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How to Actually Live Longer is your go-to podcast for cutting through the noise and discovering practical, science-backed strategies to not just add years to your life, but to add life to your years. Hosted by longevity author and functional health practitioner Christian Yordanov, this podcast dives deep into the truths (and myths) behind longevity, health optimization, and addressing chronic health problems.

Each episode offers actionable insights drawn from the host's own research, clinical practice, and personal journey, helping you make informed decisions to restore and enhance your health. Whether you're interested in reducing stress, boosting your energy and mental performance, improving your gut health, or simply looking to optimize your diet and lifestyle, this podcast delivers the tools you need to live a healthier, longer life.

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Transcript

Understanding Hormonal Balance

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Okay, let's talk about hormone balance, sex hormone balance for women, for longevity. And this topic, it seems complex at first. i Obviously, women's hormone balance is a heck of a lot more complex and variable than men's, especially of course, during the pre-menopausal, perimenopausal period. But it's really not, add once you delve deeper into it, it really,
00:00:30
Speaker
is not as It's not so much of a black box as some sort of health outlets will lead you on to believe that it is, because for the most part, all that well in terms of hormonal balance when it goes awry in women, what
00:00:52
Speaker
usually is is an excessive estrogen relative to progesterone. and
00:01:02
Speaker
that causes a lot of issues because progesterone has antagonistic

Effects of Aging on Hormone Production

00:01:08
Speaker
effects to estrogen. So it's protective against estrogen's potential deleterious effects. And there's a lot of them. ah Any woman who knows what what that it can manifest as from water retention to insomnia, agitation, irritability,
00:01:27
Speaker
um <unk> um Tender breasts, I mean, just a ton of different health problems. And the thing is, when a woman is younger, she's able to produce progesterone more and to meet that demand. So if there's a demand that the estrogen is higher, when you have more of these youth hormones coursing in your blood when you're younger,
00:01:52
Speaker
you're able to meet stresses where they're at. So let's say stress increases estrogen, you're able to meet it where it's at, right? So in acute stress scenarios, if ah your DHEA may rise and that that could provide substrate for ah progesterone, whatever other protective hormones are required at that point in time. And over time as a person,
00:02:12
Speaker
um accumulates dysfunction as they accumulate polyunsaturated fats in their tissues as their nutritional deficiencies or insufficiencies start to catch up with them in their 40s plus.
00:02:30
Speaker
they there's they start being able less able to meet stresses where they're at, so they to to muster up an energetic response to a stressor. And that this is where, ah at least the clients I've worked with, this is where these sort of estrogen dominance symptoms start to rear their ugly head and it gets even one It can get even worse around perimenopause or postmenopause because when the ovaries stop producing progesterone, yes, they stop they stop producing estrogen, but peripheral estrogen in terms of the estrogen portion, so you have the estradiol primarily produced by the ovaries,
00:03:12
Speaker
But peripherally, men and women produce estrone, the E1.

Role of Nutrients in Hormone Balance

00:03:18
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And that one, every cell in the body can make it. So yes, a woman's estradiol might fall. Concomitantly, the progesterone will fall. right But the E1, the estrone, that tends to go up with age.
00:03:37
Speaker
right And um that this is where this sort of estrogen excess scenario comes into play, right? And ah if you kind of look at it back back in when a woman is younger, certain nutrients are required to produce progesterone, right? So a lot of these, for example, magnesium, vitamin E, a lot of people today are Deficient in those, I think most of the US population is deficient in magnesium. If you look at, in my book, how to actually live longer, if you look at the average intake of vitamin E for Americans, it's like, I think it was like 10 milligrams or less. And if you look at the ah RDA, it's just preposterous, I think it was like 15 milligrams. And if you look at how much polyunsaturated fats people are eating,
00:04:34
Speaker
and how much that has increased over the last hundred years or so. ah And the thing is, the polyunsaturated fats that we eat, they increase our vitamin E requirement ah because if the vitamin E protects them from peroxidation. So if you have a lot of stress in the body and a lot of these fatty acids are getting getting peroxidized, it increases the need for antioxidant and it depletes a person of their antioxidants like vitamin E and so on. So can you see how diet
00:05:09
Speaker
can actually directly affect how much progesterone a woman i can make, right magnesium, yeah vitamin E, and a ton of other things, right? So let's with that said, let me discuss the very simple strategies that we employ to get our clients hormone balance right to help them excrete estrogen well, right? So it doesn't build up in the body.
00:05:39
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And how to, you know, improve this progesterone to estrogen ratio, because that's a lot of women, just by doing that, they already feel so much better. And it's when they when they begin you using kind of these strategies, they They're like, wow, that i'm ah I'm a new person.

The Debate on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

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And that's that's what happens when you start to oppose estrogen and help to the body to excrete excrete it really efficiently because that's when it builds up in the body and the tissues, it has a lot of
00:06:14
Speaker
very pathological effects, including up to and including um you know the big C, cancer, because estrogen stimulates growth and division without differentiation, whereas progesterone and these more sort of um youth hormones, the testosterone, the androgens,
00:06:36
Speaker
there are more pro-differentiating factors. right So you need to grow, you need to divide the cells and grow. right But then that growth needs to be channeled into specific things to become organs and various tissues. right So estrogen is good at promoting growth.
00:06:53
Speaker
But you need progesterone and other ah protective hormones to differentiate that growth. That's why, you know, if you look at things like, um you know, fibrocystic breasts, for example, and the meteor tissue growing and the meteorosis and a bunch of other things, what's often the case is
00:07:16
Speaker
The woman has some kind of estrogen dominance. It's not always easily detectable because in the blood, you might not necessarily detect it on a Dutch test, which is like an excretionary type test. You pee on the paper.
00:07:30
Speaker
You might not catch it because if the liver is not working well, if the methylation and these other sort of detox pathways are not working well, you you might even see it low and you say, oh, this woman has ah an estrogen deficiency. Let's pump her with estrogen, which is really the the worst thing to do because all of these, ah especially these synthetic things like from HRT clinics, these are like horrific poisons. And usually they're they're combined with synthetic progesterone, which is can can have estrogenic effects as well as progestergenic effects. So this stuff is really poison.

Strategies for Hormone Balance and Longevity

00:08:06
Speaker
I mean, like I would personally never allow my wife to get on any kind of HRT that's you know not simply bioidentical progesterone or something like that. like So anyway, with that said, let me cover some strategies that women can use to improve their hormone balance and support their longevity goals.