I’m Susan Bratton with my friend Dr. Glenn Wilcox from Wise Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and we are talking about the benefits of hormone replacement therapy.
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In this video #2, we discuss the benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy.
What you need to know about the 3 main sex hormones (:10)
Know your options for testosterone replacement therapy (:43)
Testosterone therapy benefits for men and women; it’s more than sex! (1:36)
Can you really get estrogen from yams and soy? (2:43)
Is bio-identical estrogen natural estrogen? (3:16)
Hormone therapy 2k years ago? What the ancient Chinese discovered 3:30.
Who you should see for bioidentical HRT. (4:30)
[Susan] I’m Susan Bratton with my friend Dr. Glenn Wilcox from Wise Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and we are talking about the benefits of hormone replacement therapy. Specifically, we’re going to talk about the sex hormones, testosterone, estrogen, progesterone. What else would be bioidentical?
[Dr. Glenn] DHEA could be considered a sex hormone. But it’s a precursor to creating your other hormones. The main three are testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone.
[Susan] So, how is bioidentical testosterone different from regular testosterone hormone replacement therapy?
[Dr. Glenn] There are testosterone options in regular hormone replacement therapy, which benefits both men and women because they need testosterone. When it comes to testosterone, most available products are either from a brand name producer, a big pharmaceutical company, or a compounding pharmacy. For men and women, that testosterone is almost always bioidentical.
You apply it either to your skin or transmucosal to a mucous membrane. Sometimes, they’re injected as pellets. However, when it comes to estrogen, that is not necessarily the case, and of course, women need estrogen more than men do.
I want to make it clear. All these hormones – testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone are essential for men and women. Either sex can have a testosterone or progesterone deficiency. So, these hormones are necessary for your health and sexual health, and as we get older, our production of these hormones declines.
To get back, the estrogen used in medicine for many years were not bioidentical hormones. They were alien hormones. They extracted estrogen molecules from pregnant mare’s urine. The estrogen was a type that even regular mares didn’t have in their bodies, let alone human women. So, it causes a lot of side effects.
[Susan] It’s crucial to use bioidentical when it comes to estrogen. I’ve heard that bioidentical estrogen often comes from yams and soy. Is that where they get the estrogen chemical?
[Dr. Glenn] Yes. To make bioidentical, they start with raw material, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s yam, soy, or pumpkin. It’s a material that begins a chemical process in a lab that would result in estrogen. If someone wanted to find natural Earth’s estrogen, the only place you might get is from human urine, and in Ancient China, 2,000 years ago, they were doing that. They extracted hormones from young, vital people’s human urine. They didn’t know what a hormone was, but they knew that substance helped them feel more youthful and vigorous. It was quite an exciting introduction to hormone therapy that very few people knew.
[Susan] Now, what kind of doctor are you?
[Dr. Glenn] I’m a doctor of Oriental Medicine in New Mexico.
[Susan] And, you’re a doctor for bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. If you’re a regular doctor and the healthcare system wants to prescribe you big pharma, you’d call them alien.
We’ve never seen them in human beings until recent times. So, you could go to a functional medicine doctor like yourself for a natural bioidentical hormone replacement. ‘Functional medicine doctor’ is a broad term because different doctors study functional medicine.
[Dr. Glenn] I’m a doctor of Oriental Medicine, and I have advanced training. I’m board-certified by my licensing board in the state to prescribe and do bioidentical hormone therapy. Medical doctors can do it; osteopathic doctors can do it in some states, naturopathic doctors are licensed and can do it. Nurse practitioners can also do bioidentical hormone therapy. The area of study is called endocrinology.
You could also request an endocrinologist to give you bioidentical, instead of traditional, Big Pharma hormones. Some cases may say, “No, I won’t do that,” but nowadays, doctors are becoming more educated about this whole area.
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