Do you feel like a “hot hormonal mess”?
You are not alone. Many of us are told we are healthy but don’t feel great. You feel tired, your sex drive has disappeared and you are frustrated with your weight, despite a healthy diet and exercise. At night you are exhausted, but your sleep quality is poor from waking up throughout the night.
Needless to say, you’re irritable and your patience is short, which makes you feel guilty for overreacting. It is not your fault! These are all signs of hormone-imbalances.
Our hormones can affect our mood, weight, energy, sleep, libido, memory, hair, skin and even promote disease if they are out of balance.
Dr. Robert Maki and Dr. Valorie Davidson are Naturopathic Physicians and graduates of Bastyr University. They specialize in Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT), Functional Medicine and are the co-hosts of The Progress Your Health Podcast.
This podcast is intended to educate listeners about hormonal conditions, such as hypothyroid, Hashimoto’s, adrenal fatigue, PMS, PCOS, perimenopause, menopause and low testosterone to name a few.
The Progress Your Health Podcast will focus on cutting edge information and therapies to help you lose weight, balance hormones and age gracefully. It is Dr. Maki and Dr. Davidson’s mission to motivate, educate and empower you to take your health to the next level.
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Do you feel like a “hot hormonal mess”?
You are not alone. Many of us are told we are healthy but don’t feel great. You feel tired, your sex drive has disappeared and you are frustrated with your weight, despite a healthy diet and exercise. At night you are exhausted, but your sleep quality is poor from waking up throughout the night.
Needless to say, you’re irritable and your patience is short, which makes you feel guilty for overreacting. It is not your fault! These are all signs of hormone-imbalances.
Our hormones can affect our mood, weight, energy, sleep, libido, memory, hair, skin and even promote disease if they are out of balance.
Dr. Robert Maki and Dr. Valorie Davidson are Naturopathic Physicians and graduates of Bastyr University. They specialize in Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT), Functional Medicine and are the co-hosts of The Progress Your Health Podcast.
This podcast is intended to educate listeners about hormonal conditions, such as hypothyroid, Hashimoto’s, adrenal fatigue, PMS, PCOS, perimenopause, menopause and low testosterone to name a few.
The Progress Your Health Podcast will focus on cutting edge information and therapies to help you lose weight, balance hormones and age gracefully. It is Dr. Maki and Dr. Davidson’s mission to motivate, educate and empower you to take your health to the next level.
In this episode, we’re answering a thoughtful (and very relatable) listener question from Kari,who’s been struggling with unexpected body pain and inflammation after starting hormonetherapy. She wonders if she might be hypersensitive to estrogen—something most doctorsdon’t talk about.
Dr. Valorie Davidson and Dr. Robert Maki unpack why this happens and what to do if yoususpect your body is reacting to estrogen differently than expected.
In this episode, we discuss:
Why some women experience increased pain, fluid retention, or inflammation onestradiol—especially starting at higher doses too quickly.
The importance of starting low and increasing slowly, especially for sensitiveindividuals
How Dr. Davidson’s personal experience with estrogen sensitivity helped shape herapproach
The role of the liver’s phase 1 and phase 2 detox pathways in clearing estrogenmetabolites
Why form, dose, and timing of hormone therapy (cream vs. patch, AM vs. PM) canaffect results
What to consider when adjusting your Biest ratio (80:20 vs. 90:10) or RhythmicDosing HRT
✉️ Here’s Kari’s full question:“I used Biest 80:20 for 3 years and suddenly stopped absorbing. I’m not sure why,but I do know I didn’t always use it the same time every day. From the moment Iwent on hormone therapy I’ve had body pain and thought I had fibromyalgia. Whenmy estrogen dropped due to the absorption issue I realized the body paincompletely went away. I then went on a patch because my doc said we shouldchange the method. Immediate body pain again and even worse. Terrible. I was on0.025 and it was tolerable, but after raising it to 0.05 it got really bad. I think I mayask to go on the compounded cream again—maybe change the site that I apply itand be more consistent. I’m very frustrated because no one talks about a subset ofpeople that are very sensitive to estrogen. They only talk about it making joint paingo away. Do you think I should use 90:10 instead? What would you recommendthat I do? I’m so sad and frustrated.”
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Do you feel like a “hot hormonal mess”?
You are not alone. Many of us are told we are healthy but don’t feel great. You feel tired, your sex drive has disappeared and you are frustrated with your weight, despite a healthy diet and exercise. At night you are exhausted, but your sleep quality is poor from waking up throughout the night.
Needless to say, you’re irritable and your patience is short, which makes you feel guilty for overreacting. It is not your fault! These are all signs of hormone-imbalances.
Our hormones can affect our mood, weight, energy, sleep, libido, memory, hair, skin and even promote disease if they are out of balance.
Dr. Robert Maki and Dr. Valorie Davidson are Naturopathic Physicians and graduates of Bastyr University. They specialize in Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT), Functional Medicine and are the co-hosts of The Progress Your Health Podcast.
This podcast is intended to educate listeners about hormonal conditions, such as hypothyroid, Hashimoto’s, adrenal fatigue, PMS, PCOS, perimenopause, menopause and low testosterone to name a few.
The Progress Your Health Podcast will focus on cutting edge information and therapies to help you lose weight, balance hormones and age gracefully. It is Dr. Maki and Dr. Davidson’s mission to motivate, educate and empower you to take your health to the next level.
