Male Menopause, Low Libido, And Testosterone Replacement with Dr. George Papanicolaou

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Male Menopause, Low Libido, And Testosterone Replacement | This episode is brought to you by Audible

Many of us are living life completely out of balance—and the type of imbalance that affects almost everyone in our society is hormonal imbalance. Men tend to have declining hormone levels as they age, and low testosterone can cause men to lose muscle and gain fat, leading to sexual dysfunction, low sex drive, fatigue, mental fogginess, and bone loss. However, making changes to your diet and lifestyle can have an incredible effect on rebalancing hormone levels and increasing testosterone. Additionally, testosterone replacement therapy can also be used to rebalance your hormones and increase happiness, vitality, and health.

In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. George Papanicolaou to discuss the functional medicine approach to treating low testosterone and how they determine when to use hormone replacement therapy.

George Papanicolaou is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is Board Certified in Family Medicine from Abington Memorial Hospital. He is also an Institute for Functional Medicine Practitioner. Upon graduation from his residency he joined the Indian Health Service. He worked on the Navajo reservation for 4 years at the Chinle Comprehensive Medical Facility where he served as the Outpatient Department Coordinator. In 2000, he founded Cornerstone Family Practice in Rowley, MA. He practiced with a philosophy centered on personal relationships and treating the whole person, not just not the disease. He called that philosophy “Whole Life Wellness”. Over time as the healthcare system made it harder for patients to receive this kind of personal care Dr. Papanicolaou decided a change was needed. He began training in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine. In 2015, he established Cornerstone Personal Health – a practice dedicated entirely to Functional Medicine. Dr. Papanicolaou to join The UltraWellness Center in 2017.

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In this conversation, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Papanicolaou discuss:

The conventional vs functional medicine approach to treating hormone imbalances

Symptoms and drivers of hormonal imbalance in men

How statin drugs can affect testosterone levels

The interconnectedness of all hormones

Improving testosterone levels through exercise and meditation

How Dr. Papanicolaou treated a patient for hormone imbalance

Methods for testosterone replacement including topicals, injectables, and pellets

Testosterone and prostate cancer

Testosterone replacement for women

Additional resources:

Low T? 5 Steps to Boost Testosterone Naturally

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2015/05/29/5-steps-to-boost-testosterone-naturally/

Hormone Magic: Let’s Start With Testosterone

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2019/09/23/hormone-magic-lets-start-with-testosterone/

Man Magic: Testosterone Part 2

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2019/11/22/man-magic-testosterone-part-2/

Getting to the Root of Male Hormone Imbalances

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2019/08/16/getting-to-the-root-of-male-hormone-imbalances/

Getting to the Root | Male Hormones Part 2

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2019/11/18/getting-to-the-root-male-hormones-part-2

The Power Of Food To Heal Everything From Autoimmune Disease To Traumatic Brain Injury

https://drhyman.com/blog/2019/12/18/podcast-ep85/

The Underlying Causes and Solutions for Women’s Hormonal Balances with Dr. Elizabeth Boham

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/04/10/podcast-hc6/

Postmenopausal Hormones: Helpful Or Harmful? with Dr. Elizabeth Boham

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/07/06/podcast-hc17/

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:02.8	If you're just looking at testosterone alone, then you're going to potentially miss the root cause of the problem.
0:10.5	And so just replacing testosterone is never a good idea.
0:15.0	Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark Heim in here.
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0:22.5	I love books and I'm constantly reading at least two to three at any given time.
0:27.0	And when I get really busy, I turn to audiobooks.
0:30.5	My love of learning, reading, and listening to audiobooks has been critical in my ongoing journey to become the happiest healthiest version of myself.
0:37.0	And one of my favorite activities is getting in the car of my wife and going for a long drive while listening to one of our favorite books on my audible app.
0:45.0	I always revisit my favorite classic, Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
0:49.0	This book made such an impact on me and the way I view the world that I love to listen to it over and over again.
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1:29.0	All right. Now let's get back to this week's episode.
1:36.0	Welcome to doctor's pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Hyman and that's pharmacy with an FFAR.
1:40.5	I'm Dr. Macy White. A place for conversations that matter and if you have had issues with hormones, this conversation is going to matter to you because it's with my colleague and friend at the Ultra Wellness Center.
1:50.5	Dr. George Papanicklo and here we are at the Ultra Wellness Center in Lennox, Massachusetts. We're appropriately socially distanced and we are going to talk about a number of cases today and one of them is going to be about hormones.
2:03.5	It's a big issue. George has joined our practice number of years ago. He's an incredible physician, a big man with a big heart.
2:11.5	He's been a functional medicine practitioner for years. He worked on the Navajo reservation and he's just an extraordinary dude who I love having in our practice.
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