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#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder...

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder...", an episode of Heather Monahan published November 19, 2024 (44 min, about 7,206 words). It mentions 16 people, works and ideas, including Erica Schwartz, Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), Compounding pharmacy, The Hormone Solution, IVF (in vitro fertilisation).

What this episode is about

Dr. Erika Schwartz, founder of Evolved Science, discusses the significance of bioidentical hormone therapy in achieving optimal health and longevity. She emphasizes the importance of balanced hormones in preventing illness and improving overall wellness, particularly for women in their 30s and 40s who may experience symptoms like low energy and mood swings.

Key takeaways

  • Chronological age is overrated; balancing bioidentical hormones can revolutionize health at any age.
  • In the pre-Google era, libraries offered zero clues on women's health and hormone therapy.
  • A $450 compounding pharmacy gamble ignited a health transformation that medical school missed.
  • Even top doctors can learn from patients; a new prescription changed an entire perspective.
  • Mainstream wisdom failed—bioidentical hormones are the unsung heroes of embracing midlife vitality.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Compounding pharmacy, Evolved Science
  2. – 10:00: Compounding pharmacy
  3. – 15:00: Premarin, The Hormone Solution
  4. – 20:00: Netsuite
  5. – 25:00: Pregnanolone
  6. – 30:00: Shopify, Genetic testing, The Hormone Solution
  7. – 35:00: Shopify

Notable quotes from "#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder..."

  • Introduce you to one of our exciting guests okay Dr Erica schwart she's the founder of evolved science a world-renowned medical practice based in nyz built on the recognition…
    about Evolved Science · at
  • Me this prescription and said why don't you ordered this at the compounding pharmacy which I didn't even know what it was because I am an MD yeah I'm an MD so why would I know…
    about Compounding pharmacy · at
  • See it a quotation marks right it was supposedly going to show that Premarin which was the hormone replacement therapy they were using in those days was the Fountain of Youth which is not a bad idea right the.
    about Premarin · at
  • I had written this book and this is again the Universe I had written this book called The hormone solution and it came out in April of 2002 and like you were talking about…
    about The Hormone Solution · at
  • 25 1 37,000 that's the number of businesses which have upgraded to netsuite by Oracle netsuite is the number one Cloud Financial system streamlining accounting financial management inventory HR and more all for you 25 net Suite turns 25.
    about Netsuite · at
  • Them that get like compounds that are estrogen progesterone testosterone dhaa pregnanolone it's all Mumbo jumo basically all put together and then you take the cream and you…
    about Pregnanolone · at
  • $10,000 a month to have a thousand tests that they don't need it's like if you think of the genetic testing which is like a big thing we spend two billion dollars to get the…
    about Genetic testing · at
  • Really know what each one of these different things is doing that's the sound of another sale on Shopify and the moment another business dream becomes a reality your reality…
    about Shopify · at

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Full transcript with timestamps

hi and welcome back I'm so glad you're back here with us this week let me introduce you to one of our exciting guests okay Dr Erica schwart she's the founder of evolved science a world-renowned medical practice based in nyz built on the recognition that bioidentical hormones and are the foundation for Better Health once hormones are balanced the practice focuses on optimization and Longevity through disease prevention patient advocacy and coordination of Care Dr Erica is a Pioneer in the use of bioidentical horm hormones for prent preventing illness and recognizing their direct link to overall wellness and their interconnection with diet sleep and Stress Management I need all those her focus on treating patients and the whole person began more than 30 years ago with her understanding that bioidentical hormone replacement is the safest most effective path to increase health span and to achieve the highest quality of

life Dr Erica thank you so much for being here today Heather it's my pleasure thank you having here I will tell you I'm so hyped selfishly right like all I'm 50 years old and all of my you look 35 so don't even tell me oh you're so sweet thank and by the way I think the chronologic age just sucks as an idea so out the door however it is helpful one thing that I'm learning and I didn't know this five years ago and that's why I think it's important we're doing this episode and I truly am doing this episode for any woman in their 30s and 40s because I didn't know any of this stuff I found out I don't know how I just didn't know about it I found out um when I was 49 when I started hearing all of my friends complaining about the same things hair loss weight gain low energy bad mood and then one of my friends started saying hormone replacement hormone therapy and I'm like what I don't what even mean and so it

was just interesting that as a group of people people my age a lot of us didn't even know about what you literally spent so much of your life studying and can you talk to us a little bit about how did that all come about how did you learn about this early on well clearly not from medical school and clearly not from medical education um I learned it because like everybody else it had to happen to me so while I was trained and I knew what I was doing and I ran a major Trauma Centers my first job at 28th which was unusual for a woman think about it this was in the late 70s early 80s women did not do jobs like this anyway so I ran a big trauma center and then I went into private practice and I did internal medicine and I just realized things weren't really I I was just kind of ping ponging patients and when I wasn't referring them to Specialists they would say to me why aren't you referring this

patient to specialist and I'd be like because I know how to take care of them and why do I need a specialist that the patient's healthy so anyway what happened when I turned 46 and I'm 74 now uh what that's why I said to you age doesn't matter really and I mean chronologic age anyway so so I um was 46 and I start I went into menopause and I was treating women in menopause already with all kinds of garbage that we were trained to to treat with that were kind of working kind of not working anyway so I started feeling not so good I started taking care of myself according to what I was trained and it wasn't working and then uh one of my patients came in and showed me this um prescription and said why don't you ordered this at the compounding pharmacy which I didn't even know what it was because I am an MD yeah I'm an MD so why would I know what a compounding pharmacy is right so um she said just write it for me in uh

California so I wrote it I didn't you know it was just basically estradi progesterone testosterone hormones that our body make so I was like oh okay the woman came back and she was very happy and I said what's going on and she's like oh this is what I need it's wonderful so when I went into menopause and I was taking the conventional stuff and it wasn't working um I thought H let me go back to this Pharmacy so I wrote to the guy at the pharmacy and I ordered the stuff and I can you send me some literature remember this is the 1990s so there's no internet there's no Google there's nothing so except for the libraries and the libraries that I was going to were the medical school librar so obviously they had this much information about anything to do with women's health so I and for anyone that's not seeing the video right now Dr Erica just put a big egg up zero she's saying there was no information on

hormones or hormone therapy right so I uh so I said to the guy send me some stuff so he sends me some literature and it's pretty good and it's in the real journals and it was before we knew that it was all fake the stuff that they published in the medical journals that were paid for by Pharma but we didn't think that anyway so it made sense and I said well why don't you send me whatever you had sent to this woman that I ordered for and all this so I spent like $450 which was a lot of money in 1996 97 and I get this box with a zillion things it has syringes with creams it has powders it has pills it has all kinds of things and I was like oh you know you kind of need a degree in Biochemistry to figure out what to do so I'm like so desperate to feel good because I was like a alien had come into my head you know I mean I'm not moody I'm usually pretty even temper all of a sudden I'm like a nightmare I can't live

inside my own body right so he so I get a notebook out and I start doing it and I start following the directions within a weak shock of all Shockers I feel like myself so I'm like wow so I called this guy and I say listen um I have a lot of patients who I have on the conventional wisdom stuff I would love to send them to you but you know $490 a month is a lot of money he's like I don't need you or your patience and he did me the biggest favor because what he by he did by saying to me get lost is he opened the door for me to learn about it so what I did is I found a compounding pharmacy in north of New York City where I was living and I spent the following three years while seeing patients going home at night and studying and working with this guy in a compounding pharmacy and develop formulations and compounds that turned out to really work the funny thing is that it all so then I wrote a book about

it and then it coincided with that study that destroyed the life of 7 million women by saying that hormones cause cancer so yet again like the universe steps in to take care of things right um I get a call from a patient's husband who was running a medical marketing company who had just sold it for some astronomic number and he says how's this going to affect your business so I'm like it's going to be great because people needed women need this and I know from I read it I did all the research this is exactly what we need it's not not only is it going to not cause cancer it's going to prevent heart disease it's going to prevent Alzheimer's it's going to keep your bone strong it's going to keep you know everything in place you you know totally what you want and he said okay can I come in as a partner so I'm like sure like do I know what he's talking about so we opened the first compounding pharmacy that did did the

formulations that I did and then I was teaching doctors all over New York and you know the University Hospitals and that's how it started and then I moved on to you know I wasn't about making money I was about helping women really and it was practice the practice was practically all women at the time now ironically it's 5050 men woke up to it and it was also very menopausal women so you know nobody talked about it now I have 16 year olds in the practice because everybody gets it brings their kids in brings their whole you know family in like you said the women in their 30s and 40s and they know what's out there and what can happen so why don't we prevent it because it's all about preventing we can stay healthy we can stay looking good we can stay feeling good there's no reason not to so this is the evolution of it so this is where we are so then I realized it wasn't just that hormon whoever is

the person involved that would make the decision to conduct their life in such a way that would make it work and it's like what you were saying on your Ted Talk that I told you I was watching before that you can't allow the outside word to take world to take away your light you have to hold on to it and if it's taking it away from you you better walk away from that so that's what I'm doing in healthcare so one of the things that you brought up that I am curious to hear about because the only friends that I have that aren't doing some type of hormone something at this point at our age are ones that are very so scared of cancer and you you you brought up that that study so can you tell us and educate us for myself for all the listeners what validity is there what studies were done like what does it all mean why are people afraid of that well they're afraid of it because that study was a complete fraud it was a study

sponsored by Wyatt Pharmaceuticals fiser Pharmaceuticals and upjn and it was supposedly and again for those who don't see it a quotation marks right it was supposedly um going to show that Premarin which was the hormone replacement therapy they were using in those days was the Fountain of Youth which is not a bad idea right the only problem is that they used women who were at least 10 years after menopause who had pre-existing conditions like they were smokers they had cancers they had all kinds of issues and so they were too old to look at and they use the wrong kind of hormone replacement therapy because and this is a hard concept and I teach it to doctors so I don't want to sound like an idiot by you know saying something they believed and they still believe in the conventional medical world that all estrogens behave the same all progesteron behave the same the truth is that no such thing happens

and it's common sense that if the formula of a substance isn't the same as the formula of the next substance they're not going to behave the same it's just common sense you don't really need to be a biochemist you don't need to know anything except common sense to say what are you talking about it took 20 years for that piece of information to get across the Atlantic Ocean because in Europe they got it um and say wait a minute the study was bad what they gave them didn't work women need hormones so I had written this book and this is again the Universe I had written this book called The hormone solution and it came out in April of 2002 and like you were talking about writing a book I really didn't write a book because I thought I wanted to be famous or I wanted people to think that I know what I'm talking about it was kind of it came out and it came out of me and it was about help and saying that that the the

core of that book is really women at all ages men if you you know pubertal you know if you have a baby I just wrote a chapter for a medical book about postpartum care and how what's going on there which is another disaster anyway and at every age we're affected by our hormone balance so that's what that book was was about and it was also that putting the right hormones in into the mix will help you stay healthy will open the door for you to stop drinking when you're older to be able to maintain your weight to be able to sleep to protect eventually from heart disease brain bones Etc and the book came out in April of 2002 and the study came out in July of 2002 so all of a sudden it was number two on Amazon just fig go figure and this is how I got to where I got but I but I did a lot of work in the meantime because I'm taking care of patients and I went from taking care of menopausal women to taking care of like

transgenerationally and bringing the guys in too and saying listen we all need to make sure our hormones are imbalance we all have it in our hands to improve our lives we don't need to look for the magic pill which we're all sadly looking for we don't need to try to you know outsmart the next person we can just stay there and do what's best for ourselves and we'll be okay your business gets to a certain size and the cracks start to emerge things you used to do in a day are taking a week you have two too many manual processes you don't have one source of truth if this is you you should know these three numbers 37,000 25 1 37,000 that's the number of businesses which have upgraded to netsuite by Oracle netsuite is the number one Cloud Financial system streamlining accounting financial management inventory HR and more all for you 25 net Suite turns 25 this year that's 25 years of helping businesses do more with less close their

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I don't know a fimble of what what you know in regards to hormones you do you live there you know more well I do know how important it is and it can change how you feel but I still know for myself I'm on hormones right now and I know I'm still not on the right concoction of it yet because I see some of my friends are thriving and I feel better but I know I'm not there yet right so you can see that it's something that my point is this there are online Solutions and I'm not going to say the brand names but like there's solutions that you can go to online and it's um they have a system set up and you're immediately on on hormone patches and hormone pills whatever then there's these very expensive because some of my friends go to these people I don't but there're these very very expensive some of my friends are spending $10,000 a month um doing testing hormones injections whatever they feel amazing then I see in

between there's you know labs and there's doctors so what is the right thing for a regular person to do when they know wow I'm I'm aware I need to figure out what's going on with my hormones where do they start and where should they go like what does that look like good question that's a great question unfortunately there is no clear you know like epidemiologic answer that says okay everybody should do this because everybody's different everybody like you said they can go up there or you can go down here wherever this is the only thing I would say go to anywhere you find your friends recommend I mean you get on Instagram all day long they get fed this stuff don't go for the supplements because the supplements most of them unless they're tied into the hormonal supplementation they're just a marketing scam so don't bother with the supplements I would say then I would say try and if you feel

better stay there like you said you're not quite there and you know it because you live in there listen to yourself you know it don't let anybody else tell you what's going on and then keep trying until you find the right person now you know this has become a huge market so there's a lot of money that people are spending in it and there are a lot of quacks in it the same way there are a lot of quacks in the conventional world you know so you it's up to you like you said in your Ted Talk and in your life it's up to you to say this far no further this so I would say give it three months in three months you'll know if it's the right person or not and if the person listen listens to you if the person gets to know you if they want to know you if they're not just prescribing because they have nothing else to do been prescribed to collect their money they go the other way you know that you know what you want if they're there to

sell you you're not interested because it's your life so you want somebody who's going to protect you and who's going to tell you whatever they know now you know yesterday I had a patient in the practice who came in and was telling me that one of the doctors that I'm in on faculty at the American Academy of anti-aging medicine and another faculty member who's a quite well-renowned doctor was saying something that was a little different quite different as a matter of fact than what I say and she said you know obviously she came to me and she was like what's the story and I said listen the beauty is of it is that you get different opinions and that's beautiful and we don't understand that in our culture we're a little off on that one that you want different opinions because they will help you try to figure out what's best for you and you'll know that not everything works for everybody so it's okay I don't have

a problem with that but you can decide if it's right or wrong you can decide well I feel better I have patients who come and say I've been doing the same thing for five years and I'm not quite there and I'm not losing weight and I'm my skin is horrible and my hair's falling out and I'm like why have you been doing it for five years she's like well I don't know the one thing I can tell you is don't go to anybody who mixes it all together there are a lot of them that get like compounds that are estrogen progesterone testosterone dhaa pregnanolone it's all Mumbo jumo basically all put together and then you take the cream and you just smush it on the problem is that it makes no sense because you'll never know who did what to whom so I will never come put them all together and my experience been pretty significant for 30 years and I still see patients three days a week and I see like 20 patients kind of things so

I see a lot anyway what I've learned is that you keep them separate because if you keep them separate it might be more of a nuisance that you have to do it like twice a day or divide it up but we you and I will figure out what's best for you much easier than if you put it all in one so that would be one piece of advice so what does it look like when it is the right formula so what what makes the right formula is first of all not putting them all together doing them separately they're different times in life where different things work better than other things like a patch will work better when you're younger than when you're old older a cream of progesterone will work better when you're younger rather than older so oral estrogen should never be given because it's processed through the liver and we have enough crap going through our liver we don't want to add to that testosterone should never be given in

pellets you know because they put them under the skin and leave it there for three months your body in its Natural State before you stop making it releases hormone impulses so you don't want to have hormones there all the time you want hormones to come and go come and go and this is how you want to do it so those are just like basic things that should tell you if you're getting the right thing or not having said that I have seen people who have been like I said doing it for five years the wrong way and it's working the other thing is that at some point it's not just about estrogen progesterone testosterone it becomes about thyroid and adrenal and that's really crucial because it took me about five years of doing it and remember since I'm old that it started a long time ago that nobody even thought about it at the time I was like I'm doing it right but the people are not quite getting it's not quite like you

said not 100% I feel great you look great you feel great but you know you're not 100% so that's when I realized that the blood pests that we do because we're conventional doctors and I insisted on the fact that this is where conventional medicine has to go or it's going to die as simple as that and that conventional medicine and I'm a conventional doctor so I don't want to be considered alternative so I don't want to think of myself as an alternative doctor so it's conventional medicine who needs to go there so when you do Bloods you know what conventional drug Bloods look like right but they don't really tell you anything before you're sick they tell you when you're sick so I had to kind of learn on my own how to figure out when ahead of time how to get to prevention like you said all these people who pay $10,000 a month to have a a thousand tests that they don't need it's like if you think of the genetic testing which

is like a big thing we spend two billion dollars to get the genetic code for humans like 20 years ago and it's completely useless because we know that genetics mean absolutely nothing that what we that there may be two or three genetic diseases actually which sadly exist and that's it you can't do much about it and that genetics are useless as far as knowing them except for creating high anxiety you you because you're going to worry about it and it's epigenetics is what our environment is doing to our genes that is making them to either Express themselves as negative things or Express themselves as positive things so doing the test sometimes like I'm not very big on testing which makes a lot of people who make money off of the testing not very happy so to me what matters the most is you how you feel how you're feeling now how you felt six months ago and then what I do which is because I'm

the the conventional doctor that when you feel perfectly and you come and you say I got it this is perfect I feel the way I want to feel that's when we do the Bloods because everybody's different and that's when I will know that your Bloods are the right Bloods for you to keep you where we want to be you know like the people who say like the woman I was think talking about the um whose faculty with me who's saying that you should have the same estrogen levels that you had when you were in your 30s or 20s in order I'm sure you've heard that one right in order to feel great well in some people yes and some people not and to have a period that's another conversation right you should have a period forever well I had patience and when I first started you know women would not even admit that they didn't have periods anymore they would be like Oh I'm 59 and I've had a period my whole life and I'd be like oh my God I must

there's something wrong with me because I can't believe that but I believe anything my patients say so oh what's the truth well the truth is they were lying because they were embarrassed because the embarrassment Factor was so high and women's like you say lack of self-esteem and self-confidence trumps everything totally so now like I would have my first editor of the hormone solution the original hormone solution was a 20-some year old lady who told me I couldn't write and I guess she was wrong but anyway um her M she sent me her mother who was a lovely woman took care of her and it was early so I don't blame them for not being sure of what I was talking about and the woman wouldn't tell her gynecologist she was feeling great and she'd go for her annual checkups and he'd be like oh my God you're like 59 and your vagina is the like a 35 year old and you feel good and I I don't understand it's wonderful

you're doing great and she's not on hormones because it's post hormones to for you right and she never told the truth she never told them that she was on hormones with me so people were very scared and even to this day there are some who will quit the gynecologist and go to the people like me who take care of them and then never say what changed and what happened which I think is not doing any service to the younger ones like you said to other people yeah for sure no I I they would do that more often to share the information so we could all know tell us a little bit Dr Erica about um because I still don't understand this what what does estrogen fix what does um testosterone fix what does progesterone fix I still don't even really know what each one of these different things is doing that's the sound of another sale on Shopify and the moment another business dream becomes a reality your reality Shopify is a

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unfortunately in the conventional medical thinking everybody stays in their Lane and they don't come out of their Lane and the moment they start coming out of their Lane they become better they can serve you better and healthc Care should be about service to you it should not be about anything else it's the worst industry and you have experience in sales so you know that it's horrible that the most important sales in the industry the most important service industry has the worst service record of anybody so starting with that I I just had to say that but the thing is that they all work together now you want your orthopedic surgeon to stay in his lane or her Lane by all means you want them to operate on your knee you want them to fix it you're not really interested in them doing anything else but what you don't want them to do is to tell you to stop your hormones to stop your supplements

because they don't know what they're talking about so you have to learn that part of it so that's where we talk about Lanes on the other hand you can talk about the primary care or the people who do what I do which is they do everything they know everything as far as you give them the information because you can't know everything about anything because none of us will but it's about getting the information about who you are and what your needs are and unless you have that you're not going to be able to help anybody because you're going to have parts of it and parts of it is not enough so when you talking about so to answer your question because there is an answer to your question estrogen is the estrog is the hormone of growth so when you're pregnant it makes the fetus grow when you know the first half of the cycle it makes your uterus the lining of the uterus grow it a very positive it's

increases serotonin levels it makes you feel good it's a making you feel good hormone it also makes you who we are like as far as being like I guess be some of us being more edgy than others being you know it's it's part of being it's the hormone of being a woman estradi the hormone of Youth the estrogen of Youth progesterone is its balancer it balances the effects of estrogen in the according to the American College of edcs and Gynecology the only use for progestin is to make sure that it doesn't make the lining of the uterus get too thick and increase the risk of endometrial cancer I don't think that's right I think it's totally wrong it does affect I mean it helps with keeping the lining of the uterus thin which is important but it also works on your brain and makes you calm and makes you Bal makes you also even more woman testosterone is the hormone that we identify as male as a male hormone

but it's not women make more testosterone than men per not not quantity but but like ratio kind of the amount of testosterone we make is more than men make to tell you the truth not the not the amount but like in the ratio of hormones and testosterone is a great hormone when you talk about aggressiveness which is what testosterone is associated with um this very very famous scientist by the name of Robert zapolski who did all the research on testosterone says how unless you have a genetic predisposition for testosterone to make you irritable and angry and I guess aggressive you're not going to get aggressive the same thing goes for women if you take testosterone you get aggressive you took too much or you just can't take it and there are ways to give it to you you can give it to you in shots you can give it to you in creams again you can't give it to you Orly because it's not going to work right and

again it's going to be through your liver and you don't want that so testosterone helps with muscle mass right which helps with bones because none of the osteoporosis medications actually helps with your bones the only thing that helps with your bones is building your muscle and maintaining your muscles as you get older that's it there's no other nothing calcium won't do it nothing else will do it but you working out and building your muscle will do it so testosterone will do that it will also give you the libido which we all want now after 30 years of a relationship that's gone stale and you're done with it it's G to be a little difficult even giving you testosterone to turn you on but you could still get turned on I mean we talked to women you know if you don't have a partner you can masturbate there are a lot of great ways in which can maintain your sexuality it's okay there's nothing wrong with it it's

always been okay for men it's okay for women by the way there's no question about it so and by the way it wasn't just a male thing sexuality it's a male and female of course most of them kind of have sex with women so don't get that okay so I have a question for you this one is is um personal nature so I'm I'm taking the hormones I'm doing the hormones I'm still not sleeping as good as I used to I work out every day like I'm doing the things you know like I'm going to bed at the pretty much the same time you know like I I do the things that most people would do to try to ensure that you're sleeping right but it's odd that I'm I'm just not I'm not I know something's off right so your hormones are not well balanced check your thyroid your adrenals make sure you diet and your stretch management how do you go to sleep do you meditate do you breathe what are the steps that you take every night the routine that you have every

night that brings you down to where you need to sleep so is are you seeing stress as one of the main problems for people with sleep of course it is the main problem for everything stress is it stress is what's killing everybody yes so and it's so it's not easy it's so fixable and because it's so fixable we should focus on fixing it instead of focusing on trying to figure out Solutions around it and you the what are the best ways that you see to manage stress for for your patients well I've been working very hard with my patients teaching them to meditate and when I say meditate half of them go like oh no I can't meditate I won't meditate it's not okay so then I stop saying the word meditation what better way to do it right change the word so I say sit just sit alone without a screen without music without any noise without anything to give you stimulation from the outside just sit there close your eyes and just

sit and pay attention to your breathing so you make sure you breathe because humans don't breathe breathe nobody teaches us to breathe so breathe just sit there sit for a few minutes sit for one minute then during the day take a break and sit in the evening for sure start sit there and it's so interesting that I was just talking to one of my patients who's going through IVF because she's she needs to go through IVF and she's so scared and she's so negative because she's gone through so many negative things she's in her 30s and I mean she has plenty time and I was sitting with her the other day and I said to her I said you need to start meditating because all she would say is oh my God they're go you know it's G to fall apart it's not going to work sure enough they get five eggs the five eggs die it's a it's a nightmar right and I'm like you know you're doing it to yourself and she's like what do

you mean you're doing I'm like you are so scared that you're envisioning you're putting out all this negative energy towards it so we have to switch it to NE to positive so I'm like you have to start meditating shouldn't have said it right so she says to me oh my God my mother meditates I hate it she has a whole issue there so I said okay we're gonna have to start sitting so she sent me a text this morning she just had her um egg retrieval done and they retrieved six eggs and she wrote me the most positive wonderful I've been sending her you know daily little positive things about how to start her day the things to do and she sounds like a completely different person and I would love to see what happens next because you know she's gonna get pregnant you know it'll work wow it's so interesting I mean that's definitely what I see with people that I work with obviously not to the level of like pregnancies but I'm working with

them on whether they're trying to get the next job or get you know start their own business or whatever but how much of it is mental what you're Envision what you're saying to yourself the people you're surrounding the things that you're listening to and watching and how and recognizing how it makes you feel and it's interesting to see and to hear you say with your medical practice you're seeing the exact same thing with the results in regards to even having kids it just it further validates that what you say what you speak into existence you're speaking into your life and your body and that is so incredibly powerful it is so powerful and you know what what I was saying to you before how come I'm saying it and I have an MD after my name and I am like one of very few who are saying it how crazy is that how crazy when you have this huge tool at your fingertips that you're not using it and then you're saying ah let me give

you a pill let me what are we thinking of course it is what's and when you say it's in your you know about what you put out your mind and your body are one how could we think that they are separate when I was saying about in the staying in the lane how could you have a lane for Psychiatry and a lane for Internal Medicine how could you how could you do such a disservice to us so true and I'm so grateful that the way that you think and I know everyone listening is going to want to get a hold of you Dr Erica how can people find out more about you more about the way they can work with you get your books get a hold of you where does everybody go at do Dr Erica Schwarz everywhere on Instagram um and uh the practice is called Evol science it's e at es health and you can find me I'm I'm pretty much over and the books are all on Amazon well I will link everybody if you want to get a hold of Dr Erica

involve science you want to see her books they will be in the show notes below Dr Erica thank you so much for being such a bright light and dialing your light up so others can see we appreciate the work that you're doing thank you heather it was an honor to to be with you thank you all right guys check out Dr Erica until next week keep creating your confidence you know I will be

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What is "#480: Revitalize Your LIFE with Hormone Therapy with Dr. Erika Schwartz, Founder..." about?

Dr. Erika Schwartz, founder of Evolved Science, discusses the significance of bioidentical hormone therapy in achieving optimal health and longevity. She emphasizes the importance of balanced hormones in preventing illness and improving overall wellness, particularly for women in their 30s and 40s who may experience symptoms like low energy and mood swings.

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16 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Erica Schwartz, Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), Compounding pharmacy, The Hormone Solution, IVF (in vitro fertilisation), Evolved Science. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

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The episode runs 44 min; the transcript is about 7,206 words in 41 timestamped sections.

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