Dr. Mary Claire Haver

That's a really critical drug interaction.

So I'm happy to say that the tamoxifen patients can actually take the neurokinin receptor antagonist and can have benefit.

But to be honest,

Hormone therapy is the gold standard.

And forever, people were defining menopause treatment as the reduction of hot flashes, nothing else.

They weren't talking about your brain fog, your emotional status, your bones, your inflammation levels, your insulin levels.

I mean,

All of that is affected, and estrogen is the best therapy to stabilize all of these inflection points in our chronic disease process.

But if, for whatever reason, that is taken off the table for you, or if you just choose not to do it, there are options, but we have to take it symptom by symptom.

This is like supplementary.

God, it seems like a lot.

It is a lot.

I understand that.

But I'm going to walk through every supplement I take, why I take it, and what it does for me specifically.

But I want to repeat, this is based on me.

This is my labs, my goals, my risk factors.

Supplements should never be a guessing game, and supplements will never replace good nutrition.

Most of your nutrition should come from food, whole foods, anti-inflammatory foods, grains, nuts, seeds, legumes, lean proteins.

I can't stress this enough.

You cannot take a bucket of supplements and expect to have a miracle happen if you are not backing that up with good, high-quality nutrition.