THE LAST GENERATION TO SUFFER FROM MENOPAUSE

This conference blew me away, as the experts provided us with a wealth of education on the importance of managing our hormones, starting in our 30s & 40s, so that we know our baseline. I wish I had realized this at that age. This doesn’t mean you need to start therapy immediately; it means you want to establish a baseline for your optimal health as you age.  This is not saying that hormone therapies are a goal to keep you from aging. It’s about aging in a healthy way to avoid diseases and to minimize the damage of premenopause and menopause. That’s it! 

My notes from the conference are below. WARNING, THEY ARE A LITTLE WONKY. NO TIME TO PROOFREAD. It isn’t always easy to take notes so that some things might be confusing. The EXPERTS WHO pulled this seminar together in Chicago have a website. I believe they will share an overview. They also list the presenters’ names in this space. Mid Life Upgrade

The latest doctor gossip, I want to dismantle…

Your doctor, gynecologist, endocrinologist, or general doctor might say this to you: “Don’t listen to the doctors on social media.” They are only out there to make more money, and they are not experts in their fields. This is an absolutely false statement. There are bad actors out there, so I can’t say it isn’t happening. However, based on my research, the doctors I have chosen to follow are all women in my age group. These doctors are all double and triple-board certified in their fields of expertise or across multiple fields. They are science-based doctors who continue to learn, staying up to date on the latest research across all their fields. 

They personally experienced or are experiencing Peri-Menopause, or Menopause. They, too, have or are facing their own decline, finding that there is not much focus on women’s health. Many discovered the lack of support as their own mothers declined and had no idea some things could be done to minimize unhealthy aging, such as chronic UTI’s, bone density decline, weight gain, and more. All of this combined will shorten your life, with the last few years of your life possibly spent in a bed. 

Sex, Love & Menopause (Julie Health Food Coach)  Vegen suffered terrible peri-menopause; she never knew why, and we do not know how to manage this. (I thought they would suffer less, as they eat a lot of tofu. Not true) 

Heads and Tails, Jay & Kate White, psychologists and OB-GYNs; they are comical and have a successful podcast. 

We miss opportunities to enhance our lives with dopamine.

Dopamine is essential to our well-being. Too many women are on antidepressants. Hormone therapy should be the first line of defense, versus antidepressants. 

Women’s Health: Past, Present, Future

Dr. Jila Senemar! OBGYN Women’s Health, HRT Expert. Closing her OBGYN practice to go to concierge medicine on December 21st, leaving her practice to serve the HRT community. 

This movement is for our daughters, daughters-in-law, using our voices to help make these changes. 

Points of Interest

• Women were excluded from most clinical trials. They were not included in the studies until the 1990s. Blood pressure medication trials for heart disease were conducted only on men for years. 
• The male body was universal. They could report jaw pain and have a conclusion, while a women was told she had anxiety.
• When they studied women for hormones, they began with a 63-year-old woman. This was not a correct study. The study should have been for people aged 40-60 years. 
• 1/3 of our lives are in menopause. We need to live well and not in nursing homes.
• Studies show that women cost the workforce $1.8 billion due to lack of sleep and hot flashes. 
• Antidepressants are prescribed as a Band-Aid, while the real problem is the lack of hormones.   
• 2023 The first women’s health initiative to increase funding to study women’s health

Audience Questions

1. Wearable incorporated into our daily lives? They provide us with data points to keep us updated on what is happening with our system. I believe more and more providers will be providing the data—glucose monitors to our Ring, all modalities that we can use to help us. 

2. Doctors who won’t listen need to be fired! They say they are conservative, but they are not educated.

3. 40-year-old checklist. Medical checklist for Menopause, (our endocrine system), the same way as colposcopy, and other tests. 

4. Balanced yourself in your mid-thirties to early forties. 

5.  Peri-Post Pardum, menopause. In this order. 

6. Get your baselines early to find out if you have osteoarthritis, which leads to osteoarthritis.

Dr. Kelly Casperson Menopause Moment

Trevor Redfining masculinity and safety, men suffer from menopause

Traver Boehm 

Podcast Travor Manifesting works. 

Men don’t feel safe; they do not know what they are supposed to do, and they receive mixed messages daily. Men feel weak if they speak their feelings. Women need to be in a safe space. Podcast Kelly and Traver

A rise in consciousness with men. Groups that care about life and their role. 

Dr. Rebecca Hurtle

GLP-1S, Perimenopause, Insulin-resistant gain weight, and benefits with GLP-1ss. Insurance-based and Concierge practices (Peptides). Many proteins that mimic our hormones, in general, keep you feeling fuller, telling your brain it’s full. Slow down the gut, then say to the brain, “I am full.” 

As estrogen levels decline in midlife, inflammation increases, insulin resistance rises, and fat accumulates in organs, further increasing insulin. These do help decrease the risk for diabetes and inflammation. Inflammation reduces with GLPs. 

Eating well, exercising, and a GLP can still reduce the inflammation. 

Ozempic and Rogovy. 

Differences, Flamagotied 

Triciped is your monitor with diabetes. 

Monjoro and Zepbound are the same thing; they are all GLPs. Slowing the gut signals to your brain that you are full. It can cause a slight depression when you no longer look forward to eating. You eat, you fuel, and then go on to the rest of the day. 

Gerzepited works on the pathways involved in low blood sugar, so it helps keep blood sugar down. Tricetrapib seems to be more effective at reducing inflammation. 

Risks: Nausea, constipation, it might overdo it, and stop you from wanting to eat. Fatty food will give diarrhea. Eat small amounts, more frequently. 

You have to do resistance training and prioritize your protein.  Food, then drink, in between meals. 

MYTH: GLP1 finds the right one for you. You need to understand that you take the meds and you do the work. Starting dose, you need to work out. 

Micro Dosing: GLP1s- It’s not FDA approved, but in concierge medicine, they can give a microdose. Compounded Pharmacy to make the microdose. Begin with the suggested dosage and work your way down to microdosing to achieve the benefits.  When you hit a plateau, peptides) may try other 

Concierge Physicians can work with a patient as much as they want. We want to provide the correct support to our patients. Insurance has taken over and removed the reasons doctors want to be doctors.

Dr. Omar Abraham, Certified Expert for Hair Care and Skin. Keep skin healthy at any age. 

Skin & Hair  

Menopause affects hair and skin. Hair is a multibillion-dollar industry. Most everything is marketing to you versus what is real. 

Myth:

1. Testosterone affects your hair. 

2. Gummies and supplements for hair, miracle, red flag

3. This is just aging; you have to accept it. Hair thinning, you are ignored. 

Hair loss treatment is complex. 

Peri Menopause/Menopause 

Decrease air flow to your scalp. The hair follicle shrinks over time. Why is my hair thinning? They are not thinning, they are shrinking. The hair follicle gets smaller and smaller. Anti-aging scalp treatments, which age faster than the face. 

1. Minoxidil is the gold standard for growing hair. (Active ingredient in Rogan) Oral Mononadile (original blood pressure medication). This is how Ragan was born. Oral Monaxadil. 1.25 dose, this will only grow hair on the head. Might be covered by insurance. Increases blood flow to the scalp. 

2. 3. Spernal 

3. Laser Red Light Caps- do work, using 1-2 years to get the full benefit. Be sure to look at the results of how they make these. They have to be used consistently. 

4. BIO ten is useless for hair. It can interfere with lab tests. This can interfere with your blood test, thyroid levels, and 

Platelet-rich plasmas do work, but Gold Standard Tricks are best. 

Shampoo needs to have sulfates at least once a week. Sulfate helps to exfoliate the scalp at least once a week. 

Skin Aging

30% drop in collagen, which has already dropped in your 20s. Collegen creams do nothing. Waste of money. 

Ceramides keep your skin strong, and when they drop by 25%, skin wrinkles. 

Daily SPF 30 or more is a must. 

Gentle Cleanse once a day. 

Moisturizer, daily

Treat signs of aging.

1. Sunscreen every 2 1/2 hours

2. Anti Oxidant, Vitamin C, serum creams, opaque dark bottle, otherwise it doesn’t it goes bad. 

3. Retinol is the over-the-counter version 

4. Rentonoids prescription. 

5. Topical estrogen for the face

6. Red light Cap- Capillarost Red Light Therapy.  You need to use it daily. 

7. Vitamin C sensitive- thda trexalthorist Revision C+ correcting complex, Avoid Vitamin C Skin Cuticals Florica Flora THRF (Cleaning)? 

8. Bottles need to be dark, Revision Vitamin C, the others after one month, turn brow. 

9. Shortage of estrogen creams in Egypt, as they are used on the face. 

10. Red Light: Favorite Promote the midocradia to produce more cells. The best track record is Amulux 

Primas Pharmaceuticals Arizona is working on women’s needs, for prescriptions for bone health. 

Dr. Jim Luctmen: Postium Plus

Legacy of Healing, Medical Director with Primas Pharmaceutical “Medical Foods” 

Vitamin K2 Phosphate, and Zinc Osteoblasts for bone building, Phosium Plus is antibolic, phytoestrogen, 

Genastien: In Italy, a study of 229 women with osteoarthritis showed a 9% increase over 3 years: Phostium Pluse, Estrogen beta receptors. 

Stimulation of the receptors builds bones. Genisen has a beta receptor 

Phostium is taking it. If you are on Estrogen Therapies, it is complementary to HRT: Phostium Plus. A study of 1000 patients for over 3 years. Dexa scans are performed every 6 months for the studies. Ostiopinia can get this in the early stages of Phosium Plus-CEO JD 

Plasium Plus options for women, to use if bone density is a problem. 

Blink RX Pharmaceutical Company — Partnership: they want to help, insurance or not, with one low cash price for everyone. 

After Lunch

Dr. Kelly Casperson Presents

Testosterone is not just for the Libido

Libido-motivation towards something is the actual meaning

80 years of testing with Testosterone for men. 

Brain Health, Nuron Protection, 

The younger you start Estrogen, the more likely you are to gain greater protection against Alzheimer’s.

Audience 

Testosterone turned my brain back on.  

A brain nuerone

Hair Growth

Hopefully, your physician is willing to learn with you. 

Testosterone For Women-post menopause/declines in the ages of 20. 

Several Ways to Use Testosterone

Everyone should begin at a low level of testosterone. Low and slow is the way to go. 

Write to the FDA, use your voice to get a female dose of testosterone. 3 pharmaceutical companies are trying to get the FDA to approve their products. 

Cassy Fleming,CEO Fuscia Tent

How to find great providers

A life audit, clear the cobwebs on a list of paper. Write the 2-3 things to do to feel your best. 

Northern Western Fineberg 

National Leader in Sexual and Menopause 

msmedicine 

Woman’s Sexual Health Gyno Girl Podcast 

Dr. 

Fertility, Sexual Health, Postpartum Recovery, Menopause

This doctor has an infertility post pardum mimicking peri menopause. 

We are born with all our eggs at birth. Five million eggs are present at birth, which drop to 1 million as you age. 

Genital  Urinary Syndrome of Menopause

Elderly Patience

Dr. Samina Rahman and Dr. Jelani have both become concierge doctors. 

Vaginal DHEA converts into both estrogen and testosterone.

The Future is Female in Midlife

Dr Cheely’s Seminar

Catherine Johnson Certified Practitioner-Precision and Longevity 

Dr. Triple Board Medicine Precision Medical Care

Dr. Sedeack triple board certified -Well Endocrinology 

Checklist in your mid-forties: how does aging look? Get your baseline numbers in your early 40s. 

Personally, the approach, and decide how NIH defines precision medicine

Endroconelogist Hormone Management

Dr Agrawal ? 

Pain around the joints. Menopause, we know, causes hot flashes. Join pain is a massive part of the menopause transition. The estrogen decline allows the brain to feel the pain more, while the joint pain is due to low estrogen. This includes frozen shoulder. 

Platelet-rich plasmas for joints are better than steroids.

1 Innovation in the next 5-10 years. 

Edroconologists-Wearable will be huge for women, for the future. 

Dr. Sobia

Glucose monitors that track our sugar levels. This will track Estrogen throughout the day and night. 

Modify the aging trajectory. Use wearables to find your aging trajectory—regenerative Medicine. 

Questions

Joint Health-? Functional Health

All movement for all joint pain. Fix the metabolism, lifestyle pillars, and functional movement. 

South asian women enter peri-menopause and menopause earlier than Caucasians. 

CGM’s ? Stlo, Lingo, Levels Health.com, Continuous monitors. Knowing your baseline data, diabetic pre-wear “Orthorexic”