The hormone confusion that’s affecting millions of women - Sara Hover

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  @nicolemerz1731 · 2 months ago (edited)

  Very interesting: 3-9 months before synthetic hormonal chemicals like ethinylestradiol leave the body after taking them. Please more on that topic 🙏🙏🙏

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  @lizzioconnor9051 · 2 months ago

  That was a fabulous listen!!<br>ThankYou 🙏🏿

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  @kr1221E · 2 months ago

  Thank you both of you for being people who care about the health of women 🙏

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  @tracyblack8069 · 2 months ago

  Bless you ladies. Thank you Dr. Newson for your perseverance in this area of women’s health. &nbsp; I’ve researched, I’ve studies, and finally found a functional medicine doctor. &nbsp;After a few years of rejection from regular doctors. &nbsp;I thought I was crazy, and paranoid, for listening to my inner gut pursuing HRT after &nbsp;being told I was too old (66) for HRT. &nbsp;It’s unfortunate that I have to use my own financial ability to get this care, I worked my tail off to have Medicare. &nbsp;My next visit after my Concierge Doctor’s appt I will see my regular General Practitioner. I will ask one last time for her blessing and get Medicare to support this treatment. &nbsp;If not, &nbsp;I will walk out with my head held high knowing I am taking my health into my own hands .

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  @nicolemerz1731 · 2 months ago

  Like always so worthwhile! When I heard Scandinavian register/database studies claim &quot;ESTROGEN CAUSES DEMENTIA&quot; I always thought to myself: Surely they once again confound synthetics with bodyidenticals. So good to hear from this specialist that THIS INDEED was the case. I would love to have a link to this flawed study nevertheless 🤷🏻‍♀️

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  @joycehennequin8469 · 2 months ago

  That was a great and useful video thankyou so much.Please keep up this very important information 💞 Hello Dr Louise ❤

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  @marzenawspaniala1788 · 2 months ago

  Absolutely great episode, so clearly all the differences were lay out. Thank you

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  @annana9297 · 2 months ago

  My favourite topic. Quite a few people I know are on either the combination pill, the UIDs or the synthetic testosterone that the young boys use, supposedly for increased &apos;muscles&apos; or whatever, but what these people don&apos;t understand, is that they may effect the natural hormones being taken up by the receptors in their body, and after years and years of use, this may ultimately affect their testosterone levels. Their basic joy of life, quality of life and &nbsp;energy levels may likely be diminished, as a result of this synthetic stuff. I know every human being has the right to their own experiences, but who really wants that suffering?

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  @victoriarubio7859 · 2 months ago

  Absolutely perfect. Thank uuuuuuu 🫶

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  @LadyBug1967 · 2 months ago

  I&apos;m really worried about my progesterone because I was having bleeding and I was having very sore breats for 1 month. &nbsp;My doctor reduced my estradiol to very small amount. &nbsp;The smallest possible. &nbsp;BUT she put my progesterone at 200 mg-- twice what it had been, yet my breasts continued to be really sore, &nbsp;and initially I still had the bleeding though that finally has stopped but not painful breasts.<br> I am going to reduce my progesterone back to the 100 mg tablets that I use vaginally-- with or without her permission-- because I&apos;m trying to figure out why my breasts hurts so much.<br> BEFORE I was menopausal,<br> I NEVER had any pain in my breast or in my womb; &nbsp;no mood changes; &nbsp;NOTHING .<br>IT was smooth sailing cuz everything was in balance.<br> NOW that they&apos;re trying to give me &nbsp;hormones, yet they have no idea how to balance them except to listen to me but they DON&apos;T REALLY listen to me. AND they DON&apos;T REALLY &nbsp;know &nbsp;what they should do when I say I have bleeding or I have great breast pain.<br> My moods haven&apos;t changed, unlike a doctor in the States, Dr Mindy, &nbsp;who &nbsp;said she felt homicidal. &nbsp;I don&apos;t have any of that those problems thank God but my guess is that in her premenopausal state, &nbsp;she was moody and and very unbalanced. &nbsp;I say that in part because I read that if your pre-menopause status was normal, with no problems, your menopause will also be similar which mine was. &nbsp;I only had one thing post menopause <s>-hot flashes-</s> an<br> but I&apos;m trying to use the hormones for my brain,bone and heart which were things that were NEVER discussed back in the day.<br>The ONLY one that can be easily measured is my bone and they already told me I have to wait at least a year to see any evidence of a change from osteopenia.<br><br><br> I just saw a female perimenopausal doctor who decided I had osteoporosis and I told her --no, it&apos;s osteopenia, &nbsp;and she insisted it was osteoporosis due to the percentage of possible fracture in the hip and another part of my body.<br> BUT I think she just wanted to get me on the drug so she can make money and she had no interest in hormones which could achieve a better result with no kickback to her and no side effects to me. <br> <br> I&apos;d hoped she would liaison with my OBGYN who is overworked so that I could have two doctors helping me and also have access to two doctors because the specialist OBGYN is almost impossible to see .<br>It was &nbsp;a no-go. I don&apos;t think she&apos;s even &nbsp;smart enough to know that her marriage <s>-which resulted in four beautiful children and divorce-</s> is probably a result of her perimenopausal state, as I could tell she was very aggressive; very argumentative and very ambitious. Despite those &nbsp;things, my friend liked for because she was helping her lose weight by giving her an antidepressant although she is a GP and has no background in psychology. She&apos;s the second female GP that has a large patient base because she gives out antidepressants like candy with no background in the psychological aspect of that drug in terms of why it&apos;s needed how it should be used and how it should be terminated. <br><br> I too would like to lose 45 lb but I would do it on my own terms and not with this antidepressant drug and my true reason for seeking her out was as I mentioned to have a liaison to help me with &nbsp;fine tuning HRT. Because Dr newsom is a GP, &nbsp;I felt she was actually qualified at least to work in a marginal basis with my OBGYN to help me when things weren&apos;t working out and I couldn&apos;t get through to my OBGYN. The hospital has it set up that we text but she obviously didn&apos;t understand me when I said that I wanted to half the amount: she kept the estradiol amount the same while she doubled the progesterone and I still had bleeding and sore breast. Since then, &nbsp;I repeated that I wanted to half it and she allows me now to half my dosage of Estradiol but she&apos;s keeping progesterone at 200 and I&apos;m going to reduce that to 100. It&apos;s not a nothing drug. If my estradioll is as low as you can go or even lower if I tear the patch in half <s>-which I might do-</s> the progesterone does not need to be that high. I, unlike most women, was balanced BEFORE menopause and my body seeks balance now. After a quarter century my body found balance with zero estrogen and with some testosterone which I&apos;m going to now demand to be measured. Testosterone is a counterbalance in the breast to keep the growth factor of the breast cells under control which are actually being encouraged to grow by the estradiol. Progesterone works for the womb as regards cancer but what&apos;s working in the breast? &nbsp;NOTHING unless she agrees to give me testosterone. If she refuses I would try to find it online. <br><br>I want to measure my testosterone NOW and because I&apos;m not perimenopausal but I&apos;m 1/4 century post menopausal I am quite sure it&apos;s very stable and except evening when it goes down, it will probably be at the same level every single day at the same time in the morning. If I were in England I would see Dr newsom but unfortunately I&apos;m not.<br><br> Dr Casperson is maybe a good choice in the States but I don&apos;t think she sees people since she&apos;s always online and writing books and getting the word out and making her money that way. Dr Gersh, a Californin doctor, has her good points but she&apos;s into cyclical progesterone and wants the body to be the same as a 30-year-old reproductive female which I disagree with so she is not really my first choice. Any ideas?

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  · 2 months ago

  I’ve been prescribed Evoril Sequi but now I am confused as it looks like the progesterone part of this is synthetic so I’m concerned after listening to this pod cast 😢

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  @michellemildwater1021 · 1 month ago

  yes how do I do it when I do not have a doctor