Healing + Human Potential
The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
11 Feb 2025
Are we missing key answers about our own health? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Sarah Daccarett to talk about the hidden gaps in women’s health research and why so much of what we know about hormones is outdated. We explore how medical studies have historically focused on men, leaving women without clear answers on hormone balance, infertility, and perimenopause. Sarah shares why common treatments like birth control might not be the solution we think they are and what we should know before making decisions about our health. We also dive into environmental toxins, the impact of stress, and how hormone levels affect everything from energy to mental clarity. Sarah explains how we can support our bodies naturally, what actually works, and why many women struggle despite doing “all the right things.” If you’ve ever felt dismissed by a doctor or wondered if your body was trying to tell you something, this conversation is for you. === GUEST LINKS Instagram: @sarahdaccarettmd Website: https://innerbalance.com/ === Have you watched our previous episode with Dr Kelly Brogan? Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vPgPpzeVmrY ==== Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - Disclaimer This podcast is presented solely for educational and entertainment purposes. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or any other qualified professional. We shall in no event be held liable to any party for any reason arising directly or indirectly for the use or interpretation of the information presented in this video. Copyright 2023, Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - All rights reserved. === Website: alyssanobriga.com Instagram: @alyssanobriga TikTok - @alyssanobriga Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6b5s2xbA2d3pETSvYBZ9YR Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healing-human-potential/id1705626495
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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.
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