A short clinical-style YouTube segment (speaker: Joy Kong, MD) describing common signs that may indicate a need for hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The speaker lists cognitive fog, insomnia (waking at 2–3am), unexplained weight gain, reduced libido, vaginal dryness, recurrent UTIs, mood/relationship strain, and eating/serotonin-related issues, then offers HRT as a potential remedy.
How does a person know whether or not they need hormone replacement? So all of a sudden she's busy, she's working, she's on top of her professional game, and she wakes up one morning and is like, I don't know if I can do my job. I can't think. She's also not sleeping. She's waking up maybe 2 or 3am in the morning. She's gaining weight. No matter what she does, she's on Prolon. So then she starts to starve herself more and more and more. We all know that that's terrible for your neurotransmitters, for your serotonin and your dopamine, and you're going to end up getting more weight. She's also going to maybe start fighting with her HUS a lot, and she doesn't know why, or her libido's down. She's maybe having vaginal dryness or frequent UTIs. So she's a mess, poor thing. And she finds me or somebody else who does hormone replacement therapy and we just look and just say, oh, honey, come here, let's help you out.
