Dr. Erika Schwartz
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first heard Nov 2024
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Now, yesterday I had a patient in the practice who came in and was telling me that one of the doctors that I'm in faculty at the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine and another faculty member who's a quite well-renowned doctor was saying something that was a little different, quite different as a matter of fact than what I say.
And she said, you know, obviously she came to me and she was like, what's the story? And I said, listen, the beauty of it is that you get different opinions and that's beautiful. And we don't understand that in our culture. We're a little off on that one. that you want different opinions because they will help you try to figure out what's best for you.
And you'll know that not everything works for everybody. So it's okay. I don't have a problem with that. But you can decide if it's right or wrong. You can decide, well, I feel better. I have patients who will come and say, I've been doing the same thing for five years and I'm not quite there and I'm not losing weight and my skin is horrible and my hair's falling out.
And I'm like, why have you been doing it for five years? She's like, well, I don't know. The one thing I can tell you is don't go to anybody who mixes it all together. There are a lot of them that get like compounds that are estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, predenolone. It's all mumbo jumbo, basically all put together. And then you take the cream and you just mush it on.
The problem is that it makes no sense because you'll never know who did what to whom. So I will never come put them all together. And again, My experience has been pretty significant for 30 years. And I still see patients three days a week. And I see like 20 patients kind of thing. So I see a lot. Anyway, what I've learned is that you keep them separate.
Because if you keep them separate, it might be more of a nuisance that you have to do it like twice a day or divided up. But we, you and I, will figure out what's best for you much easier than if you put it all in one.
What makes the right formula is first of all, not putting them all together, doing them separately. There are different times in life where different things work better than other things. Like a patch will work better when you're younger than when you're older. A cream of progesterone will work better when you're younger rather than older.
So oral estrogen should never be given because it's processed through the liver and we have enough crap going through our liver. We don't want to add to that. Testosterone should never be given in pellets because they put them under the skin and leave it there for three months. Your body in its natural state before you stop making it releases hormone impulses.
So you don't want to have hormones there all the time. You want hormones to come and go, come and go. And this is how you want to do it. So those are just like basic things that should tell you if you're getting the right thing or not. Having said that, I have seen people who have been, like I said, doing it for five years the wrong way and it's working.
The other thing is that at some point, it's not just about estrogen, progesterone, testosterone. It becomes about thyroid and adrenal. And that's really crucial because it took me about five years of doing it. And remember, since I'm old, that it started a long time ago, that nobody even thought about it at the time.
I was like, I'm doing it right, but the people are not quite, like you said, not 100%. I feel great, you look great, you feel great, but you know you're not 100%. So that's when I realized that the blood tests that we do, because we're conventional doctors, and I insisted on the fact that this is where conventional medicine has to go or it's going to die. As simple as that.
And I'm a conventional doctor. So I don't want to be considered alternative. I don't want to think of myself as an alternative doctor. So it's conventional medicine who needs to go there. So when you do bloods, you know what conventional bloods look like, right? But they don't really tell you anything before you're sick. They tell you when you're sick.
So I had to kind of learn on my own how to figure out ahead of time. how to get to prevention. Like you said, all these people who pay $10,000 a month to have a thousand tests that they don't need. It's like, if you think of the genetic testing, which is like a big thing, we spend $2 billion to get the genetic code for humans, like 20 years ago.
And it's completely useless because we know that genetics mean absolutely nothing. That there may be two or three genetic diseases, actually, which sadly exist and that's it and you can't do much about it. And that genetics are useless as far as knowing them, except for creating high anxiety in you because you're going to worry about it and.
It's epigenetics is what our environment is doing to our genes that is making them to either express themselves as negative things or express themselves as positive things. So doing that test sometimes like I'm not very big on testing, which makes a lot of people nervous. who make money off of the testing, not very happy.
So to me, what matters the most is you, how you feel, how you're feeling now, how you felt six months ago. And then what I do, which is because I'm a conventional doctor, is that when you feel perfectly and you come in, you say, I got it. This is perfect. I feel the way I want to feel. That's when we do the bloods. Because everybody's different.
And that's when I will know that your bloods are the right bloods for you to keep you where we want to be. You know, like the people will say, like the woman I was talking about was faculty with me, who's saying that you should have the same estrogen levels that you had when you were in your 30s or 20s. I'm sure you've heard that one, right? in order to feel great?
Well, and some people, yes, and some people, no. And to have a period, that's another conversation, right? You should have a period forever. Well, I have patients. And when I first started, you know, women would not even admit that they didn't have periods anymore. They would be like, oh, I'm 59 and I've had a period my whole life.
And I'd be like, oh my God, I must, there's something wrong with me because I can't believe that. but I believe anything my patients say. So what's the truth? Well, the truth is they were lying because they were embarrassed because the embarrassment factor was so high and women's, like you say, lack of self-esteem and self-confidence Trump's everything totally.
So now like I would have my first editor of the hormone solution, the original hormone solution was a 20 something year old lady who told me I couldn't write. And I guess she was wrong. But anyway, she sent me her mother was a lovely woman. took care of her and it was early. So I don't blame them for not being sure of what I was talking about.
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