Menopause & Estrogen – Ten Issues & Ten Natural Answers (#106)

1. Resistant Weight Gain

2. Insomnia

3. Hot flashes

4. Fatigue

5. Brain mood cognition perception of life

6. Brand new issues, including skin problems

7. Gut issues

8. Genitourinary issues – leaking, dryness of the vagina and painful intercourse

9.  Libido

10. Joint pain

In this episode, you will learn:

• What estrogen has to do with fat cell genes, mass, and weight loss.
• Low estrogen + menopause + hormone altering chemicals is a recipe for resistant fat, and what to do about it.
• Hormones, appetite, weight control, and metabolic syndrome helpers.
• Sitting and estrogens, what’s the scoop, and how to help.
• Insomnia and natural answers from hormones, to nutrients, to a special off-label use of a med.
• Hot flashes: why they occur, what they suggest about longevity, efficacy of black cohosh, roasted soy nuts, and estrogen receptor beta’s amazing role that you can tweak with rhubarb.
• Breast cancer risk, estrogens, and the “good estrogen dominance”.
• Fatigue: what works, how PABA is a “hormone and fatigue helper”, and more.
• Estrogens and the brain, why you want a SEXY or sex steroid brain (check out Dr. Berkson’s latest book SEXY BRAIN on hormones and the brain, what tests tor run, what chemicals to detox and more).
• Hormones, the aging gut, and IBS.
• Do male hormones really help women’s genitourinary issues, including leakage, orgasms, and more.
• How much T do you need? What if you are a high-risk woman?
• Vaginal boosting creams for high-risk women.
• Hormone replacement therapy in menopause: a review of peer-reviewed literature, evidence, and relevance for estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and oxytocin.