Dr. Erika Schwartz
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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It was about diet, exercise, lifestyle, everything you know now. I also decided at the time, you know, it came to me as this evolution occurred, that it was about putting the pieces together and that it was within our power, right?
to make it happen and that at the end of the day it was you or me whoever is the person involved that would make the decision to conduct their life in such a way that would make it work and it's like what you were saying on your TED talk that I told you I was watching before that that you can't allow the outside world to take away your light. You have to hold onto it.
And if it's taking it away from you, you better walk away from that. So that's what I'm doing in healthcare.
Well, they're afraid of it because that study was a complete fraud. It was a study sponsored by Wyatt Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, and Upjohn. And it was supposedly, and again, for those who don't see it, quotation marks, right? It was supposedly going to show that Premarin, which was the hormone replacement therapy they were using in those days, was the fountain of youth.
Which is not a bad idea, right? The only problem is that they used women who were at least 10 years after menopause, who had pre-existing conditions like they were smokers, they had cancers, they had all kinds of issues. And so they were too old to look at.
And they use the wrong kind of hormone replacement therapy because, and this is a hard concept, and I teach it to doctors, so I don't want to sound like an idiot by saying something. They believed, and they still believe in the conventional medical world, that all estrogens behave the same. All progesterones behave the same. The truth is that no such thing happens.
And it's common sense that if the formula of a substance isn't the same as the formula of the next substance, they're not going to behave the same. It's just common sense. You don't really need to be a biochemist. You don't need to know anything except common sense to say, what are you talking about?
It took 20 years for that piece of information to get across the Atlantic Ocean, because in Europe they got it, and say, wait a minute, the study was bad. What they gave them didn't work. Women need hormones. So I had written this book, and this is, again, the universe. I had written this book called The Hormone Solution, and it came out in April of 2002.
And like you were talking about writing a book, I really didn't write a book because I thought I wanted to be famous or I wanted people to think that I know what I'm talking about.
It was kind of, it came out and it came out of me and it was about helping and saying the core of that book is really, you know, if you have a baby, I just wrote a chapter for a medical book about postpartum care and how what's going on there, which is another disaster. Anyway, And every age we're affected by our hormone balance. So that's what that book was about.
And it was also that putting the right hormones into the mix will help you stay healthy, will open the door for you to stop drinking when you're older, to be able to maintain your weight, to be able to sleep, to protect eventually from heart disease, brain, bones, et cetera. And the book came out in April of 2002 and the study came out in July of 2002.
So all of a sudden it was number two on Amazon. Just go figure. And this is how I got to where I got. But I did a lot of work in the meantime because I'm taking care of patients and I went from taking care of menopausal women. to taking care of like transgenerationally and bringing the guys in too and saying, listen, we all need to make sure our hormones are in balance.
We all have it in our hands to improve our lives. We don't need to look for the magic pill, which we're all sadly looking for. We don't need to try to outsmart the next person. We can just stay there and do what's best for ourselves.
You live there, you know more.
Good question. That's a great question. Unfortunately, there is no clear, you know, like epidemiologic answer that says, OK, everybody should do this because everybody's different. Everybody, like you said, they can go up there or you can go down here, wherever. This is the only thing I would say. Go to anywhere you find your friends recommend. I mean, you get on Instagram all day long.
We get fed this stuff. Don't go for the supplements because the supplements, most of them, unless they're tied into the hormonal supplementation, they're just a marketing scam. So don't bother with the supplements, I would say. Then I would say, try. And if you feel better, Stay there. Like you said, you're not quite there. And you know it because you live in there. Listen to yourself.
You know it. Don't let anybody else tell you what's going on. And then keep trying until you find the right person. Now, you know, this has become a huge market. So there's a lot of money that people are spending in it. And there are a lot of quacks in it the same way there are a lot of quacks in the conventional world, you know.
So it's up to you, like you said in your TED talk and in your life, it's up to you to say this far, no further. So I would say give it three months. In three months, you'll know if it's the right person or not.
And if the person listens to you, if the person gets to know you, if they want to know you, if they're not just prescribing because they have nothing else to do but prescribe to collect their money, then go the other way. You know that. You know what you want. If they're there to sell you, you're not interested because it's your life.
So you want somebody who's going to protect you and who's going to tell you whatever they know.
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