Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder, Disease Prevention & Anti-Aging Pioneer, & 8x Best Selling Author
Tue, 19 Nov 2024
In This Episode You Will Learn About: Treating your mind and body as a TEAM could be the game-changer you need. The secret to BOOSTING your health and longevity is in balancing hormones. Ways EMPOWERED patients make the best health choices. The hidden role of thyroid and adrenals in your WELL-BEING might surprise you. Resources: Website: https://www.eshealth.com LinkedIn: @erika-schwartz-md Twitter/X:@drerika Instagram:@eshealth Facebook: @evolvedscience Go to ConstantContact.com and start your FREE trial today. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/monahan Oracle is offering to halve your cloud bill if you switch to OCI See if you qualify at oracle.com/MONAHAN. Download the CFO’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning at NetSuite.com/MONAHAN. Call my digital clone at 201-897-2553! Visit heathermonahan.com Reach out to me on Instagram & LinkedIn Sign up for my mailing list: heathermonahan.com/mailing-list/ Overcome Your Villains is Available NOW! Order here: https://overcomeyourvillains.com If you haven't yet, get my first book Confidence Creator Show Notes: Ever wonder what it truly takes to feel your BEST? Dr. Erika Schwartz, founder of Evolved Science, says true wellness isn’t about following trends or checking boxes—it’s about finding your unique BALANCE. Hormone therapy is not a one-size-fits-all quick fix; it’s a JOURNEY that demands self-advocacy and patience. And the biggest revelation? STRESS is the silent saboteur. But we have the POWER to conquer it. The medical world might stay in its lanes, but real health comes from seeing the WHOLE picture and integrating everything that supports it. The BEST version of you is out there—STEP UP and OWN IT! If You Liked This Episode You Might Also Like These Episodes: #427: How To Bounce Back When Things Don’t Go As Planned with Heather! #425: The Secret To Leaving When You Aren't Valued with Heather! #421: GO For It: Shattering Limits in Life & Business with Heather!
Chapter 1: What is hormone therapy and how does it work?
It was about diet, exercise, lifestyle, everything you know now. I also decided at the time, you know, it came to me as this evolution occurred, that it was about putting the pieces together and that it was within our power, right?
to make it happen and that at the end of the day it was you or me whoever is the person involved that would make the decision to conduct their life in such a way that would make it work and it's like what you were saying on your TED talk that I told you I was watching before that that you can't allow the outside world to take away your light. You have to hold onto it.
And if it's taking it away from you, you better walk away from that. So that's what I'm doing in healthcare.
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Chapter 2: Why is hormone balance crucial for health?
What makes the right formula is first of all, not putting them all together, doing them separately. There are different times in life where different things work better than other things. Like a patch will work better when you're younger than when you're older. A cream of progesterone will work better when you're younger rather than older.
So oral estrogen should never be given because it's processed through the liver and we have enough crap going through our liver. We don't want to add to that. Testosterone should never be given in pellets because they put them under the skin and leave it there for three months. Your body in its natural state before you stop making it releases hormone impulses.
So you don't want to have hormones there all the time. You want hormones to come and go, come and go. And this is how you want to do it. So those are just like basic things that should tell you if you're getting the right thing or not. Having said that, I have seen people who have been, like I said, doing it for five years the wrong way and it's working.
The other thing is that at some point, it's not just about estrogen, progesterone, testosterone. It becomes about thyroid and adrenal. And that's really crucial because it took me about five years of doing it. And remember, since I'm old, that it started a long time ago, that nobody even thought about it at the time.
I was like, I'm doing it right, but the people are not quite, like you said, not 100%. I feel great, you look great, you feel great, but you know you're not 100%. So that's when I realized that the blood tests that we do, because we're conventional doctors, and I insisted on the fact that this is where conventional medicine has to go or it's going to die. As simple as that.
And I'm a conventional doctor. So I don't want to be considered alternative. I don't want to think of myself as an alternative doctor. So it's conventional medicine who needs to go there. So when you do bloods, you know what conventional bloods look like, right? But they don't really tell you anything before you're sick. They tell you when you're sick.
So I had to kind of learn on my own how to figure out ahead of time. how to get to prevention. Like you said, all these people who pay $10,000 a month to have a thousand tests that they don't need. It's like, if you think of the genetic testing, which is like a big thing, we spend $2 billion to get the genetic code for humans, like 20 years ago.
And it's completely useless because we know that genetics mean absolutely nothing. That there may be two or three genetic diseases, actually, which sadly exist and that's it and you can't do much about it. And that genetics are useless as far as knowing them, except for creating high anxiety in you because you're going to worry about it and.
It's epigenetics is what our environment is doing to our genes that is making them to either express themselves as negative things or express themselves as positive things. So doing that test sometimes like I'm not very big on testing, which makes a lot of people nervous. who make money off of the testing, not very happy.
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Chapter 6: How can stress impact hormone levels?
How crazy when you have this huge tool at your fingertips that you're not using it. And then you say, oh, let me give you a pill. What are we thinking? Your mind and your body are one. How could we think that they are separate?
Come on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goal.
I'm ready for my close-up.
Hi, and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back here with us this week. Let me introduce you to one of our exciting guests. Okay, Dr. Erica Schwartz. She's the founder of Evolve Science, a world-renowned medical practice based in NYC, built on the recognition that bioidentical hormones are the foundation for better health.
Once hormones are balanced, the practice focuses on optimization and longevity. through disease prevention, patient advocacy, and coordination of care. Dr. Erica is a pioneer in the use of bioidentical hormones for preventing illness and recognizing their direct link to overall wellness and their interconnection with diet, sleep, and stress management. I need all those.
Her focus on treating patients and the whole person began more than 30 years ago with her understanding that bioidentical hormone replacement is the safest, most effective path to increase healthspan and to achieve the highest quality of life. Dr. Erica, thank you so much for being here today.
Heather, it's my pleasure. Thank you.
I will tell you, I'm so hyped selfishly, right? Like all, I'm 50 years old and all of my- And you look 35, so don't even tell me.
Oh, you're so sweet. And by the way, I think the chronologic age just sucks as an idea. So, out the door.
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