Dr. Sarah Daccarett
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
It's actually embarrassing to say how far behind we are in women's health, especially hormonal health. We're a decade behind men's and we're a decade even further behind transgender health. So we've made more progress with transgender population than we have with women over the age of 30. Doctors are not trained in medical school at all about hormonal health.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
So women need to have progesterone levels that are much, much higher than the estrogen or testosterone, or they have problems. So it's when the progesterone gets really low and they're still making a little bit of estrogen and testosterone, that they start to get a How can you tell if your progesterone is low?
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
The main symptoms can be anxiety, depression, insomnia, really a lot of mood instability. So like women, like progesterone is a calming hormone that keeps us calm and centered. It helps us tolerate men and small children. And when it's low, we literally cannot tolerate people around us. And like we can tell that I just don't feel like I have no reason to be upset at my progesterone.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
you know, very amazing husband, but he's like, even breathing is driving me crazy. And this is something that, you know, you're in, and even with somebody who's practicing mindful practices and all the things, and they don't feel centered, it's, they still need their progesterone to help with that. And they can imagine, um, that's the main thing that happens. But beyond that, you will see a
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
autoimmunity, Hashimoto's. So the immune system, like if you think about, again, I keep relating to pregnancy because women, everyone else can relate, right? And we know about the state of pregnancy. Our immune system is really complicated, more so than, we are really actually different than men. We're actually practically a different species. And our immune system is entirely different.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And it has to be so that we can carry a baby and not kill the baby. Like our immune system does not attack the baby, even though it's a foreign object that we're literally carrying for almost 10 months. So our immune system does not recognize that and it's modulated and it's kept like in check, but it still has to be high because we still have to protect ourselves from infection while pregnant.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
So we have this really beautiful, like complex immune system. If you think about how amazing that is. It's modulated by estrogen and progesterone. And when you're not pregnant and you don't have any hormones around, this immune system just becomes chaotic. So there's nothing to boost it and keep it in check.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And that's where you see women have astronomically higher levels, more autoimmunity than men. Like men don't have autoimmunity.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And so it's because we need progesterone in order to stop that and prevent that autoimmunity. And so if you have an autoimmunity, you know, like Hashimoto's, nobody tells you your progesterone is low, right? And it's probably what happened first. Your progesterone drops off and then you develop the autoimmunity later. Everybody kind of addresses the autoimmunity, right?
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
With diet and like all the things that you can do. but they're not addressing the underlying root cause. And then we see endometriosis, like in really young women, like so for example, which is probably an autoimmunity. It's an inflammatory state of the body. They get pain everywhere. It's not just like on cramping. These lesions are formed from inflammation in the body.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
It's true. It's actually embarrassing to say how far behind we are in women's health, especially hormonal health. We're a decade behind men's, and we're a decade even further behind transgender health. So we've made more progress with transgender population than we have with women over the age of 30. for example, for hormone, even in innovation approach, reference intervals, everything.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And this is because the immune system's like wreaking havoc. We see, so this, I think the immune system really something that you wouldn't even tie to low progesterone, but it's so common.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
The unfortunate thing about where we're at with women's health at the moment is that laboratory testing is contributing to the confusion that women are already facing and the lack of help that they already have. So they'll, even if I tell everybody, go get your hormones checked, like they will, and then they'll get the results back and they'll be quote unquote normal.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Okay. Labs do not flag. Nobody has established optimal reference ranges for progesterone. There are five papers, literally in the entire world, five. There are like a thousand on testosterone, just to give you a comparison. Okay, so like everybody on the call can be like really upset. It's not, it's just like the lab community, it's embarrassing.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
So even if the labs do not flag a low progesterone and doctors do not look at it, they're like, oh, this must just be normal. The only one that's flagged is a low testosterone because testosterone is the only one that's been established, the optimal reference range, and it's not our main hormone. And so... This is hard, but you can get your own labs and then be informed. So you can get labs.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And if it's below, say, six, which is six thousand picograms per milliliter. So if it's number six or below, then it's low. You know, I think that might help women because it's usually like point five or point two or zero or nonexistent. Right. And so. If they knew themselves to not listen to their doctor or the lab tests and they were fully informed, that might help.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
But other than that, like their body, like women generally know. They're like, I'm unhealthier now than I was like five years ago. I don't feel like no matter what I do, I'm doing everything and I still can't get the results that I should be getting. I'm working out like crazy. I'm eating all the right things.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And I don't like the way I look in the mirror no matter what I do or even the way I feel about myself. They know. Like every woman I've ever talked to has been like something's off.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And it's also inappropriate for any doctor to put you into a reference range or to try to stick your thyroid, which is your body, into a reference range with all these other, based on what, 50 other people? Because reference ranges are only, like estradiol is only based on 49 women and 100 men.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Like that means that you're being compared to 100 men and only 49 women and they're telling you that you're normal. So it's like, well, how do you know how I know those 49 women are normal or even what I want to look like or be like? And so it's we should it's your you know, it's like we should be so individualized that I really encourage women, even when we do treatment.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And there's always, you know, it's actually not that surprising, I guess. We have a huge gender data gap with everything. And then, you know, we've all in medicine, all the studies have been geared towards men. Women have cycles. And so our hormones fluctuate and potentially they complicated studies or drug studies. pharmaceuticals, the dosings built for men.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
I would rather you tell me that you're feeling great and I will never chase a lab test. I would, you know, because if it's normal, the lab test is normal, but you're sitting here and telling me that you're not normal, then we have a problem.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Okay.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
let's just say like we don't use words like anthropos for men or different phases of life for men and women i guess have been tied to the start and the end of their period because it's such a visible thing right like so yeah we were excluded from the hut you know like when we were like our ancestors so this is something that we could move away from potentially but we you know we since we're using the word perimenopause and menopause so much in the media let's use it but like
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
There's only one difference between perimenopause and menopause. They have exactly the same symptoms. The only difference is menopause, the period has stopped for a full year.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
So menopause by definition is your period has stopped. Perimenopause is like the whole 20 years before that period stops. And if women knew that the last thing to happen was the period stopping and they should not wait because it is like you waited almost too long. And if they wait for a hot flash, a hot flash means your estrogen is below 100.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
I just want women to understand how devastating this is. You've not experienced a hot flash, but they feel this sense of impending doom. This is not just sweating at night. This is really like, and they have a multiple times and the hypothalamus is what regulates our body temperature. It literally makes us different than like a snake or a reptile. We can regulate and makes us warm blooded animals.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And so when it needs estrogen to function and when estrogen is gone, you can no longer regulate your own body temperature. It's not a way to live. It's as your quality of life goes way down. And that's in addition to like all the other things like your vaginal and pelvic health, urinary incontinence, like all the things to come with it.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
So I don't want like, usually we associate hot flashes and the lack of period with menopause and then perimenopause, any other symptom. And there are a hundred, just like a hundred symptoms. Well, and hormones are needed for everything. But I would say that the most common that I see first is like a lack of centeredness.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Like they feel like they're losing it and they can't, no matter what they do, they cannot feel calm. They have anxiety, depression that they didn't have before, irritability, and they can't sleep. And these are the things that start disrupt their life. And then the brain fog, lack of energy, I'm not getting results at the gym, I'm gaining weight. I'm getting wrinkles. My hair is falling out.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
All the good things. Everything that we associate with aging. Period. Hey, this is actually just me getting older. And I think women just associate it with something that they have to do or they have to buy another product to prevent aging. You don't have to age so quickly. So this drop off in hormones after the age of 30 is generally when it happens.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Women after the age of 30 start going through perimenopause. And so we tell women it's like 50. So like when women in their 30s are like doing all the supplements, all the things to try to stop this aging because they can feel it. But if they knew that, hey, this is actually, you can prevent this and you can slow this down a lot just by using your own natural hormones.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
I mean, even iPhones, like the size of an iPhone is built for a man's hand. I mean, like car seats, everything. I mean, everything is, we are literally half of the population and completely ignored when it comes to even technological advancements. So it's happened in hormonal health as well.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
I'm saying there can be no transition. You do not have to. That transition is optional. So we used to tell women, you got to go through menopause or whatever. And we would even sometimes take away their hormones. Like, okay, now it's time to be like menopausal, which is unbelievably cruel. And we don't believe in that philosophy anymore. All the data shows that
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
You don't have to ever go through menopause if you don't want to. This is entirely your choice. And so you don't have to do this transition. You can maintain your period. If you want to maintain your period, I will help you do that. And when I talk about aging, I'm talking about deterioration of the body. Mitochondrial function, right? Estrogen and progesterone boost mitochondrial function.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
We're talking about bone health, heart health, muscular health, like everything that we need in order to prevent like
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
bone fractures as we get older like it's like endless how we can prevent disease and we just want to slow that down right i just want to push that off as long as i possibly can and feel great 40s 50s 60s 70s right in 80s too right so this is what we're talking about no transition okay but you'll still obviously still stop your period you'll still get what because the period so this is like i love it because women don't know and i wish like this again it's like this is great we should talk about this like
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Raymond thinks the period is directly linked to this ovulation. And so, no, I'd be like a billionaire if I could make 50-year-olds ovulate again, right, with, like, hormone replacement therapy.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
It doesn't make you fertile, but it makes that you're still going to have some shedding of the lining forever, potentially, because we're stimulating and keeping that uterine lining healthy, just like we're causing a cellular turnover. So, like, you know, I'm sure you've heard of Retin-A and, like,
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
stuff we put on our skin right to cause this turnover of cells so estrogen actually functions that way that's where they got the idea of retin-a right you just estrogen causes this turnover and keeps the skin like really bright preventing age spots and all the things so we want to keep this cellular turnover going and it's doing estrogen progesterone doing that with uterus so you're always stimulating and turning it over and keeping that really healthy and intact and
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
So my clients that are, one story short, post-menopausal, they're in their like, they've been on treatment for many years, in their 60s, and they'll still have some type of shedding of the lining of the uterus once or twice a year. Even though they're not, it's not a period, right? They're ovulating. But you still have some bleeding.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And I think some women choose to keep a 28-day cycle for as long as they can. And I encourage that because it's like you're keeping that period. It's like a sign of youth. So they want to keep that until well into their almost 60, potentially.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
You should be like thrilled that this is not like, we do not have, it's totally optional. We don't have to have symptoms. We can feel amazing and great in it. You know, we have like, we have self-driving cars, like on the street, literally like women can feel dessert and they deserve it. They can feel great and look great for as long as they want. Right. So
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
You can. I think it's again, it's like an internal check once you get your balanced. So the trick is like making it personalized, not necessarily a lab test. You know, like again, you're kind of like checking in, but it's more of like a self check. I guess I should say the difference between you and I, for example, or like another woman would be how you and I metabolize the hormones differently.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Or let's say, like, I might make more testosterone than you or something like that. Or another woman might tend to because we convert progesterone into testosterone. Women do. And this can be problematic because sometimes testosterone has side effects like acne, hair loss, bloating, weight gain. Right. It can make us irritable and things that we don't. really want necessarily.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
I hear that a lot. Like, I don't know if I want that teenage boy.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And even doctors think that birth control is hormones. We need to be questioning that. Is this healthy? Like our hormones are built to protect us. They tell every process how to function. So if you take that away, then you are potentially increasing health risks for a young patient, especially 13-year-olds or 15-year-olds long-term.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Yeah. I think what we want, like, so we get our natural receptivity and libido from estrogen. I think it's interesting that we know that estrogen binds to the same receptors as MDMA, for example. Yeah. And it allows that openness and receptivity that we need in order for libido to happen. And so it's not just like women are more complicated. I don't just need a little, like, I'm not a small man.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
I don't need a small dose of testosterone to get my libido. I'm a little bit more complicated. I'm going to need estrogen, progesterone, all the other things in place. But like when you're trying to personalize HRT, like hormone replacement therapy, I want to see, I will first see how you metabolize your hormones and to see what your body does. And then we can use things to like adjust.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Like if you're making too much testosterone, there's a lot of Chinese herbs and like green tea, for example, matcha tea. It's one of the most amazing things for women. It's like one of my most favorite things. So like everybody could do matcha green tea, you would, you know, and that is how we can kind of keep testosterone in check a little bit, for example.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
It's probably accurate. I think some of them stay stable. When we look at these old cyclical graphs, they're based on very old lab assays, outdated in fact. We'll reject other research papers if they're done on these lab tests, but we still acknowledge this old data. So we can even question whether that's accurate or not or whether that needs to be reinvestigated.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
So that's how you can make it more personal. Like, what am I doing? Am I, and sometimes the foods that we eat or the diet that we maintain or exercise level will, um, alter these fluctuations in hormones and we have control over that.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Women sometimes come into my office and that's what their concern is that their relationship is, um, in jeopardy because they, they don't want, you know, they don't want to be intimate with their husband anymore. It's like sex can be painful, but even before then they don't feel like it or they're irritated by their husbands. And, um,
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
You know, we've completely normalized erectile dysfunction for men over the last decade. We'll talk about it. You can get Viagra like anywhere online. It's just like a normal thing over a certain age, like even young men. And we didn't used to talk about it like we do now.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And I think that we need to normalize vaginal dryness, for example, for women, just like we normalize erectile dysfunction for men. Like, hey, this is actually really common. And if you have like vaginal dryness or you have vaginal odor or, you know, like we link erection. And I hope I'm not getting it, but this is interesting if women understand this.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
erections to libido in men, we need to associate vaginal, like kind of a lubrication state for women and libido, right? That is our equivalent. And so we don't teach 13-year-old girls this. We don't teach young women this.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Like if we were to start talking to our daughters a little bit differently about this, like I have a young son and when they get just erections, you know, as they're growing and I'm like, this is normal body function. This is blood flow. This is keeping this area healthy for you. You don't have control over this. This is normal.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
If we talk to our daughters the same way, then they would think that that's a normal, like having vaginal, that state of vaginal health is normal.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
When I start women, older women on like hormone replacement therapy, and they start to feel like a 13-year-old girl again, which they tell me I feel like a 13-year-old girl again, and I'm like having to use a liner, and there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of,
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
changes in like discharge they call it discharge and i'm like this is what it's supposed to be like and it's okay this is normal but they we don't associate it with like a good thing right like does that make sense like men will be like yeah we need to start talking about this in a normal way like hey this is total normal body function we need and it will show that this prevents this is really important for women like this prevents infections like if you have
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Thank you.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Misbelief or misunderstanding about even a period. Women think that they have a period because they've ovulated or dropped an egg. And this is not necessarily true. Women will have because we tell women that they can't take hormone replacement therapy. We've been telling them a long time. Well, if you're still having a period, you're still making hormones. And this is totally wrong. Right.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Thank you. you. Thank you.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Women have this misunderstanding that they've made progesterone because they had a period. And we see women with zero levels of hormones and still having a period. So there's something else there, a different mechanism that's cyclical, that's causing a period that's not hormone related. But we don't understand that we have not even researched that basic thing about women.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Yeah, this is something that we're not informing young patients. This is, like you said, birth control is prescribed for acne, bad periods. It's meant for...
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
you know a specific reason and for that it it's good right birth control but like it's not a treatment it's not a treatment for endometriosis or pcos or acne or anything like that and what i think the reason is is doctors are not trained in medical school at all about hormonal health and even doctors think that birth control is hormones i hear it a lot so
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Women, if they could understand anything from today, if they can understand that birth control is the opposite, it suppresses the production of your hormone. That's what makes you infertile. It stops the production of your own estrogen and progesterone. And we need to be questioning that. Women need to, for their daughters, and they need to be like, is this healthy?
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Our hormones are built to protect us from a lot of different things. They tell every process how to function. So if you take that away, then you're, potentially increasing health risks for a young patient, especially 13-year-olds or 15-year-olds long-term. How do we know how that impacts your fertility? How do we know how that impacts your mental health?
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
As soon as women, young women especially, start birth control, we see an increase in suicidal ideation, right? Like, you know, there could become depression. There's depression, anxiety, irritability. They can't sleep. Mental health is huge. Like, why are, you know, and you're increasing the risk with birth control. There's certainly a better way to treat acne.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
When women in their 30s are like doing all the supplements, all the things to try to stop this aging because they can feel it. But if they knew that, hey, you can prevent this and you can slow this down a lot just by using your own natural hormones, then that'd be great if you could prevent wrinkles and hair loss and weight gain. We used to tell women like, you got to go through menopause.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
It's wild how much there is. And I think that when we look at men, we know that their testosterone levels, for example, are 50% lower. There's some statistics about how much lower they are now than they were even 100 years ago. The same thing is for women. I think women need to recognize that their estrogen and progesterone levels are very, very low and it's making them infertile.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
What's causing that in a 25-year-old? You know, I think in a 30 and above, our ancestors were probably not ever meant to live that long. So we weren't really meant to have babies maybe past 30. And so that might be aging. That just might be biological. There are ovaries are failing us.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
But when you have a 22 year old or 23 or 25, what we're seeing really young women with low hormone levels, what's causing this and it's likely environmental. I mean, you can speculate all the plastics and toxins and there's phthalates.
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I mean, women are inundated with beauty products that have fragrances in them, chemicals, like they're putting them on their skin, they're all over their body, for example. And this, and then But I think largely it's just like the chemicals around us that they can't avoid no matter how much they try to eliminate these toxins. They're everywhere.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And we're even breathing in plastics apparently, microplastics now. It's in my tea now I've heard. So it's like everywhere. And I think that if women understood what actually maybe protected them against these plastics, and I can get into this really quickly.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Because like people say that these plastics, plastics and phthalates bind to estrogen receptors, right? And they're causing like something like an estrogen dominance or they're giving women symptoms. But why are these receptors free in the first place?
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
So if you think about it, estrogen, this is a beautiful receptor that's completely empty because she has low estrogen and progesterone to begin with. And now you've allowed these plastics and phthalates and chemicals to bind to this open receptor and it's causing problems. And it could potentially cause cancer.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
We think that it might cause breast cancer and other problems for her and inflammation in the body. So if they were just to keep their estrogen and progesterone levels healthy, then the receptors would be full, right?
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
You'd be protecting yourself because there would be nowhere for these plastics to bind or chemicals to bind because the receptors are full of our very own protective natural estrogen and progesterone. which they are built to protect us.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
If you think about pregnancy, this like state that women are like the most amazing creatures are able to do literally like on the planet is like have a baby, be able to carry, have a baby birth and then heal from that and recover from it. Estrogen and progesterone do this for, you know, they are our nature's way of, of protecting the body and allowing it to heal.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
We would even sometimes take away their hormones, which is unbelievably cruel. We don't believe in that philosophy anymore. All the data shows that You don't have to ever go through menopause if you don't want to. This is entirely your choice. There's only one difference between perimenopause and menopause. They have exactly the same symptoms.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
So when they're missing, we get disease, we get autoimmunity, we get a lot of unhealthy states.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
So this is really hard. And with all these environmental toxins, like see women who are really trying their best, they're eliminating all the toxins. Their diets are super clean. Like they have these pristine, like the way they're doing it, they're doing everything. And they're still struggling with their gut health.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And when you start to see the gut health decline and they start to get autoimmunity, they start to get Hashimoto's. Their skin doesn't look as good in their hair. And this is because they don't have their hormones there to regulate their immune system, to help with their gut health, all the weight maintenance, everything that's supposed to be doing.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
But I guess the good news, there's good news, is that what is wrong with simply replacing these hormones? We can actually supplement them like we would supplement anything else that we're missing or no longer able to make. So I think if women knew that, hey, you could still like it's still good to eliminate all the toxins and have the clean diet.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
But if you're still struggling, you can protect yourself actually just by replacing the hormones. And there's some ways that are better to do that than others. But making sure that these levels, sometimes you cannot do it on your own. Like you can't do it like the wills, you know, all this willpower.
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Yes. I think in a younger patient, like, you know, say call a younger patient, 20 to 30. I know that women in their thirties, I'm still young, we're in our forties, but there's a certain point where the ovaries cannot function as well, even when the place of an herb is
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
So, for example, if you're a younger woman and you're struggling and you're able to remove all these toxins and you're able to reduce your stress. So, you know, I mean, if you're able to do this and practice exercise and all of the things like yoga, meditation, anything you need to do to be centered and reduce that stress will help.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And then diet, especially eliminating like gluten and dairy and eating, you know, protein and like things that you know, like can work. And then herbs, some herbs work. So here's the thing, like the herbs are not natural, actually. You know, I think we think of an herb as a natural plant, but we don't naturally make ashwagandha. We don't make turmeric. We don't make black cohosh.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
That's not something my body makes. And when we take those herbs, they bind to those receptors and they don't actually act like the natural hormones. Sometimes they raise serotonin and dopamine or they just raise serotonin and they make women sometimes feel better. Like they kind of get a boost, but this is not like the most beneficial thing you can do. You need the hormone.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
We naturally make estrogen and progesterone. That's what we should be supplementing, right? So then herb, like what we're trying to do with the herb and younger patient, and I have done it and it sort of works. Like if you have a healthy patient, it can stimulate ovulation, right? It can make sure that you're, you're normalizing LH and FSH in the brain. And that's how it'll work for her.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
And we can get a better result in men. So I would say that men actually a little bit easier. A lot of the herbs work better to raise testosterone than they do for women. I know Vitex is a popular, like Chase Berry for progesterone, but I find that it's not as effective as you might want it to be, but it can be helpful. And then
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
Beyond that, though, I find that if you try herbs in older women, you have less and less of an effect because the ovaries cannot function the way you want them to, even with the stimulant, if you're trying to stimulate it.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
I think that you still need all of that. Like there's no getting around all that either. Right. And so to be ultimately, to be this like ultimate health that we want to be in and expand our lifespan, not only our lifestyle, but our health span, like women already live like longer than men.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
We really want to be healthy as long as we can and vibrant and youthful and feel good and chase our kids and all the things. And so I think hormone replacement therapy, in my opinion, replacing estrogen and progesterone is just foundational. It's like brushing your teeth. It's like maintaining and keeping my health. And then on top of that, I still need to have a clean diet.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
I still need to eliminate toxins. I still need to do the mindfulness. I still need to exercise.
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The Truth About Women’s Hormones: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You - Dr. Sarah Daccarett | EP 75
There's some confusion is what I think progesterone is completely ignored. Like we talk so much about estrogen and its role in breast cancer or whatever. And then like, progesterone is our main hormone, actually. It is the one that's highest. And when we talk about hormones in women, yeah, we can talk about the absolute level, but the ratio is really important.