Hey everybody. Welcome to this week's episode of Red Pill Your Healthcast. I am Dr. Charlie Faganholz here with Lauren Johnson APRN. And we have a cool topic today. We are going to be talking about hormones. And I know a lot of our listeners can really relate to this topic. And so I think we should clear up some

stuff and things that we've seen clinically that can really go a long way. So what are hormones,

what affects them, what kind of symptoms would you get? Let's start off by just saying what a hormone

is. And by definition, a hormone is just a chemical messenger that's secreted from our endocrine

system. Our endocrine system is our

adrenals, our thyroid, our ovaries, our testes, our prostate, our uterus, our pituitary, our

hypothalamus. You've heard all of these things, especially thyroid because there's a lot of

medications pushed for that gland. So you all have heard of that. And so what these hormones do

is they go through the blood and they will change or really control a lot of different body processes.

And when this doesn't work properly, you will get all types of symptoms, whether it's hot flashes, whether it's depression and anxiety, whether it's fatigue, whether it is

hair loss, it could be loss of bone mass. I mean, they control so much, it can really be

so many different symptoms. So Lauren, let's talk a little bit about hormones and what are

your first thoughts when if you want people to know about hormones. What is like one of the

biggest things you want people to know? Well, I is like one of the biggest things you want people to know?

Well, I think, you know, there's a few factors that I think that conventional medicine just doesn't even consider it.

The fact that stress plays a big role in hormone balance, the fact that facts and having enough cholesterol plays a big role in hormone balance and how we we demonize

cholesterol we say oh don't eat more than one egg or you know like it's or put everybody on

statins and it's absolutely horrible for our hormones and you need cholesterol for hormone production

um i think that we have to consider all of the indocrine disruptors that we are exposed to in our

world. It is massive. And it's impossible to avoid them. Even the most diligent person will be

exposed to these chemicals. And so what can we do to help our body to function better? How does that

typically affect a woman's

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