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Dr. Erika Schwartz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
264 total appearances

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Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

So to answer your question, because there is an answer to your question, estrogen is the hormone of growth. So when you're pregnant, it makes the fetus grow. When, you know, the first half of the cycle, it makes your uterus, the lining of the uterus grow. It's a very positive, it increases serotonin levels. It makes you feel good. It's a making you feel good hormone.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

It also makes you who we are, like as far as being, I guess, some of us being more edgy than others, being, you know, it's the hormone of being a woman, estradiol, the hormone of youth, the estrogen of youth. Progesterone is its balancer. It balances the effects of estrogen.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

It also makes you who we are, like as far as being, I guess, some of us being more edgy than others, being, you know, it's the hormone of being a woman, estradiol, the hormone of youth, the estrogen of youth. Progesterone is its balancer. It balances the effects of estrogen.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

It also makes you who we are, like as far as being, I guess, some of us being more edgy than others, being, you know, it's the hormone of being a woman, estradiol, the hormone of youth, the estrogen of youth. Progesterone is its balancer. It balances the effects of estrogen.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

According to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the only use for progestin is to make sure that it doesn't make the lining of the uterus get too thick and increase the risk of endometrial cancer. I don't think that's right. I think it's totally wrong. I mean, it helps the

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

According to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the only use for progestin is to make sure that it doesn't make the lining of the uterus get too thick and increase the risk of endometrial cancer. I don't think that's right. I think it's totally wrong. I mean, it helps the

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

According to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the only use for progestin is to make sure that it doesn't make the lining of the uterus get too thick and increase the risk of endometrial cancer. I don't think that's right. I think it's totally wrong. I mean, it helps the

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

with keeping the lining of the uterus thin, which is important, but it also works on your brain and makes you calm and makes you balanced, makes you also even more woman. Testosterone is the hormone that we identify as a male hormone, but it's not. Women make more testosterone than men per, not quantity, but like ratio kind of. The amount of testosterone we make is more than men make.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

with keeping the lining of the uterus thin, which is important, but it also works on your brain and makes you calm and makes you balanced, makes you also even more woman. Testosterone is the hormone that we identify as a male hormone, but it's not. Women make more testosterone than men per, not quantity, but like ratio kind of. The amount of testosterone we make is more than men make.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

with keeping the lining of the uterus thin, which is important, but it also works on your brain and makes you calm and makes you balanced, makes you also even more woman. Testosterone is the hormone that we identify as a male hormone, but it's not. Women make more testosterone than men per, not quantity, but like ratio kind of. The amount of testosterone we make is more than men make.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

to tell you the truth, not the amount, but like in the ratio of hormones. And testosterone is a great hormone. When you talk about aggressiveness, which is what testosterone is associated with,

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

to tell you the truth, not the amount, but like in the ratio of hormones. And testosterone is a great hormone. When you talk about aggressiveness, which is what testosterone is associated with,

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

to tell you the truth, not the amount, but like in the ratio of hormones. And testosterone is a great hormone. When you talk about aggressiveness, which is what testosterone is associated with,

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

This very, very famous scientist by the name of Robert Sapolsky, who did all the research on testosterone, says how unless you have a genetic predisposition for testosterone to make you irritable and angry and, I guess, aggressive, you're not going to get aggressive. The same thing goes for women. If you take testosterone and you get aggressive, you took too much or you just can't take it.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

This very, very famous scientist by the name of Robert Sapolsky, who did all the research on testosterone, says how unless you have a genetic predisposition for testosterone to make you irritable and angry and, I guess, aggressive, you're not going to get aggressive. The same thing goes for women. If you take testosterone and you get aggressive, you took too much or you just can't take it.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

This very, very famous scientist by the name of Robert Sapolsky, who did all the research on testosterone, says how unless you have a genetic predisposition for testosterone to make you irritable and angry and, I guess, aggressive, you're not going to get aggressive. The same thing goes for women. If you take testosterone and you get aggressive, you took too much or you just can't take it.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

And there are ways to give it to you. You can give it to you in shots. You can give it to you in creams. Again, you can't give it to you orally because it's not going to work right. And again, it's going to be through your liver and you don't want that. So testosterone helps with muscle mass, right? Which helps with bones because none of the osteoporosis medications actually helps with your bones.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

And there are ways to give it to you. You can give it to you in shots. You can give it to you in creams. Again, you can't give it to you orally because it's not going to work right. And again, it's going to be through your liver and you don't want that. So testosterone helps with muscle mass, right? Which helps with bones because none of the osteoporosis medications actually helps with your bones.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

And there are ways to give it to you. You can give it to you in shots. You can give it to you in creams. Again, you can't give it to you orally because it's not going to work right. And again, it's going to be through your liver and you don't want that. So testosterone helps with muscle mass, right? Which helps with bones because none of the osteoporosis medications actually helps with your bones.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author

The only thing that helps with your bones is building your muscle and maintaining your muscles as you get older. That's it. There's no other, nothing. Calcium won't do it. Nothing else will do it. But you working out and building your muscle will do it. So testosterone will do that. It will also give you the libido, which we all want.