Dr. Erika Schwartz
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first heard Nov 2024
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And the woman wouldn't tell her gynecologist, she was feeling great. And she'd go for her annual checkups and he'd be like, oh my God, you're like 59 and your vagina is like a 35 year old and you feel good. And I don't understand. It's wonderful. You're doing great. And she's not on hormones because it's post hormones are bad for you. Right. And She never told the truth.
She never told them that she was on hormones with me. So people were very scared. And even to this day, there are some who will quit the gynecologist and go to the people like me who take care of them and then never say what changed and what happened, which I think is not doing any service to the younger ones, like you said. Other people.
First of all, I want you to go forward thinking they all work together, that one without the other means nothing. And that unfortunately, in the conventional medical thinking, everybody stays in their lane and they don't come out of their lane. And the moment they start coming out of their lane, they become better. they can serve you better. And healthcare should be about service to you.
But the thing is that they all work together. Now, you want your orthopedic surgeon to stay in his lane or her lane, by all means. You want them to operate on your knee. You want them to fix it. You're not really interested in them doing anything else.
But what you don't want them to do is to tell you to stop your hormones, to stop your supplements, because they don't know what they're talking about. So you have to learn that part of it. So that's where we talk about lanes. On the other hand, you can talk about the primary care or the people who do what I do, which is they do everything.
They know everything as far as you give them the information because you can't know everything about anything because none of us will. But it's about getting the information about who you are and what your needs are. And unless you have that, you're not going to be able to help anybody. because you're going to have parts of it. And parts of it is not enough.
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
Now, after 30 years of a relationship that's gone stale and you're done with it, it's going to be a little difficult even giving you testosterone to turn you on. But you could still get turned on. I mean, we talk to women, you know, if you don't have a partner, you can masturbate. There are a lot of great ways in which you can maintain your sexuality. It's OK. There's nothing wrong with it.
It's always been OK for men. It's OK for women, by the way. There's no question about it. And by the way, it wasn't just the male thing, sexuality. It's a male and female because most of them kind of have sex with women. So don't get that.
Right. So your hormones are not well balanced. Check your thyroid. Okay. your adrenals, make sure your diet and your stress management. How do you go to sleep? Do you meditate? Do you breathe? What are the steps that you take every night, the routine that you have every night that brings you down to where you need to sleep? Are you seeing stress as one of the main problems for people with sleep?
Of course. It is the main problem for everything. Stress is it. Stress is what's killing everybody. Yes. So, and it's so, it's not easy. It's so fixable. And because it's so fixable, we should focus on fixing it instead of focusing on trying to figure out solutions around it.
Well, I've been working very hard with my patients, teaching them to meditate. And when I say meditate, half of them go like, oh no, I can't meditate. I won't meditate. It's not okay. So then I stopped saying the word meditation. What better way to do it, right? Change the word.
So I say, sit, just sit alone without a screen, without music, without any noise, without anything to give you stimulation from the outside. You just sit there, close your eyes and just sit and pay attention to your breathing. So you make sure you breathe because humans don't breathe. Nobody teaches us to breathe. So breathe, just sit there, sit for a few minutes, sit for one minute.
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