Ep. 47 - Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy: Menopause Prevention & Female Hormone Health (Part 4) - with Marie Hoäg

Today I’m joined again by Marie Hoäg to learn more about female hormone health, particularly menopause prevention.   Marie is an independent clinical hormone medicine consultant for patients and healthcare practitioners. She has an extensive professional hormone coaching background, working for over 15 years in a specialty hormone medicine clinic with thousands of male and female, cisgender and transgender patients. She has experience with all forms of hormone therapy, both as a clinician coach and through personal experience as a hormone patient utilizing virtually every method and kind of hormone therapy available.   Marie is also the founder and CEO of Panacea Sciences, a research and educational health sciences company that offers advanced education and clinical application training for physicians and physician extenders who want to learn how to intelligently administer advanced bioidentical hormone therapy to get women’s hormones to their Hormone Sweet Spot™.   Why keep a woman from menopause?   To understand the significance of this question, you have to understand the impact estrogen has on the mind and body of a woman – in reality, it affects every function in the female body and every cell down to the nucleus.   So when it becomes estrogen deficient, called Hypoestrogenism, no matter the age or the cause of the deficiency, women will feel it in their body and mind. And this doesn’t just happen during menopause. It can happen at any age.   Learn more about this in Marie’s article, “Menopause is a choice.”   How do you keep a woman from going into menopause?   The right hormones, dosed in the right amounts, and administered in the right manner, coupled with the right diet and lifestyle to enhance the clinical efficacy of the hormones.   What is the "Hormone Sweet Spot"?   A clinical destination – it’s when you know your hormones are balanced!   Marie determines where her clients are in relation to this sweet spot by measuring clinical indicators with blood serum levels.   “We know women of any age is in her "Hormone Sweet Spot"™ when she cannot imagine feeling any better than she does, and her blood serum lab results concur... Each woman, no matter her age, has her own Hormone Sweet Spot™ that can be clinically obtained by practitioners who are professionally taught the clinical algorithm.”   Learn more: “What are optimal hormone levels?”   What are the four generations of HRT?   1st Generation - Oral pills, synthetic, lowest dose possible for the shortest amount of time, static dosing, no real education/training, and stops working in weeks.   2nd Generation - Compounded, bioidentical (this is the biggest difference between generation one and two), lowest dose possible for the shortest amount of time, static doses, some...