Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Unlocking Hormonal Health: Overcoming Estrogen and Testosterone Myths

6 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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This YouTube video (created/uploaded by Robert Whitfield MD on April 6, 2025) discusses hormonal health and practical clinical approach to hormone replacement. The speaker emphasizes pre-treatment genetic screening related to estrogen metabolism, a stepwise therapy sequence starting with progesterone (and natural supplements such as vitamin C and Chasteberry/Vitex), then low-dose topical testosterone for both sexes, and finally estrogen. The speaker highlights sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) as an often-overlooked protein that, when high, binds free hormones and can make bioidentical hormone therapy appear ineffective.

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What we do want to know is they do they genetically get rid of dirty estrogens and we do check genetics for that and so we ginger about giving people estrogen right off the bat. We start with things like progesterone to help with sleep or natural supplements that increase progesterone like vitamin C, Chase Berry Vitex and then we move on to testosterone and both men and women lose testosterone and giving a tiny amount of topical testosterone can help them with energy, memory, libido and muscle making capacity and then we move on to estrogen. But a big protein that is often overlooked is something called the sex hormone binding globulin and that protein if it's high it's going to bind all your free available testosterone or hormones so it's not available to you. So we have a lot of patients who come in already on hormone replacement and we only use bioidenticals and they're like it's not working but when you check that sex hormone binding globulin you realize that they're not feeling that hormone and.