Greg Brannon, an OB-GYN with board certification in functional medicine, argues that bioidentical hormones work differently than synthetic ones because their three-dimensional molecular structure matters. He views aging as a disease that can be accelerated biologically and seeks root-cause solutions rather than treating symptoms.
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a believer and lover of questioning things. I love the Socratic method, a method of education. I like always asking questions, why? And I enjoyed, um, well, looking at the OB was so exciting. I love watching that little baby's heartbeat at, you know, 6, 8 weeks. I love the thrill of the actual delivery. And I love watching women from teenagers to their 90s, this whole beautiful spectrum of life. And during that process, I started looking at aging as a disease and not as a, you know, I'm not saying chronologically aging is beautiful. I think aging is fantastic. It's the biological aging at a much faster rate is my issue. I went back into the root cause. So years ago, I went and got board certified in functional medicine. I got a couple fellowships in that to learn more about nutrition, integration of that, hormone therapy. I've always been— being OB, to understand hormones. I was trying to understand the difference between bioidentical structure and synthetic structure. I was always taught to, uh, hormone replacement's the same either way, but it really matters on the three-dimensional structure of the molecule. So I'm trying to put back the human hormone
