They Lied to You About Menopause

They lie to you about menopause. If

you're a female, this is going to be a super important presentation. If you're

a man married to a female, this is going to be some very valuable information because the common story with menopause if you ask any mainstream doctor, is

that menopause is caused by a lowered estrogen. And all the symptoms related

estrogen. And all the symptoms related to lower estrogen can be treated with hormone replacement therapy or estrogen replacement therapy. Now, superficially

replacement therapy. Now, superficially it kind of makes sense. If you're low on a hormone, just go ahead and take it and you fix the problem. Well, the problem with that is that there's some slight

complications when you take hormone replacement therapy. The side effects

replacement therapy. The side effects include breast cancer, endometrial cancer, clots, increasing your risk for a stroke, gallstones, fluid retention

increased triglycerides, which then could potentially increase risk for cardiovascular problems. So, there's a lot of side effects and not just side effects from that, it's all the other

medications that you are put on.

Typically menopausal females are put on medications for hot flashes, ompic for being overweight, SSRI for depression NSAIDs for joint pain. These are

medications for bone loss and muscle loss and high blood pressure. And the

term for that is polyfarm pharmacy. Poly

meaning many, pharmacy meaning drugs.

because of this one big lie related to menopause.

Having all of these different symptoms come from different sources when they really come from one main root cause that we're going to get into. So I'm

going to take you through step by step of what happens with menopause. And I

have a really good solution. So it is absolutely true that roughly around 52 is when you have menopause. Now, some

women are earlier, some women are later but the average is age 52 where the ovaries go in retirement and they stop releasing eggs. And then from that, you

releasing eggs. And then from that, you have a dip in several hormones, not just estrogen. I mean, it can go from 400

estrogen. I mean, it can go from 400 down to 20. So, you get this severe drop in estrogen. I want to give you some

in estrogen. I want to give you some additional things on this that you probably haven't heard. It is true that estrogen drops, testosterone drops, but

also progesterone sometimes tanks to almost zero, but a lot of people don't talk about that. We

will be talking about that. But I'm

primarily going to be focusing on this estrogen. When the estrogen drops, it

estrogen. When the estrogen drops, it signals the thermostat in your brain.

There is a thermostat and it's part of this hypothalamus which is like the master gland that controls everything else. It's like this micro computer. It

else. It's like this micro computer. It

has many different little sections that control huge things in the body. Part of

the area that's in the hypothalamus that's related to menopause is literally a thermostat. That's right. And so it's

a thermostat. That's right. And so it's constantly getting feedback from your core temperature which should be 98.6.

And if it's going too high or too low it makes adjustments. It might heat up might create a fever, it might create a hot flash or night sweat, or it could be on the other side shivering to try to

generate more heat. So, you have this uh thermostat going on. And what's really interesting about the thermostat is typically in a thermostat you have in your house, let's say it's set at 72

there's a certain amount of fluctuation that can go up or down before it gets triggered. Picture it like a zone from

triggered. Picture it like a zone from this point to this point. After

menopause, when the estrogen drops, that zone shortens significantly. Which means

that if you just have slight variations tiny variations in that temperature then it gets triggered and then you have this cascade effect of a hot flash and other symptoms. And there's several

things that can trigger it. Temperature

blood sugar, stress. So, there's a lot of different triggers that can trip this uh thermostat. It does several other

uh thermostat. It does several other things, too. It regulates your set

things, too. It regulates your set point. It's that weight that your body

point. It's that weight that your body is comfortable at. Like, it just kind of gravitates to a certain weight and it's really hard to get below that. And when

you go on a diet or you exercise, you lose weight and then you hit that set point and then that's about it. It's

like stuck. It doesn't go below that.

That is controlled by this little mechanism in the hypothalamus. The other

thing that this controls is appetite.

Okay, so that could relate to how frequently you're hungry, also what you crave. It also regulates body weight to

crave. It also regulates body weight to a certain degree. This is why during menopause, a lot of women start gaining weight. You think about metabolism, but

weight. You think about metabolism, but that whole thermostat or regulatory system is in this little part in the hypothalamus.

Energy. Okay, your ability to generate energy is also involved with this.

Insulin is involved with this and the hypothalamus is also very sensitive to light signals. Interesting because it's

light signals. Interesting because it's connected to the circadian rhythms. So when someone goes through menopause, not only do they get hot flashes sometimes but they start gaining weight in the

midsection. They get mood changes

midsection. They get mood changes inflammation, their libido crashes. They

start to lose bone. Okay? They start to lose muscle. They get atrophy. They get

lose muscle. They get atrophy. They get

high blood pressure. The risk for diabetes goes up. The risk for heart attack goes up just from having this change in this part of the hypothalamus.

This doesn't seem normal. So, I found some interesting things. We already

talked about this narrowing of this zone of temperature. So now your thermostat

of temperature. So now your thermostat gets triggered more easily, but also pre-diabetes or type two diabetes or even something that comes before that

called insulin resistance. They're more

at a double risk of getting a hot flash if they're going through menopause.

That's an interesting connection.

Another thing that popped out that was very interesting is I was looking at different cultures and I wanted to see if certain cultures have more hot flashes than others. And this popped out. 80 to 91%

out. 80 to 91% of AfricanAmerican women that are going through menopause get hot flashes. Now

that was really interesting to me because that stood out as a huge clue.

Uh because if you do a comparison on other cultures, it's not even close to that. I mean, up to 91%. So, then I

that. I mean, up to 91%. So, then I started looking at why that could be.

And then I found this. People that have low vitamin D levels, they're vitamin D deficient, have a much higher risk of getting hot flashes. The color of

someone's skin does influence their ability to get vitamin D. So melanin is a pigment in the skin that acts as a natural sunblock. And so the darker your

natural sunblock. And so the darker your skin, the less UV you're going to get to make vitamin D. And especially in America, there's a direct correlation between skin color and the amount of

vitamin D that someone gets. So now

let's dive in a little deeper and start connecting the dots with all the things I just mentioned. Okay, let's take a look at estrogen first. During

menopause, we get a major decrease in estrogen. Now, what's the relationship

estrogen. Now, what's the relationship between estrogen and some of these other things I've talked about? Number one

estrogen is very important in protecting a cell in the body called the beta cell.

That's in the pancreas. The beta cell is all about helping you regulate blood sugars and controlling insulin. And

diabetes occurs because of damage to that beta cell. So that was very, very interesting. Estrogen helps keep insulin

interesting. Estrogen helps keep insulin sensitive. So, in other words, if you're

sensitive. So, in other words, if you're talking about insulin resistance, which by the way is a root cause behind so many different chronic diseases

diabetes, type two, obesity, a fatty liver, high triglycerides, etc. And estrogen has a huge purpose to help keep insulin sensitive. And when you lose

insulin sensitive. And when you lose estrogen, now you're going to lose insulin sensitivity. What's going to

insulin sensitivity. What's going to happen to your blood sugar up and down?

What is that going to do to your weight if you now have insulin resistance? Now

that's just going to worsen the whole thing. Estrogen also has a purpose of

thing. Estrogen also has a purpose of controlling inflammation.

And one of the things that really creates a narrow spectrum of this thermostat in your hypothalamus is inflammation. So, anything that reduces

inflammation. So, anything that reduces inflammation will improve menopausal symptoms. Also, estrogen regulates the

amount of sugar that's produced by the liver. Let me explain. In a diabetic

liver. Let me explain. In a diabetic the liver is so insulin resistant that it doesn't work anymore. So, the insulin doesn't really go into the liver to work

and blood sugars don't go in there. So

the signal is we're starving of sugar.

So, then the liver starts making sugar like crazy. And even in a diabetic 80%

like crazy. And even in a diabetic 80% of their blood sugar is actually being produced by the liver and only a smaller

percent comes from the diet. So that

term is called gluco neoenesis.

The production of new sugar by your liver and that's influenced greatly by estrogen. So when the estrogen goes

estrogen. So when the estrogen goes down, your blood sugars are going to go down. you're gonna have a problem with

down. you're gonna have a problem with insulin and that right off the bat will start explaining visceral fat, weight gain, that set point problem that you just can't get your weight uh past a

certain level because I've talked about that in other videos. You have to correct insulin resistance if you really want to bring that weight down any further. Now, let's get into the

further. Now, let's get into the interesting information. Vitamin D. I

interesting information. Vitamin D. I

had no idea until recently that estrogen has a huge influence over vitamin D. In

the activation of vitamin D in the blood, you have an inactive version of vitamin D. It's not really doing

vitamin D. It's not really doing anything. It has to be converted in the

anything. It has to be converted in the kidney and that conversion needs help for the estrogen. Okay. Not only that

the vitamin D receptor in your cells requires a good amount of estrogen to be able to work. And even if it does get activated, it's not going to penetrate

the receptor too much because estrogen is down. I mean, just think about the

is down. I mean, just think about the importance of vitamin D for pretty much everything I already mentioned. There's

even an enzyme that you have in your adrenals and in your fat that helps you make estrogen from testosterone because

you no longer can get the benefit of the ovary. Now you're dependent on your

ovary. Now you're dependent on your estrogen from adrenal and your fat cells and also the enzyme that converts it.

But not unless you have enough vitamin D. Wow, that's interesting. So basically

D. Wow, that's interesting. So basically

vitamin D and estrogen are bidirectional. They both influence each

bidirectional. They both influence each other. If you don't have enough

other. If you don't have enough estrogen, then you're not going to have enough vitamin D. If you don't have enough vitamin D, you're not going to be able to produce as much estrogen, which

is a double-edged sword. So you need both of these things. Also, when you're vitamin D deficient, you're going to have less temperature control. There's a

hormone around your thyroid called the parathyroid hormone. And that hormone

parathyroid hormone. And that hormone kind of acts as a a plan B for vitamin D. It's like a backup to vitamin D. So

D. It's like a backup to vitamin D. So

if you don't have enough vitamin D, that goes up. And what it's going to do, it's

goes up. And what it's going to do, it's going to start to mobilize calcium from your bone. This is why the bone loss

your bone. This is why the bone loss after menopause. When I was in practice

after menopause. When I was in practice I would have women coming in and they go through menopause and all of a sudden they have osteopenia and osteoporosis

like within weeks.

That's because of this high parathyroid hormone. This can be brought down if you

hormone. This can be brought down if you get enough vitamin D. The problem is most doctors are operating off of this

outdated information that we only need 600 to 800 IUs of vitamin D3, which is completely false because if you take a

look at all the other important uh things that vitamin D does, immune system, helping with the estrogen helping with your muscles, etc., etc. for that other system, you need between

6,000 to 8,000 to even 10,000 IUs every single day just to maintain that system. And

I'm not even talking about creating a therapeutic effect by using more for inflammatory conditions like autoimmune.

I'm just talking about maintaining things. So, if you're operating off of

things. So, if you're operating off of this outdated information that you only need a tiny amount and uh it's okay to have 20 nanogs per milliliter of vitamin

D in your blood, that's normal. Then you

are going to be in a heap of trouble because you're not going to have enough vitamin D for all of this to work.

Compounded by the fact that estrogen is so low, you're barely getting any vitamin D. And then of course, the

vitamin D. And then of course, the parathyroid hormones going to spike up and start robbing all this calcium out.

So, do you see the problem now? You

can't go into this having a fixed idea.

You have to be very open to looking at all the different viewpoints and also to have a different viewpoint of lifestyle changes because insulin sensitivity or

insulin resistance has everything to do with your diet. And unfortunately

that's something that it's not going to be brought up when you visit your doctor. And the same thing with vitamin

doctor. And the same thing with vitamin D. They're not going to really talk

D. They're not going to really talk about that. they're going to be more

about that. they're going to be more focused on treating all of your symptoms. So, what can we do? What is

the plan? The most important thing for menopausal symptoms is to fix insulin resistance. Now, are you going to start

resistance. Now, are you going to start increasing estrogen, start taking that?

The problem with that is there's too many side effects. Why can't we just improve insulin resistance and see if that doesn't help a lot of the symptoms that you have related to this? Because

it is normal to have a dip in estrogen.

We're just trying to bring it up enough where you don't have any more problems. So, fixing insulin resistance is going to be super important. How do you do that? I'm going to put the link down

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below., You're, going to, have, to, cut, down your carbs. You're going have to do

your carbs. You're going have to do intermittent fasting. There's a couple

intermittent fasting. There's a couple other things to do as well uh nutrition-wise, but this is doable. You

can reverse insulin resistance in a very short period of time just with diet.

Number two, vitamin D3. I wouldn't just take 10,000 IUs. I would highly recommend you you do 20,000 IUs every single day. Now, you say, "Oh my gosh

single day. Now, you say, "Oh my gosh that's a lot." Well, that's literally 40 minutes in the sun. But you're going to need to bypass all these other barriers

that are going on to get enough vitamin D to then help estrogen work better. And

also vitamin D can greatly help your insulin problem as well. I would also recommend taking magnesium with that and vitamin K2. Magnesium is another thing

vitamin K2. Magnesium is another thing that can help reduce cortisol. It'll

help you sleep. It can actually help a lot of things related to menopause that I didn't actually cover. But vitamin D is going to be the most important. But

definitely take magnesium with it. The

next thing is this. As you're fixing a root cause problem, we need to give you some relief right away, but some people don't want to take the drugs because

they have side effects. Is there some type of drug mimicker that you could take that doesn't have the amount of side effects? And yes, there is. NK3R

side effects? And yes, there is. NK3R

agonist is a certain drug that they use for certain menopausal symptoms. And if you looked up the natural version of that, there's several things that may

help you or things that you might want to try. Uh soy isoflavones. Now

to try. Uh soy isoflavones. Now

typically I don't recommend soy, but in these situations, a little bit of uh this could help you. Rveratrol is

another option. Black coohos is a very popular antidote to hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms. Red clover is

another one. Number four is light and

another one. Number four is light and dark. Remember I told you the specific

dark. Remember I told you the specific part of the hypothalamus is very sensitive to light and the circadian waves. You can improve your menopausal

waves. You can improve your menopausal symptoms by aligning yourself with light and dark cycles. So, in the morning, if

you can go outside when the sun is rising and for 20 minutes get that sun it'd be awesome. If you can't do that get one of the full spectrum lights that

they have, more of a therapeutic light and you put that up for a half an hour in the morning next to your computer so you can get that light. Um, and that way you can start to influence this

circadian effect inside your brain. And

then at night when it starts to get dark if you're watching TV like one or two hours before bed you get the little blue blockers and that way we can simulate more the darkness and of course turn the

lights down around you. Uh that'd be very very important to help reset that hypothalamus. Some people uh get a lot

hypothalamus. Some people uh get a lot of benefit with some of the bigger symptoms with menopause by progesterone cream. So that's another thing to look

cream. So that's another thing to look at. estrogen goes down, but progesterone

at. estrogen goes down, but progesterone really tanks a lot more than estrogen.

So, that ratio is going to be important.

Some women that have problems sleeping at night might need to take melatonin.

Normally, I don't recommend it, but for if you've tried all these other things and it hasn't worked, getting to bed at the right time and being able to sleep is like the most important thing. And if

you compare melatonin with a drug, this has virtually like almost zero side effects. and we're just taking three

effects. and we're just taking three milligrams, maybe that might uh actually help you. Out of all the biomarkers that

help you. Out of all the biomarkers that seem to go really, really, really high after menopause, uh luteinizing hormone LH, is the one that really sometimes can

go up at like a thousand%.

That can make uh menopause miserable for you, especially high flashes. So, there

is something to lower that melatonin.

Interesting. You can also get melatonin from just being out in the sun because when you're out in the sun, over 50% of the rays are infrared. Infrared triggers

melatonin to be made inside your cells.

So, that's another uh thing to help you.

And number seven, if you've tried everything and just nothing's working you might want to get your testosterone tested by a competent doctor that really knows about doing the testosterone

pellets. And the only reason I'm

pellets. And the only reason I'm bringing it up is because the amount of plastics in the environment are so high.

Both men and women, their testosterone is like crashing to such low numbers.

But don't be deceived with their normal range of testosterone because they're taking an average of the population and that's your normal. So you're comparing your hormones with everyone else's

hormones, which is not a good comparison. They're not comparing your

comparison. They're not comparing your hormones with someone 20, 30 years ago.

They don't do that, which is interesting. But testosterone pellets by

interesting. But testosterone pellets by a competent physician could be beneficial for some women. The thing you need to know is that testosterone is

like a mother hormone that turns into estrogen. So, this could be one way to

estrogen. So, this could be one way to bring this up just enough to satisfy the insulin sensitivity issue to help you

absorb and uh more vitamin D at the receptor level to convert more inactive vitamin D to the active vitamin D and to lessen a lot of the symptoms that occur

because of the inflammation that's created. I think the most important

created. I think the most important thing right now is to really learn about how to fix this insulin resistance problem. And for that, I put this video

problem. And for that, I put this video right here. Check it out.

right here. Check it out.