say that
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God made it where women could remain being women even
after menopause. Even after they stop being reproductive, women still
want to be women, so they are naturally have more
fat tissue because fat tissue can convert testosterone and other
interestine dione things coming from the adrenal gland, and they
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can convert it into estrogen. So not only can they
do it in their adipolset or in their fat tissue,
their muscles can make local estrogen, Their bone can make estrogen.
Their brain can make estrogen, influencing cognitive function, mood, and
neuroprot But this esrogen has to be balanced by progesterone
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during menopause because you don't have a backup system or progesterone.
You have a backup system for estrogen. Your adrenal glands
can make testosterone, your ovary can still make testosterone, but
you have no other source for progesterone. So that's why
eighties and ninety percent of my patients are just on progesterone.
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So now I don't have to worry about stimulating cancer.
I don't have to worry about stimulating of fat, you know,
fat growth. I don't have to worry about any of
the are you starting to bleed again? I don't have
to worry about any of that because I am only
trying to replace the one thing that definitely goes away
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at menopause. When you stop ovulating, you stop making that
corpus lutium, and that corpus lutium is what makes progesterone.
And if you and one hundred percent of when women
will stop ovulating at menopause, so that means one hundred
percent of women are going to stop making a significant
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amount of progesterone without a backup system. All right, So
I hope I've gotten that message out. So I'm gonna
I'm gonna stop sharing my screen here and go back
to here so everybody sees me. Now we can just
go go to me. So we got what like four
minutes left? Do we have any question? Because if you
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have a question, I want to answered again. This is
this is what I want to teach in my office visit,
but a lot of times I don't have the time,
and that's why I see patients coming back all confused
and discombobulated, like I heard this and this personal instagram
said that, And when you are confused, it paralyzes you
(42:53):
so you don't do anything. That's what my patient did.
She was confused, so she stopped everything. So I don't
want you to beused. I want you to be one
hundred percent sure about what I am telling you, okay,
and I can back it up. I showed you everything
I'm showing you is I got it straight out of
the textbook. And that's why I say learning is remembering.
(43:16):
I don't want to hear about an expert new opinion,
and that's what is going on. Oh this expert said this.
I don't want to hear about an expert. I want
to know the basic physiology. I don't call myself an expert.
I'm a communicator of the truth. That's what I consider
myself and I try to break it down so that
(43:39):
any person can understand it. And if I haven't done that,
I'll try again next time. But that is my goal
in life, is to get this message across. I told somebody, Hey,
I'm getting older. I don't know how much longer I
can do this. I hope it's another twenty or thirty years.
But I fought this battle twenty years ago. I went
(44:00):
around speaking all over the country and writing books and
all this. And now I realize there's a whole new
group of people going into perimenopause and menopause. There's a
whole new group of doctors that are not understanding menopause.
So I have to do it all over again. And
so that's what I'm doing. So all right, rebel, Can
(44:21):
you get pregnant after menopause? Now that is a miracle
because the definition of menopause means that you have no
more eggs, you're not ovulating anymore, and if you don't
have an egg, you're not going to be able to
get pregnant. So that is something that just that's the
way God made it. Now, could there be a miracle?
There's always miracles. But based on physiology, no, Can you
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start bleeding after menopause? Yes, you can start bleeding after menopause,
and if you're not on hartmones, that is not a
good sign. So anytime you have postmenopause or bleeding. The
number one thing you have to rule out is uterine cancer,
and you have to do a biopsy to make sure
there's no cancer there. And if there's no cancer, then
I can guarantee you you have a you have a
(45:07):
progesterone deficiency problem. That's why you're bleeding. That you're getting
exposed to too much estrogen. It's causing that uterine tissue
to grow and you don't have enough progesterone to slow
down that growth. Does everyone need harmone replacement? Well, this
is why I'll tell you seventy five percent of the
world doesn't go through any of this stuff, okay, because
(45:30):
they live in a less industrialized nation meant you know area,
They probably grow their food in their backyard or in
their field, so they're not getting exposed to pesticides. They
have a low stress life usually, and so most people
don't do that. But in industrialized nations like the US,
that we're exposed to all of these chemicals, we are,
(45:52):
we are under stress all the time. Then I won't
say one hundred percent of women need it, but the
natal flow of physiology, as you get older, then it's
going to set it up for that to become imbalanced.
So I never say one hundred percent of people need anything,
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but if you have any of those symptoms, it's more
than likely you have a progesterone deficiency problem. What effects
does male testosterone cream have on lemon? It's going to
cause you to it's going to cause you to lose
hair where you want it and to gain hair where
you don't want it. And I will tell you that
you are getting testosterone and it's saying it's for energy.
(46:34):
But your real problem is cortisol. And maybe my next
podcast or look on YouTube and I can talk about
cortisol and how low cortisol equals low energy. It's not
about testosterone and energy. I don't care how popular that
thinking is. It is not based in science. Testosterone is
(46:56):
a male hardmone You would never get a man to
take estrogen saying that it's good for them, But you
have women taking testosterone tell it and doctors telling over
that that's what they need. That's not true. All right,
So what can we do about quotaesol? Okay, hey remind
me Melbel Rebel. I'll talk about quotasol next time. All right, goodbye, everybody.
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Hello and good morning. I am doctor Taylor. I'm the
hormone Doctor and the Spiritual MD. And this may be
one of the most important podcasts that I will do
because this is patient education. And the reason why I
think this is so important is I almost every day
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I see a patient that comes in and this is
what really sparked me. I told you, you know, usually
Monday or Tuesday, I get an inspiration of what I
should talk about on Wednesday. And so I had a
patient on Monday who I had seen two or three
years ago, and I had her hormones al corrected and
she was fine. And this is like two years later,
(01:46):
and she came back to me and said, doctor, I
need you again. And she said, you know, I was
on progesterone. I was doing FAN and then I started
talking to my friends and my doctors and they kept
telling me, oh, you shouldn't be on that because it
can cause cancer. And she got confused and she stopped,
and now she's miserable and I had to re educate her.
(02:07):
So one of the reasons why I started this podcast
and I'm on all the social media is because I
need patients to understand their body and not be influenced
by anybody, not a doctor, not a friend, not a relative,
no one. That you are the expert on your body
(02:28):
and I can teach you. I did a I used
to do a lecture and I'm going to start at
again that I can teach you to be an honorary
gynecologist in about five minutes and four slats. Now, I'm
going to take a little bit longer, but I'm going
to really educate you on how the female body works.
And the reason why I'm focusing on females is because
(02:51):
they have the most issues, they go through more changes,
They go through puberty, and it's a little different than men.
They have their reproductive cycle that's very delicate, has to
be just right in order for that to work correctly,
and then they have menopause. Now I know men may
have andropause, but it's not as significant. And another reason
(03:12):
why is that there was a study that came out
that said only nine percent of doctors felt like that
they could manage menopause. Now, one hundred percent of women
who live past forty five are going to go through menopause.
So how could ninety one percent of doctors not know
how to handle it? And when I talked to doctors,
(03:33):
and I just talked to a doctor yesterday who wants
to work with me, I can see she doesn't understand menopause.
And that's what I have to teach her. And I
want to teach other doctors. And so if I can't
teach the doctors, and I'll tell you this, it's unlearning
is twice as hard as learning and so whatever the
(03:54):
doctors have learned, it's going to take them some time
to unlearn it. It took time for me to learned
what I did and my residency program, so patients haven't
learned some of this stuff. So I think it's easier
to teach you and you can go in armed with
information that you are one hundred percent certain about, so
that you can discern what is true and what is false,
(04:18):
and you can do it. Don't think that because I
have a white coat on, or that somebody else who
you think is smarter than you, tells you something that
is true. It's it doesn't have to be. You need
to know enough that you can make decisions about your
health regardless of whatever is out there on the media,
(04:40):
on TikTok, on Instagram. And I've seen some of the
stuff and it angers me. And I told Rebel before
I started this, I'm going to try and get through
this without being becoming angry, because it angers me that
so many people are out there just talking nonsense. So
they're trying to promot something that they're trying to sell.
(05:02):
So whatever I tell you today is going to come
straight out of the OBGYN textbook. The textbook that was
supposed to teach any physiology, but it really taught me
more pharmacology. So I'm going to just talk about physiology today,
all right, So I have a lot of information to
get through. I'm actually going to going to make sure
(05:24):
that this is on YouTube so you can go back
and reference it. It'll be on the AGI's Blueprint podcast
dot com. I'm going to make clips of it and
reels of it because I really want patients to be
able to fill in the gap that these doctors don't know.
Only nine percent of doctors feel like they know how
(05:44):
to handle menopause, and I'll question if either those nine
percent understand it. So anyway, let's let's get started with
the slats. I don't want to feel too much, all right.
That's a little bit bit often because the g is
down there. But anyway, learning is remembering. So there's a
quote that says, if you want new ideas, read old books,
(06:05):
and so that's that's why I started the Age's Blueprint
because if you really want to know good new information,
you need to go back and look at old information. Okay,
because I'm going to tell you, as time goes on,
things get distorted. So the closer you can get to
the original truth, the better off you're going to be.
(06:28):
So I don't I don't. I don't concern myself with
new studies because anytime man is making a study, they
can manipulate it to make it say whatever they wanted
to say. So I want to look at the basic, old,
foundational information and that is what you can rely on.
And that's what I learned by going to ancient Egypt
(06:50):
and I look at all this stuff. Is you want
to go back to remember what has already been discovered
and not always looking for the new thing, right, So
learning is remembering. Now, here's another big problem is that
popular thinking. I'm going to show you what the popular
thinking is on menopause now. But there is a problem
(07:12):
with popular thinking because the problem with popular thinking is
is that it does not require you to think at all,
because it's easier to do what other people do and
hope that they thought it out. And that's the problem.
We look at the news, we look at these expert panels,
we look at doctors and we like, oh, I know
(07:34):
they thought it out. Or you look at your friends
and family, Oh they've been through menopause and they did this.
So they know more than I do. But that's not
the case. You need to think for yourself. Don't assume
that somebody else has thought it out for you. You
need to be the master of your self, of your body.
(07:56):
You need to know your body. You do know your
body better than anybody else. And when somebody tells you
it's just normal or it's just aging, you need to
fight against that and say, no, I know my body.
I don't care what you're telling me. Something is wrong.
Because the doctor is usually telling you that you are
not sick, but you know that you are not well,
(08:20):
and that is the key. You want to be well,
you want to be whole. And I will tell you
in medical training that is not taught. We are taught.
I'll just give you an example. When you are in
medical school, you're primarily in the hospital. So in the hospital,
you're taking care of sick people. You're taking care of
(08:40):
people who need a hysterectomy, you're taking care of people
who need the baby delivery, You're taking care of people
who have abnormal papsmens. You have all of this. But
in the real world, when you're in the office, patients
aren't hospital sick. Okay, they have functional problems. They have
things that aren't functioning correctly, but they're not at the
(09:01):
stage of disease. So the popular thinking is to treat
people like they are sick. Okay, So that's why you
get all these drugs and they suggest surgery and all
of this. Because we are primarily trained in the hospital,
we don't do a lot of office work. So when
I got into the office and I saw all of
(09:22):
these problems, I really didn't know what to do. Okay,
I'll just be honest with you, and so we just
throw drugs at you because that's what we did for
sick people, all right. So when they say that you're normal,
they're just saying you're not sick. But again, you know
you're not well. So let's go to the next life.
So here's popular thinking. I don't know why this got
(09:43):
off like this where my letters are off, but never man,
this is the information that's important. So here's popular thinking.
You measure hormones in the blood wrong, give estrogen and
testosterone and pellets. I can't tell you how many times
I've heard people talk about I got pellets for estrogen
(10:04):
and testosterone. And pellets are not magic. Pellets are just
this new thing that people are promoting. Doctors can get
paid for it. The company. There's a company out that
is really promoting this. But there's nothing magic about pellets.
What is magic is balanced, and we want to always
(10:24):
balance hormones. And the only way you can balance hormones,
the only way you can balance anything, you have to
measure it appropriately. Okay, you can't balance something if you
can't measure it. So they also they give progesterone orally,
which is fine, but here's what doesn't make any sense.
You give pellets because you only have to do that
every three or four months. Okay, you come in, you
(10:46):
get the pellets put in. You don't have to worry
about anything for three or four months. So that increases compliance.
But the problem is most people don't have progesterone pellets.
I can offer those, but they don't have progesterone pellets,
so you have to take the progesterone orally. Still have
to rely on you to do something every day. And
I'll just tell you, the more a doctor has to
rely on a patient to do something, the less likely
(11:08):
it's going to get done. So a lot of times
these patients they have the pellets, but they don't do
the progesterone orally just because life gets busy and they
don't do it. And now you're dealing with unopposed estrogen,
which is always not a good thing, and you'll see why.
And then I keep seeing that testosterone is important for energy,
and I will tell you that that is not the case.
(11:30):
And I'm going to try to get to that point too,
is that testosterone is not important in women for energy.
The problem is qurtisol. But most people don't test for
cortisol appropriately, so they don't see that that is the
real problem. And I can do a whole podcast just
to show you the importance of cortisol and energy and
how you correct it. But giving testosterone for energy is
(11:53):
not supported by the literature. I'm just telling you it's not.
All right, So let's start with the first part, thinking
that you can measure hormones in the blood. And this
is from SpeI off the textbook on gyn Interchronology and Infertility.
And this is an old book. It was in nineteen
ninety four. But let me tell you, blood and serum
(12:15):
has not changed since nineteen ninety four. Okay, so just
because this is what thirty years old doesn't mean it's outdated.
It's always been like this, Okay, So it's unable to
easily distinguish between bound and free estrogen and testosterone. It
has a large normal range, and this is the key
provides limited clinically useful information. Okay. So if someone is
(12:39):
drawing blood on you, they're not getting any significant clinical information.
They're just not And that's why in a gyn residency
that I did at Emory University right down the street
from where I am now, we never were taught to
draw blood levels. Never, okay, because it didn't tell you anything.
And I can go into the reasons why it's fat
(13:01):
soluble against water soluble. Hertmones are fat soluble, and I'm
going to show you this and why I do saliva testing.
It's based on physiology. But if you are having your
heartmones tested by blood, I'm just going to tell you
the doctor is guessing. You're being treated by trial and error,
and they say, I go by symptoms. So if I
(13:23):
give you a dose of something, I have to wait
and see what kind of symptoms you have before I
change it, And then I have to change it again,
see what kind of symptoms you have. Do you know
how much time can pass when you're doing trial and error,
and I hear patience all the time. Oh, my doctor
keeps adjusting my dose. If you had good testing, you
wouldn't have to keep adjusting the dose. I hardly ever
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have to adjust the dose because I can test it
and see where the imbalance is, and most of the
time I can get it right the first time. So
that's the difference. All right. So this is what I
want to teach you is what is the minstreal cycle.
The only reason why women have mistral cycles is to
get pregnant. Okay, that is for reproduction, and this is
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how it works, and I'm going to show you a diagram,
but I want you to take a note of this
is that estrogen is dominated the first two weeks of
your minstral cycle. The reason why is that last month
you didn't get pregnant. So all of that tissue that
was there preparing for a fertilized egg to nourish that
fertilized egg, it gets washed away because it says you
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didn't get pregnant. So estrogen comes around to stimulate the
regrowth of that tissue. All right, So esergen stimulates growth.
Now what I want you to understand is that esergen
stimulates growth of any estrogen sensitive tissue. So what's esergen
sensitive tissue, the breast, the uterus, your fat tissue, all right,
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So if you have more estrogen around, you're going to
overstimulate your breast, so you can get fiber sistic breast,
you can get breast cancer. You also can have fibroids
because it's stimulating the abnormal growth of that muscle tissue
in your uterus. So estrogen creates growth. Now, progesterone should
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be dominated the second two weeks, and progesterone stimulates development
and slows growth. So progesterone slows down the growth and
it wants to develop that tissue to get prepared for pregnancy.
So if in any system you have growth without development,
you have an abnormal system. And the definition of cancer
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is undeveloped undifferentiated growth. So if you have estrogen around
without progesterone, you can have overgrowth of tissue that's not
developed normally. Okay, So that's why you get fibrous, that's
why you get fat around your hips, That's why you
can get breast cancer. That's why you can get abnormal
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moods because you have this imbalance of growth and development
and differentiation. All right. So just think, whenever you hear estrogen,
you think growth. Whenever you think progesterone, you think slowing
down growth and stimulating normal development. All right, So let
me tell you how this system gets screwed up. Okay,
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I know this looks complicated, but I'm going to go
through it one by one. All right. Now, this is
the lining in your uterus that grows and goes away
based on whether or not you're pregnant. This is your
ovary making a cyst, and this is an egg that
comes out all right. This is estrogen the first two weeks,
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and the blue line is progesterone the second two weeks
all right, And this is the uterus. This is that
fertilized egg. All right. So we're going to go through
a mistal cycle. All right. So last month you didn't
get pregnant, so that tissue from last month went away.
That's why you have your mistel cycle. All right. So
during that time, both of these hormones are low. Now
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what did I say. Estrogen causes growth and it's dominant
the first two weeks, right, So now here comes estrogen
regrowing the tissue. Right, So you wanted to growth. Now
how does that happen? Well, you have this little follicle
in your ovary that tries to develop into an egg
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that ovulates, that comes out waiting for sperm to fertilize it.
All right. Now, after this egg comes out, and only
after that agg comes out, Only after ovulation do you
make this thing called a corpus ludium. All right. So
that's the remnant from where this egg came out. The
corpus ludium makes progesterone. Progesterone slows down the growth. Okay,
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see the growth slowed down and it developed that tissue
waiting to see if you're going to get pregnant. If
you don't get pregnant, the corpus ludium fades away and
the tissue fades away. You have another minstral cycle. All right.
Here is the key. This step right here is very
delicate and sensitive. In order for you to ovulate, everything
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has to be just right. You can't be under too
much stress. You have to have you can't have too
much fat tissue. It just it's very delicate. Things in
their environment can affect it. So that's why you know
that's infertility is most of the time it's anovulation. You're
not ovulating, and if you don't ovulate, you don't make
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this thing called a corpus lutium, and so you don't
make progesterone. Are if this egg has somehow been damaged
just due to age, because you don't make new eggs.
The eggs you have at forty you had them all
your life, and they can get damaged by radiation, they
can get damaged by toxins that you've taken in. So
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as you get older, ovulation becomes more irregular because these
eggs are these follicles are trying their best to ovulate,
but sometimes they don't. So now you have a lot
of estrogen being made and maybe not enough progesterone. Now,
progesterone also acts like an anti anxiety and an antidepression
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type harmone. So in the second half of your cycle,
if this curve is blunted, you're going to have anxiety
and depression, You're going to have bloating, you're going to
have weight gain because estrogen also stimulates fat production and
progesterone helps you to burn fat for energy. So that's
why I measure this balance right here this is what
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is important. And if you can understand this, you'll be
able to discern a lot of information and you'll understand
that estrogen is not your problem. Estrogen is not the
problem because you can make estrogen if you don't ovulate.
And that's what PCOS is when you have a lot
of these because what happens is your body will make
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a lot of these follicles just hoping one will ovulate,
and if it doesn't, what you have is you have
a lot of cysts making a lot of estrogen. So
that's why they call it polycystic. And what you have
is that you're not making progesterone, all right, And then
what happens is your body tries to maintain some type
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of balance, so you begin making testosterone to counteract the estrogen.
So that's why in PCOS, you can get hair under
your chin, you can get thinning hair, you get you
start to gain weight because you have all this estrogen
and then you have testosterone trying to balance it out
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because you don't have progesterone. The treatment for PCOS is
to restore your progesterone. That is the key, all right, So, Rebel,
I'm trying my best to simplify this as much as possible.
But women need to understand their minstry cycle. So tell
me where I'm not clear, or where anybody has any questions.
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I'm trying to show you that everybody, everybody's heard of estrogen,
and estrogen's the easiest thing for you to get. You
make estrogen here. They give estrogen to cow, so it's
in the meat. There's estrogen in your water, there's there's
pesticides that act like estrogen. So to think that the
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deficiency and estrogen is the problem in women, it's totally backwards,
all right, So rebel Have I explained that enough? Or
do I need to go further?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
No?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I believe that we are all sitting here with our
pencil and paper, taking notes, learning and remembering things that
you know we should have been taught a long time ago.
But yes, you are perfectly clear.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Because you do this every month, and you need to
know what's happening with you. And don't listen to a
doctor or anything, because I'm going to tell you I
did not really understand this, and I did a four
year residency. What I learned was, if there's any problem here,
give you birth control pills. That's what I learned now.
I know I may have passed a test on this, okay,
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but I never really put it into practice. I just
gave women birth control pills, and that's what they get.
Nobody sits down and explains this to you. They just
write a prescription for birth control pills, and then in
three months, when you say that it's making me gain
weight and all this stuffing, they change you to another
birth control pill. Is that? Is that true or not?
A rebel?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I am. I'm sorry. They put me on them once
and I said, this is not something's not right with this.
Something something just don't sit right with me. Because it
says birth control. That means you just wanted us time.
I'm like, well and at the time they trying to
put me on it, and it's like, I'm not sexually active,
so I don't need those things.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Yeah, and that's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's a contraceptive.
It's not made to balance hormones. So I want to
get to this because I know we're getting close to
the break and I want to go to some other issues.
That's popular thinking. So this is a quote and I
and I used to say this is what I live
by is this quote right here that's from spir Off.
It says the ultimate biologic response. So that's what That's
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what everybody wants. We want the ultimate We want our
biology to work as good as possible, and the ultimate
biologic response reflects the balance of action of the different
hormones with their respective receptor. All right, So I'm going
to work backwards. So you don't have receptors for what's
in birth control pills. Okay, you have something called progestins
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that aren't really progesterone. So those are chemicals that you
really don't have receptors for. And in order for it
to be a drug, it has to be something that's
not found in nature. So any drug you take your
body does not have receptors for it. So I need
to use the hormones that you have receptors for, and
those are the bioidentical hormones that you're overy maade. So
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when I'm giving you a hormone, I'm giving you a
hormone that you have receptors for. But then I want
to balance it. And the only way you can balance
something is to measure it. And I just showed you
a slab that said serum measurements are don't have any
clinically useful information, so I can't balance anything in the blood,
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So I have to figure out another way to balance it,
all right, and that is in the saliva gland, and
I'll try and get to that. So in order for
you to have the ultimate biologic response, we have to
give you hormones that you have receptors for which are
bioidentical estradiolin progesterone, just like I showed you in your
mistra cycle. I'm giving you those exact hormones, but I
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have to balance them, and you balance them by looking
at saliva, because serum is not going to do it
accurately for you. All right, And some people say, okay,
why I'm measured in the urine. Let me tell you
what the problem with is that? And that biologic and
metabolic effect is determined by the cell's ability to receive
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and retain the hormone. For estra diol to have an effect,
it must be grasped by the reception within the cell.
So I know that maybe, so this is what I
want you to see. Estra diol may produce its effect
several times before it is metabolized, So in urine you're
looking at estrogen metabolites, but it could still be in
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the cell and it could be acting like estrogen and
you don't see it in the metabolites because it's in
the cell, it's not being metabolized by the liver. So
if you look at urine metabolites, you're not really seeing
that the hormone is being retained and it's having its
effects several times before it's metabolized. So there's some people
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who like to look at urine metabolites. They can be
useful because you want to see how your body is
dealing with the estrogen, but they don't really give you
information so you can give a person the ultimate biological response.
That's what we're looking for. So we got three minutes
and I'm going to try and explain this to you.
So this is why I look at saliva because this
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is the blood, okay, And because these hormones are fat soluble,
they're really carried around in these little things called sex
hormone binding globulent and I call it a FedEx truck.
So the FedEx truck is traveling through the highway system here,
which is your blood, and it releases hormones into the
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fat tissue that surrounds the cell, or we call it
the extra cellular space, all right, So all of this
hormone is here that you don't see in the blood, okay,
all right. So now this hormone that's here, it has
to go into the cell and that's where it will
do what it's supposed to do, either have growth our development.
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All right. So if you're looking at the blood, you
don't see this hormone here, and this is what is
affecting the cell, all right, So what do you do? Well,
this right here is the fat tissue around the saliva gland,
all right. And this is one of the places whether
the FedEx trucks delivers hormones. So if I know what
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the normal range of hormone is in the saliva gland,
and I see that that's imbalance in balance, then I
can assume that the hormone is in balance in other places.
So that is why I use salivary testing, because it
shows me the hormone that is available for the cell
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to use, not just what's floating around in the blood,
and only one to two percent is actually in the tissue.
The rest of it is in the blood being bound
and it is not available for the tissue. So just
think if the blood, So let's say ninety nine percent
of it is supposed to be in the blood and
one percent is here. So let's say two percent is
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here two percent of estrage. So now your estrogen has doubled.
That is affecting the tissue, but I barely see it
in the blood, okay, and then it can be retained
there for days or weeks or whatever. So whatever got
delivered on Tuesday and it's not in the blood, it
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could still be here Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday because
it can be retained outside of the blood. All right,
So it's time to go to break. So am I
making myself clear? Because the next thing I'm gonna do
is talk about the fallacy of testosterone? So can you
understand the mistral cycle and why the blood doesn't tell
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you anything? And you in order to balance hormones, you
have to look where the hormones are and balance them
there and not balance them on the FedEx truck. So
that's the takeaways before we go to break. So let's
come back and I'll review this and then I want
to go and I want to tell you about the
other fallacy. Is all of these women taking testosterone. So
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let's go to break.
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Speaker 3 (30:17):
All right, we are back, so rebel Uh tell me am,
I making myself clear? Uh here so here at the takeaways.
Esrogen causes growth progesterone slows down growth and stimulates normal development.
Growth without proper development can lead to problems. The worst
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problem is leading to cancer, because uncontrolled, undifferentiated growth is
the definition of cancer. All right, So that's the worst
case scenario. But also growth without development can cause irregular bleeding,
heavy bleeding, iron deficiency, anemia, fibroids, triosis, b MS, E COOS.
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So almost every problem that a woman has is due
to an imbalance of estrogen and progesterone. I can almost
say that as a as a blanket statement. It's always
an imbalance. And I'll tell you I do solivary testing
amount of office and if I find these symptoms, I
can't remember when a test came back normal when I
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thought that there was a hormone imbalance. That's how prevalent
this is, all right, So anything I need to clarify
rebel in your mind?
Speaker 4 (31:36):
I wish they would go like prior to a girl
getting her period, why you know you didn't know these things?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I know this is nice.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
So here, how do you get rid of it? If
like all of these things that happen, how do you
get rid of growths that you know, these things that
can grow?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
What happens. How do you well, it's by giving progesterone.
Your progesterone orally you can get progesterone as a cream. Yeah,
you can give it as a cream, you can give
it as pellets. It's all about balancing estragen, progesterone, and
then this cortisol. I tell you, we wrote two books,
are your Hormones Making you sick and the Stress Connection.
If you understand those two, you will be well on
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your way to good health. Okay. And you have to
eliminate stress or you have to manage stress. You have to.
You have to measure it and calm down that nervous
system that fight or flight. And then you have to
balance hormones. And so the best thing to do is
to balance them before you get any of these growth,
especially cancer and fibroids and all that. But you're right,
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a lot of that you're exposed to early on in life,
before you even know anything about this. And that's why
you see you can see twin year olds with fibroids, okay,
And some of it's not because of them taking estrogen
or whatever. I tell you. It's in the food. It's
in the meat that we eat. It's in the air
that we breathe. It's it's in the pesticides that they're
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spraying on these crops that we're eating. That's why you
want to eat organic. So it's almost hard to avoid estrogen.
But everybody thinks that they're low in estrogen, which makes
no sense. And part of that is because they're measuring
it in the blood and it's not telling you anything,
and so you make decisions based on bad information. So
I want to go to I want to share my
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screen because I want to I want to talk about
testosterone because that's another popular thing is that women need testosterone,
and that is just simply not true. Okay, So uh,
if I can go to share my screen, let me
let me go to that real Okay, So this is
what I want to share, all right. So testosterone in
the menopausal transition. All right, Understanding how testosphone production changes
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during menopause is crucial for member's health. While estrogen levels
dropped dramatically from the ovary, and I'm going to talk
about that the ovary, it drops from the ovary, but
it doesn't necessarily drop totally. Testosterone follows a different pattern
that may surprise you. All Right, So here's the number
one thing. That testing testosterone in women is almost always inaccurate. Okay,
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Measuring testosonal levels in women's significantly more complex and often
unreliable due to several inherent limitations in current testing methodologies.
And I went on deep research and chat GTP to
prove this point. Okay, So if you want the references,
I can send it to you. These essays are optimized
for men, Okay. Men have much higher testosterone levels and
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it's much more important than me and than it is women.
There's cross reactivity. These assays have to be very specific
for testosterone in women because it's always so low. It's
a very poor level, low level of precision, because testosteral
levels in women are supposed to be low, and they're
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so low that these tests that are optimized for men
won't show it. So it's always going to look like
women need testosterone. If you're looking at it in the blood,
you have to have very specialized methods. And even if
you look at free testosterone, it's not telling you what's
available for the tissue like I showed you with the
saliva gland thing. So clinical signs are paramounts. So due
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to testing limits, clinical signs and symptoms are more reliable
indicators of testosterone status than isolated blood test results. So
in Spiro office says, a woman can be her suit,
and hersuit means that they can have a beard and
testa and you look at their you look at their
serum measurements and it's still low. So if you're looking
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at that, it's going to look like every woman needs testosterone,
but it's not. It's due to bad testing, all right.
So the sources of testosterone in women now, the ovaries
make about twenty five percent, the adrenal glands, which are
these glands that are right on top of your kidneys
that make cortisol and testosterone and andstin dio, they make
a lot of the hormones and peripheral tissues fifty percent
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from harmone conversion issues throughout the body. So you can
make testosterone in multiple ways and the ovaries are not
a big source. And here's the deal. There are There
is not a sharp drop of testosterone in menopause. There
is no dramatic fall at menopause like there is with
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estrogen cross sectional studies, so little to no change in
testosterone during the menopause transition. Now again, the drop in
estrogen comes from the ovary, but your fat tissue still
makes estrogen. I'm going to try and get to that
slab before we finish this. Gradual patterns contrasts sharply with
the steep decline in estrogen made by the ovary that
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defines menopause, and ovariant activity continues after menopause. Even after
your period stops, the ovarian, the ovary continues producing testosterone.
You have elevated pituitary LH and FSH actually stimulate these
cells to produce androgens, which is testosterone. Despite low estrogen
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levels coming from the ovary. The adrenal glands, which are
the primary source of testosterone in women, they are not
affected by menopaus. Okay, this doesn't have anything to do
with your reproductive cycle, So adrenal glands continue producing dhia
and other testosteronal precursors at the same rate during menopause.
Testosterone sources decline gradually with aids, not because of menopause specifically.
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All these postmenopaus of women are told they need estrogen
for me testosterone for energy. So now if you have
surgical menopause, you will have a drop in testosterone, all right,
the difference is dramatic surgical removal or causes a significant
testosterone drop, but you're not going to see it in
the blood, while natural menopause may even see slight increases
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after seventy so your testosterone can go up even during menopause.
The sex hormone bind so remember those FedEx trucks. This
is the FedEx truck. So after menopause, sex hormone binding
globuy levels decrease. This protein normally binds testosterone also estrogen,
making it inactive. If you lower the number of FedEx
truck you get more free testosterone. So sex hormone binding
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globulin goes down with menopause, so now you have more
free estrogen even though it doesn't come from the ovary,
and you have more free testosterone. So here's testosterone levels.
So as you age, okay, if you have natural menopause,
testosterone starts to go up as you age. That's why
you see these women who are postmenopausal grow a mustache
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and lose their hair is because of testosterone. It's going up,
all right, because it's trying to take the place of
the progesterone that you lost because you don't ovulate. Anymore.
So we all see these older women. They have real
thin hair, just like my hair is thinning, okay, and
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they grow a mustache, they have chin hair, they have
all of this stuff. It's not due to a lack
of testosterone. Their testosterone is going up. That's why I
say you have to look at the clinical picture and
not at the blood tests. So for natural menopause, testosterone
deficiency symptoms may not be directly related to menopause itself,
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but rather to normal aging. Women with surgical menopause is
a problem. So each woman's harmone profile is unique and
requires personalized evaluation rather than assumption based on menopausal status alone.
So we all see these older women. Their hair falls out,
they have these ball spots. They have too much testosterone,
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and if you give them more estrogen without progesterone, they're
going to make more testosterone. Sometimes I get so estrogen
production after menopause. They kept saying that, hey, estrogen pump
plummets at menopause. That's not all the way true. While
ovariant estrogen production sharply declines after menopause, the body maintains
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a vital secondary source the conversion of androgens to estrogen.
So androgens are things like interestine dione and testosterone. You
can convert testosterone into estrogen in your peripheral tissues, in
your fat tissue primari merely. This process, known as aromatization,
is crucial for postmenopausal health. So I always say that
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God made it where women could remain being women even
after menopause. Even after they stop being reproductive, women still
want to be women, so they are naturally have more
fat tissue because fat tissue can convert testosterone and other
interestine dione things coming from the adrenal gland, and they
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can convert it into estrogen. So not only can they
do it in their adipolset or in their fat tissue,
their muscles can make local estrogen, Their bone can make estrogen.
Their brain can make estrogen, influencing cognitive function, mood, and
neuroprot But this esrogen has to be balanced by progesterone
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during menopause because you don't have a backup system or progesterone.
You have a backup system for estrogen. Your adrenal glands
can make testosterone, your ovary can still make testosterone, but
you have no other source for progesterone. So that's why
eighties and ninety percent of my patients are just on progesterone.
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So now I don't have to worry about stimulating cancer.
I don't have to worry about stimulating of fat, you know,
fat growth. I don't have to worry about any of
the are you starting to bleed again? I don't have
to worry about any of that because I am only
trying to replace the one thing that definitely goes away
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at menopause. When you stop ovulating, you stop making that
corpus lutium, and that corpus lutium is what makes progesterone.
And if you and one hundred percent of when women
will stop ovulating at menopause, so that means one hundred
percent of women are going to stop making a significant
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amount of progesterone without a backup system. All right, So
I hope I've gotten that message out. So I'm gonna
I'm gonna stop sharing my screen here and go back
to here so everybody sees me. Now we can just
go go to me. So we got what like four
minutes left? Do we have any question? Because if you
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have a question, I want to answered again. This is
this is what I want to teach in my office visit,
but a lot of times I don't have the time,
and that's why I see patients coming back all confused
and discombobulated, like I heard this and this personal instagram
said that, And when you are confused, it paralyzes you
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so you don't do anything. That's what my patient did.
She was confused, so she stopped everything. So I don't
want you to beused. I want you to be one
hundred percent sure about what I am telling you, okay,
and I can back it up. I showed you everything
I'm showing you is I got it straight out of
the textbook. And that's why I say learning is remembering.
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I don't want to hear about an expert new opinion,
and that's what is going on. Oh this expert said this.
I don't want to hear about an expert. I want
to know the basic physiology. I don't call myself an expert.
I'm a communicator of the truth. That's what I consider
myself and I try to break it down so that
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any person can understand it. And if I haven't done that,
I'll try again next time. But that is my goal
in life, is to get this message across. I told somebody, Hey,
I'm getting older. I don't know how much longer I
can do this. I hope it's another twenty or thirty years.
But I fought this battle twenty years ago. I went
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around speaking all over the country and writing books and
all this. And now I realize there's a whole new
group of people going into perimenopause and menopause. There's a
whole new group of doctors that are not understanding menopause.
So I have to do it all over again. And
so that's what I'm doing. So all right, rebel, Can
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you get pregnant after menopause? Now that is a miracle
because the definition of menopause means that you have no
more eggs, you're not ovulating anymore, and if you don't
have an egg, you're not going to be able to
get pregnant. So that is something that just that's the
way God made it. Now, could there be a miracle?
There's always miracles. But based on physiology, no, Can you
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start bleeding after menopause? Yes, you can start bleeding after menopause,
and if you're not on hartmones, that is not a
good sign. So anytime you have postmenopause or bleeding. The
number one thing you have to rule out is uterine cancer,
and you have to do a biopsy to make sure
there's no cancer there. And if there's no cancer, then
I can guarantee you you have a you have a
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progesterone deficiency problem. That's why you're bleeding. That you're getting
exposed to too much estrogen. It's causing that uterine tissue
to grow and you don't have enough progesterone to slow
down that growth. Does everyone need harmone replacement? Well, this
is why I'll tell you seventy five percent of the
world doesn't go through any of this stuff, okay, because
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they live in a less industrialized nation meant you know area,
They probably grow their food in their backyard or in
their field, so they're not getting exposed to pesticides. They
have a low stress life usually, and so most people
don't do that. But in industrialized nations like the US,
that we're exposed to all of these chemicals, we are,
(45:52):
we are under stress all the time. Then I won't
say one hundred percent of women need it, but the
natal flow of physiology, as you get older, then it's
going to set it up for that to become imbalanced.
So I never say one hundred percent of people need anything,
(46:12):
but if you have any of those symptoms, it's more
than likely you have a progesterone deficiency problem. What effects
does male testosterone cream have on lemon? It's going to
cause you to it's going to cause you to lose
hair where you want it and to gain hair where
you don't want it. And I will tell you that
you are getting testosterone and it's saying it's for energy.
(46:34):
But your real problem is cortisol. And maybe my next
podcast or look on YouTube and I can talk about
cortisol and how low cortisol equals low energy. It's not
about testosterone and energy. I don't care how popular that
thinking is. It is not based in science. Testosterone is
(46:56):
a male hardmone You would never get a man to
take estrogen saying that it's good for them, But you
have women taking testosterone tell it and doctors telling over
that that's what they need. That's not true. All right,
So what can we do about quotaesol? Okay, hey remind
me Melbel Rebel. I'll talk about quotasol next time. All right, goodbye, everybody.
(47:20):
I hope you took your notes.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
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part of this show, just check out the podcast wherever
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to better health through science and spirituality made for modern times.
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