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If you feel worn out and wrecked, like your life and hormones are out of balance, you are not alone. It’s a symptom a lot of us deal with, a common result of our 24/7 busy lifestyle. The good news is that you aren’t stuck! There are some simple ways to get your life (and hormones) back on track!
Dr. Tami Meraglia, author of “The Hormone Secret,” offers insights on just that: how to regain hormonal balance and health. She discusses how women can naturally support their bodies before, during, and after menopause. She talks about testosterone (yes, women need this, too), thyroid health, and what inhibits its proper function. Finally, she reminds us that lab results on paper don’t tell the whole story.
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Episode Transcript
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If your hormones are shot, there are many ways to get back on track. This is episode 489. Our guest is Dr. Tami Meraglia, the author of The Hormone Secret. She works with both men and women and helps them correct hormone imbalances and deficiencies. In this episode, Tami offers ideas, particularly for women, to learn how to naturally harmonize their bodies before, during, and after menopause. She goes over the factors that get our hormones out of whack in the first place, including a 24/7 lifestyle and the stress that comes with it.
She explains the role of various hormones in giving us the vitality and peace we seek. She also covers the role of testosterone for women and natural traditional herbs that can help women regain their vitality. Finally, she covers the importance of hormone replacement therapy as we age, and she explains why fine is not good enough. She wants every woman to feel fabulous.
A quick heads-up. In this episode, Tami does recommend bioidentical hormones. Itβs a protocol that the Weston A. Price Foundation does not necessarily endorse. Before you get into the conversation, I want to tell you that we have resources in Spanish at the Weston A. Price Foundation. We have a podcast in Spanish called Tradiciones Sabias, hosted by Annette and Alberto Medina. In addition, we have wonderful pamphlets. We have an Instagram account in Spanish @WestonAPriceEspanol. Go to our website and click on the tab that says WAPF en EspaΓ±ol on the homepage.
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Welcome to the show, Tami.
Iβm so grateful to be here. Thank you.
Iβm excited to talk about all things hormonal health for women. I want to start with a story of that biohacker who walked through your doors and how you were able to help her with her hormonal health imbalance.
I always feel like I work for my patients, so Iβm going to listen to them and respect their wishes. There are a lot of extremes in healthcare. Youβve got your traditional medical doctors who are only focused on diseases and conditions. If we renamed healthcare to sick care, we wouldnβt have as much frustration because it really has nothing to do with your health, wellness, prevention, longevity, or vitality, but when weβre sick, Iβm awfully glad that we have it there for us.
The other extreme is a host of influencers and everything from A to Z that is telling you, βDonβt ever eat gluten. Donβt touch the paper receipts because youβre going to get toxic chemicals. Donβt go for a walk. You have to put 60 pounds on and go for a ruck.β There are all these extremes. She was buying into all of this and making herself crazy. I would respect and we would investigate them through the lens of who I am. Iβm an MD, but Iβm also certified in naturopathic medicine. You can either call me the most cynical naturopath in the world or the most open-minded MD. Either one works.
She has been my patient for almost fifteen years. Most of my patients have been with me for over a decade. She said to me, βIβm doing less and feeling better than I ever have in the last fifteen years.β Her blood work looks like somebody fifteen years younger. She is so peaceful. Thatβs the thing. Homeostasis is a state of ease. It is not a push all the time. Women who sometimes want to optimize their health get sucked into this male version of working out hard, running hard, pushing hard and fast, and not eating. Itβs not for us perimenopausal and menopausal women. The vast majority of us do much better when we harmonize instead of hack.
I love that. Youβre right. A lot of us get caught up in what the influencers or the young 30-something guys are saying that we should do when weβre not men. We have a different rhythm. Talk to us a little bit about hormonal balance. Why are our hormones apparently so out of whack for so many women?
The Hormone Secret
I wrote a book called The Hormone Secret because I was getting so frustrated in my practice. When I did family medicine, I would have all these women come to me and they would say, βIβm not feeling myself. Iβve lost my joy. Iβve lost my enjoyment. I donβt laugh. Iβm 10 or 15 pounds overweight. Iβm tired. I get irritated easily. My sleep is not great,β and on and on.
I would run the CBC and the thyroid and look for anemia and all these things, but when they came back, I would tell them they were fine. Thatβs when I realized A) Fine is a four-letter word. Nobody wakes up in the morning saying, βI want to be fine today.β You want to be fabulous. The second thing is that the absence of disease does not equal wellness. I realized then that I had to switch gears.
The absence of disease does not equal wellness.
I finished my traditional medical training and started my naturopathic training so that I could focus on wellness and vitality. I was thinking, βWhat is the missing piece here?β I started on gut and liver health. I was like, βThatβs the key. Thatβs so important. Weβve got to fix our gut. Weβve got to fix our liver.β People were feeling so yucky. They didnβt do the work to fix their gut. It involves changing your diet and doing a lot of different things.
I thought, βI wonder if I address their hormones first and get them feeling better. Would they then have the energy to explore other areas of their health like the microbiome and all of that?β It turns out hormones were a game-changer. Hormones, and especially testosterone for women, which is not always tested for, discussed, or addressed. We only need a little bit, but it has an outsized role in how we look, feel, and function.
This is so fascinating. Letβs talk about hormones in general, and then I do want to talk about testosterone. What hormones are we talking about that can get out of balance?
When youβre going through perimenopause, which starts in your late 30s and can last over 10 years, or menopause, your hormones like estrogen, progesterone, and even your DHEA and your testosterone are moving to be produced in your adrenal glands. These tiny little glands are the size and shape of a walnut and they sit one on top of your kidneys. They have to produce all of your hormones that deal with stress, like cortisol, adrenaline, etc.
Theyβre also being asked to produce all of the hormones that bless you, like progesterone, which is called the valium that bathes the female mind and allows you to sleep through the night and not wake up wide awake between 2:00 and 4:00 in the morning or want to choke somebody because youβre so irritated because you donβt have any.
The problem is that our 24/7 lifestyle is taxing our adrenal glands at an earlier and more significant stage than ever before, which leaves our bodies in a deficit of those hormones that need to be produced to bless our lives. Thatβs not happening because itβs cortisol. Your adrenal glands donβt know that graphic is not life and death, that the deadline isnβt life and death, or that the social media posts that hurt your feelings and cause a feeling of trauma aren’t going to affect your life and death. Our bodies were designed to produce cortisol for a short amount of time so you could run away from the bear, and then you either got eaten or you got away. It wasnβt designed to go on and on.
Relentlessly. What youβre saying sounds to me like even the experience of 20-somethings, let alone perimenopausal and menopausal women.
Iβve had women in their late 30s that have undetectable progesterone levels. One day, Iβm going to buy a case of red capes because so many women out there are still showing up. Theyβre showing up at work. Theyβre showing up in their families. Theyβre showing up in their partners, marriages, or relationships and they have no chemicals or hormones to help them do that. I want them to know that theyβre Wonder Woman for being able to even show up the way they are, but it doesnβt have to be that hard. There are so many things that we can do.
Power Of Thoughts And Feelings
Some of the things youβve talked about sound like theyβre external to us, like the demands from work, that deadline, the traffic, maybe the demands at home with the children or the spouse, some tensions, or what have you. What internal things also affect our hormones, do you think?
This is my very favorite thing to talk about. Iβm so glad you asked. Our thoughts and our feelings affect every single cell in our body. People go, βThat sounds woo-woo,β and all of that. Stay with me for a moment. If youβre in the car and you hear a siren and see lights behind you, your body will react. Your eyes will dilate. Your palms will get sweaty. Your breathing will get rapid. Your heart rate will increase. Youβll have a full-on physical cellular response to a thought that you are going to get pulled over.

I like to compare our thoughts and feelings to a doctorβs prescription. Your thoughts and your feelings write the prescription, and they write the prescription for exactly what it is. I write a prescription for fear, anxiety, worry, or stress. What do you do with a prescription? You take it to the pharmacy. The pharmacist is your pituitary. That is the master gland that dispenses the chemicals and hormones that match the prescription. A pharmacist doesnβt change the prescription. It doesnβt say to the patient, βThatβs going to make you feel terrible. You shouldnβt feel that.β It dispenses.
All of these chemicals and hormones are released into our entire body based on our thoughts and feelings, and they affect the activity of every cell in our body. The good news is if our thoughts and our feelings can make us sick, then could they make us feel great? The answer is yes. We also can have thoughts and feelings that produce oxytocin, which is a really wonderful hormone that will make you feel more connected and help you digest and feel wonderful. It isnβt just external environmental things that affect us. We are the CEOs of our own health.
We are the CEOs of our own health.
Those are powerful words to think about. I want to go back to what you were saying earlier about testosterone. Most of us think thatβs a male hormone and it has nothing to do with women. Talk to us about its role in womenβs health.
I think of hormones as a symphony. Many years ago, I danced professionally in a ballet company. That was my first career. The symphony was a second love. I love dancing because of the music, I found out. Hormones are like the symphony. If you have the string part of the symphony that sounds terrible, the whole symphony sounds terrible. If you leave out testosterone, you are not addressing the whole symphony.
Many times in traditional medicine, you are having women get estrogen and progesterone checked. If you have a hysterectomy, they donβt even care about progesterone. What about the fact that we have testosterone receptors in our brains and our muscles? Testosterone has been used to treat depression. It has everything to do with our fat-muscle ratio. It helps with our bone health. It helps with energy.
With women, they think, βItβs about libido.β Yes, but itβs not in the top five. Energy is 1 of the top 5 things that if your testosterone is going down or is non-existent, then youβll find an improvement in your energy not just throughout the day but recovering from when you do exercise and your ability to build muscle. When weβre in menopause, no matter what you do or donβt do, you lose muscle every year if you donβt change what youβre doing and do more resistance training and weight training. Thatβs partly due to the loss of the ingredient called testosterone, which helps make it.
Hormone Replacement Therapy And Natural Alternatives
If Iβm hearing you correctly, there are things we can do both with our thoughts to produce the oxytocin with movement to get back what weβre losing with the testosterone. What else can we do to reclaim our hormonal health?
The research is abundantly clear that hormone replacement therapy, if done in perimenopause or within ten years of your last menstrual period, has a host of protective health benefits. One of the big ones is cardiovascular disease. Another is dementia, osteoporosis, and genital urinary symptoms. People think, βWhat is that?β That is getting frequent urinary tract infections or having painful sex and things like that. This will prevent that from happening.
When youβre in full-on menopause and your bodyβs not producing these hormones anymore, itβs impossible to find a supplement or a lifestyle thatβs going to restore them all the way. Iβm not saying that every single solitary person is a great candidate for hormone replacement therapy, but there are way more women who would benefit from having that conversation with their provider than are even being given the choice.
Thatβs my big thing. You should have the choice.Β If you choose to go through the last season of your life without the support of hormone therapy because you have received all the information and you are not basing your decision on misinformation, lack of information, fear, or a patriarchal society that doesnβt pay for these things for women, then thatβs not okay with me. If you choose to do that after having been fully informed, then I respect you. Youβre the CEO. I work for my patients. You should fire your doctor if theyβre not serving you. Up until that, we can support our hormones. Remember. Itβs really through supporting the adrenal glands.
One of my favorite things to look at is bioavailability. Our testosterone, our estrogen, and things like that, but mostly estrogen and testosterone, are being carried around by a protein called the sex hormone binding globulin. Think of it as a bus taking these hormones from A to B. You donβt necessarily sometimes need more testosterone. Maybe get some of the testosterone off the bus and get more bioactivity. Taking 500 to 1,000 milligrams of maca, which is an herb, and you can make maca chicken or take it in a capsule form as well, can kick your testosterone off of the sex hormone binding globulin and increase your bioavailability testosterone levels.
Is that part of the hormone replacement therapy, taking maca? Could it be or is that a separate thing?
It depends on who you see as a provider. We didnβt have any new patients for five years and we opened our practice again. Weβre nationwide, and itβs because of this need. I like to focus on what the patient will do. Thereβs no point in giving you a list of five supplements if you hate taking pills, you forget all the time, and all of that stuff. I need to understand you so that I can customize and personalize it. There are nutritional things. For example, when you eat can affect the functioning of your adrenal gland and the production of your hormones as much as what you eat.
Itβs the timing.
Itβs the same as sleep or exercise. Iβm married to an Italian. We drink coffee. Coffee on an empty stomach first thing in the morning is like slapping your adrenal glands across the face to wake them up. If you already have adrenal fatigue, you are not going to be very happy with yourself.
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I donβt know much about hormone replacement therapy, so I was encouraged to hear you say maca and maybe there are other natural ways to do it because I thought it was all a conventional treatment for women as they were aging.
Not at all. The other thing is I donβt think that women realize that bioidentical hormones are available at your regular pharmacy. I get my bioidentical micronized progesterone from Safeway and it costs me $3.97 for a 1-month supply. Thereβs this app called GoodRx that tells you which pharmacy has the best prices. These are the things that you need to be getting your physician to work with you on, like, βWhereβs the most affordable place? Where can I get this? What else can I do?β You shouldnβt be in charge. They should be offering you these things.
Tongkat Ali is another Indonesian herb that has been shown in research to increase your bodyβs testosterone as well. Ashwagandha is another one. These are ancient herbs that used to be for vitality. Itβs no wonder because they increase your testosterone. Guess what else does? Exercise. Using your large muscles will increase your testosterone.
Importance Of Sleep
A study showed that standing like Wonder Woman in a powerful position increases your level of testosterone. There are all kinds of things that you can do. Sleep is one of the most powerful health-enhancing tools that you have in your toolkit. If your butt is not in bed before 10:00 on a regular basis so that you can visit the 5 levels of sleep before your body starts producing that cortisol to wake you up at about 4:00 AM, youβre not going to be at your best. Your hormones arenβt going to be optimized. Itβs like filling up a tub with a leak.
Thatβs such a good point. Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride, who is one of our good friends here at the foundation, suggests getting in bed at 8:00. In other words, the earlier you go to bed, the more time for that melatonin to be released and the more quickly you can get into that deep sleep, which is very restorative. Iβm all about the early bedtime. I wanted to ask you if you understand some of these things not just scientifically or intellectually but from personal experience.
I went to med school later because my first career was as a ballet dancer. Thereβs a real benefit to that. I didnβt swallow all the Kool-Aid. I remember learning about stomach acid and how we have to give patients a PPI or a histamine blocker, and we have to squash down or block the release of stomach acid. Iβm like, βHow do we have less acid when weβre in our 40s and 50s?β We did when we were 18. There are a bunch of 18-year-old football players who eat pizza, drink some Coke, lie down, and go to sleep without having any acid reflux. That doesnβt make any sense to me at all. I didnβt swallow all of the Kool-Aid.
I was older. I was married. I had my 1st child in residency in my 1st year. I was shooting on myself. Iβm tired. I have a baby. Iβm back at work and Iβm working 80 hours, etc. I would lie down on the floor between patients under my desk. I was so tired. It had been a year since Iβd given birth, so I thought, βMaybe Iβll check my hormones.β I did what I usually do for my patients. I checked everything and it was fine. For some reason, I was like, βWhat about the rest of the hormones Iβve been learning about? What if I checked everything?β Lo and behold, 0.1 was my measurement of testosterone.
Whatβs the normal level?
Between 2 and 5. Itβs 3 or 4, but it depends on your age. We want you to be optimal for your age. I donβt want my 60-year-olds to have the same level as my 23-year-olds. It was very low. I didnβt feel like I had the time or energy to focus on changing my lifestyle or my food or taking a bunch of supplements because I was working as a resident, etc.
I chose to use one milligram of topical testosterone from a compounding pharmacy because that dose wasnβt available at a regular pharmacy and my life changed overnight. Within a week, I was like, βIβm back. Itβs nice to meet you, Tami. Where have you been?β That was it. You canβt skip corners. To have it all, youβve got to look at it all.
Three Pillars Of Optimal Health
Youβve been at this for a little while.
Over twenty years.
Thatβs a little while in the grand scheme of life. What do you consider to be the essential pillars for optimal health?
There are three. One is structure. If you have a broken bone, you have to get that fixed. Thereβs no essential oils or nutrition thatβs going to fix it. It might help it, but itβs not going to fix it. Number two is chemicals. Hormones are chemicals. Our food becomes chemicals inside of us. We have chemicals outside of us that affect us, like pesticides and all kinds of things. The third thing is the thing that I donβt think is woven into the health picture, and thatβs energy and frequency. Every cell in your body has an electrical current. If you change the frequency, you can change the outcome of a stem cell becoming something else inside your body or the functioning.

We have this part of health thatβs partitioned off. We have amazing people like Dr. Joe Dispenza, Deepak Chopra, and all of those who have carved out this, but it needs to be into and with the others. If you have all three of those pillars intact and optimized, youβre like a rocket with three engines. Youβre going to go straight up. Itβs going to be amazing. Your body is strong and resilient. If you only have two, you probably think that youβre healthy and that thereβs nothing wrong, but it only takes a job loss, a relationship breakup, or a worldwide pandemic to make you unwell. If you have one, you probably already have a diagnosis or a condition.
Iβm going to let that sink in for a minute. You said the three pillars are structure, chemicals, and energy. Each of those, we want to find a way to shore up and address. Iβm guessing from this conversation so far that the first thing we might need to do is assess what youβve been saying and see where weβre at.
I donβt know if Iβm right, but I am biased. You canβt go through all the training I did with being an MD. I am biased that if you donβt test, you are guessing. If you donβt test, you canβt know if what youβre doing is worth the time, energy, and money because you donβt know if it did anything. At the very beginning, a lot of my patients are like, βWhat does the lab work say?β I say, βI donβt know. We have to filter it through what youβre feeling and how youβre doing.β It matters subjectively, but you still have to have data.

I like that youβre saying that you have to filter it. The normal testosterone levels vary depending on age, but itβs between 2 and 5. Letβs say someone has a level six and itβs a woman, but sheβs feeling good or whatever. I want to say not everybody fits within the framework that conventional medicine offers us.
Those peopleβs bodies forgot to read the textbook, and thatβs okay.
Speaking of those people, youβve worked with a number of clients. Tell me the story of a client who maybe did some of this assessment, looked at those pillars, and made some shifts and what happened as a result. I know youβve seen so many people, but can you think of one story that youβd like to share with us?
Yeah. Iβm blessed to treat a lot of celebrities, movie stars, singers, and professional athletes. I live in Seattle, so the Seahawks. For those people, itβs harder for them to realize because theyβre already performing at a high level. Some of the movie stars, the women that are getting into their 50s still want to be their best. They donβt want to be having hot flashes on set. They donβt want to have brain fog when theyβre trying to figure out how to memorize their lines.
They want to also look their best without looking like theyβve been done, going to a plastic surgeon, and doing all of that. One particular woman has been seeing me for about eight years. She texts me all the time and says, βI know I resist you because Iβm so busy not to get these blood tests, but every time I do and we do a little tweak, my life gets sweeter.β Isnβt that a beautiful word?
Yes.
I donβt usually use those words because I like medical data, but I thought it was a really great description.
What would you say to the person whoβs like, βI donβt like that sweeter thing either.β All this paying attention to the individual patient is a lot of hokeyness or too woo-woo. We need to focus on the numbers and getting the numbers in the right range.β This is the question. Have you worked with patients or clients who got into the right range and werenβt feeling sweet?
Absolutely. In fact, a lot of my patients come to me because theyβve had their regular physician prescribe them thyroid and it didnβt feel any better. They wanted to have a higher dose, but their doctor refused as if itβs like heroin or something. Itβs crazy. Doctors donβt prescribe thyroid. They come to me and say, βAre you willing to prescribe a higher dose to see how I do?β
I say, βIf you are willing to do a follow-up, I am because my first job is to keep you safe.β We have a membership model, so our patients have unlimited support. Lots of my patients come to us because theyβve been put into the cookie cutter of, βIβve had my regular doctor say X, Y, and Z and it didnβt help me. I need more, I need less, or I need something different.β
Thyroid Issues
Speaking of thyroid, why do so many women, as they get older, start to have issues with their thyroid function?
Thatβs a whole episode in and of itself. A lot of it has to do personally. Your thyroid needs iodine. You can get a big goiter and hypothyroidism if you donβt have it. Thatβs why it was put in salt, etc. Fluoride inhibits that whole process and so does bromide. Our wheat is brominated.
Also, our water is fluoridated.
Thereβs a production of something called Reverse T3. Your thyroid produces all these amazing hormones, but theyβre not active, so it goes down a further stream and becomes activated. It has this little enzyme called 5 prime deiodinase, the iode is because it has iodine in it, and it uses that to convert it to free T3, which is the active form of thyroid in your body and does all the work. In some people, that prime of the enzyme is lost, so you have five deiodinases instead. It still produces T3, but it produces Reverse T3, which has no activity. Itβs a dud. The problem with this is that itβs the perfect size and shape, so it fits into your receptor, so a good free T3 canβt fit and has no activity.
We find that some people’s bodies produce Reverse T3 when they eat gluten. Some people’s bodies reproduce Reverse T3 because they have mercury in their system. If you donβt check if somebody has Reverse T3, how do you even know whatβs going on? You donβt want to check everybody for mercury toxicity and tell every single person to never eat gluten again. You got to test. When you test intentionally, you can get exponential results.
Those results are needed now more than ever. I feel like itβs not just older women that are struggling. All women, 21 and up, seem to be, at least in the Western world, so stressed and so fatigued. Theyβre losing their hair. Iβm like, βWhy are they losing their hair? Theyβre twenty-something.β Theyβre really out of balance. Theyβve got acne and theyβre 30. I wonder what they should address 1st of the 3 pillars you mentioned, the structure, the chemicals, or the energy, and how they could approach that.
Usually, the chemicals are the easiest. Theyβre the big hitters. I had 2 patients who had their 1st appointment. Theyβre in their 30s. Their concern is their skin. Theyβve never had acne and they have cystic acne that wonβt go. Theyβre healthy. They work out and drink water, but itβs getting worse and worse. Addressing hormones first is a big deal.
Acne is red and angry-looking because itβs inflamed. Are you eating something that you might be sensitive to? It turns out that with this one woman, we got back her food sensitivity and her top three sensitivities were things that she ate every single solitary day, thinking that they were healthy choices. She stopped. Her skin looks better in one month than it has for a year. Itβs data.
What were the three things for her? Iβm curious.
For her, it was almonds. Almonds are healthy for you, right?
Everyone thinks so.
She was having almonds for a snack. She was having almond milk in her protein shake, etc. She was having dairy. She was eating Greek yogurt because she wanted to increase her protein every day and things like that. The third one was cheese, which is whey. Itβs not quite dairy. She was eating a lot of cheese. She knew it wasnβt great for her, but she didnβt realize that it was causing her acne or contributing to her acne.
The Power Of Meditation
This has been so interesting. I want to ask you a question I would like to pose at the end. If the audience could do only one thing to improve their health, what would you recommend that they do?
Meditate. Meditation is that thought and that feeling that writes the prescription for calming, rejuvenating, and healing hormones to be released into your body. If you have everything else, you need to meditate. If you do nothing else, you need to meditate because itβs going to make you feel better right away. I wish we could charge $5,000 for it because then, people would be like, βIβm not wasting this. Iβm going to meditate,β but itβs free. The thing I want to tell you is when you start meditating, you are going to suck. Itβs going to be awful, or maybe not. Itβs okay. Thereβs no such thing as bad meditation.
If you have everything, you need to meditate. If you do nothing, you need to meditate. It will make you feel better right away.
Iβm so thankful you took the time to be with us. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Iβm honored to be here.
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Our guest was Dr. Tami Meraglia. Visit her website, BioThrive Health, to learn more.Β This is a review from Apple Podcasts entitled Better Than Gold! News said, βHands down, this show is one of the most valuable discoveries Iβve made. I stumbled onto the exceptionally assembled landmark book of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price. Its content and timeliness have inspired me as it was written over 80 years ago prior to commercialized foods infiltrating every culture.β
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About Dr. Tami Meraglia
Dr. Tami Meraglia specializes in hormones, weight loss and Regenerative Medicine. She is best selling author of The Hormone Secret, has appeared on Good Morning America, Fox, ABC, NBC and many podcasts, radio shows, documentaries and summits as a health expert. She is the owner of BioThrive in Seattle and also sees patients across the USA via Telehealth.
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I was so excited when I saw the podcast about hormones and getting them back into where they need to be, but was so disappointed by the end of the podcast. The lady clearly did not align at all with Weston a priceβs values (nor mine). I would love to hear another podcast on hormones and a way to support them naturally through food, habits, and herbs/supplements.
I was equally disappointed and came on here to voice that. Thank you!
I have to agree with the previous comments from Carmen about this guest; I was intrigued by the title but realized her treatment approach to hormone imbalances does not align with WAP guidelines, nor mine. As a compounding pharmacist trained in functional medicine as well as bio-identical hormone therapy (currently recovering from the drugwashing from conventional “medicine” after 40 years in practice!), I was particularly concerned with her statement that bio-identical micronized progesterone is available through a Goodrx card for $3.97! My first thought was that she must be referring to a softgel prescription product made with peanut oil – which, to my thinking, is not bio-identical to human progesterone. Second and less relevant thought was how detrimental the so-called discount cards like GoodRx are to a pharmacy’s profit margins (just as modern “health” insurance is not designed to improve patient health).
Echoing the same comments of others. What really put it over the edge for me though is when she referenced her ‘celebrity’ client thus instantly clicking off the podcast π