This is a YouTube video titled "Hormone Therapy & Menopause" containing a monologue by Ask AI Mark recorded on July 7, 2020. The content discusses personalized approaches to hormone therapy in functional medicine, focusing on hormone optimization, risk mitigation, and treatment duration during menopause.
It's important to understand that this has got to be personalized. Yes. If there's a lot of factors that you can do that and then you do with taking hormones to fix your hormones, which is what we do in functional medicine, we're good at diagnosing what those issues are that, you know, maybe seeing weird things that you don't think about like fixing your gut or getting rid of environmental chemicals in your life or taking the right nutrients to optimize your hormone metabolism or to mitigate risk. So often if I do actually put women on hormones, I'll mitigate the risk by using the right nutrients to help them metabolize their hormones properly like diindolmethane and various things like lignans from flax seeds and other things you can add to the diet or to supplements that actually help with- Demetabolize it. So, and if you need to take hormones, sometimes it's also the question of how long, right? So you might need a short course of hormones through the worst part of menopause. If all the traditional lifestyle and other factors aren't working, that's okay. Because the risk of cancer with estrogen really is about The dose, the delivery mechanism, right? Oral. And the duration.
