151: Healing Hormones Naturally with Dr Beth Cook
Many women who struggle with their hormones feel so lost and frustrated. They want to get their health on track but are given such limited (and often terrible) options by their doctors. Things like - birth control, HRT, a hysterectomy, depression meds or even being told they’re totally fine when they’re not.
In this week’s episode Dr Beth Cook and I talk about what to address when it comes to your hormones instead of band-aiding it with prescriptions or surgery.
EPISODE 151: Healing Hormones Naturally with Dr Beth Cook
Show Notes
(0:00) Intro
Hello my friend welcome back to the club how are you today?
My February focus my The Christian Health Club group is hormones and I have several guest speakers including today’s guest doing private teaching and Q&A zooms with my members and so I thought a perfect way to kick off the month for them and for you is with a hormone expert on the podcast.
Dr. Beth Cook is a Chiropractor and Wellness Way practitioner. She has been in practice and seeing patients for 12 years. Dr. Beth Cook uses The Wellness Way approach in her practice to help women to successfully improve their hormones and overall health. The Wellness Way is a network of health restoration clinics that think and act differently to solve the health challenges others can’t.
(2:02) Tell us more about yourself
The Wellness Way
The 3 T’s - Trauma, toxins, and thoughts
Teaches about holistic health and hormones
(5:59) Testing hormones:
Every woman should have their hormones evaluated
3 ways to check hormones:
Salva
Blood
Urine
Blood & Urine together provide a full comprehensive picture
Dutch Test
Timing is everything - The day of the cycle is important
(15:50) What tests (and signs) to determine when someone is moving into perimenopause? How do we handle perimenopause when hormones are naturally supposed to fluctuate?
Hormones are responding to their environment - they are secondary.
“Perimenopause” can be a reflection of some imbalance in the body.
There is no real test for perimenopause
Why do some women have such fluctuation and some women don’t?
There are other things going on that are causing the fluctuation.
Menopause is defined as not having a cycle for a full year around the age of 51.
(22:22) What are you looking at when you are working people with their hormones?
Adrenals - A hormone producer, pick up the slack as we move into menopause
Gut health
Quality of sleep
Nutrition - What are you fueling your body with?
Stress / Stress management skills & trauma
Liver support
Milk thistle
Oregan Grape - Liquid tincture
(32:33) How to not gain weight in the post menopausal years?
Estradiol and Estrone
Losing some leptin sensitivity
Hysterectomy
Sugar regulation - How is your body functioning metabolically?
Dr Gabrielle Lyon
Adequate protein, lower on the carbohydrate side
(41:06) What are the best times to test for hormones?
(44:46) What are the long term effects of being on the pill?
Birth control is something that most women think is benign, however it can have a lot of affects on health especially with long-term use.
Gut issues, yeast overgrowth, immune system function, inflammation in the gut lining, etc.
Halts communication with the ovaries.
The role of OBGYN’s
(58:15) What birth control method do you recommend?
Fertility tracking
Proper use of physical barriers such as condoms
Dialing into your body - understanding your cycle
(101:15) What are your thoughts on bioidentical hormones?
If you have had a total hysterectomy, you might need hormonal support - Testing is important!
Pellet therapy - use extreme caution when researching these options.
Tribulus
Glandular options
The real question is, why are you not producing testosterone? And what can we do to support?
How to increase testosterone naturally? Will that help with energy and focus?
(109:53) Anchor questions & where can people find you?
IG: drbethcook
spring@thewellnessway.com
(1:16:36) Outro & Disclaimer
Thanks for listening! Have a healthy and blessed week!