Amy Alkon
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first heard Jun 2025
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Or if you want to try them out, you can still get 15% off your first order at drdrew.com slash paleovalley. So, Amy Alcon, you can follow her at amyalcon.x, amyalcon.net. Amy's got a number of... sort of distinguishing training and experiences in addition to her book, Going Menopausal, and also past president of Applied... Menopostal. Menopostal, I screwed it up. Menopostal, Amy, come on in.
I get the... And I don't blame women for going menopostal because... Because, first of all, no, because they've been mistreated. If you don't mind, before you and I get in our conversation, I want Susan to tell her story of perimenopause, menopause, which was, well, go ahead, tell the story.
And here's a number of a therapist.
Amy, I'm sure you wrote about this and you read about this, but I want to flush out from the experience of the practitioner, the Women's Health Initiative, which is where a lot of this craziness came from. So we used to use an old-fashioned hormone replacement therapy called Premarin. It was kind of efficacious, but it wasn't ideal. And we would always use progesterones and things.
And all of a sudden, the Women's Health Initiative comes out. which was a deeply flawed study, but nobody would admit it. It's again, another pharma catastrophe. And the finding was, not only does it not protect against dementia, it causes breast cancer, it causes dementia, it causes heart disease. And this is what happened. I remember reading editorial, and I remember all of us,
All clinicians went, that is not my experience. This is weird. My women on estrogens seem to be doing better. They have less dementia. They have less osteoporosis. Their affect is brighter. They're more energetic. They're more involved with things. And we were told, this is the part that you may not have read because lead articles in major journals said in these words, I'll never forget them.
You are no better than a witch doctor if you do not follow the findings of this fine study on 60,000 or 600,000 or whatever it was, that you are not only worthy of the title of physician and we will strip you, we will attempt to strip you of any of your subspecialty qualifications, but you are a witch doctor. I remember those words. And so all of us sort of froze.
Yeah, we froze and women suffered. Women suffered.
Yeah, I'm not surprised. We have a lot of groupthink. We have a lot of medical legal thinking. We follow what are sort of the prevailing winds of authorities mandates. And we don't think and if we don't read the literature, we're in big trouble. And the literature has been adulterated lately. That was the big shock to me during COVID. The literature became adulterated. I could see it.
So we're all in agreement, estrogen, progesterone, breast cancer risk. I mean, if you have a BRCA gene, okay, you want to talk to your doctor about that. But otherwise, what my reading shows me is not only does it not significantly add to the breast cancer risk, if you add testosterone to the mix, you might actually reduce breast cancer risk in hormone replacement therapy with testosterone.
So the cerebral vasculature, I will tell you clinically, it just is. It just is so. I guarantee you that will be proven. The coronary part I want to talk about in a second. But first, hormone replacement. Hormone responsive tumors, we just did this automatic sort of deduction, which prostate cancer and breast cancer are hormone responsive tumors. They respond to blockade of hormone.
They respond, accelerate when exposed to hormones. Therefore, these hormones must cause the cancers when there was never actually any evidence for it in either of these hormone responsive tumors. And so people have very much backed away from that. But that being the case, I mean, you don't want your cancer to get away from you if you have high risk for that, that kind of thing.
But I want to go to heart disease. So you say women die of heart disease. I would love your next book to be about really doing a big dig on heart disease generally. Because there is a chapter that nobody knows except physicians. which is that when you attempt to fill out a death certificate, the counties will accept almost nothing except heart disease.
They will say send everything back to the coroner or for an autopsy. And if families are not inclined that way, you as a physician feel sort of obliged to go, well, their heart did stop. So, okay, cardiopulmonary arrest due to cardiac standstill due to myocardial damage, which is all interpreted as heart disease. And none of it is true.
It's the mess we got into with COVID or people were dying with COVID. Maybe just do a whole expose on death certificates in this country and how doctors aren't trained to fill out death certificates and how death certificates change county to county and how the way they're constructed, they don't reflect the reality of what happened to the patient. That to me would be a huge asset. I love it.
Well, I would have to go into the research on it in every different county and stuff. I don't know if I have time for that. But the fact is that women, yes, women do have more heart disease than we pay attention to normally. But when they get it, it's usually very elderly in life, very advanced in age. And it's often women with other risk factors.
And again, more often than not, it is actually misrepresented as heart disease or cerebrovascular disease when it is not. So... Let's, you know, sort of put that down. So I have less concerns about the cardiac issues. I, like you, I think you start early and often and you protect yourself with estrogens.
Yeah. Yeah. No, I think I'm glad that you do that. And I taught medicine for a long time and emphasize exactly what you're talking about. But I realized that and Brett Weinstein confirmed this. You know, he was he was an undergraduate professor. He's the Black Horse. Oh, I know him and Heather. Okay, and he, I gave a little talk one time and he came running over to me afterwards.
He goes, that's it, that's the problem. And what I put my finger on was that we're not teaching how to do science. That people are leaving scientific STEM training programs without ever being exposed to the actual scientific method properly done. And so we have physicians entering medical school. Medical school, certainly they aren't teaching science. That has nothing to do with science.
That's a language course, essentially, right? Or maybe an anatomy course. But you have to be trained as a scientist as an undergraduate. And that's where you learn how to read literature. And when you learn how to read literature, you realize looking at a lot of clinical data that it's all bullshit. There's no actual science being done. It's just sort of... Book reports or something.
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