Menopause Mastery

Today on Menopausal Mastery, Dr. Daved Rosensweet joins us to shed light on bioidentical hormone therapy. Dr. Rosensweet graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and pioneered the first nurse practitioner training program in America. He has been practicing since 1971 and has since authored three educational books on hormones and menopause. In this episode, he breaks down the stigma of hormone therapy and shares his preferred treatments, testing, and his menopausal protocol.   When women are ready for hormonal therapy, it is usually at a point of desperation. They want their symptoms alleviated, but we discuss why hormone therapy needs to go beyond feeling comfortable again. Dr. Rosensweet explains why long-term and permanent hormone therapy offers protection for your bones, muscles, and brain function.     For decades women have lived in fear of hormone therapy, but Dr. Rosensweet details why hormonal care is vital to women’s longevity and cognitive health. Estrogen is an essential hormone found in the brain, and when your levels decrease, so do your memory and cognitive abilities. You don’t have to suffer in your later years! Today Dr. Rosensweet gives you the framework to thrive during and long after menopause.      Key Takeaways: [4:00] Going beyond medical school [6:50] Myths about hormone replacement  [14:00] Estrogen matters at any age [20:00] The root cause of all diseases [24:00] When and how to test your hormones [30:00] Beyond alleviating your symptoms  [32:00] Estrogen and alzheimers  [38:00] Perimenopause and emotional symptoms  [40:00] Why you need testosterone [43:00] Hormone delivery mechanisms  Memorable Quotes: “It takes a certain amount to protect the brain. When does this show up? If you have less than the optimal amount it could take ten, twenty years to show up, but I promise everyone out there that your life is gonna mean as much to you when you’re eighty and ninety, as it does right now in this moment, and you don’t  want to lose cognitive function.” [31:09] -Dr.Rosensweet   “Estrogen is best delivered applied to the skin topically. Yes, you can take estrogen in a pill form, but there’s increased risks there, and you have to take more estrogen. It provokes coagulation issues.”  [44:02] -Dr. Rosensweet   Resources IOBIM.org   Get 20% off of SleepMe with promo code HOTFLASH https://sleep.me/menomastery   Website Living Well Dallas Hormone Reset Betty Murray   Socials  Facebook Instagram

Are you struggling to understand the difference between synthetic progestins and bioidentical progesterone? It's hard to find accurate information online because progestins and progestins are incorrectly written interchangeably. Today on Menopause Mastery, I do a deep dive into the recent article from the International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Progesterone: A Steroid with Wide Range of Effects in Physiology as Well as Human Medicine. I help you get through the nerd talk so that you can understand the science behind this miraculous hormone.    We uncover new applications for bioidentical progesterone that could enhance the lives of millions of women. Progesterone protects more than your hormonal health, but has potential applications for concentration, memory, carpal tunnel syndrome, and could help ease anxiety.    Unfortunately, synthetic progestins have been considered interchangeable with pharmaceutical-grade bioidentical progesterone. I break down the negative side effects of these synthetic hormones and teach you why progesterone is the superior treatment. Join me as a guide through this scientific paper and dissect the terminology, so that you can have a deeper understanding of progesterone.     Key Takeaways:   [2:20] The mechanisms of progesterone  [5:40] Binding protein availability  [9:00] The effects of progesterone [14:00] Ati anxiety and pain relief effects from metabolites [17:50] The modulation of Gaba and the MMDA receptor  [21:00] Regulation of serotonin and dopamine  [23:45] Differences in immune modulation  [27:30] The differences in medical administration [31:00] Negative side effects of synthetic progestins  [38:00] Progesterone injections to improve carpel tunnel  [39:00] Synthetic progestin in your drinking water Memorable Quotes:“The fluctuation of progesterone affected not only pain but the associated network that binds pain to emotion. So these sex steroids make a significant difference on pain.” [13:00]    “The literature about progesterone, ill-informed and poorly written in literature will often use these words interchangeably, and so you have to really look and see if they’re talking about natural bioidentical progesterone, progestogens, progestins, all of the last of those are synthetic. Progesterone should only refer to the pharmaceutical qualified bioidentical form.” [29:09]      Resources Progesterone: A Steroid with Wide Range of Effects in Physiology as Well as Human Medicine   Website Living Well Dallas Hormone Reset Betty Murray   Socials  Facebook Instagram

Is your body fighting against you? Today on Menopause Mastery, we discuss health and nutrition with Sara Banta. She is the founder of Accelerated Health Products, a supplement company created out of a need to protect her child diagnosed with Leukemia. After discovering the root cause of her health problems, Sara crafted a new class of supplements. Using these scaler frequency-charged supplements, Sara recovered from hormonal issues, insulin resistance, heavy metal toxicity, and more. In this episode, she gives a crash course in digestive health and how to clear your body’s detox pathways.    With so many toxins and radiation in our food and technology, reports of mysterious weight gain, emotional instability, skin irritation, insomnia, and hypothyroidism are increasing, but are continuously misdiagnosed. Conventional doctors are doing the bare minimum to address these burdensome conditions. Sara teaches you how to advocate for your health because your doctor works for you! She equips you with the vocabulary, questions, and medical knowledge to take control of your next consultation.    Sara demonstrates how SSRIs interfere with your thyroid system and reveals that many women are put on these medications unnecessarily. If you are tired of feeling tired and are ready to reclaim your health, tune in and educate yourself on the wonders these supplements can have on your health.      Key Takeaways [4:00] Sara’s path to holistic nutrition  [7:00] Life changes when your child is sick [11:25] Healing with scaler frequencies  [15:00] The link between nutrient deficiencies and depression [19:50] Stress and depression caused by hypothyroidism [22:10] Radiation and toxicity in our environment  [24:00] The effect of SSRI medication and thyroid dysfunction [28:00] Clogged sulfur detox pathways  [32:00] Eating leptin vegetables  [39:50] Healing from insulin resistance  [45:15] Hacking your sleep     Connect with Sara: SaraBantaHealth.com Accelerated Health Radio  Instagram     Memorable Quotes: “A practitioner who essentially peeled my health back like an onion, and he said; Sara, you have zero digestion. I don’t know how you walked into my office. You have no thyroid, you have no energy. It is out of pure will and your type A personality that you’re getting out of bed and doing what you’re doing, and I started crying because finally, someone knew what I was going through.” [6:30] -Sara Banta   “We take the supplement and then we encode frequencies to go after those same things, so it’s almost like a double whammy when you get the supplement, and it’s much more effective, so you need less of the supplement for the healing.” [13:16] -Sara Banta     Connect with Betty: Living Well Dallas Hormone Reset Betty Murray   Socials: Facebook Instagram

Are you one conversation away from sexual bliss? Today on Menopause Master, Dr. Soum Rakshit, founder of MysteryVibe, joins us to discuss sexual health and how one device could change your sexual experience. MysteryVibe is more than your average vibrator, every product is designed by doctors to address serious sexual dysfunction in the aging population. Issues such as vaginal dryness, urinary dysfunction, and even prostate health.   Aging is a natural process, but with the right tools you can age gracefully and protect your sexual health. Dr. Rakshit breaks down the vibratory science behind these biomedical devices and shares some amazing facts about the potential for preventative care.    Dr. Rakshit shares his favorite conversation starters to help you open up to your partner and introduce new items in the bedroom. Sex doesn’t need to be taboo! Regardless of your desire, he teaches you how to open up and communicate your needs for optimal sexual relations. Join us as we uncover the future of sexual dysfunction treatment!     Key Takeaways: [3:15] Creating MysteryVibe  [7:50] Sexual health and biomedical devices  [12:30] Making a medical device fun and sexy [17:10] Building awareness of sexual health issues [22:00] Addressing Urinary incontinence  [26:00] Vibration and blood flow [29:50] Preventative vibration prostate care [37:00] Starting the conversation   Resources: MysteryVibe.com Facebook     Memorable Quotes:“We tried to make it as fun and sexy to look at, even our website and everything. Even though these are medical devices, they are designed by doctors, and they go through medical trials, but then we tried not to make them clinical or medical looking because if they were like a steel dilator, they might be very effective but you may not want to use them unless you go to the doctor and they say you must use them.” [13:07] -Dr. Soum Rakshit   “The theory is that; if the prostate is regularly stimulated over your lifetime, your chances of getting prostate cancer are lower.”  [29:50]  -Dr. Soum Rakshit   “The biggest reason, men who die of prostate cancer die, is because they didn’t get checked early enough, and that is it. There is no reason that someone should die from prostate cancer.  [31:38] -Dr. Soum Rakshit     Website Living Well Dallas Hormone Reset Betty Murray   Socials  Facebook Instagram

Today on Menopause Mastery, we take a break from biochemistry and speak to Chef Nikky Phinyawatana, a Texan-Thai restaurateur providing gluten-free, soul-nourishing food in Fortsworth! Her restaurant, Asian Mint, a fusion of Thai cuisines restaurant. Chef Nikki proudly serves gluten-free options and is constantly assessing her ingredients to assure her clients receive the highest quality nutrition.    Chef Nikki shares her passion for food, and how her work is creating a legacy she can be proud of! Entrepreneurship is difficult, but with love and tenacity, you can step out of your comfort zone and fulfill your life’s purpose! Chef Nikki inspires and delights her clients with annual trips to Thailand to immerse clients in her culture and educates them on the culinary practices of individual Thai regions. She is changing the culinary industry one plate at a time! Join us as we discover the key to living a life of passion and fulfillment!   Key Takeaways: [3:15] Exploring your passion [7:40] Introducing a gluten-free menu [12:00] Crafting the Thai retreat [15:20] Tapping into your legacy  [18:45] Living your true calling  [20:45] Stepping out of your comfort zone [23:20] Supporting female entrepreneurs  [27:30] Continuing to feed souls    Connect with Nikky: ChefNikky.com Instagram  Youtube   Memorable Quotes: “What I truly enjoy is sharing my culture. I am from a half and half family. My mom is from Texas, and my dad is from Thailand, so I’m a Thai Texan. I’ve pretty much lived on both sides of the world, almost equally at this point, and being that person who knows how this side of the globe thinks, and how that side of the globe thinks, and kind of merging that together, and explain it from two points of views is what people truly enjoy.”  [16:20] - Chef Nikky   “I believe that women need to continue to uplift other women coming through, especially in the entrepreneurial world. It is hard, and if I can share a lot of the things that I did incorrectly so that nobody else has to really spend the money or the time, wasted on a lesson that I already had learned, I’m all for it!”  [25:00] -Chef Nikky    Website Living Well Dallas Hormone Reset Betty Murray   Socials  Facebook

The pharmaceutical industry is at it again! This year’s Superbowl aired an advertisement for Astellas’ new drug claiming to stop vasomotor symptoms (VMS). Today we welcome back Dr. Aimie Hornaman, to address how the pharmaceutical industry misguides women into treating symptoms while ignoring the root cause.    Every woman goes through menopause. It is an unavoidable fact of life, but you do not need to suffer in silence! Drug companies prey on women who don’t know the reality of their hormonal changes. Instead of empowering women with proper hormonal care, doctors are prescribing multiple pills to address the side effects of a natural process. Dr. Hornaman seeks to educate women about their options so that they are no longer gaslighted into taking prescriptions that could have detrimental effects on their health.    Women tend to be afraid of hormonal therapies, because of misinformation cited in the Women Health Initiative Study. We discuss how that study was adulterated by confirmation bias that sought to create fear around hormone therapies. If you want to learn how to ease your menopausal symptoms without harmful drugs, listen now!   Key Takeaways: [2:00] Astellas’ Superbowl commercial  [5:00] Getting to the root of it  [8:00] Gaslighting women's health [10:00] Increasing rates of premature menopause [14:45] Women are taught that menopause is untreatable [17:00] Economic conditions impacting women  [19:45] The faulty women’s health initiative study [25:00] Using data inappropriately and confirmation bias [29:00] Get tested and know your baseline [35:00] Avoiding the silent suffering    Connect with Aimie Dramiehornaman.com Instagram  Facebook   Memorable Quotes “Pharma and medical systems make money when you’re still participating but you don’t die.” [17:28] -Betty Murray      “The researchers were basically going in with a bias. They were going in with the plan to prove that hormones are bad and if you go in with that mindset, and you’re not going into a study with an open mindset, of whatever the data says, so if you go in with that preconceived notion that hormones are bad, and this is what we want to find...we tend to find evidence to support our beliefs.”  [26:20] -Dr. Aimie Hornaman   Website Living Well Dallas Hormone Reset Betty Murray   Socials  Facebook

Have you taken steps to change your diet and lifestyle but are still overwhelmed by health and mental dysfunction? The link between brain and soul is the final frontier of wellness, and today’s guest, Dr. Louise Swartswalter is here to share how energy healing can restore cognitive function, heal the body and release trauma. As a master naturopath and frequency medicine doctor, Dr. Swartzwalter uses her multidimensional approach to achieve brain-soul success. With 30 years of experience, she has witnessed a transformational change in clients whose trauma blocked their ability to heal and integrate their soul’s purpose.    The brain is the control tower of your physical and emotional health, and many people are needlessly suffering due to unhealthy programming from early life. Dr. Swartzwalter’s program teaches clients to observe their thought patterns and investigate the source of their traumas so that a new program can take hold and healing can transpire.    In this episode, Dr. Swartswalter performs an energy clearing on Betty to demonstrate how biological and experiential trauma affects your ability to align with your true self. Join us to witness the power of the brain-soul connection!    Key Takeaways:   [4:30] Realizing that standard medicine was not helping  [6:00] How pesticide activism opened the world of public speaking [9:00] Brain Soul Success: a multisensory program to change the brain in 6 months [12:40] Observing yourself to disrupt and redefine your authentic self [14:00] Clearing trauma at the brain-soul level [19:20] Pain starts in the energy field around you [21:55] Biological imprint and the experiential trauma from family  [24:50] Starting with an intention and connecting to your soul's purpose [29:30] Brain-soul balancing: Creating a soul tie box  [36:00] Keeping your soul's truth by standing in your power [41:00] Releasing with the clearing statement  [42:00] Building your new program into your bio-computer [45:00] Locking in the new programming  [48:00] Mind Gems: independent tools for healing [50:00] Follow your heart but take your brain with you   Memorable Quotes “The brain is the master control tower and if you can change the brain you can change the rest of the body, and that’s mindset, but also releasing traumas and things that are memories that are stuck in the brain.”  [10:16] -Dr. Swartzwalter   “We’re multidimensional beings, and so we’re physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and we have an energy field around us, and what I find is pain starts in the field, whether its emotional pain or physical pain; it starts in the field.”  [19:20] - Dr. Swartzwalter   “It felt like a physical emotion, sort of like an octopus; like it was pulling tendrils away from me, and then a lightness coming after that. That was the sensation I was getting while she was going through that.”  [34:28] - Betty Murray      Website LouiseSwartzwalter.com Mind Gems  Brain-Soul Success Mastermind Podcast   Socials Instagram Facebook  

Are you struggling to lose weight and can’t stop snacking? You may have developed leptin resistance. Today on Menopause Mastery, I am giving you a crash course in leptin resistance and the chain reaction that follows. Leptin is the hormone that signals that you’re full, and once you develop a resistance to it, your brain can no longer receive those signals, which is why you feel insatiable.   Fat cells produce leptin, so if you continuously eat a poor diet and accumulate excess fat, inevitably, your body will generate too much leptin. At that point, the leptin receptors in the hypothalamus can no longer recognize leptin, which leaves you feeling hungry and disrupts your metabolism.    In this episode, you will learn exactly how delicate the symphony of hormones is and why you can’t just focus on fixing a single hormone. Once you’re at the point of leptin resistance, you undoubtedly have dysregulation of insulin, ghrelin, and glucose because everything works together. I teach you how you can take small steps to reset your hormones and reverse leptin resistance with a healthy lifestyle and a better understanding of your body’s delicate balance.       Key Takeaways: [2:00] If you’re struggling to lose weight it may be a sign that you are leptin resistant   [3:40] Common symptoms of leptin resistance [7:00] How chronic inflammation damages leptin receptors in your brain [7:30] Type 2 diabetes can result from leptin resistance  [8:20] Sleep and stress are the biggest lifestyle contributors to hormonal dysregulation [10:50] Leptin resistance contributes to the inability to feel full after eating [12:40] What happens to leptin during menopause and perimenopause  [14:45] Lifestyle and foods that contribute to leptin resistance  [16:00] The dangers of haphazard eating and inappropriate fasting [17:50] Under-exercising and over-exercising both can contribute to leptin resistance [20:00] During menopause ghrelin increases which stimulate the process of gluconeogenesis  [24:40] Weight loss is impossible if you don’t take into account hormone imbalance  [25:40]Trickling in your protein can contribute to gluconeogenesis  [33:00] Stress levels and cortisol are basically the body's ability to perceive itself in a safe state [33:30] Excess alcohol lowers glucose metabolism and increases gluconeogenesis    Memorable Quotes:   “We kind of have to keep that metabolism somewhat stocked because what happens when you get really hungry and you’ve got leptin resistance, you’re more likely to eat something that’s not as good for you, and then you’re more likely to continue to eat past your hunger.”   [17:10]   “Carbohydrate content is truly not an essential food. It’s not an essential nutrient. Our body can survive without taking in carbohydrate content because we can produce it through the liver and ghrelin is the hormone that does that.”  [21:37]   “Weight loss, particularly are problematic as a picture when you’re ignoring all these hormone levels assuming that it’s something as simple as eat less calories and workout more because we have all of these hormones that are contributing to dysregulation that basically are all, in different ways, acting upon a very ancient requirement for our bodies to  be able to hold on to body weight so we don’t die.” [24:55]     Website Living Well Dallas Hormone Reset Betty Murray   Socials  Facebook Instagram

95% of your thoughts and emotions are subconscious and that subconscious mind develops in early childhood. Sari Cowsert, is a Certified Master Imagery Facilitator and hypnotherapist helping people tap into their own personal power to overcome and rewire their subconscious self.    After 12 years of chronic anxiety and subsequent illnesses, Sari took control of her wellness simply by acknowledging her power to do so! Your thoughts become your reality and hypnotherapy is a tool that helps individuals understand just how negative their self talk is.    Building awareness is the first step towards reparenting your inner child to shape new thought patterns that serve you in the present moment. In this episode, Sari teaches you how to stop the cycle of subconscious behavior, so you can stop living in survival mode. Give yourself permission to rest and repair so you can grow your capacity for love, reduce anxiety and revive your mind and body!   Key Takeaways: [8:00] Getting your rational mind back in the driver seat by rewiring your subconscious mind  [22:00] How chronic stress is disrupting your mental and physical well being  [24:20] Building awareness by allowing yourself some time away from your phone  [27:00] The reality of hypnosis and what you can expect during hypnotherapy [31:00] How being in survival mode increases suggestibility and addictive tendencies [33:45] The decisions you make today are based off your subconscious childhood programing [38:00] Reparenting yourself by deciding how you want to talk to yourself    Resources TheGrowthGoddess.net Instagram    Memorable Quotes: “Your body, which is basically your subconscious mind is in the driver seat and your mind, your rational mind is in the passenger seat because we know now that 95% of our thoughts and emotions are subconscious, they're not conscious.”  [8:50 -Sari] “There’s not a single person that can or cannot be hypnotized but it’s what are you gonna allow? Are you going to allow this process to happen? Are you going to fight it with your analytical mind, the whole time?” [30:29 -Sari] “That’s ultimately what we have inside of us, a child that just wants to be loved and heard but instead we’re lashing out because we’re not receiving that.” [35:30 - Sari]     Website Living Well Dallas Hormone Reset Betty Murray   Socials  Facebook Instagram

Dr. Rajka Gailbraith is a successful leader in women's health and functional medicine, having trained hundreds of practitioners and delivered babies in both a clinic and hospital. She is passionate about empowering women leaders to optimize their health and performance, and has expertise in longevity, performance, autoimmune disease, and neurogenetics. She runs retreats for women's groups and programs online, and sees patients in her clinic, Simply Health Institute, outside of Chicago. Dr. Rajka is committed to helping women and their families achieve optimal health and performance.   As a child, Dr. Rajka had dreams of becoming a doctor, curing everyone, and having a family. However, she found that she could not cure everyone, and that traditional medical practices often led to misdiagnoses. She experienced fatigue and eventually was diagnosed with Hashimoto thyroiditis. This led her to do a deep dive into functional medicine and functional nutrition, and now she works to help others find underlying causes behind their symptoms, rather than just treating the symptoms.   Listen for the amazing 3D protocol which is an approach to health and wellness that involves diet, digestion, and detox. It is important to approach health in the right order, as one step will feed off the next. Heed and listen to the warnings against juice cleanses for those who have never eaten a healthy day in their life, as it can make them feel worse and turn them off from health and wellness altogether. The 3D protocol is an overall approach to health and wellness which can help individuals improve their health and well-being.   Dr. Galbraith presents the acronym TASK, which stands for Track, Add, Subtract and Keep, as an approach to eating an abundant, nourishing diet. Tracking what you are eating for a couple of weeks helps to bring awareness to what is missing from your diet. After tracking, the next step is to add in any foods that may be missing from the diet. Then, only after tracking and adding, the next step is to subtract any foods that are causing inflammation or other health issues. Finally, the last step is to keep the foods that are benefiting your health and eliminating the ones that are not. Following this approach can help to ensure that you are eating an abundant and nourishing diet.     KEY TAKEAWAYS How do you actually detox someone   How your mess and your challenge becomes your message Learn about the Acronym TASK  Why you should be cautious about juice cleanse How to really know if you’re eating abundantly and correctly for your body type How to use a 3D approach and protocol    TIMESTAMPS “I love acronyms because then people will remember, and I call it the Task method. So I'm going to put you as a task to eat an abundant nourishing diet. So at the end of the day, regardless of what we do for short term to figure things out, the long term goal is to nourish your body and eat in abundance.” (7:50, Rajka)   And she had the misfortune of having to be in hospitalization. And here's a woman who's worked all her life, and I just saw her in that bed, and she just looks so old, and it was so sad. And I'm like, when did it come to this? What if I had only known what I know now? Then can we prevent it? Because her physical body is failing her, and that's where we say her lifespan is not matching her health span right now. (24:16, Rajka)   It's an investment, and you can do it three times a week. And let me give an example. I had a cyclist who wanted to get to a goal of riding 55 miles by his 55th birthday and was finding it hard to ride for more than an hour, hour and a half. And he rode 90 minutes hard doing interval training and said, oh, I felt like I could have gone another half hour. (37:18, RAjka)     Website Living Well Dallas Hormone Reset Betty Murray Rajka Galbraith   Socials  Facebook Instagram