The Truth About Women's Hormones: What Doctors Aren't Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
episodePreviously titled “The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 4, 2026
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Why is women's hormonal health lagging behind?
It's actually embarrassing to say how far behind we are in women's health, especially hormonal health. We're a decade behind men's and we're a decade even further behind transgender health. So we've made more progress with transgender population than we have with women over the age of 30. Doctors are not trained in medical school at all about hormonal health. And even doctors think that birth control is hormones. We need to be questioning that. Is this healthy? Like our hormones are built to protect us. They tell every process how to function. So if you take that away, then you are potentially increasing health risks for a young patient, especially 13-year-olds or 15-year-olds long-term. When women in their 30s are like doing all the supplements, all the things to try to stop this aging because they can feel it. But if they knew that, hey, you can prevent this and you can slow this down a lot just by using your own natural hormones, then that'd be great if you could prevent wrinkles and hair loss and weight gain. We used to tell women like, you got to go through menopause.
We would even sometimes take away their hormones, which is unbelievably cruel. We don't believe in that philosophy anymore. All the data shows that You don't have to ever go through menopause if you don't want to. This is entirely your choice. There's only one difference between perimenopause and menopause. They have exactly the same symptoms.
The only difference is... Welcome back to the Healing and Human Potential podcast, where today we're going to talk about how birth control might be affecting your bodies in ways that you're not even expecting. We're joined by Dr. Sarah Dacorette to dive into all of these topics. And so if you're ready to understand your hormones, connect with your body and take actionable steps towards living a more vibrant, healthy life, this episode is for you. Amazing. I'm so happy that you're here. And I'm just going to like drive right in because there's so many questions I want to ask you. I'm curious because I know hormone health can be like a mystery for a lot of women. And so I'm curious just to hear your opinion, why there's a lack of research and understanding about women's health and how that actually affects the care that we get in the long term.
It's true. It's actually embarrassing to say how far behind we are in women's health, especially hormonal health. We're a decade behind men's, and we're a decade even further behind transgender health. So we've made more progress with transgender population than we have with women over the age of 30. for example, for hormone, even in innovation approach, reference intervals, everything. And there's always, you know, it's actually not that surprising, I guess. We have a huge gender data gap with everything. And then, you know, we've all in medicine, all the studies have been geared towards men. Women have cycles. And so our hormones fluctuate and potentially they complicated studies or drug studies. pharmaceuticals, the dosings built for men.
I mean, even iPhones, like the size of an iPhone is built for a man's hand. I mean, like car seats, everything. I mean, everything is, we are literally half of the population and completely ignored when it comes to even technological advancements. So it's happened in hormonal health as well.
Yeah. And it's good for us to know that so that when we're hearing different research and studies, we can actually apply, does that actually true for me? Is this, does this feel right for my body? Right. So that, you know, I heard somewhere, I don't know if this is accurate that men's hormones are within a 24 hour window and women's are more through the month. Is that accurate?
It's probably accurate. I think some of them stay stable. When we look at these old cyclical graphs, they're based on very old lab assays, outdated in fact. We'll reject other research papers if they're done on these lab tests, but we still acknowledge this old data. So we can even question whether that's accurate or not or whether that needs to be reinvestigated.
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