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Menopause and The Workplace With Tamsen Fadal Apr 18, 2023

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Do you feel lost and alone facing menopause? Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, we impart hope for women as they transition into the second spring of their life. Our guest today is Tamsen Fadal, an award-winning journalist, author, and advocate for menopausal women. In this episode, she shares her journey into menopause and breaks down how you can live with brain fog and develop confidence throughout menopause.

Hot flashes are heavily associated with menopause, but Tamsen shares some overlooked symptoms that often get misdiagnosed as cognitive issues and mood disorders. The idea that women go crazy when menopause hits is because of the brain fog, anxiety, and forgetfulness that surfaces as women age. Tamsen reveals how she dealt with the anxiety, heart palpitations, and brain fog that overtook her when she was diagnosed with menopause and how her experience inspired her advocacy.

Women no longer need to be worried about aging out of the workplace. Tamsen celebrates the shifting corporate cultures that are being adopted to support women during this difficult transition. She outlines how you can build confidence as your body adapts to new hormone levels so you can stay sharp at work, and embrace your body's new hormone levels. You are not alone in your struggle. Tamsen believes that through education and community, women can enter into menopause happy, joyful, and confident. Join us as we break down stereotypes and lay the foundation to streamline your menopausal transition.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[3:00] Tamsen's journey with menopause

[7:40] You are not alone

[9:30] Brain fog in the workplace

[13:00] Confidence in community

[17:00] Traits of a natural transition

[21:00] Self-love and confidence

[24:30] Dating in midlife

[26:30] Sex after Menopause

[30:00] Thriving in menopause

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MEMORABLE QUOTES

"It's less about the brain fog and more about the lack of confidence that the brain fog brings. When you go into a meeting and you can't remember what you're presenting or you don't know what you're saying on television, or you're having a conversation with your boss and lose your train of thought, that just snaps your confidence." [10:30] -Tamsen Fadal

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Happy Sisters Live Mastermind with Magdalena Wszelaki - How to Treat Fibrocystic Breasts and Hormonal Imbalance with Herbalism Apr 11, 2023

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Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, we discuss herbal remedies for fibrocystic breasts and hormonal health with Magdalena Wszelaki. She is a nutritionist, herbalist, and the founder of Wellena, a supplement and skincare brand that helps women balance their hormones. In this episode, she demonstrates a lymphatic massage and shares herbs that help with estrogen dominance and fibrocystic breasts.

These herbs have been in use for centuries. Magdelena is dedicated to maintaining the traditions of our ancestors by educating women on simple remedies to help them lead their healthiest and happiest lives. She shares her favorite herbs and how you can integrate them into your daily routine today instead of waiting for a problem to arise.

The Happy Sisters Masterclass teaches you the basics of a loving self-care routine that will empower you to take control of your hormonal and breast health. Join us as we embrace the ancestral knowledge of ancient herbalism for the modern woman.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[3:00] Magdalena's hormonal health journey

[7:30] The story behind Happy Sisters

[10:00] Herbs for breast health

[23:00] Wellena cream for breast pain

[27:00] Lymphatic breast massage

[35:40] Five herbs for fibrocystic breasts

[46:00] Three compounds for fibrocystic breasts

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MEMORABLE QUOTES

"Within in a course of 3 days a woman can go from a cup A to cup C, in three days because of the enlargement of the breast, but with that comes a lot of debilitating stuff." [32:10] -Magdelena

"It's energetically a different kind of massage versus doing a self-examination. I feel like with self-examination it's coming from a place of; oh shoot I hope I don't find something. Where the energy behind what we are hoping to achieve with Happy Sisters in showing you how to do the massage, is to really come from a place of love and maintenance. Let me avoid problems, let me take care of my sisters now rather than coming from a place of fear." [33:50] -Magdalena

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Post-Traumatic Growth with Karen Allen - How to Move Through Grief and Embrace the Possibilities Apr 04, 2023

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Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, Karen Allen joins us to inspire post-traumatic growth in those trapped by feelings of grief and loss. After losing her husband to a tragic shooting, Karen felt overwhelmed by heartache and depression. The road to recovery was difficult, but she realized she could only move forward. Karen's post-traumatic growth led her to become an author, thought leader, and mentor to those struggling with limiting beliefs. Grief stays with you forever, but Karen shares her methodology for accepting and facing emotional turmoil so you can continue living a life full of possibilities.

Karen teaches you the tools to thrive after trauma. It is not about erasing grief but remembering the immense joy behind that feeling of loss. Grief is a memorial to the joyful moments lost to tragedy, and those memories stay with you forever. Karen invites you to face and feel your grief so you can move through it instead of being consumed by it.

Life after a loss can feel hopeless, but you can learn to see the possibilities again. Karen speaks about her relationship with God, and how her faith saved her in her darkest moments. Sometimes the best way to cope is to acknowledge and feel your profound loss but to surrender and embrace the present moment. Life doesn't stop until you do, and you may lose people and opportunities along the way, but Karen gives you the tools to stay positive in the face of tragedy.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[3:00] How Karen moved forward from tragedy

[6:00] Owning your healing with gratitude

[10:00] Post-traumatic stress disorder and grief

[13:20] Post-traumatic growth

[17:00] The connection between grief and joy

[20:30] Stop and shift methodology

[22:40] Face it and feel it

[28:00] Feeling the presence of God

[36:30] Giving people the tools to thrive

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MEMORABLE QUOTES

"If I didn't choose to get up, then my son's story was gonna be that he lost both parents and in that moment I refused to let that be his story." [5:35] -Karen Allen

"In those moments of stress that you need to be more conscious about how we're interacting with it, because it's not the pain itself, it's the way that we interact with it that's then going to make that ripple effect in our life and in the lives of others." [20:53] -Karen Allen

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Developing Delicious Curiosity with Sheri Salata: How to Map out Your Dream Life with Spiritual Healing Mar 28, 2023

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Are you ready to build your dream life? Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, we welcome Sheri Salata, former executive producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show. After her self-image collapsed, she reconnected with her higher purpose with intense self-healing. Sheri teaches you how to map out your life and conquer negative thought patterns, so you can choose to build a life full of happiness.

Life is full of transformational opportunities. Sheri guides you on your healing journey and shares how you can utilize plant medicine, trauma healing, and therapy to become your own source of love and fulfillment. She is an expert in baby steps and shows you easy ways to break free from habits that no longer serve you!

In this episode, we discover the power of emotional wellness and empower you to choose a happy life. No transformation happens overnight, but you can make the decision today and change the trajectory of your spiritual journey, develop delicious curiosity of your psyche, and step into a new phase of phenomenal transformation!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[1:00] The path of transformation

[6:00] Keeping yourself centered

[7:10] Only you can solve your love problem

[10:18] Shamanistic healing

[15:00] Healing the mother wound

[18:00] How your organs hold emotions

[19:20] The spiritual journey of a plant medicine

[21:50] Start small with gentle changes

[24:45] Transformation retreats

[30:00] Recognizing negative patterns

[31:50] Mapping out your life

[36:30] Developing delicious curiosity

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MEMORABLE QUOTES

"Really load my life up with those things that keep me so centered, and understanding that not only do I want the joyride, I deserve it, and I always have!" [6:14] -Sheri Salata

"What you're doing is coaxing yourself onto the path. You're coaxing yourself, you're not whipping yourself. You're not beating yourself up." [24:00] -Sheri Salata

" What I like to do, is make sure that everybody has their basic practices going, so it isn't like you've gone from zero to chanting. You have your little practices going, you're not uncomfortable guiding yourself on the path a little bit, and so then, when we get to a place like that, away from our lives. Then here's the question, what is the sacred opportunity sitting right in front of me?" [27:11] -Sheri Salata

"There is a new story to be told, and when you tell that story, Dr.Anna, as I know you know, there is a new life that comes with it, the life of your dreams." [35:45] -Sheri Salata

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Reenergizing the Body with Dave Asprey: How Laziness Will Change Your Health for the Better Mar 21, 2023

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Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, we welcome Dave Asprey as he launches his revolutionary book Smarter Not Harder. He takes you on a journey, as you rewire your biology for rest and rehabilitation instead of living in fight or flight.

Exercise has not changed since its inception, and Dave is here to uproot the traditional system of endless vigorous exercise. He found the flaw in the logic of working hard for better results. It turns out that your body craves rest, and endless workouts are conditioning your body to stay in perpetual survival mode! He teaches you how to reprogram your biology to achieve the best health of your life!

Most people are not eating enough food, or are eating nutrient-deficient diets and depleting their energy with long bouts of extreme exercise. The path to health does not need to be a struggle. Dave teaches you how to dismantle your limiting beliefs about your health, so you can own your biology!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[2:50] Dave's evolution into bio-hacking

[9:00] The laziness principle

[13:00] Training your mitochondria

[16:00] Strategizing according to your goals

[18:00] The psychology of laziness

[21:50] No sweating allowed!

[25:00] Picking your path to your definition of health

[30:00] Understanding mineral deficiencies

[34:10] Biohacking and stress

[38:00] Getting your energy back

[43:00] Dismantling layers of limiting belief

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DaveAsprey.com

Smarter Not Harder

The Human Upgrade Podcast

MEMORABLE QUOTES

"Everything that we doin exercise today is pick up rocks or run away from tigers, or maybe some stretching. That's all of excserze for all of history. Well, it turns out, we can change the environment around us, so that our body, can go, maybe there's not a tiger, maybe it's so convenient and easy, I'll just fix my respritory system right now instead of doing it slowly over time." [24:00] -Dave Asprey

"Oats are peasant food, designed to keep you alive in the winter, and one of the things that oats do is, they steal minerals, like zinc and copper and iron and calcium." [31:30] -Dave Asprey

"What if you just turned it off, so the next time it happened, you can go ,oh, that wasnt very nice, but you're not triggered, and you don't have to yell at anyone to change their behavior so you can feel safe in your skin, because you owned your own biology! The definition of bio-hacking." [36:20] -Dave Asprey

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The Healing Carnivore Diet with Dr. Robert Kiltz Mar 14, 2023

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The Microbiome gets a lot of attention these days, but are you protecting your Glycobiome? Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, I welcome renowned fertility expert Dr. Robert Kiltz. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Parents Magazine, and CNBC for his work making IVF affordable and accessible. Using diet and mindset to supplement low-dose IVF therapy, Dr. Kiltz has reduced the cost of IVF to a third of the national average. He is investigating the efficacy of the American plant-based diet, and how a keto-carnivore diet could reduce inflammation, heal chronic diseases, and promote fertility.

Contrary to popular belief, fat is fuel to the body. When you consume sugar and amino acids, they are processed and converted into fat by the liver, which is evidence that your body's primary fuel source is fat. Plant-based diets potentially expose you to pathogens and microbes that ferment in the gut, destroy the Glycobiome, and cause chronic illness.

In this episode, Dr. Kiltz shares how his approach to nutrition is helping women become fertile again. He teaches the dangers of a plant-based diet, and how a carnivore diet may be the solution you have been looking for!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[3:20] Affordable and accessible fertility treatments

[4:00] Natural and low doses of fertility treatments

[7:00] How the standard American diet contributes to infertility

[9:00] Positive mindset is often the catalyst for healing

[12:00] The different approaches for men and women

[14:00] Fat is the only fuel for your body

[16:00] Plant sugars are the leading cause that damages our dy

[22:00] What is the Glycobiome

[27:00] Questioning the efficacy of the microbiome hypothesis

[33:00] The estrogen and progesterone in plants create endocrine disruptors

[34:00] The Carnivor space is the healing space

[36:00] 99.9% of pesticides are made from plants

[37:00] Fat goes straight to the lymphatic system

[42:00] Removing toxic components from your diet

[49:00] Visualizing your healed body

[53:00] Healing the Glycobiome with fat and fasting

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MEMORABLE QUOTES

"I believe that fat is the only fuel for our body. Sugar is not, glucose is not a fuel for the body. It's a precursor to our fuel, and a high plant-based, low-fat diet turns out to damage every nook and cranny of our body, especially the blood vessels." [13:36] - Dr.Kiltz

"The exposure of plant antigens and the microbes that ferment in our gut, and destroy the Glycobiome is the leading cause of all disease." [35:17] -Dr.Kiltz

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The Mind-Body Connection with Dr. Will Cole - How Neglecting your Emotional Health is Affecting your Physical Body Mar 07, 2023

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Are you in tune with your gut intuition? Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, I discuss the mind-body connection with leading functional-medicine expert, Dr. Will Cole. He is among the top 50 functional and integrative doctors in America and the author of The New York Times best-seller, Intuitive Eating. In this episode, we explore the connection between mental and physical health from his soon-to-be-released book, Gut Feelings.

Conventional medicine often overlooks the mind-body connection, usually only addressing a single aspect of health. Dr. Cole's comprehensive approach to healing trauma, the gut microbiome, and restoring homeostasis to the body is helping patients reclaim their wellness.

Emotional stress has the power to reduce the effectiveness of your healthy habits, which is why you cannot separate mental health from your physical well-being. Dr.Cole guides you through a thorough analysis of your physical and emotional traumas to find the underlying factors causing chronic disease, thyroid issues, and digestive disorders. Join us as we uncover how your gut and emotional health affect your physical body!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[3:00] The relationship between mental and physical health

[6:00] How mental, emotional, and spiritual components impact the physical body

[8:00] Shameflammation: the connection between stress and inflammation

[12:00] Orthorexia and the overwhelmed of healthy eating

[17:00] Looking at the aspects of your health that are often overlooked

[20:00] How adverse childhood trauma leads to the destruction of the self

[23:00] Intergenerational trauma: epigenetic heirlooms that predispose you to disease

[27:00] Metabolising trauma: Healing without knowing the cause

[29:00] Polyvagal theory and understanding how trauma can be stored in the body

[34:00] Determining your personal point of entry to healing

[39:00] Don't confuse your doctor's medical degree with your gut intuition

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MEMORABLE QUOTES

"In many ways, I find it's an incomplete conversation around mental health care. Where mental health is relegated as separate from physical health, but the reality is that mental health is physical health, and it's really a functional medicine conversation around mental health, and around trauma, and chronic stress, and shame, and how these mental emotions, spiritual things impact our physical body." [4:35] -Dr. Cole

"I see people up against seemingly insurmountable things, and just as trauma can be inherited, so can healing. I see people break the chains of pain, break the chains of disease, break the chains of dysfunction by what you can do today." [25:50] -Dr. Cole

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How Love and Oxytocin Promote Longevity with Dr. Molly Maloof Feb 28, 2023

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Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, we discuss how oxytocin is the key to unlocking longevity with Dr. Molly Maloof. Her book The Spark Factor is a riveting display of the effect that love and community have on your body. Dr. Maloof deconstructs how loneliness and stress affect your health and deplete your lifespan.

To fully understand how external stress affects your body, Dr. Maloof teaches you the importance of tracking your cycle because your period is a vital sign. If your period becomes irregular, it is a sign that you need to slow down and be kind to your mind and body. In this episode, Dr. Maloof shares her biohacking protocol for reframing stress from a destructive force to a transformational tool.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[2:00] Ensuring longevity by optimizing your organ reserve while your young

[3:45] How a stressful environment can deplete energy and cause hormonal imbalance

[6:00] Your period is a vital sign and a window into your overall health

[10:30] Knowing the difference between good stress and bad stress

[12:00] Cognitive reappraisal and becoming your own performance coach

[16:25] Sitting in the satisfaction of what you have achieved and celebrating yourself

[18:30] Reframing your mindset to act with joy to improve your attitude and cortisol levels

[20:00] How love and oxytocin give life meaning and promote vitality and longevity

[23:00] How isolation stress from a lack of community causes phycological diseases

[26:30] The role of mitochondrial dysfunction in inflammation

[29:00] The physiology of isolation and the challenge of cortisol testing

[35:00] Hypertonic muscles and how you can train your body to relax

[39:30] The effect community has on your oxytocin levels

[41:00] What is the spark factor

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Dr. Molly Maloof's book THE SPARK FACTOR: Supercharge Your Batteries for Limitless Energy and a Fitter, Stronger, More Resilient Future (on-sale 1/31). As a physician and Stanford lecturer, Dr. Molly Maloof has spent her career providing personalized medicine services to high-performing technology executives, billionaire investors, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, and Academy Award-winning actors. What she noticed is that women, specifically, were feeling the spark that once energized their lives beginning to dim. Not just metaphorically but in a measurable reduction in the energy output from their cells. In response, Dr. Molly developed a science-backed program focused on mitochondrial health, used successfully by her patients, which offered lifestyle changes that target the unique biology of women and provide immediate and long-term benefits--now available in her book The Spark Factor. "The idea is steady gradual improvement, not perfection. The goal is to help get your spark back, so you can spend the rest of your life empowered, alive, mobile, and resilient," she writes.

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How to Effectively Embrace Positive Change - Setting Intentions For a Purposeful Midlife with Natalie Jill Feb 21, 2023

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As you age, it's common to feel stuck in certain patterns but today's guest gives you the tools to reimagine your life, health and purpose. Natalie Jill, pivoted from her wildly successful fitness brand to create her podcast Midlife Conversations. Although she was thriving in her career as a fitness influencer, she no longer felt that spark of passion, so she began questioning her purpose. By following three simple steps, Natalie was able to reshape and redefine her purpose to create a new and fulfilling path.

Decision, vision and action are at the core of long lasting change! Many women struggle to change because they focus on the action before committing and envisioning the results of the path they would like to take. Once you have gotten clear on what it is that you want, action comes naturally!

Nothing is set in stone, you can improve your diet, your relationship, your job, your home and your health all by choosing to do so and believing in the possibilities beyond your current circumstances. In this episode, Natalie shares how you can use gratitude and these simple principles to manifest a life of purpose.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[1:30] As soon as you lose passion for something you're not going to be an effective coach

[2:50] Women are so much more than their fitness and nutrition

[5:00] Finding purpose when transitioning into your menopause years

[9:00] Support versus suppression of your menopausal symptoms

[12:35] Creating a new life for yourself with Decide, Vision and Action:

[17:45] Improving your self image by visualizing the possibilities and how that would feel

[20:00] Shifting your energy by focusing on the things that you do appreciate about yourself

[23:50] Getting results by revisiting your commitment every day

[25:40] Action only works when you've first decided and envisioned the results that you want

[27:00] You will be rewarded if you intentionally focus on gratitude

[30:00] Manifesting your future with a dream book

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Midlife Conversations Podcast

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MEMORABLE QUOTES

"Most people say they want to be happy and want to be confident and that really comes down to purpose because when you are living on purpose, it's amazing how you feel and how you look." [6:37] -Natalie Jill

"I really think that is such an important skill set for us to be using in midlife, is to be focusing on what we want and how we want to live versus the problem of what is." [15:36] -Natalie Jill

"You have to take time on the vision first! The actions only work after decision and vision. Most people go to action first." [25:26] -Natalie Jill

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Hormone Replenishment Before Hormone Replacement with Dr. Anna Cabeca Feb 14, 2023

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Today on the girlfriend, I am simplifying hormonal treatment plans to give you a crash course in the history, application and data on all hormone replacements, bioidentical hormones and natural ways to replenish your natural supply of hormones. Women have been needlessly suffering simply because the medical knowledge was lacking, conflicting or at times flat out wrong. In this special episode I am answering questions directly from listeners like you in hopes to help you better understand which form of hormone therapy is right for you.

As an advocate for hormone replenishment over full blown hormone replacement, I always steer my patients towards lifestyle changes that can promote a healthy resolution of menopausal symptoms because it takes more than hormones to fix your hormones! Unfortunately, hormone replacement therapies do literally replace your ability to produce your own hormones. Through education and advocating for a treatment that suits the preservation of your ovaries and enhances your body's natural hormonal production,you can enter the second spring in the best health of your life

Ovarian function is a marker of longevity and it all starts in the womb. Lifestyle is 90% of what you need to do. Your diet, sleep and stress management all have a big impact on your hormonal health. Your hormones are a reflection of your overall health so let this episode be a resource on your journey reclaiming your hormonal health.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[2:50] It takes more than hormones to fix your hormones

[4:00] 85% of women experience menopausal symptoms which a sign of hormonal imbalance

[9:00] How one study in 2002 spread misinformation about hormone replacement therapy

[13:00] Women at risk for cardiovascular disease should always be on transdermal estrogen

[17:45] Transdermal estrogen decreases triglycerides giving it a better cardiovascular profile

[20:00] The catastrophic flaw in the Women's Health Initiative study

[24:00] The problem with hormone replacement is that it stops your natural hormone production

[25:00] The keys to hormone replenishment: Adrenal adaptogens, detoxing and eating clean

[27:00] Oral hormone replacements is risky post menopause, as it increases inflammation

[38:00] How to retrain your bladder and avoid unnecessary surgery

[45:00] How do you know when menopause starts if you've had a hysterectomy

[51:00] Understanding the difference between normal and optimal labs

[58:20] There is no ideal way to test your hormones because they are energetic molecules

[61:00] Stress and toxins are always triggering to hormonal imbalance

[64:00] You cannot heal your hormones without first healing your gut first

[68:40] How to naturally treat menstrual migraines with diet and supplements

[72:00] Doing the KetoGreen Detox before going on bio-identical hormone creams

[79:30] Take the first steps with my Healthy and Happy Hormone Quiz!

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Mighty Maca

The Hormone Fix

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NYT Article: Women Have Been Misled About Menopause

MEMORABLE QUOTES

"We need to be self educated on our hormones. We need to be self educated on our own bodies and what the changes are, so we can intervene as early as possible." [4:17]

"You have to ask for the bio-identical progesterone or you have to advocate for yourself and use a transdermal formula that is good and effective, with again, the right information, the right education and lifestyle around it. These are things that will make a difference around hormone replacement but even better than hormone replacement is hormone replenishment!" [24:11]

"When I did get really good at using bioidentical hormones preoperatively, my patients would come in for their pre-op visit and say, Dr. Anna! I am no longer having symptoms, I'm not leaking anymore! I went for a run, I'm jogging, I'm jumping on the trampoline, I'm playing, laughing with no problems, so surgery became unnecessary!" [40:25]

"If our hormones are low or we're experiencing early ovarian failure or perimenopause, Why? What is suppressing our body's natural productions? It's always toxins,it's always stress; these are two key factors that play with our hormones!" [61:53]

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