Women's Health & Hormones | Dr. Laura Buchanan - E418
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Laura Buchanan joins Dr. Tro to discuss health strategies and lifestyle optimization to help women understand their hormonal journey through perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause.
In this episode, Drs. Tro and Laura talk about…
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(00:00) Intro
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(04:22) How Dr. Laura helps her female patients address their hormonal issues
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(09:52) Systemic medical gaslighting
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(13:05) Symptoms of menopausal transition
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(18:08) The history of hormone treatment and how Dr. Laura treats women struggling with hormonal issues
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(28:38) Hormone replacement therapy
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(31:58) Testosterone replacement
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(37:20) How Toward Health helps their patients achieve hormonal health
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(44:05) HRT success stories
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(46:56) Using hormone replacement therapy responsibly
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(53:35) Breast cancer risk from HRT
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(56:17) HHS admitting being wrong HRT
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(01:01:31) Outro
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Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
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Women's Health and Hormones Course: https://toward.health/womens-health-and-hormones/
Dr. Laura Buchanan:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/LauraBuchananMD
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The Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners: https://thesmhp.org/
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Website: https://www.iheartvitae.com/
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iheartvitae/?hl=en
Dr. Brian Lenzkes:
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Website: https://arizonametabolichealth.com/
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianLenzkes?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
Dr. Tro Kalayjian:
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Website: https://www.doctortro.com/
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoctorTro
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Low Carb MD podcast. No one is beyond help. No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:07.2 | Nothing said on the Low Carb MD podcast is medical advice. Please consult your own doctor before making any |
| 0:13.7 | lifestyle changes. Okay, guys, welcome. |
| 0:23.6 | Let's see. |
| 0:24.2 | If you're joining in on social, if you're joining you on the Tord Health app, if you're |
| 0:28.2 | joining on YouTube, thanks for joining us. |
| 0:32.0 | It is 7.11 in the morning, and we are here to talk about hormones. |
| 0:38.1 | Why are we having a special podcast and a special sort of live? |
| 0:45.0 | And why are we, you know, sort of streaming to the people in Tord Health app live? |
| 0:50.2 | Well, there was interesting events this past week. |
| 0:54.8 | There was a conference held a joint conference by the FDA and the HHS with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. |
| 1:06.3 | Marty Macquarie, who are the heads of the CDC, sorry, the FDA and the HHS, respectively. |
| 1:14.2 | And they had a conference that was really interesting. |
| 1:17.8 | And in my entire history of being a doctor, I have not, and being involved in health care, |
| 1:25.9 | this is over, you know, decades being involved in health care, I have not and being involved in health care this is over you know decades being involved in health care |
| 1:30.0 | I have never once seen a public health authority come out and say |
| 1:36.0 | Oops we got it wrong you know |
| 1:39.8 | Oops we got it wrong and the topic about oops we got it wrong it And the topic about oops, we got it wrong, it was about hormonal replacement therapy. |
| 1:49.0 | And this is something that both myself, Dr. Trokalasian, and Dr. Laura Buchanan, |
| 1:56.4 | we'll do our brief introductions if you don't know who we are. |
| 2:00.8 | We'll talk about, but this is something we are we'll talk about but this is |
| 2:02.3 | something we've both been passionate about and I think dr. Laura has been a lot |
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