The Truth About Supplements for Hormonal Health with Shawn Wells
In this episode, holistic endocrinologist Dr. Cassie Smith teams up with supplement formulator Sean Wells to chat about how hormones affect women’s health during menopause and perimenopause. They dive into the importance of understanding the different phases of a woman’s menstrual cycle and how stress can throw hormonal balance off track.
Relevant timestamps:
- (00:01:13) Exploration of supplements for hot flashes, stress management
- (00:01:13) Sean discusses the gut microbiome’s impact on hormones and stress
- (00:02:12) Exploration of different hormonal phases in women’s lives
- (00:11:55) Discussion on the need for a shift in how society views women’s health and hormonal cycles.
- (00:21:18) Sean recommends adaptogens like ashwagandha and rhodiola to help balance hormones and improve resilience.
- (00:26:01) Impact of microplastics and environmental toxins on health and hormonal function.
- (00:31:19) Recommendations for supplements to support hormonal balance, especially during menopause.
- (00:52:14) Strategies for managing stress without relying on pharmaceuticals.
- (01:05:20) Final thoughts and sharing of resources for further information and supplements.
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About Sean Wells: Shawn Wells, MPH, RD, CISSN, FISSN, is a globally recognized nutritional biochemist, dietitian, and supplement formulator. Known as The World’s Greatest Formulator, he has developed over 1,000 products and holds 40+ patents in the health and wellness industry.
A best-selling author of The ENERGY Formula, Shawn’s work has been featured on major platforms like Forbes, NPR, and The Joe Rogan Experience. Passionate about optimizing health, he continues to innovate in performance nutrition and longevity.
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0:05 welcome back to this week’s episode of hormones metabolism in you I’m your host Dr Cassie Smith I’m a holistic
0:13 endocrinologist this week my goal was to bring you information on supplementation
0:19 around hormones I’m actually bringing back a returning guess I have Shawn Wells with me he is one of the best
0:26 supplement formulators in the world he appeared on my podcast back to the
0:31 basics on episode 28 that episode was called how to choose a safe supplement
0:36 and you guys loved that episode I got a ton of feedback on that episode where he explained to us how you can find safe
0:43 supplements and some of the risk of buying supplements on Amazon so I brought them on today because I really
0:48 wanted to focus on supplementation and things that we could do for Hormone Health so we talked a ton about side
0:57 effects symptoms things like that we talked talked about hot flashes and what supplements are good for hot flashes we
1:04 talked about in general stress because lots of people are stressed in the world now did a deep dive into adaptogens and
1:10 different things you can do for Stress Management he actually also talked about the gut microbiome and how that affects
1:16 your hormones and stress which my book goes over a lot as well that’s coming out we talked about cholesterol and how
1:24 hormones affect your cholesterol and different things you can do besides Statin therapy we did a deep dive into
1:29 into anxiety and depression and we talked about anxiety depression ADHD type symptoms a lot of women develop
1:36 this during menopause so what supplements can you take and what other things can you do besides being put on
1:42 ssris besides taking menzo diazines besides taking stimulants for ADHD
1:48 things like that so we did a deep dive into that he talked about sleep and how important that is with hormones which we
1:53 talk about on this podcast a lot so then I asked him what are some of the best supplements for sleep and so we talked a
1:59 lot about that about libido as well because this is an issue that men and women both face and so we talked about
2:07 that and so there are lots of good questions just around hormones that we discussed but then we threw some basic
2:13 things in there like sleep and you know nutrition stress things like that now
2:20 this podcast at the beginning we got it on like a very interesting topic and I
2:25 was going to cut it out of the podcast but I really liked it so I left it we started talking about the seasons like
2:32 the four seasons of hormones and like how Perry menopause menopause and then
2:38 you know just cycling women how those are kind of different seasons of your life and so he explains a lot of that he
2:45 talked also about you know your menstrual phase your ovulatory phase your follicular and ludal phase how
2:50 these are different cycles and each one have a different superow he calls it and we need to be aware of how we feel in
2:56 each cycle and how to listen to our body and how to know what to do in those cycles and some of the things we can do
3:03 from a supplement standpoint and a sleep and a nutrition standpoint so I thought that was really neat and he also pointed
3:09 out how this world is really complicated but how men and women are very different now that seems easy right like men and
3:15 women they’re not the same but he points out how Society tries to force women into this box and tries to force women
3:21 to be like men they try to force women to work like men to act like men to eat like men to fast like men to exercise
3:28 like men a lot of medical studies are done on men and it that that data is extrapolated to women and so we did this
3:35 whole conversation about how women are not men we are a little more complicated
3:40 but that’s because we have these amazing hormones and this ability to grow a life in us and to feed a life from our body
3:48 and so we are different and so we went into a conversation about that as well which I thought was very powerful and
3:54 very just a lot of good information for women so that we’re not so hard on ourselves and so that we are more
4:00 understanding when he explains how our hormones regulate and how they’re cycling and how we are just different
4:06 than men so I hope that you that you really enjoyed this episode as much as I
4:11 enjoyed doing it and I loved having Sean back so here we go and today we’re going to be focusing on the symptoms the
4:19 mental health symptoms of menopause I’ve had a lot of questions about supplementation and more natural things
4:26 that you can do for this so I have a treat for you all I have the greatest
4:31 formulator with me Sean Wells so he’s globally acclaimed uh he’s a nutritional biochemistry expert recognizes the
4:38 world’s greatest formulator in the supplement industry he’s got a master’s degree in nutritional biochemistry from
4:43 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and he’s got over two decades of experience formulating over
4:49 1100 products distributed worldwide he has 40 patents including BHP salts diluc
4:57 scine and some other things he’s going to tell us about he is the author of an an international
5:02 bestselling book The Energy Formula which is listed as a top 20 book of the Year by the us today in Forbes he’s also
5:10 a feature author on the Mid Valley platform with the Ultimate Guide to supplements his experience has been
5:16 showcased in documentaries such as biohack yourself supplements revealed and psych psychedelics revealed his
5:23 personal Journey overcoming Epstein bar chronic fatigue syndrome and a pituitary tumor FS his passion for Health and
5:29 Wellness Sean offers full service product formulation and development in the dietary supplement functional food and
5:36 cosmetology Arenas through his company called Zone Halo he also provides a wealth of information at
5:43 www.shaws.com and we’ll link all of this in the notes where individuals can find invaluable articles and insight to
5:50 optimize their health for regular inspiration updates you can also follow Sean on Instagram he’s very active on
5:57 Instagram and all sorts of social media platforms Ms so tell us a little brief
6:03 synopsis like what have you been doing I guess over the last 20 years and what are you most excited about that you’re
6:09 doing now wow well I’ve been formulating supplements I used to be a chief
6:14 clinical dietition working in skilled nursing facilities and acute care since
6:21 about 20 years is is uh how long I’ve been formulating there was some
6:26 crossover there uh and as you stay I’ve been uh patenting unique ingredients
6:32 formulating supplements writing books speaking all over the world doing documentaries all
6:39 that kind of stuff and um it’s been amazing making friends like you yeah and
6:46 we were just talking before this how you were at a4m which is one of the biggest I think the biggest biohacking
6:52 functional medicine conference in the world every year and so you were speaking there which I thought was awesome you did a great job oh thank you
6:59 so yeah what are do you have anything in particular you’re working on currently or you’re excited about currently in the
7:06 field or the realm of like menopause Women’s Health mental health it’s a big
7:11 Focus uh for sure I am uh I formulated a supplement for the famous influencer
7:19 Aggie at Aggie uh she has well over a million followers on Instagram Alone um that is
7:28 really for uh I would say premenopause but for kind
7:34 of regularity um reducing uh menstrual cramps um and and negative menstrual
7:42 symptoms I like looking at all four of the phases as four
7:49 seasons and instead of you know one of the things that was a big shift in my
7:55 mind is instead of looking at these things as a big negative or frustration
8:02 oh I’m a woman and I have to go through uh menstration for x amount of years I
8:08 look at it as a superpower um you know women have
8:14 intuition they have this ability to uh
8:19 obviously be fertile enough to grow another human being to create
8:26 Humanity like if I stop and think on that that is incredibly powerful no
8:33 matter if you’re going to have a child or not you have the ability to create
8:38 inside your body inside your womb to create another human being and then maintain that human being through the
8:46 nutrition from your breast and I think this is why like you
8:52 know we whenever we talk about creation we talk about this uh feminine
8:58 energy and so that’s very powerful and this ability to be fertile cleanse
9:08 reset um that’s just it’s it’s amazing and it’s one of the reasons that uh
9:14 women actually live longer is the the ability to shed iron unlike men um you
9:21 know men tend to build up toxic iron Stores um so I look at these things and
9:27 if you look at the four different phases the luteal menstrual uh follicular um
9:34 ovulatory you actually see that each phase has different
9:40 superpowers where you’re more extroverted where testosterone is higher where intuition is higher where you’re
9:47 more introverted and and need to kind of um take time to have self-care and just
9:53 being aware of these four different phases instead of powering through like you’re a man
9:59 I think is really important and I think there’s going to be a huge shift when we
10:04 start looking at things accordingly and say okay this is the phase you in now
10:10 here’s how you should train here’s how you should work here’s how you should connect to others here’s the food you
10:15 should eat here’s the supplements that you should take and instead of again looking
10:23 at these as a as a frustration or a weakness if you’re looking at the world
10:28 through masculine eyes it would be a weakness that you can’t be as masculine
10:34 but if you look at things as as through feminine eyes now these are superpowers
10:40 and you just need to know how to hone them and be more aware of them and the
10:45 same is true um you know when you’re talking about pre Perry and
10:51 postmenopausal too they’re just Seasons they’re phases and there superpowers in
10:57 all of them so for me me there’s a shift that I believe is going to
11:04 happen and uh maybe it’s the woo side of me that you know I believe that we’re heading into this is going to get kind
11:10 of woo for a second I’ve done psychedelics and so you know I believe that we’re heading into something called
11:16 The Age of Aquarius or the the kind of Christ Consciousness like a a new
11:23 era of a real shift towards like what’s been dominated by masculinity
11:30 I think is going to move into an era of of maybe a
11:36 rebalancing uh with feminine energy um where they’re truly balanced kind of
11:41 like yin and yang I think we’re we’re coming into that era and I think you’re seeing uh more studies happen uh with
11:50 women I know they’re they’re lacking and they’re certainly more expensive a little bit more complicated but you’re
11:56 seeing uh studies and a desire to to have those studies um a real impetus for
12:03 that so um I don’t know that that’s just some thoughts around like uh you know
12:09 women in medicine in health care in research and the kind of Shifting of
12:16 that Paradigm so women were a little more expensive and a little more complicated
12:22 but were worth it is what I heard I agree yeah 100% th% yeah because without
12:28 us nobody’s having any babies so th% yes agree yeah no I couldn’t agree with you
12:35 more actually I think it’s uh you make really good points I think there’s a lot of women out there who are very driven
12:42 and when you put them in an arena the world you know they’re just go go go go
12:48 go and you make a good point like our body we have different cycles and so we have this powerful three four days of
12:54 our cycle where our estrogen’s high our testosterone’s high and our progesterone’s high and I say all the time that if you put women in a room for
13:02 those 72 hours that were all in their ovulatory phase of their cycle they could solve all the world’s problems
13:07 like be done um it used to be called The Red Tent like uh with Native Americans
13:13 where people would go get wisdom from women that were Elders that were I say
13:19 Elders they were still menting but they were certainly more experienced and um and they would go
13:26 into The Red Tent to get to get advice place to get wisdom no it’s true and
13:32 then you know everyone’s a little different but there are certain parts of your cycle you know when your progesterone’s high like you said and
13:38 it’s just like you need more self-care time you need just more you know less
13:44 stress and so when you try to put more stress on yourself in that time it doesn’t go well and so this actually
13:50 happened to me recently so I’m writing a book right now and I have this timeline
13:56 is but I’m kind of putting it on myself and so this last week actually like I had all these meetings set up CU I was
14:02 going to finish writing this book and it’s not a good week for me I’m I’m in my moodal phase like I need to be
14:08 resting and need to be sleeping and I’m just tired and we just got back from Vegas and it just it went so bad on
14:14 Monday like so so so bad I was almost in tears and I like cuz I can’t do anything
14:19 halfway I have to do everything amazing and and they’re like no it’s going okay I’m like it’s going okay but it’s not
14:25 going like what I want to come out is not coming out just it wasn’t fabulous and so on Tuesday we were supposed to
14:31 meet and I was like I’m done like we’re not doing it this week so we didn’t meet Tuesday we didn’t meet today I think I made everyone mad I don’t care um we’re
14:38 going to meet in two weeks whenever I’m back in my like powerful face I’m gonna just take a
14:44 minute this is going to get into a deeper conversation but like I feel like
14:49 and we can get into the supplements but I do feel like because we’re in a masculinized world like and I don’t mean
14:56 that as a negative for for men I’m all for like healthy um Divine
15:02 masculinity um holding space being protectors providers but men are kind of
15:09 straightforward thinkers The Logical thinkers and we’re driven by kpis and
15:14 and we’re competitive we’re built to be competitive you know it’s it’s survival
15:19 of the fittest it’s all that kind of stuff and that’s not how women are built and we’re forcing women to work these
15:26 work weeks like their men we’re forcing women who eat like their men fast like their men operate like their
15:33 men and and we even getting studies like their men we’re getting you know
15:38 research and supplements and medications like they’re men they’re not men like
15:45 you know and women shouldn’t be men like it’s just it’s uh we’re we’re two
15:52 different energies and we’re both equal but different and we’re
15:57 complimentary it is the yin and yang it is the the balance when brought together
16:04 yeah no it’s true and the more you fight it like I tried to fight it Monday because Sunday everyone was like we’re
16:09 doing it we’re doing it and it was just it was so bad like I know what I’m capable of it was so bad like I was
16:16 almost in tears and I was just like and then they said oh it’s a it’s fine we’ll just try again tomorrow and I was like
16:22 we’re not trying again tomorrow like I’m going to sleep tonight and I’m going to sleep in tomorrow and we’re not trying
16:27 tomorrow so um yeah one last thing just I mean just think about you know the
16:33 lunar cycle you 28 days of the cycle and this is
16:38 like spiritual it’s Cosmic that you’re like attached to tides that you’re
16:44 attached to gravity that you’re attached to uh planetary
16:50 movement and then women sinking up with
16:55 their menstrual cycles and circadian rhythms to to some there is like some
17:00 fertility sync there that’s like evolutionary um and and we’re just
17:06 denying all of this in a way that doesn’t make sense like we’re we’re we’re trying to again operate in a in a
17:14 masculine environment as women and that does not make make sense that will not
17:19 work long term um you’re going to hit a wall it’s going to be frustrating you’re going to
17:25 burn out women need to be creative need
17:30 to be intuitive need to be uh self-care and nourishing for themselves and for
17:38 their their home or their their nest if you will and that’s what that’s what women
17:44 are are built for um they’re not built for the environment we’re
17:50 creating yeah no I agree that’s uh that’s a good point so and I think
17:56 that’s what drives a lot of the anxiety and stress and ADHD type symptoms that
18:01 women think they have or get diagnosed with because it’s this lack of self-care this lack of selfawareness this Lack of
18:07 self like listening to your body right like as I get older and my intuition just gets better I three years ago if
18:14 there would have been a bunch of people on a phone call that said no we’re doing this tomorrow we’re going to do it again I would have went home I would have
18:20 cried I would have stayed up all night I would have tried again I was like nope I’m done I’ll get back to you when I feel better you know like nope it’s not
18:27 happening um because if you don’t do that like you said then you end up very anxious you end up very depressed you
18:33 end up like it just it doesn’t work and so I think that’s where a lot of these symptoms come from especially with women
18:39 now when you have hormone shifting that is Shifting or not shifting how it’s
18:44 supposed to or whatnot because you are stressed your insulin’s high your cortisol’s high it affects your
18:49 progesterone and estrogen I think that makes it worse I think there’s also a lot of women going through menopause or
18:55 per menopausal at much younger ages I see that all the time because of this chronic stress too so I think there’s a
19:02 lot of Lifestyle things which is what I’m working on in this book actually talking about and your how your gut
19:07 plays a role in all this as well it’s very interesting how much stress affects your gut and what it does to your
19:13 hormones um I think that’s what causes a lot of this right so what I mean I guess talk to me about
19:21 we’re going to leave out Life Style and all that we’re going to just kind of focus on supplements what supplements
19:27 can people take to help with some of these things with symptoms as they transition through you know and from per
19:33 menopause to menopause for like hot flashes for insomnia and then we can focus on the mental aspect of
19:41 it right so first and foremost when I’m thinking of my book is
19:48 the energy formula and I talk about resilience I talk about alistic load
19:54 alistic capacity that’s the size of your stress bucket I even mention terms like
20:00 uh being fragile or antifragile being harder to kill is kind of the masculinized version of it but it means
20:06 that you are resilient you can take on stress you have the capacity to take on
20:13 new or extra stress if your stress bucket has extra room in it because of
20:19 hormesis because of you taking on stress from time to time you can grow your
20:26 bucket when we’re chronically stressed really bad when we’re occasionally
20:32 stressed really good because not being stressed means that your stress bucket
20:38 will stay small that you will be very weak and easy to kill same on the other
20:43 side when we’re chronically stressed doesn’t matter how big the stress bucket is it’s
20:48 overflowing you can’t take on new stress easy to kill so what we want is to have
20:55 periods of ease and periods of unease and then we can avoid
21:02 disease so ideally where I like to start is
21:09 adaptogens this is going to bring you into balance speaking of Yin and young
21:15 masculine and feminine we’re talking about balance so it’s going to create more resilience if you’re low in blood
21:22 pressure high in blood pressure low in blood sugar high in blood sugar if you are uh low intestin testosterone high in
21:29 testosterone Etc it’s going to bring you into balance this is going to create a
21:34 greater resilience a greater centeredness a greater capacity to take on mental or physical stress so things
21:42 like ash Wanda riola Maca Jin sing Etc
21:47 these are going to be uh amazing when it comes to having greater resilience I
21:53 like to use one for a month and then cycle to another one and then cycle to another one I don’t like to chronically
22:00 stay on the adaptogens they each work a little bit differently uh but they’re all working on that same concept of
22:07 bringing you into balance okay so adaptogens are one to
22:15 just kind of help in general with stress talk to me about and by the way
22:20 most people are stressed uh I look at stress markers all day yeah I look at
22:26 cortisol levels I look at ESR s and CRPS yeah oh my goodness I look at
22:32 insulin levels and it is difficult to find people who aren’t stressed I saw an 18-year-old yesterday
22:39 an 18-year-old boy whose CRP is more than 20 and his insulin is
22:45 88 and his cortisol was like 20 something and I was just like what life
22:51 are you living like well this works both ways as I was saying like this is kind
22:57 of like the idea of like that uh honic scale like with u with pain right when you’re when you’re in the hospital or
23:03 nursing home like you have like this scale of pain and you have like the happy face on one end and the smiley or
23:10 the sad face on the other and you know but basically pain is variable person to
23:15 person right it’s it’s um it’s it’s not like uh pain translates like from me to
23:22 you maybe I can experience more maybe the type of pain is is that I can experience is greater but you can
23:28 experience different types of pain greater so it’s variable right so it’s
23:33 the same when we talk about this stress and what you can take on because like
23:39 what you’re saying also is that if that stress bucket is small if they’re metabolically
23:46 dysfunctional already right 93% of the population is
23:52 metabolically dysfunctional which also means that they’re mitochondrially dysfunctional which also means that
23:57 they’re in States of insufficient cellular energy which is called ice an acronym which also means that they don’t
24:04 have enough ATP to run the system which also means that you’re going to run into
24:10 elevated insulin elevated blood sugar elevated uh um inflammation
24:18 oxidation uh faster biological aging shorten telr less ceru and Gene
24:25 activation on and on and on the whole system is like overwhelmed because
24:30 there’s not enough mitochondria and the ones that are there are not functioning optimally and this actually happens both
24:38 ways too from blood sugar being too high and then it’s creating more inflammation oh there’s more inflammation it’s
24:43 creating more blood sugar oh like you have more stress but you don’t have enough physiologic bandwidth to deal
24:49 with that stress oh that’s creating higher insulin and cortisol that higher insulin and cortisol is creating more
24:54 inflammation uhoh like your testosterone is down because the orol is so high and that ratio is very poor so now you can’t
25:02 uh have sex like you want to so now you can’t connect now you have shame around that that creates more cortisol that
25:08 creates more inflammation like this is like the this spiral and then you add in seed oils and
25:15 you know uh high glycemic foods and all of this stuff and it’s certainly exposure to um
25:22 metalloestrogens phytoestrogens um you know all of these
25:28 endocrine disruptors and those are throughout our
25:33 environment uh so much so now that they call them like nmps with the Nano
25:40 microplastics like that we’re getting exposed to that we’re seeing in the brain in the penis in the ovaries like
25:47 throughout our tissues we’re seeing them in icebergs we’re seeing them down in Caverns we’re seeing them up in clouds
25:52 30,000 ft up we’re seeing we’re seeing them at the bottom of the ocean like in
25:59 the marana’s trench and stuff we’re seeing micr Plastics and nanoplastics
26:04 everywhere and these are having a massive impact on us as well so um you
26:10 know this is like this whole thing that’s happening in our exposure to emfs and blue light and our disrupted
26:17 circadian rhythm that we’re trying to override and we can’t get to sleep I mean this is all leading to all
26:24 of this like and we’re seeing you know all of this happen at at like record rates autism ADHD like cancer like all
26:32 at record rates yeah and then your gut makes it worse too right so those seed oils and
26:38 everything you know I look at gut studies all day people have leaky gut so then as soon as your gut starts leaking
26:44 then all those lipo you know polysaccharides and everything that you’re eating in the red 40s leaking out of your gut and then that’s giving a
26:51 feedback to your brain and your body that something’s wrong so then interlukin six is released and tissue
26:56 neosis Factor Alpha and then there’s more inflammation and then your cortisol is higher and then your insulin’s higher
27:03 and then people are like why am I walking around with a big gut and why can’t I lose weight well because your body and there’s leaky brain now too I
27:09 mean that’s yeah yeah and stress you know your Vegas nerve you know this I have a whole chapter on this in my book
27:16 like your Vagas nerve is so important for digestion and so if you just walk around chronically stressed you’re not
27:22 digesting so you’re constipated you’re not releasing secretions in your GI tract so you’re not digesting your fat I
27:29 mean there’s so many things that play into your gut as well just from stress
27:34 and so you know it’s just it’s it’s really sad how many people walk around
27:40 with all of these symptoms especially you know depression anxiety but what really infuriates me is then they get
27:46 put on these medications with all these side effects right like ssris and you do not have an SSRI defect there is not a
27:54 amilf or you know Prozac defect that does not exist okay there’s a problem
28:00 here that we need to figure out what it is and especially when you’re transitioning through menopause like that’s why I’m so passionate about this
28:06 and we’re doing the summit I see so many people who are pery menopausal or becoming menopausal they go tell a
28:13 doctor hey I’m you know I feel depressed and I’m tired and I you know I’m having hot flashes and my breasts are tender
28:18 and they give them all these symptoms and the doctor doesn’t know what to do they don’t know what to do so they
28:25 confuse I don’t know what to do with here’s a pill to make you shut up and
28:30 it’s frustrating because those pills have more side effects and oh by the way I have a chapter in my book too that
28:36 talks about how all these medicines we give people also affect their gut and make it worse you know and so it’s like
28:43 I don’t know well women have been told that they’re rational for a long time and you know often a treatment this is
28:50 barbaric was removing your reproductive organs as a result uh This was done like
28:58 throughout history it was a cure for irrationality of
29:03 women was to do these hysterectomies also like the word lunacy
29:09 comes from being affected by the moon and like women were considered crazy as
29:15 well there’s I mean this is all throughout like medical history so this is where the Paradigm is
29:22 Shifting and we do need uh female medical doctors and and uh and female
29:28 researchers and female dietitians and and female Pharmacists and you know
29:34 people that are all stepping up across the board um I’m yeah I’m so glad that
29:40 you’re you’re bringing this uh to attention and I totally agree about the the gut
29:46 microbiome and the hollow bant in general which is the the hollow biome is
29:52 is is kind of like this six-foot orb around you and how you’re Interac acting
29:58 in space with the microbiomes of everything else if you if you imagine um
30:03 Charlie Brown and like pigpen do you remember that character with like that dust cloud around them yeah that is your
30:11 your microbiome and it’s like interacting and speaking they actually outnumber your cells 10 to one and they
30:19 communicate on a very uh Primal level like that you don’t understand fully
30:26 similar to like um um you know all like there’s there’s
30:31 like deep levels of communication even electrically that we’re not even aware
30:36 of we’re just starting to become aware of you know um there’s all kinds of communication that happens before you
30:43 open your mouth and this is all a part of survival and you know whether you’re
30:48 safe or not whether you know they’ve done studies on like women smelling a man’s clothes and they can like tell
30:55 whether he’s like fertile or or like you know ideal in terms of a mate or
31:01 not um they can tell if uh he was just afraid of something and in fear or not
31:08 just from smelling clothes um so you know there’s there’s a lot going on in terms of our microbiome
31:16 that we have yet to even discover so what supplements can women
31:23 take to help their hormones let’s focus on that like what do you recommend for hormones whether it be like painful
31:31 Menses or you know transitioning into menopause hot flashes and then I want to talk about anxiety depression once
31:38 because I know you you have a lot of of good tips for that right right so I mean
31:43 there are there is hormone replacement therapy of which prior to
31:48 maybe I always recommend working with someone like you getting the data getting a baseline understanding where
31:54 you’re where you’re at and where you’re trying to go but you can potentially at
31:59 least use um progesterone use DHEA uh use melatonin use vitamin D
32:07 these are hormones that you do have access to over the counter uh you know beyond that you know you can look at
32:14 testosterone estradi um Etc and um and
32:20 you know again working with with someone like you if that’s a path that you want to go down with with bioidentical
32:26 hormones um you know Dr Amy Kellan is a friend of mine and she’s a big advocate
32:32 of these things and and often talks about how that research is very misunderstood Often by uh male doctors
32:39 on how these things are you know potentially harmful and going to grow cancer and all of these kinds of things
32:47 um but beyond that as far as supplements um I do see a lot of value
32:55 where the there’s two big things that I always see like almost all human beings are deficient and these are going to be
33:01 really important for immunity blood sugar and um and stress is going to be
33:09 Magnesium number one and vitamin D3 is the other I probably see 70 to 80% of
33:15 the population deficient in those certainly from an optimized standpoint
33:20 You could argue 95% plus of the population is is not an ideal standpoint
33:27 defici it’s over 70% for both um so those are going to be
33:33 important to be on uh you will watch like a a woman like if especially a
33:38 woman with magnesium massive like you’ll see improved sleep improved bowel
33:45 movements improved brain function improved blood sugar improved immunity improved resistance to
33:52 fractures uh improve muscle contraction I mean it just goes down the
33:57 line with magnesium um do you need to be on a variety of different
34:02 forms not necessarily um there are some minor benefits of these different forms
34:09 over the other but it’s really from that salt that it’s connected to that’s going to give it a little bit more extra so
34:17 like magnesium malate might help with um you know pain and and and muscle
34:24 aches uh magnesium oxide or carbonate might be better for bowel movements uh
34:30 magnesium 3 and8 might be a little bit better for uh brain function but ultimately just getting
34:39 enough magnesium is very important one of my favorite forms it’s a great price
34:44 that’s highly bioavailable is magnesium glycinate it’s probably the the best bang for the
34:50 buck um and again like if sleep is an issue and a lot of women are not
34:55 sleeping appropriately because they have kids because they’re the matriarch of
35:00 the home because they’re working crazy work hours and because they’re not
35:06 acknowledging their menstrual cycle or or what have you and it’s just so much um you know then then they’re just
35:13 not getting enough sleep magnesium can help tremendously not only with sleep but with stress going back to that idea
35:20 of the stress that we’re putting on the body and don’t think stress just means like ah stress like stress in phys
35:27 theology means uh there’s a like something that’s difficult for
35:34 your body to take on so the stress can be you working out stress can be fasting
35:40 stress can be yes it could be mental uh could be you know losing your job someone breaking up with you what have
35:47 you but there’s a lot of stress and stress isn’t always a negative again
35:53 stress can be a good stress a you stress EU stress um um and that helps us grow
35:59 stronger it’s just chronic stress that’s the issue and so immunity is a big issue if your immune function is compromised
36:06 and a lot of people have uh immune function that’s compromised I like looking at some of those things as well
36:13 I know you probably see that a lot but again you know it’s like kind of which
36:18 side of this is all coming from like the body is falling apart and like we’re seeing a lot of different things we’re
36:23 seeing that stress high blood sugar I don’t have enough energy the immune fun is you know it’s like where is it um but
36:31 you can address like each of those parts and at least get some things under control and then you can figure out your
36:37 epigenetics your gut microbiome like what if we try this hormone um you know
36:42 things like that but I going back to what I was saying earlier vitamin D3 36:48 incredible as well we used to think that was related to fractures but now we understand it’s more of a hormone and
36:54 truly there’s this whole endocrine you could speak that you’re the endocrine lady there’s an endocrine Cascade and I
37:01 think people don’t appreciate that like they think of these hormones like as um they’re in a vacuum but really like
37:09 there’s there’s U they’re reversible and they’re affecting each other and it’s it’s this beautiful homeostasis that’s
37:16 taking place again kind of going back to that yin and yang from God or Creator or
37:22 source and that Cascade is something that you need to be aware of too and
37:28 having an expert in the endocrine system is going to be helpful because when you
37:33 kind of reduce one or increase the other it can it can have a number of effects but we do see vitamin D3 in particular
37:41 very low because we’re not uh exposing our skin like we used to right we have
37:48 like we’re all like clothed especially if you’re in Northern climate especially if your darker skin in particular black
37:56 skin you’re not going to get enough vitamin D3 if you’re in Northern climates you
38:02 need more sun exposure if you’re black you need more sun exposure so you know there’s most of the
38:08 people in the world are not getting Sun period and then they’re also in Northern
38:14 climates they may also be black or darker skinned persons of color and they’re most certainly not getting
38:20 enough vitamin D3 again like it’s it’s pretty much at a pandemic level and
38:26 speaking of which with covid if we got more vitamin D3 that could have had a massive
38:32 impact yeah and D3 deficiency can affect your mood as well so yeah I completely
38:38 agree with that I you know I’ve told people this I diagnose thyroid cancer I do biopsies needle biopsies on thyroids
38:45 so I have an ultrasound machine and I mean that’s something I learned in Fellowship so I still do it just for my
38:51 patients they don’t have to go somewhere else I’ve diagnosed now 100 people with thyroid cancer in 8 years with needle bi
38:57 biopsies 100% of the 100 people have had vitamin D levels of 20 or
39:03 less that says something right so like whenever I do a biopsy I can usually kind of tell by the way it feels and so
39:10 I have a thing with my staff when I do a biopsy and I give it to them and I’m like um what’s their vitamin D they
39:17 usually know and they’re like oh yeah sad I’m like okay well just make him an appointment on Friday because we’re
39:22 going to talk about it like I mean it’s just it’s pretty and there’s a study that shows when your vitamin D is less
39:28 than 20 your monocytes and macrophases don’t work which are the cells in your immune system that help fight cancer and
39:35 your 16% more likely to develop cancer with the vitamin D of 20 or less so it’s
39:40 I mean yes it affects your immune system but it also affects a lot of other things unfor and I can get into like
39:46 things like um evening primrose oil or borage oil or D Quai or some of these
39:52 things that I do think have value but I also think like some of the Bas Basics like are being missed and the reduction
40:01 in stress like another one is the methylated B vitamins I think women are
40:07 are often anemic um you know just thinking oh it’s iron because you know
40:13 uh sluffing blood and and um shedding blood and I’m not you know not getting
40:20 enough iron and that is true to some degree but there’s also full weight and b12 uh up to 40% % of the population has
40:29 an MTHFR um dysfunction where you know they’re not converting um folate to five
40:37 methyl tetrahydrofolate optimally the ideal form of folate the active form the coenzymated form and they might be poor
40:46 methylators on top of it and so they’re not converting like even you know
40:52 supplemental or food-based Beach well uh hydroxycobalamin
40:57 or cyano cobalamin over to methyl cobalamin or things like this so that
41:03 can lead to anemia that can lead to fatigue um certainly the B vitamins have
41:09 a ton of data around stress and resilience as well and Immunity in particular
41:15 B6 yeah so if you had to pick one supplement that you think would be best
41:20 for sleep in general somebody who’s having menopausal issues supplement what would it be
41:27 magnesium would be the the foundation magnesium V6 would be the foundation then I would get into uh melatone and
41:35 you know some of the Low Dose I know that’s controversial but I would do low dose
41:41 because um the reason I would say this unless you’re wearing like blue light blocking glasses and like not eating in
41:48 the evening and doing all these things that are counter to our circadian rhythm and counter to our Evolution our
41:54 physiology which we are we’re eating late we’re getting all this blue light we’re getting exposed to devices TVs
42:01 cell phones iPads whatever that’s blocking melatonin so
42:06 people are like oh like you know your exogenous melatonin is going to compete with your Endo like yes and no one’s
42:15 making enough melatonin as far as I can see so um I do think using a lowd dose
42:22 melatonin can be helpful if you haven’t explored all of the ways to reduce blue light and and optimize your circadian
42:29 rhythm Dr Sachin Panda’s data is amazing around that what about pregn alone do
42:34 you ever recommend that so your body can make your own I do I recommend it uh
42:40 like exogenous pregnanolone yeah com yeah yeah I I do I always think it’s
42:48 ideal to replace something short term until like you can kind of get
42:55 things under control and then like then we can like seek out like kind of more
43:00 holistic approaches of like you know ridding yourself of all these toxic
43:07 cleaners and shampoos and and reducing EMF exposure and reducing blue light
43:13 exposure and eating an optimal diet without seed oils and and you know high
43:18 glycemic foods and getting to bed on time and you know getting enough sex in your life uh you know all these things
43:25 by the way that has some of the most powerful data unbelievable doctors never talk about it it’s insane its effect on
43:31 the immune system on happiness on longevity on resistance to diseases like
43:39 just having intimate sex with an ideal partner profound
43:44 impact um but that’s you know I do believe in in supplementing with these
43:51 things until until you can kind of like it’s kind of like a like let’s get the fire under control and then we can start
43:59 you know building the building right it’s that kind of thing so I have find
44:05 sometimes people tell me like melatonin gives them a headache you know or they have like this rebound headache in the morning so that’s where I use a lot of
44:11 pregn Alone um people like that what about hot flashes if you had to pick one
44:17 thing if somebody’s struggling with hot flashes and they don’t want to do estrogen for whatever reason because
44:22 they haven’t listened to all my podcasts that tell you the million reasons you should take estrogen what would what
44:28 would you recommend for those people well it would be those two things that I mentioned actually before like it’s a
44:33 high GLA Source uh it’s that Gamlin like acid so that’s from borage oil or uh
44:39 evening primrose oil okay um and then also uh D Quai is a really good uh herb
44:46 that’s been shown to be very effective on that front is that for Ed Too rectile
44:52 dis you know yes there it does have an
44:58 adaptogenic effect it seems to be like put in this female box but uh kind of
45:03 like Maca like for libido um which is an adaptogen it’s like put in this like
45:09 masculine box but Maca is very effective for both genders you know this goes back to the idea of like we think of erectile
45:17 dysfunction as a male thing but it’s really a um both genders right like it’s
45:23 blood flow to the phus so it’s the clitoris or the penis with pd5 45:29 inhibition is the mechanism but that’s important for men and women for women
45:35 it’s going to be sensation orgasm wetness Etc the ability to be intimate
45:41 and enjoy it and for men it’s just a little more obvious when they’re not
45:47 getting enough blood flow because you can’t even perform period let alone it’s you know for a woman it can
45:53 be you know she may be too dry she may not get enjoyment out of it um you know
46:00 there may be some pain associated with those kinds of things but with men they can’t even perform period and then
46:06 obviously on both sides there’s embarrassment and shame around that so you know blood flow is an extremely
46:12 important factor and so increasing nitric oxide uh is going to be important
46:19 there uh and by the way speaking of microbiome the oral microbiome you’re
46:24 killing it if you’re using mouthwash alcoholic mouthwash you’re killing your
46:30 entire oral microbiome which is killing your ability to make nit nitric oxide so
46:35 if you have trouble as a woman or a man getting enough blood flow um you have to get rid of the
46:43 Listerine the scope all that kind of stuff yeah what about so let’s
46:49 transition to anxiety depression a lot of that that you get as you transition
46:55 into menopause now a lot of that is lack of hormone so I agree with you it’s really important to find a provider that
47:00 understands hormones because you can fix a lot of this with hormones I take people off of ssris and anxiety medicine
47:06 every day that is like one of the happiest things that I do I take people off statins and I take people off ssris
47:13 and I take them off of sleeping medicine trazodone all these things um just real quick that those are all
47:21 criminal things uh the cholesterol myth is disgusting to me it is uh the higher
47:27 the cholesterol the longer the longevity there are tribes like obesos that have cholesterols in the 600s and zero
47:34 incidence of heart attack yeah there’s a there’s a meta analyses
47:40 from 2017 2022 both meta analyses showed that uh they cause more harm than good
47:47 and we shouldn’t be using them especially in women so this is what really fires me up Sean there’s no
47:53 studies in women zero studies in women for cholester are for stattin right so
47:59 but they extrapolate the data from men onto women we are not the same people number one number two there’s actually
48:06 the Seattle there’s a Seattle study that showed that women that have been on statins for 10 years or longer over the
48:12 age of 50 have a 90% 92 to be exact perc chance of
48:18 developing breast cancer compared to the general population of about one and four so it’s giving women breast cancer um
48:26 according to that study and you’re putting women on it with zero data because how many women out there are on
48:31 it for secondary prevention um and then that’s been extrapolated from a man primary prevention data has been
48:38 extrapolated from a man let’s use our brain and actually check A lipoprotein a this is my favorite thing to do I saw a
48:44 woman today right her LDL was like 135 so her primary care doctor puts her on a
48:50 stat and and never checks it again and never takes her off of it I check her LDL 35 Jesus Christ her poor brain and
48:57 her lipoprotein a is less than 10 okay and her triglycerides are like 70 like I
49:02 don’t give a what your LVL is like I don’t care 200 you’re not going to get sticky particles that are it just it
49:09 makes me so mad yeah LL is not the bad cholesterol that is a complete myth um I agree with you on lipoprotein a being
49:16 the best cardiovascular health measure uh it’s all it’s very frustrating um and you
49:24 know if you think about what what is a Statin going to do that lowers
49:29 cholesterol and again cholesterol is what’s protective to you cardiovascularly but also the lipid by
49:38 layer around the cell every cell in your body is made of cholesterol every sex
49:43 hormone is going to yes your brain is largely cholesterol you’re all these sex hormones that you’re interested in
49:49 testosterone beta estradi estrone progesterone DHE they’re all cholesterol
49:55 based so of course you’re going to lower testosterone lower estrogen it’s it’s stupid and then also
50:03 you’re lowering uh Co CoQ10 and then that’s why you’re getting these muscle cramps and you’re getting mitochondrial
50:09 dysfunction you’re not making enough cellular energy it’s all a giant scam
50:15 it’s very upsetting it’s it is and the reason women are getting heart disease is because they don’t have estrogen not
50:21 because they don’t have statins there’s not a Statin deficiency causing this there’s an estrogen deficiency and so I
50:28 pride myself in trying to take people off medicine every day like that’s what I do a lot of people look at me like I’m crazy eventually they’re like maybe
50:34 she’s not um but I love taking people off ssris as well and like trazadone
50:40 sleeping medicine things like that like that stuff is all garbage so that was the last one I’m gonna mention and then
50:45 I’ll get into some supplements is benzo almost killed me Cassie benzo I was I’ve
50:51 I’ve struggled my whole life because I was in sympathetic nervous system that could be a whole discussion on its own
50:58 and I think a lot of people are stuck in sympathetic this gets back to balance of parasympathetic sympathetic autonomic
51:03 nervous system like rest and digest fight flight or freeze I was uh because of trauma abuse
51:11 all these things I was stuck in sympathetic I didn’t know how to relax um and I had to use uh Lunesta
51:19 ambient Xanax all these things to even try and fall asleep became deeply
51:24 addicted to him had unbelievable fear about not having them and like I
51:31 literally would sleep less than 30 minutes in a night if I didn’t have them or I ran out but then my sleep over time
51:38 became highly apnic and just like a zombie type of uh
51:45 type of sleep that was just the worst possible like I would wake up and feel more tired than I then I went to bed cuz
51:52 I was like fighting for life all night long and so these drugs are deeply
51:58 addictive absolutely terrible uh all of the benzos I like definitely a mission
52:05 of mine to get people off them it took a long time and a lot of work but I I’m gladly off them that’s awesome yeah no
52:13 that’s my goal for all my patients my goal for all my patients is actually to take no pharmaceutical medication like
52:18 zero I’m like you can take all the supplements you want but my goal is for them to take no pharmaceutical
52:24 medications ideally but this sleep is what really gets me and the ADHD you
52:29 know people say well I have ADHD so does it make sense to you that if I have ADHD but I’m also telling you that I
52:36 have insomnia that you put me on a stimulant does that make sense that has never made sense to me like you just
52:43 anyway it makes sense like short term like uh like dopaminergically to get like the you know the the system this
52:51 kind of gets into that masculine energy where we’re like very dopamine dominant and unfortunately we’re trying to put
52:56 women again into like this dopamine dopamine world that’s like driving driving driving driving but like um that
53:06 is a definitely a shortterm solution and and we do caffeine or the ingredient I
53:13 came up with parisan thing like short term if if you’re tired like you know then like that makes sense uh sometimes
53:21 you have to get things done get through the day but like ultimately that’s going to be diminishing return
53:27 absolutely yeah so then what would you recommend for people with maybe anxiety
53:34 depression again yeah testosterone estrogen progesterone obviously but if we’re talking from a supplement
53:40 perspective are there certain things that you recommend I think that methylated B vitamins you already said
53:45 it I use a ton of methylated B vitamins for anxiety um depression I use a lot of Samy depending on if they have a PO T
53:53 mutation I like berate sodium but or things that like five HTP is that what
53:59 it is the precursor to trip toan for your gut I like that um but tell us what
54:05 else you tell us about your supplement yeah even better uh than is is in a a
54:10 version of beate that I brought to Market is a triglyceride form that’s optimized for uptake that’s called
54:16 tribin y um and so that’s something to look into as as the postbiotic that that
54:22 you’re you’re mentioning as far as like kind of the herbal Xanax if you will like the the
54:29 most powerful thing that I’ve come across and it doesn’t have negative side effects is like the um hanal and dihydro
54:37 hanal beta um those are very powerful compounds um dihydro hanal betas it’s
54:44 metabolite um there’s less research on that than there is hanal it’s a parent
54:50 compound it’s um pro drug if you will um but those are both very powerful
54:58 and then along the lines of the adaptogens there’s one that’s really powerful for stress and that is Holy
55:04 basal uh I like that one also if you tend to be more in that like frazzled
55:10 mindset and this is great when you combine with caffeine or paranthe or any stimulant but it’s great on its own is
55:17 eleanine that’s a it’s an amino acid that tends to put you in more of that Alpha brain wave state like where you’re
55:24 more in like a flow state that’s what I need while I’m writing my
55:29 book just kidding yeah like two 200 plus milligrams would be ideal and um yeah
55:36 definitely check out like for kind of like Breakthrough anxiety I would say like that’s where like that hanal is
55:42 powerful but again going back to magnesium and the B vitamins those are
55:47 going to be foundational when it comes to stress and your capacity for stress
55:52 when you when you think about like I’m stressed I feel overwhelmed you have to like take a step back and think about
56:00 like is this would this normally be overwhelming if it if your answer is no
56:08 then you have to like look at the other things that you’re diet your supplementation like did you get enough
56:15 sleep you know our capacity for that additional stress is going to be much lower if we got four hours of sleep
56:22 versus eight if we’re in a toxic relationship if if we’re getting exposed
56:28 to carcinogens at work or you know if there’s mold in your house or whatever
56:33 it is like there could be a reason that your capacity for stress is so
56:40 low yeah no I agree and I think that’s the other problem with in my opinion
56:46 Society is like as soon as there is a symptom people immediately want to fix
56:52 it’s not like let’s step back and think about this right like
56:57 Monday for example why was I stressed well I know why I was stressed because we had been in Vegas all weekend I had
57:03 been at this conference I wasn’t sleeping like I normally was I probably wasn’t drinking the amount of water you
57:08 know it’s just different and then also I know I also forgot my magnesium and that’s a huge trigger for me I know that
57:14 like I take magnesium I take vitamin D I take B12 I wasn’t sleeping as good um so
57:19 I hadn’t have my magnesium uh I forgot my vitamin I wasn’t yeah I wasn’t
57:25 sleeping well I had been traveling you know and then plus I’m in like the back half of my cycle so my progesterone’s
57:31 high and I don’t have any estrogen it’s like so when I was like losing my mind on Monday I’m like okay this really
57:38 isn’t that hard it’s just I’m like I need to reset right like I can do this it’s just I need to reset all these
57:44 things and I think that’s what people forget is like to your point and and could I have could I have came home and
57:51 cried and flipped out and made someone write me a prescription or whatever and done it yeah I could have but I’m like
57:56 that’s just not what I want anymore like what I want to do is I came home on Monday I ate dinner I took a walk I went
58:01 to bed and then Tuesday I actually took a nap at lunch and I went to bed early
58:06 on Tuesday and I went to bed early last night and I felt great today and so like it’s just people want this like
58:12 immediate fix though right instead of like why is my body giving me the signal and then what do I need to do to fix it
58:18 right and it’s I get it cuz I was there at one point in my life like you I was thankfully never addicted to benzos but
58:24 I took sleeping medicine at one point I took anxiety medicine at one point I took I don’t want any of that now like
58:30 you know I what I want to do is figure out like why do I feel like this and let’s fix it and I think that’s a lot of the problem with today and right now is
58:37 because we live in this world like you talk about of like go go go go go um it’s okay to be like no I’m not you know
58:44 I’m not going to do that it’s okay to disappoint people sometimes as long as you you know know where you’re going
58:51 right it’s about the direction not about the speed so there you go
58:56 yeah so I like all of those I think those are good recommendations um we covered sleep we
59:05 covered hormones do do you have anything in particular you recommend for people with
59:11 ADHD like if they’re trying to get off of medications have you ever used like
59:16 dihexa meth blue any of those yeah so Paris anthene is one that is like a
59:24 light CNS stimulus that doesn’t have the downsides in terms of elevating heart
59:30 rate uh affecting blood pressure Etc it’s a much more
59:35 mild uh version of of caffeine in terms of side effects but more potent in terms
59:42 of its neut Tropic effects so I do like paranthe I do like as we talked about
59:47 lening uh Alpha GPC is a like bioavailable form of choline that’s my
59:54 favorite that Improv improves Focus um so those are all like really
1:00:01 helpful as far as um magnesium deficiency again I’m going to keep going
1:00:07 back to that that’s going to affect uh your ability to focus or hold concentration I do like the adaptogens
1:00:15 in terms of focus as well uh in particular my favorite uh the most neut
1:00:21 Tropic one is riola which is having some issues in terms of uh it being an endangered
1:00:28 species but now we can get a purified active from riola called
1:00:34 cidde uh so cidde is is really amazing
1:00:40 as well and um like yeah dixa is cool uh there’s
1:00:47 also sank and seac um um there cerebral
1:00:52 lysin uh you can try those peptides methylene blue is really interesting um
1:00:59 on on the front of that’s actually what I spoke about at arrm as well as
1:01:05 paranthe methylene blue is one of the only substances that’s really going to
1:01:10 be like an artificial electron transport chain um
1:01:16 electron donor like it’s going to like what all that means that sounds
1:01:21 complicated is that it’s helping uh a lot of lot of times the mitochondria there’s dysfunction in
1:01:28 there and and there’s like different um sets of this electron
1:01:34 transport chain where like uh an electron can kind of get stuck and not transfer and so um this is where the
1:01:44 dysfunction leads to like suboptimal energy production and leads to all of
1:01:50 these side effects that we talked about like with oxidation glycation inflammation
1:01:56 um because you’re not producing enough energy and so methylene blue can help
1:02:01 like be this synthetic electron U donor like where there’s
1:02:07 dysfunction in the mitochondria it can step in and kind of like guide things along essentially so it’s going to be
1:02:15 one of those things like if you were like incredibly healthy you might not notice much this is kind of like the
1:02:21 ketogenic diet like you know you might not notice as much but if you
1:02:26 um if you’re someone that is deeply metabolically dysfunctional and in this insufficient
1:02:34 cellular energy State methylene blue or the ketogenic diet or things like
1:02:39 dihydroberberine which by the way we didn’t talk about but is I think could be tremendous um for hormone
1:02:44 optimization because blood sugar plays a huge role um but that can be significant
1:02:52 U methylene blue so it is worth exploring yeah I use a lot of methylene blue in my practice last question about
1:03:00 supplements libido we sort of touched on it are there any other supplements nitric oxide you said anything else that
1:03:07 you recommend for women in particular like I feel like women get the shaft on this yeah everyone’s always like oh Ed
1:03:15 men low libido but women lose half of their testosterone by mid3 and by the
1:03:20 time we’re in our 40s most of our testosterone or androgens are gone and so it’s very common for women to have
1:03:26 low sex driver low libbido in their 40s so what besides you know taking care of yourself not being stressed actually
1:03:32 liking your husband sleeping all of those things what else can you do to help your libido if you’re not going to
1:03:38 replace your testosterone yeah Horny Go weed as funny as that one sounds it
1:03:43 there’s a lot of people think of it as like male liido but it works uh just as well in women um it does free up
1:03:52 testosterone it works by shbg like sex hormone in globulin so what it’s doing
1:03:58 is it may raise testosterone a little bit like maybe 10 15% if you’re lucky if
1:04:05 you’re taking a great extract and it’s working really well and maybe you were suboptimal testosterone male or female
1:04:12 but what it’s doing on a kind of more important level is freeing up more free
1:04:19 testosterone so that is able to interact at the receptor the Androgen receptor
1:04:24 more um so that’s that’s one that I would definitely recommend and and D3 can have
1:04:30 a big impact on libido too and testosterone production um as well so uh also just
1:04:38 hormesis in general like doing hot and cold like hot finish sauna uh doing uh
1:04:45 cold plunges especially if you’re doing both like doing contrasting that can be
1:04:50 very helpful working out especially if you’re doing high-intensity interval training or heavy lifting a lot of women
1:04:56 tend to shy away from heavier weights thinking they’re going to get bulky or it’s just too difficult don’t like heavy
1:05:04 weights is where it’s at like that is going to impact bone it’s going to
1:05:09 impact muscle it’s going to impact connective tissue it’s going to impact your brain it’s going to impact
1:05:15 longevity heavy lifting is where it’s at okay well thank you for coming on and
1:05:23 talking to us about all of this tell everyone just briefly do you have any I mean we’ll link your supplement or we’ll
1:05:31 we’ll link your website um which I think has everything with with all your supplements is there anything else you
1:05:36 want in your social media anything else you want to tell everyone about where they
1:05:41 can uh s WN W LS and then Sean Wells on
1:05:47 my social media and I have a lot of uh great infographics and kind of distilled
1:05:53 down if any of this is overwhelming um I have it all there or my book Energy
1:05:59 Formula which you can go to energy formula.com okay well thank you so much for taking
1:06:06 the time to share all of this with us you got it thanks Cassie all right I
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No doctor-patient relationship is formed from you listening to this podcast or utilizing any of the information provided.
I am a doctor, but I am not talking to you as your doctor. The information provided is not intended to diagnose or treat health problems or take the place of the professional medical care provided by your doctor.
If you are experiencing any health problems, including problems you believe have been touched upon in any respect within this podcast, you should consult your doctor about the problems without delay. You may ask your doctor whether he or she believes the information I have provided would be helpful to you, but you should still consult your doctor immediately and follow his or her medical advice as your treating physician.
I’m just here to provide you with basic knowledge about the issues we discuss so you are more aware of them and can better discuss them with your doctor.
That’s why we call it Back to the Basics. Join me on the next episode as we continue our journey.