Dr. Austin Lake: Women’s Health - Birth Control, Hormones, Sleep & Nutrients | TUH #145

A 16 year old or even a 13 year old on birth control to control. An issue that doesn't actually solve any problems, but creates a lot more problems. You start seeing the side effects of not having ovulation, and that's a big problem long term. And you start seeing issues like endometriosis and pcos.

You look at these young, healthy, childbearing women and you wonder, why is it so difficult to get pregnant? Why is it so difficult to maintain a pregnancy?

Because of insulin resistance, right? You got all these high carb, refined carbohydrates being consumed in conjunction with endocrine disrupting chemicals, you know, fragrances, lotions, lathering on their skin. And next thing you know, you have this hormonal storm that happens.

You think about the fact that limiting that phase of the menstrual cycle could have that profound of an effect on a woman that she might not be thinking about. I don't think very often their OB GYN is explaining the consequences.

These women are getting testing done, they'll come back in six months and they'll put on hormone replacement therapy and things will change short term. But then they go right back to where they were because they never fixed any of the foundational problems that were existing. And they don't know that there are alternative options out there.

When we look at the pandemic of autoimmune disease, the majority of this affects women. 75 or 80% of all autoimmune diseases are having to females.

And that's why things like this important for people to know, like you can improve your fertility and you can do these things and it's very inexpensive and most people can do it. Like, that's so empowering to know that that's an option.

For women that are having hormonal imbalance, where do they start?

This was like a more recent revelation that I had about Ultimate.

Hey, guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human podcast. I'm your host, Gary Breca, human biologist, where we go down the road of everything, anti aging, longevity, biohacking, and everything in between. And I am super excited for today's guest on the podcast because we don't really get a lot of time to shed light on specifically women's health issues. And our next guest is an expert, as you heard, on women's health issues. Everything women, menopause, cycling, birth, birth control, everything in between. And just so happens my wife is having the worst menstrual cramps of her life. And she was like, I want, I want to come in and ask him questions. During your podcast. So she's, she's waiting for you literally right outside the door. Great. Welcome to the podcast, Dr. Austin Lake.

Yeah, thanks for having me, Gary. It's been, I was very honored to get the invitation and honestly, the timing was great because we had the invitation, then we met at the Maha gala and it was like just mentally.

Yeah, we just set it up and then we, you know, met at the Maha gallery.

Timing. So.

Yeah, and I love that movement. I mean, you know, Bobby Kennedy's officially confirmed now, so at the time he didn't. Praise God. Amen to that. You know, at the time he wasn't really in a capacity, official capacity, but that, not to get totally off topic because I know there's a lot of women like, hey, I want to talk about my menstrual cramps. But yeah, we'll get there. What was amazing was do the energy surrounding, I mean, the whole inauguration, but specifically at that ball, and, and also how many people are just freely giving their time. You know, folks like yourself and me and Casey Means Cali and Food Babe and Paul Saladino and, you know, so many of, of, you know, the folks in our, our industry are really excited about the opportunity to affect public policy.

Well, yeah, you kind of make a change. I think there's, there's the, the grassroots effect that has to be there. So there needs to be a, I think a bottom up and a top down to kind of solve the whole problem. Right. And so we have to have the top down. I think that's what RFK is going to give us the best chance for. I mean, there's not many options out there. When you compare to our last HSS secretary, oh my gosh to him, I think we got a pretty good chance to make some change.

Yeah, I would, I would really agree, agree with that. And it's just so awesome to see our industry, you know, participating in it because, you know, even in the biohacking world, we obviously all don't agree on everything all the time, but that's the one thing we absolutely are, you know, enormously united.

Well, there's core principles to it.

Right.

Like most biohackers or just people that are in this more alternative health space understand, like there are core principles to health that you can't skip over. And I think our government has different ideas on that and they think you can. I think that's why we're seeing such issues with our health. It's just we've skipped over these core foundational principles of what it means to be a healthy human being and you can't do that. Like there's consequences to that. So it doesn't need to be political. I think the whole thing making this whole conversation political, it's just ridiculous because it's crazy.

Not a single Democrat voted for Bobby Kennedy. I know one, I was like who wants to be on the side of you know, the worst healthcare crisis in, in modern history that's going on in our country? Yeah, I like what Bobby Kennedy said because he said there's no such thing as Republican children and Democratic children. These are, these are children, children there, there are children. Right and, and the most prosperous thing we can do as a nation is care for that next generation.

Right?

Absolutely right. Because who's going to, who's going to be running the show? And 77% of our military age men and women can't enter the military because they're qualify qualified from health.