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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. —Aristotle Onassis
Chris Williamson’s brilliant interview with Dr. Hill is on the masthead, and the video is HERE. I subscribed to Chris.
NB: Men are also hormonally influenced, notably by women’s reactions to them, but this essay is not about men. Read Hormone Secrets to learn more. The link is a free download.
Table of Contents
A: Younger Women by Polymath Paul Sansonetti
B: Live Well After Menopause by Robert Yoho
A: Younger Women by Polymath Paul Sansonetti
Dr. Sarah Hill’s superb interview: Your Brain on Birth Control
Hill explains that the Pill blunts women’s healthy responses and how this suppresses men’s testosterone and damages their psychology, motivation, and sexuality. She explains how this distorts relationships and culture. For example, she says, “If you can get laid while living in your Mom’s basement eating Cheetos, why would you do anything different?” She also cites research that shows elevated male testosterone levels when they are exposed to fertile women or other factors such as guns. (!)
To understand this post, either listen to her interview above or download and read my summary:
You can follow Hill’s thinking on YouTube.
The Pill is ruinous to women's health.
The diagram below shows their wondrous hormonal cycle. Preventing ovulation by plastering potent synthetic estrogen and progesterone all over this delicate balance is damaging. Complete menopause, when all levels flatline to nearly zero, has related consequences if hormones are not replaced; see part B.
In some formulations, the Pill lowers women’s testosterone by as much as 90-95%, which is why it can make their skin look better. Acne is partly caused by oxidized hormones pushed out through the skin.
On the Pill, women are less sexual, more obsessed with safety, and less confident.
The following is from GoingOffThePill.org. Since the site seems to have been suppressed, I retrieved it from the Wayback Machine. (Read how to use this—it is useful.)
When most girls are prescribed the birth control pill it's done flippantly and with little information. Before I delve into the numerous risks of short and long term hormonal birth control use, I would like to credit the pill with regulating periods, alleviating cramping and acne, preventing unwanted pregnancy, and reducing the risk of ovarian cancer. [Here are the risks:]
1. Cancer
2. Blood clots
3. Autoimmune disease
3. Heart Attacks & Strokes
4. Fertility Problems
5. Depletion of Nutrients
6. Decreased Bone Density
7. Gallbladder Disease
8. Poor Milk Production
9. Impaired sex drive & decreased sexual enjoyment
10. Depression, PMS and Severe Mood Swings
11. Impaired Muscle Growth
12. Less Desirable to Men
13. Impaired Partner Selection
14. High Blood Pressure
15. Yeast Infections, Candida Prevalence, & Vaginitis
16. Nausea
17. Trouble Sleeping
18. For more risks, details, and the references, see this link.
Women have many contraception options besides the Pill
The withdrawal method involves pulling out a few seconds early and masturbating to orgasm. With typical use, about 18% of couples who use withdrawal will become pregnant within the first year, compared to 17% of couples who use male condoms. With practice, withdrawal can be 96% effective.
Withdrawal doesn't protect against sexually transmitted diseases. Some say it reduces sexual pleasure.
Things you can do to make the withdrawal method more effective include:
Using spermicide, a gel or cream that kills sperm
Using a barrier method like male condoms
Using a birth control app like Natural Cycles or fertility monitors to avoid fertile periods
Use lambskin condoms or diaphragms during the fertility window
The copper IUD, invented in 1967, is the queen of safe female birth control and provides effective contraception for at least ten years. The US cash price has been jacked up to $1800, but it is inexpensive if you can commute to Mexico. Big Pharma has made efforts to discredit it by emphasizing perforation and other complications—nothing is totally safe—but what they hate about it is that it is cheap.
Other IUDs, such as Skyla, contain hormones. Avoid them!
Mild testicular heating is a safe, effective, and reversible contraceptive method for men that involves strapping the testicles close to the body. Alternatively, men who use a hot tub for a week also decrease their fertility. Unlike a vasectomy, these are reversible and do not cause auto-immune issues.
Fertility monitors can be used in reverse. If you get pregnant, you can take a test and then do this plan C:
An array of websites [make two pills available]—mifepristone and misoprostol—that will induce a miscarriage when used in the first trimester of pregnancy and possibly even later. The so-called self-managed abortion is therefore an option at least six weeks further into a pregnancy than the controversial new Texas law’s six-week “heartbeat” cutoff for an abortion at a clinic. Though people in other states have several websites to choose from, Texans can visit Aid Access, a website that provides the pills for $105 or less based on income.
Semen may have antidepressant properties.
It contains chemicals that may help with mood, including serotonin, oxytocin, melatonin, estrogen, and prostaglandins:
- Serotonin: An antidepressant
- Oxytocin: Promotes social bonding
- Melatonin: Improves sleep quality
- Estrogen and prostaglandins: Linked to lower levels of depression
- Some studies have found that women who have sex without condoms are less depressed than those who use condoms.
- One study found that women who always used condoms had higher depressive symptoms and suicide attempts than those who didn't.
- Another study found that the longer the time since the last sex, the more depressed women who never or sometimes used condoms became.
- The antidepressant properties of semen may promote bonding between sexual partners.
Abortions
Nearly every other country considers the fetus to be legally a person for criminal, wrongful death, and inheritance purposes.
We charge working-class women as much as 1500$ for a drug-induced abortion when the actual cost is about 50$ retail.
We take tax money from people who are morally opposed to abortion.
Abortions increase the chances of pelvic inflammatory disease and decrease the production of normal female hormones. The adverse effects on women’s emotional status are well documented. Second and subsequent abortions progressively damage fertility.
Although we don't need more marginal parents, we are killing viable babies with late-term abortions. The only countries that allow this are China, North Korea, Vietnam, and the good old USA.
Yoho comment: While I view abortions as unfortunate, I have twice benefitted from liberal abortion laws and do not share Paul’s blanket “right to life” views.
The “dangers of back-alley abortions” was a lie used to spread fear and promote the Pill.
The Abortion Movement Started With Deceit
by Dr. Bernard Nathanson, from The BMJ
'We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of
statistics and figures. We succeeded [in breaking down the laws limiting
abortions] because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We
sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls
which indicated that 85% of the public favoured unrestricted abortion,
when we knew it was only 5%. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements
were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.'
(quoted in John Powell, Abortion: the silent Holocaust. Tabor, Allen,
Texas. 1981.)The statistics of maternal mortality due to self-induced abortion
were grossly exaggerated. Dr Nathanson writes:'How many deaths were we talking about when abortion was illegal? In
NARAL (National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws) we generally
emphasized the drama of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but
when we spoke of the latter it was always 5,000 to 10,000 a year. I
confess that I knew the figures were totally false, But in the "morality"
of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out
of our way to correct it with honest statistics?' The official figures of
maternal death due to illegal abortion before abortion was legalised was
160. Dr Nathanson estimates the actual figure to be around 500 maternal
deaths per year. (Bernard Nathanson, Richard Ostling. Aborting America.
Pinnacle Books. New York 1979.)In a speech he said about his attempts to legalise abortion:
'There was only silence from the opposition. We fed a line of deceit,
of dishonesty, of fabrication of statistics and figures; we coddled,
caressed, and stroked the press. (...) We were calling ourselves pro-
abortionists and pro-choice. In fact we were abortifiers: those who like
abortion…In February of 1971, I organized and ran the Center for Reproductive
and Sexual Health, another amusing euphemism for an abortion clinic. It
was not just an abortion clinic. It was the abortion clinic. It was in New
York, and curiously, it was established and fed by the Clergy Consultation
Service, an organisation of twelve hundred Protestant Ministers and Jewish
Rabbis who took it upon themselves to funnel through 60,000 young women in
the space of 19 months that I ran it. The Clergy Consultation Service -
I'd never known that clergymen were actively involved in abortion before,
but my eyes were opened. ... It was a $5 million-a-year business. Think
now how many handicapped children could be helped, how much cancer
research could be done, how many operations of a decent sort could be
carried out on poor people with that kind of money!'
Reference: The Risks of Clandestine Abortions are Low, by Scott Smith, a Catholic attorney, author, and theologian.
Globalists pushed the Pill.
They are irrationally obsessed with the myth of overpopulation—or, more likely, obsessed with weakening and killing us so they can dominate. This is Robert Zubrin’s analysis from The New Atlantis:
There is a single ideological current running through a seemingly disparate collection of noxious modern political and scientific movements, ranging from militarism, imperialism, racism, xenophobia, and radical environmentalism, to socialism, Nazism, and totalitarian communism. This is the ideology of antihumanism: the belief that the human race is a horde of vermin whose unconstrained aspirations and appetites endanger the natural order, and that tyrannical measures are necessary to constrain humanity. The founding prophet of modern antihumanism is Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), who offered a pseudoscientific basis for the idea that human reproduction always outruns available resources. Following this pessimistic and inaccurate assessment of the capacity of human ingenuity to develop new resources, Malthus advocated oppressive policies that led to the starvation of millions in India and Ireland.
While Malthus’s argument that human population growth invariably leads to famine and poverty is plainly at odds with the historical evidence, which shows global living standards rising with population growth, it nonetheless persisted and even gained strength among intellectuals and political leaders in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its most pernicious manifestation in recent decades has been the doctrine of population control, famously advocated by ecologist Paul Ehrlich, whose bestselling 1968 antihumanist tract The Population Bomb has served as the bible of neo-Malthusianism. In this book, Ehrlich warned of overpopulation and advocated that the American government adopt stringent population control measures, both domestically and for the Third World countries that received American foreign aid.
The leftwing countries that entirely ban cross-sex hormones for minors include Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. In our satanic U.S.A., these seem closer to mandatory at the end of 2024. Lots of people are squeamish about chemically castrating pedophiles, but we've been doing the same thing to the majority of our young women for 50+ years with nary a quibble.
Leftists are obsessed with the fact that women can get pregnant from rape but constantly stump for gun control measures that make it more likely. Jessica Valenti is an example. In 1987, the first year Florida passed "shall issue" concealed carry laws, rape in Miami was cut in half.
Finally, AIDS is a fraud used to push these agendas. See RFK, Jr.’s analysis in The Real Anthony Fauci. The situation was manufactured to make people afraid of sex and cut the population.
Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population by Matthew Connelly
This book tells the reasons the pill and abortions are promoted. This is the book blurb:
Fatal Misconception is the disturbing story of our quest to remake humanity by policing national borders and breeding better people. As the population of the world doubled once, and then again, well-meaning people concluded that only population control could preserve the “quality of life.” This movement eventually spanned the globe and carried out a series of astonishing experiments, from banning Asian immigration to paying poor people to be sterilized.
Supported by affluent countries, foundations, and non-governmental organizations, the population control movement experimented with ways to limit population growth. But it had to contend with the Catholic Church’s ban on contraception and nationalist leaders who warned of “race suicide.” The ensuing struggle caused untold suffering for those caught in the middle—particularly women and children. It culminated in the horrors of sterilization camps in India and the one-child policy in China.
Matthew Connelly offers the first global history of a movement that changed how people regard their children and ultimately the face of humankind. It was the most ambitious social engineering project of the twentieth century, one that continues to alarm the global community. Though promoted as a way to lift people out of poverty—perhaps even to save the earth—family planning became a means to plan other people‘s families.
With its transnational scope and exhaustive research into such archives as Planned Parenthood and the newly opened Vatican Secret Archives, Connelly’s withering critique uncovers the cost inflicted by a humanitarian movement gone terribly awry and urges renewed commitment to the reproductive rights of all people.
Reference
This Is Your Brain On Birth Control (2019) by Dr. Hill.
Major editing credit: Jim Arnold of Liar’s World Substack
B: Live Well After Menopause by Robert Yoho
Excerpted from Hormone Secrets.
Women with ideal hormone levels glow like her.
Menopause information is everywhere—good, bad, and confusing. Many authorities call this unpleasant syndrome “natural” and recommend ignoring it. But hormones significantly improve women’s health and menopause symptoms.
June is 49: She started estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone eight weeks ago: Hey, doing well on my hormones. About two months in now. My energy is up, as is my sex drive and my enjoyment of it. My muscle tone and skin look great, and some old friends I gathered with on the East coast last week accused me of having an aging painting of myself in a closet somewhere. I’m still having hot flashes at night and wonder if I should adjust my estrogen up some? My reply was: Increase your estradiol to two mg each morning. We may decide to increase your progesterone and will check your levels on your next office visit.
How the female reproductive system works:
Young women start with hundreds of ova or eggs. In each cycle, the uterus is prepared for a potential baby, and one ovum is used. As women mature, usually in their mid-40s, the eggs run low, and periods become irregular. After the eggs are gone, the cycles stop, but some hormone production persists if the ovaries are not cut out.
This is the “change of life.” Progesterone levels typically fall, and estrogen production continues. Some women get depression, anxiety, irritability, and sleep disturbance. Other symptoms include bloating, acne, breast tenderness, and heavy, irregular menstrual periods.
At about age 50, women “fall off a hormonal cliff.” As all their hormones decline, full menopause develops. Many are miserable and have intense hot flashes. After a few last irregular periods, they are in complete menopause, defined as a year without a menstrual cycle. Their symptoms are usually more dramatic and unpleasant than men’s at the same age and often more severe than any pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS) they had earlier in their lives.
For the first several years, most women need only progesterone. Estrogen and other hormones should be added as menstrual periods slow and stop. Estradiol has the most potent effect on hot flashes. Testosterone improves strength, alertness, and sexuality and helps with bladder and vaginal symptoms. Since it transforms into estrogen, it protects the heart in both sexes. Patients who want simplicity or are on a tight budget sometimes use it as the sole therapy.
Janice, 64, watched her husband die of lung cancer two years ago after a three-year illness and has been “out of gas” ever since. She said she was “done with men,” so she flew to Los Angeles to have her breast implants taken out. Because Janice had fatigue, depression, anxiety, and no interest in sex, I discussed menopause therapy with her. She agreed to try. So I wrote a prescription for estradiol and progesterone and placed a testosterone pellet. Janice called four months later—she had a new boyfriend and felt great. She is returning to have her implants replaced.
Yoho 2025 note: I wrote this chapter before I understood breast implant illness. I wrote about it HERE.
Hormone supplementation slows and may prevent:
✪ Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
✪ Heart disease.
✪ Fatigue, depression, sleep disturbance, anxiety, and irritability.
✪ Bone loss, osteoporosis, and increased chance of fractures.
✪ Skin problems include thinning, wrinkling, itching, sagging, easy injury, and loss of elasticity.
✪ Thinning of joint cartilage. Tooth loss and gum disease.
✪ Vaginal area difficulties: dry, thin, and inelastic.
✪ Spontaneous urination during coughing or lifting.
✪ Sexual decline, including painful sex.
Linda is a 63-year-old registered nurse: Testosterone makes me feel sexy and gives me an overall feeling of well-being. My strength and muscle tone improve, especially when I exercise. When I was younger, I got a little aggressive when I used it, but now I am either OK with aggression, or maybe it does not happen. I have paranoia and anxiety when I do not take progesterone, even though I'm not an anxious person. I sometimes get a little depressed, and extra progesterone helps this. I take from one to three of the 200 mg capsules daily, which mellows me out. With estradiol, my ability to remember improves, and I sleep better. I'm less tired. I've tried different doses and know what works best for me.
Many women have prodigious emotional strength.
They continue to function well and look attractive despite severe symptoms. It shocks my wife and me when our questionnaire reveals how miserable they are. Many admit that they feel as if the entire world is against them. Others say they are hanging on by their fingernails. Some give up and stop trying.
Many women are convinced their angst is situational or even existential rather than simply because of hormonal deficiency. They are wrong—progesterone, estradiol, and testosterone improve or cure these symptoms. Many women get complete relief using testosterone alone. DHEA, vitamin D, and melatonin are also often helpful.
Do not read this paragraph if you are politically correct. Women who have been keeping up often think they know more than I do about hormones. So I ask my patients if they want to feel better and leave it at that. I never try to persuade anyone to start therapy because leading this horse to water is all I can do. Arguing with them about whether they are thirsty is like arguing with Germans—you just piss everyone off. (Since I am German, I get a pass on this.)
Janice, 51 years old: My marriage was disintegrating. I hated everyone around me, and I felt terrible. But I got on the hormones, and they saved me. I am trying to repair all the damage I did.
Women are the precious glue holding families together. Their proper functioning and positive feelings are everyone’s bedrock. My wife, Judy Yoho, believes that menopause is the most common cause of divorce for couples over 45 years old and that this therapy saves many marriages. She developed this opinion while interviewing thousands of women in our practice.
Total hysterectomies with ovary removal crash young women into menopause.
They have violent hormonal withdrawal with severe hot flashes. Sexual interest declines or vanishes. The risks of stroke, fracture, heart disease, memory loss, eye deterioration, and even death increase. Immediate replacement is critical. Their situation differs from ordinary menopause, where the ovaries are intact and still partly functioning.
Patsy is a 45-year-old accountant: I had my hysterectomy [with ovary removal] ten years ago when my daughter was only six years old. I didn’t get on hormone replacement until last year. I thought about my life and wrote my daughter an apology letter about the way I treated her. I was just so depressed and anxious. Progesterone has been the biggest relief. I feel human again.
Cutting out the ovaries and uterus together pays better and is a more straightforward procedure for the surgeon than only removing the uterus. Doctors sell them to patients with remarks like, “You will no longer have to worry about cancer if we cut your ovaries out.” My wife and I fell for this line. But when a young woman has her ovaries removed, the premature menopause symptoms are horrific, and the risks of medical problems, including heart disease, increase dramatically. Ovarian cancer is a terrible disease, but it is so rare that allowing a gynecologist to castrate you to prevent it makes no sense.
Women who use estrogen get less Alzheimer’s disease, and some studies say it is 80 percent preventive.
But this robust scientific support is unknown to the mainstream. The current standard is to wait until after the disease has advanced, then use toxic, heavily promoted, fantastically expensive patent drugs. Even the academics who are paid to study these understand they are dubious.
AD is tragic and epidemic. Eleven percent of those over 65 have it, and it kills more people than breast and prostate cancer combined. Sixty-seven percent of Medicare long-term care payments are related to Alzheimer’s, more than $250 billion a year—it is the most expensive disease in US healthcare. Our patients are being criminally mistreated.
A similar literature underpins the beneficial effects of growth hormone and testosterone for Alzheimer’s and other diseases of the aging brain for both sexes.
Appendix C has over 50 citations supporting all this. Stop here and spend two minutes scanning them. If you understand this story, the rest of the book will be transparent and credible. Properly referencing every hormone subject would have required dozens of books.
Postscript for 2025: Proper hormone supplementation yields results nearly as good as having intact ovaries, and I am convinced it increases lifespan. I hate to break it to you, but if you do not understand hormones and how to direct your doctors, they are less likely to help you. Study Hormone Secrets as if your health and sanity depend on them; in many cases, they do. The key is listening to your body—how you feel—above any “provider’s” advice.
Aurelius wrote, “Let come what may to those affected by outward circumstance. They will always find something to complain about. For myself, if I choose not to view whatever happens as evil, no harm will come to me. And I can so choose.” This is easier if your hormones are balanced.
array of websites [make two pills available]—mifepristone and misoprostol—that will induce a miscarriage when used in the first trimester of pregnancy “and possibly even later. The so-called self-managed abortion is therefore an option at least six weeks further into a pregnancy than the controversial new Texas law’s six-week “heartbeat” cutoff for an abortion at a clinic. Though people in other states have several websites to choose from, Texans can visit Aid Access, a website that provides the pills for $105 or less based on income.”
These pills are Dangerous- just No to the infantacide pill
There is no help for a woman at home who uses these whatsoever
And no counseling on the after effects
there is help if you get pregnant
Abortion is an unthinkable option
Cells that grow into humans and are citizens aren’t expendable.
Thank you for your research.
Thank you. I love you for saying this.
At the age of 18 I went on the pill and 6 weeks later I developed type 1 diabetes. The two were most definitely connected but who cared? I have been cautious about hormonal treatment ever since. I’m now 65 and through the menopause, have a great sex life, no vaginal fragility and am a firm believer in the more sex you have the better it is for one’s health. I found a herbal supplement called Amata Life very helpful to rebalance my hormones and improve my bladder but don’t seem to need even that now. As for glowing skin I heartily recommend methylene Blue and apart from rejuvenating my skin, it has reversed my greying hair!
I agree MB is remarkable. My eyes and lashes are dark. I have a lit of white hair, however after years of MB, dark hair is growing.
I was on the pill for 30 wonderful years… it definitely didn’t make this happen lol.. “On the Pill, women are less sexual, more obsessed with safety, and less confident”…. The exact opposite. I went off it at 39, got pregnant at 40 and have 2 fantastic children. Everyone is different
For a woman to obtain the maximum benefits that semen offers, is vaginal or oral application advised? Asking for a friend😁
🙌😂🙈
I was a wreck before I started hormone therapy. I will never quit. I feel so much better. Prescription HRT is easier to dose precisely but estradiol and progesterone creams can be purchased over the counter and online. I don’t think testosterone creams or gels can be purchased without a prescription though which is really a shame.
estrogen and progesterone creams help symptoms but not cardiovascular disease
So my compounded Estrogen/Progesterone/Testosterone cream is not as effective as oral?
not for health
Mine seems to be according to blood work
what do your blood levels show?
Progesterone should be 10-20 ng/ml
Estrogen should approach 100.
Two different naturopaths I’ve gone to do not agree with your statement on the creams Dr. Yoho. Do you have have links to studies I could share with them?
read Hormone Secrets
I switched to a cream with estrogen and testosterone from injections. My testosterone and estrogen levels remained stable vis bloid tests.
If there is an issue, I would lije to know as well
what were the levels
testosterone cream is fine if high enough concentrations are used
levels should be around 250 ng/ml
“Controlled” substance. Yes, it is unfortunate
😐😐🤔🤦♀️ Honestly, so much I could say but I have said it before-
That's not how it works.
It's about light, water and magnetism. Perpetuating the premeditated BS is beneath you. Do better. Stop cherry picking the barriers to break down. 99.9% of what you were taught about the human body in medical school is garbage. Challenge every single thing you think you know. This is why the peeps that didn't finish high school can grasp concepts in quantum biology that smartly pants struggle with. They are not preprogrammed.
We are bioelectrical beings and "hormones" work more like semiconductors than chemicals.
If you want a fast track the relearning process, then look at Dr Alexis Cowan's work in her light lab.
we are all on a learning curve and I hope that includes you
😉 of course. Just when I think I've figured stuff out, I discover something else that reminds me that what I think I know is a drop in the ocean.
My comment was intended as a sharp reminder, that your reputation as truthful, humble, open hearted and critical thinking MD is on the line when you publish one sided, biased and 1D information. HRT is the darling of the natural/conventional medical establishments at the moment, and I'm very aware that people are getting results, and since most of the client base taking it are in the older age cohort, the results outweighs long term impacts. The point is, people are paying for expensive therapies, to deal with problems caused by ignoring the rules of nature, perpetuated by poor science.😐 Fine for those with money to burn, or the cats making money from the "solution". But what about the consistently younger populations, and the low socio-economic groups that are presenting with hormonal issues?😐
I respect you greatly, and you are a person that may have supreme influence on people's perceptions of healthcare in the coming years, we have a population/fertility crisis of extinction level in the process. That's why I ask you to look deeper.🤗
Generally great article/info. I appreciate the potential benefits of bioidentical HRT, but I'm also convinced that this sort of artificial, blunt management of a still just partially understood endocrine system comes with its own risks, both known and unknown. Thankfully, my wife at 64 went through menopause like a breeze, takes no meds, and is in great, glowing health due to a very healthy lifestyle.
Speaking of 64. I'm blown away by the Janice bio. Breast implants are a notorious health disaster for so many women, which would make for a very good topic for future discussion. As a man, I have absolutely no idea what the draw is, other than for women who've had mastectomies (partly due to the butchering approach to healthcare). Janice improved greatly after she began HRT . . . and the removal of a potential source of the same symptoms that the hormones were ostensibly fixing. Viewing her re-implantations as evidence of success is bizarre. A healthy, confident, indignant rejection of them would be far better evidence of success IMO.
great comment, and I wrote about breast implant illness here: https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/265-shaher-khan-mdthe-foremost-plastic?utm_source=publication-search
I wrote Butchered before I understood all this.
Oh good, I have to read that!
Absolutely agree!
AWESOME. Agreed: "Yoho comment: While I view abortions as unfortunate, I have twice benefitted from liberal abortion laws and do not share Paul’s blanket “right to life” views."
How do I find a medical doctor who knows what s/he is doing, with respect to hormone therapy and dosing? The last time someone gave me bioidentical progesterone and estrogen supplementation, I developed fibroids so large that I had to have an embolization to shrink them. I have shied away from HRT ever since, and I have symptoms of low hormones.
Worldlinkmedical.com has docs who were trained like me.
If I were you, I would have taken much more progesterone.
Read Hormone Secrets.
Do you offer virtual consults?
Thank you! I really need progesterone but am afraid to self-dose.
I was on “The Pill” for over twenty years of my life. Never felt really good, but I didn’t even know it at the time. At 45, I stopped the pill and all hell broke loose. I basically shoved myself into instant menopause and things got very ugly. Fortunately, I found a wise, functional medicine doctor who started me on Bio-Identical HRT, and my life changed immensely! It is a crime that doctors encourage young women to take the pill…it should be outlawed! Had I known the damage I was causing myself, I would have never gone down that road. My Fiancé, (Dr. Ned Vessey, yes, you know him!) is also now on HRT and he is also doing very well!
have Ned call me
What a terrific post. I have been on “natural” HRT for 4years. I started with shot but have moved onto cream.
I am so glad I took this step. My mind is better, my emotions are more stable.
I used foams. Worked very well. Also emptying the bladder and using a washcloth after. STD's were not a factor, as I just wanted space between the babies. KY can be used as a lubricant.
Note for older ladies: We get saggy boobs. We sweat under them. Use a deodorant rub under them daily, I like the clinical type it lasts 72 hours. Get a Yeast infection use Coconut oil. Buy cotton sleep bras for daily wear that have a front closure, it helps keep you from sweating. Better than the underwires which are not cotton.
I'm 65, been widowed for 7 years. I've never taken ongoing prescription drugs. I just don't trust them. But having something to help my skin glow that wouldn't be bad for my health and well being, that would be great. So is there another way to get this Hormone Therapy without a Prescription?
from a draft post:
Hormone replacement with or without using a doctor
As Rick Zingale told me, “Seeing a doctor entails kamikaze-level risks.” Fortunately, basic hormone supplementation can be safely and legally started without them. Hormones are so harmless that with only a few caveats, they should be over the counter. Read Hormone Secrets or Unbekoming’s excellent summary if you have not gotten that memo.
DHEA, pregnenolone, and melatonin are available without a prescription. See the links HERE, HERE, and HERE for the best places to buy them. Background information about melatonin is HERE, and the other two are described in Hormone Secrets. Pregnenolone supposedly helps mental alertness, and some people swear by it. However, my mentors were not impressed with it if patients were already on testosterone, and I always prescribed that instead.
The links above are for economical powder supplements. If you purchase a $20 digital scale, you can approximate the desired dose using eighth or quarter teaspoons. Perfect exactitude is unnecessary.
DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) has mild effects similar to testosterone. The best dose is unknown because no significant toxicity has ever been found. Although the standard approach for women is to start with about ten milligrams a day, my hormone guru, Neal Rouzier, MD, often gives 400 to 600 mg daily to senior women. He says this makes many of them feel so good that they dance in the Palm Spring Follies. Side effects are almost unknown.
Senior men who are not yet taking testosterone often get a big lift from DHEA. The usual recommendation is to take a hundred milligrams to start, but this is waaay too conservative. Again, the top end of dosing is unclear, and I would not hesitate to recommend gradually increasing to 1000 mg a day if I were still seeing patients. If any side effects appear, reduce the dose. The powders make even this large amount economical.
Those of us already taking testosterone may not get as big a response from DHEA, but when I started it recently, I felt better.
If you know a doctor who will write prescriptions for you and you are willing to take responsibility, read Hormone Secrets twice. Then, ask them to prescribe the following from the Anazao compounding pharmacy or another nationwide source. Ninety percent of women need exactly the doses below. If you are post-menopausal, labs are helpful but not required.
Oral estradiol 2 mg every morning
Oral progesterone 200 mg at bedtime. Decrease or increase until you sleep well without a hangover. The maximum dose is five 200 mg capsules. It is harmless.
Testosterone cream, 50-100 mg per cc concentration. Women start with a half-pea-sized volume and increase or decrease it until they get the desired effect or have about a 200 ng/dl level. Acne and hair growth are occasional side effects. Most people tolerate these for the benefits.
Study the caveats in Hormone Secrets. The most important one is never to take estrogen without progesterone. “Unopposed” estrogen increases uterine cancer rates.
For women who want an experienced MD to supervise a full hormone program, visit WorldLinkMedical.com. I am among the providers there, and Dr. Neal Rouzier trained us all.
Thyroid care requires an experienced hormone specialist. Endocrinologists are generally too conservative and often underdose their patients for reasons described in Hormone Secrets. Despite needing professional help, you still should understand the thyroid chapter there, and I recommend you also study THIS website. Hormone replacement with or without using a doctor
As Rick Zingale told me, “Seeing a doctor entails kamikaze-level risks.” Fortunately, basic hormone supplementation can be safely and legally started without them. Hormones are so harmless that with only a few caveats, they should be over the counter. Read Hormone Secrets or Unbekoming’s excellent summary if you have not gotten that memo.
DHEA, pregnenolone, and melatonin are available without a prescription. See the links HERE, HERE, and HERE for the best places to buy them. Background information about melatonin is HERE, and the other two are described in Hormone Secrets. Pregnenolone supposedly helps mental alertness, and some people swear by it. However, my mentors were not impressed with it if patients were already on testosterone, and I always prescribed that instead.
The links above are for economical powder supplements. If you purchase a $20 digital scale, you can approximate the desired dose using eighth or quarter teaspoons. Perfect exactitude is unnecessary.
DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) has mild effects similar to testosterone. The best dose is unknown because no significant toxicity has ever been found. Although the standard approach for women is to start with about ten milligrams a day, my hormone guru, Neal Rouzier, MD, often gives 400 to 600 mg daily to senior women. He says this makes many of them feel so good that they dance in the Palm Spring Follies. Side effects are almost unknown.
Senior men who are not yet taking testosterone often get a big lift from DHEA. The usual recommendation is to take a hundred milligrams to start, but this is waaay too conservative. Again, the top end of dosing is unclear, and I would not hesitate to recommend gradually increasing to 1000 mg a day if I were still seeing patients. If any side effects appear, reduce the dose. The powders make even this large amount economical.
Those of us already taking testosterone may not get as big a response from DHEA, but when I started it recently, I felt better.
If you know a doctor who will write prescriptions for you and you are willing to take responsibility, read Hormone Secrets twice. Then, ask them to prescribe the following from the Anazao compounding pharmacy or another nationwide source. Ninety percent of women need exactly the doses below. If you are post-menopausal, labs are helpful but not required.
Oral estradiol 2 mg every morning
Oral progesterone 200 mg at bedtime. Decrease or increase until you sleep well without a hangover. The maximum dose is five 200 mg capsules. It is harmless.
Testosterone cream, 50-100 mg per cc concentration. Women start with a half-pea-sized volume and increase or decrease it until they get the desired effect or have about a 200 ng/dl level. Acne and hair growth are occasional side effects. Most people tolerate these for the benefits.
Study the caveats in Hormone Secrets. The most important one is never to take estrogen without progesterone. “Unopposed” estrogen increases uterine cancer rates.
For women who want an experienced MD to supervise a full hormone program, visit WorldLinkMedical.com. I am among the providers there, and Dr. Neal Rouzier trained us all.
Thyroid care requires an experienced hormone specialist. Endocrinologists are generally too conservative and often underdose their patients for reasons described in Hormone Secrets. Despite needing professional help, you still should understand the thyroid chapter there, and I recommend you also study THIS website.
Dr. Rouzier is theee best! I had tried the Estrogen pellets and my body exploded. Dr. Rouzier straightened all of that out for me and I am still on the regimen (transdermal Estradiol) he placed me on almost 10 years ago.
you must do what makes you feel well
however, he is the one who taught me that the orals are superior for Cardiovasc health. You might try adding an oral estradiol
Oral Estradiol turns me into the UniRoyal Tire Man (severe bloating), hence the transdermal.
76. Married, he is non-functional at 83. I've tried them, they hate me. Shut my bowels down. Tried Black Cohosh and Prime Rose same reaction. Already have gastro issues, and don't need more.
You have to do what works
I was thinking of trying a Pregnenolone Topical Gel, by pass the digestive system. Robert can you recommend a brand?
no idea but you can buy the powder inexpensively
Yes. Try Bezwecken Transitions cream from Amazon. They’ve been selling OTC hormonal products for women for over 2 5 years. I don’t work for them by the way. I discovered them because I bought museley anti anging skincare from a Facebook ad for $70 for less than one OUNCE!! I consider this company one of the biggest online skincare scams out there. I am furious that I bought their product. Nowhere in the literature and nowhere online does it tell you how many ounces you’re getting. It only tells you that you’re getting a two month supply. I’m hoping to get my money back. But regardless, I have found other skin care products that one can use to achieve the same results. And by the way, I did have some good results! take pictures of your journey of before and after taking the skin care so you will know for yourself. I can say it’s pretty amazing the results I have achieved. They also sell some other products for vaginal dryness, etc. unfortunately, none of their products have testosterone in them. But one product that I’m getting ready to try for vaginal dryness does have estradiol, DHEA and progesterone. I have had no problems going through menopause, except for terrible vaginal dryness. So I’m a little bit leery to start with hormones. But I want to do it so I can enjoy sex with my husband again!!
There you are
What about a 72 yo who had a complete hysterectomy for ovarian ca ? Is HRT ( as natural as possible) recommended ?
If I were you, I would try testosterone and progesterone. Both suppress ovarian cancer. And I would get on a chlorine dioxide program.
Hi Dr. Yoho, The two times I have using bioidentical creams in my 50's and 60's for about a year each time, I end up with thyroiditis. My T3 and T4 are super high with high thyroid antibodies and hypothyroid symptoms. When I stop the hormones, I get my energy back and my hypo symptoms go away. I do have your hormone book and I am wondering if it is the route that's the problem since you advocate for oral preparations. Thank you!
this is beyond my expertise sorry. The thyroid stuff is complex. See Dr. Rouzier's associate, Dr. Wilgarde, if you can get to Palm Springs. 760 320 4292
Any thoughts on Tongkat Ali for post menopausal hormone replacement?
I am 59. Have done BHRT for past 3 yrs in varying formulations..actively followed and managed with good results.
Currently on 25 mg Estrodiol patch biweekly and 100mg progesterone @ hs..
Just wondering about weaning off prescriptions for a more natural product.
Great thread and article.
Thank you!