Navigating "Life Hormones" Through Supplementation & Lifestyle with Dr. Felice Gersh
The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy
Dr. Mindy Pelz
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Mindy is joined by the remarkable Dr. Felice Gersh, a practicing integrative OB-GYN, to delve deep into the intricate world of hormones. Dr. Gersh is a true rarity, advocating an integrative approach to women's health, and she's here to discuss Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), bioidenticals, and the essential role lifestyle changes play in hormonal balance.
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Felice Gersh, M.D. has degrees from Princeton University and the University of Southern California School of Medicine and is fellowship-trained in Integrative Medicine from the University of Arizona School of Medicine. She is a multi-award-winning physician with dual board certifications in OB-GYN and Integrative Medicine. She is the founder and director of the Integrative Medical Group of Irvine, a practice that provides comprehensive health care for women by combining the best evidence-based therapies from conventional, naturopathic, and holistic medicine. She taught obstetrics and gynecology at Keck USC School of Medicine for 12 years as an Assistant Clinical Professor, where she received the highly coveted Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award. She now serves as an Affiliate Faculty Member at the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine, through the University of Arizona School of Medicine, where she lectures and regularly grades the case presentations written by the Fellowship students for their final exams. Felice Gersh, M.D. is the bestselling author of PCOS SOS and the PCOS SOS Fertility Fast Track, and Menopause: 50 Things You Need to Know. She has also had numerous scientific articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals.
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of the Reseter Podcast, I have an incredible hormonal discussion for you. |
| 0:12.0 | I have brought you Dr. Felice Gersch, who is a rare gem. She is a |
| 0:17.6 | practicing integrative OBGYN and I can't tell you how hard it is to find a practicing OBGYN that takes an integrative |
| 0:29.1 | approach and what I love about Felice is that she not only is willing to revisit HRT and you'll hear that in this discussion and she believes in strategies for leaning into bioidenticals, |
| 0:45.8 | but she also strongly feels we need to pair that |
| 0:49.7 | with lifestyle changes. |
| 0:52.1 | So what you're gonna to hear in this episode I believe is one of the |
| 0:56.9 | best discussions that I have personally ever had on this podcast around |
| 1:01.6 | hormones and here's why. on this |
| 1:05.0 | we're on, when we go into our late 30s |
| 1:08.0 | and into our early 40s, |
| 1:10.0 | we start to lose one of the most powerful sex hormones, she calls them by the way life hormones, |
| 1:16.2 | which is so good. |
| 1:18.2 | But we lose one of the most powerful hormones that we were blessed with as women and that is |
| 1:24.9 | Estradyl. And Estradyl has not only been helping you release an egg every month but as you're going to learn in this |
| 1:34.6 | discussion she has been stimulating many mechanisms that keep you mentally |
| 1:40.9 | alert keep you happy allow you to sleep you of oxytocin to allow that bonding to happen with other humans it gives you that |
| 1:56.0 | libido and the and the intensity of an orgasm like this one hormone estradiol has been doing so much for every organ in your body and |
| 2:10.0 | now she's going away and as she starts to diminish in your early 40s there are many things you can do and |
| 2:19.4 | that is why I wanted to bring Dr. Gersh to you all. |
| 2:23.1 | Because I hear so many women struggling |
| 2:25.8 | with weight gain and cognition and depression |
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