Menopause & Estrogen—10 issues & 10 natural answers (#106)

Dr. Berkson's Best Health Radio Podcast

There are ten common issues patients identify with menopause:

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 vaginal and painful intercourse

9. Libido

10. Joint pain

In this episode, you will learn:

• What estrogen has to do with fat cell genes and 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, estrogen's, and the "good estrogen dominance".
• Fatigue: what works, how PABA is a "hormone and fatigue helper" and more.
• Estrogen's 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 and the aging gut and IBS and more.
• 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 and more.
• Hormone replacement therapy in menopause a review of peer review literature: evidence and relevance for estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and oxytocin.