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You will learn: The new genderome and Venus and Mars in the gut How testosterone and progesterone affect digestive enzymes Which estrogen prevents and heals leaky gut How oxytocin and estrogen receptor beta are in sync in the brain and the gut How and why a healthy gut is a vagal gut Gut microbiome/hormone cross-talk And more! By Dr. Devaki Lindsey Berkson
OXYTOCIN The New Hormonal Kid On The Clinical Block By Dr. Devaki Lindsey Berkson (Author of soon launching SEXY—better health with bigger “O’s”) Modern Dilemma. In America today, marital relationships and personal moods seem pretty hard to hold together. Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce. Studies say 20 to 72% of husbands commit adultery and 10 to 54% of wives do likewise . Try as we may to achieve happy relationships, many fail. Moods are murky. Anxiety disorders affect 40 million adults and cost one-third of all monies spent on mental health. The National Center for Health Statistics shows that [...]
Your blood sugar levels rising? Your weight coming on and hard to get off? It may be more than what you eat. It may be the chemicals you are exposed to. I wrote about these links in Hormone Deception 20 years ago and in a consensus paper by the WHO organization I was a reader for, we linked endocrine disruptor pollutants to diabetes. Decades ago we said organic is better and we were called idiots. We said endocrine disrupting chemicals were threatening our global health and our children's brains and bellies and we were called radicals. We linked nutritional deficiencies to physical [...]
Many California and other state wines found to contain arsenic. Arsenic is an endocrine disruptor of the insulin receptor, contributing to insulin resistance. In this study on 65 US wines, Washington wines had the highest level of arsenic and Oregon had the lowest. This is an issue only if you drink wine regularly, but these days, that covers a lot of folks. I was a reader on a WHO paper on the new causes of the diabetes epidemic and we had a whole section on heavy metals, especially arsenic. It tends not to bioaccumulate in tissues, but daily exposure is a [...]
We are about to lose our rights to get bioidentical hormones. Every day in practice, those docs utilizing individualized bioidentical hormone replacement for patients, hear that men and women's lives are given back to them. They think better. Sleep better. Close the deal at work better. Look better. And have more hope about aging. All this is done with science-based, individualized, bioidentical hormone replacement along with optimizing nutrition and digestion. Individualized bioidentical hormones also can "treat" or be “adjunctive care” for many long term disabling health issues such as endometriosis, benign breast disease, inflammatory bowel disease, some neurodegenerative illnesses and more. [...]
Grokking the new hormonal scene and the money trail: • A new “natural” hormone drug is in phase-3 trials. (Natural is commercial industry term for bio-identical). • It is the first “natural” hormone pharmaceutical—to be made by big Pharma rather than compounded by compounding pharmacies. • It is natural estradiol combined with progesterone. Oral. • It’s on the road to FDA approval. • This drug is called “Replenish”. • The REPLENISH Study and it’s published article in PubMed (NIH peer review site) was funded by TherapeuticsMD, Inc. • Many of the employees of TherapeuticsMD, Inc. were employees of the companies that [...]
Hormones tested, tweaked, individualized. These are the main signaling molecules protecting your brain and gut. Microbiome protected. Nutrients nestled well inside cells.... because you are digesting. Passions lived or attempted. Purpose driven. And sometimes lazy as hell. Life shared. God remembered. Moving no matter what. Being gentle especially on yourself. Speaking supportive SELF talk inside your own head. Finding a community that sees you, laughs with you, cherishes with you. If you have lost hope, find someone to help you find it. Hope re-found is an anchor for a younger perspective and spirit. And never ever ever give up.
Oxytocin Oxytocin is not just a pregnancy hormone. We have oxytocin receptors throughout our biological real estate. And when oxytocin signals these receptors, a variety of healthy actions take place. One of them is muscle protection. Where do we get oxytocin? Pregnant moms make it for various supportive actions related to birth. But both men and women secret oxytocin throughout adult life, especially while lovemaking. This is one of Nature’s gifts for a man and woman making love. In return, Mother Nature protects muscle integrity. (Lovemaking also protects the brain but that’s another story). Use It or Loose It Like all [...]
Your brain's hippocampus is the epicenter of your memory. It is who you remember yourself to be. It has the highest blood flow of any tissue in the body. It has more mitochondria per volume of cell size than any other tissue in the entire body including the heart. So Mom Nature holds your hippocampus in high regard. What "feeds" your hippocampus? Estrogen and testosterone. As you age, from 25 years on, levels of estrogen and testosterone start to silently go south. Your hippocampus goes anorexic. It thins out. The scientific term for this is actually “hippocampal shrinkage.” When the hippocampus [...]
We are seeing more studies showing that hormone replacement in BOTH men and women, is not only safe, but also protective. A new scientific study demonstrates that testosterone therapy in generally healthy men (to normalize their T blood levels closer to more youthful levels) is NOT harmful and even safer than NOT taking it. This is the point that integrative doctors have been trying to share with the public and have been seeing with their patient populations on hormone replacement for the last 50 years. Taking hormone replacement, based on testing and individual need and response, is usually safer, than not [...]
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Medical Disclaimer: The information contained in this website is not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and is not intended as medical advice. It is intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of Dr. Lindsey Berkson and the experts who have contributed to the field of research. You are encouraged to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional of your choosing.
