from fatigue to poor sleep even trouble
concentrating hormonal changes can occur
at many stages in life and the symptoms
can sometimes stop us from doing what we
love I am so obsessed with this segment
Leslie zinnia was able to get back to
her life back in balance with help from
the Institute of anti-aging she's
joining us now along with dr. Richard
Laconia our friend welcome to Houston
live thank you both of you in studio
let's talk about your story Leslie
you're fit you're beautiful you're
active what was going on in your life
I had full hysterectomy when I was 50
and they just put me on an estrogen
patch and like you know that's what I
was supposed to be on and I didn't like
it I just felt like just it's like awful
you were off like you were feeling
everything was off everything was off so
just sleeping I was getting big I was
not happy depressed and I said this is
not the route I want to take so I looked
around and I fell into his lap literally
and it's been it's overused but life
changing life change is true that when
initially you were having these doctor's
visits they put you on estrogen and that
actually made you the worse yes right so
what were you thinking at that time were
you thinking I have to live her body for
a living is an instructor a health
instructor yes you teach all kinds of
classes and dr. Liu cony Leslie's not
alone there are so many women and men by
the way that go through hormone changes
that you just feel like quite honestly
Leslie well this is just it had a
hysterectomy change of life or
whatever's happening this is how I have
to deal with life and you're saying
that's not the way it happens well you
know really hormone balance is just that
it's like a little symphony
it's not just one hormone you can't have
a concert with a single musician and you
know having to find it a way to put it
all together is really what bioidentical
hormones are all about even though we do
believe that the fact that they're made
up of the same hormones that your
ovaries actually made but it's more to
it than that it's it's to getting the
balance right and that's a little bit of
a trial and error so when Leslie came in
we tried her on
two different doses and we we use a word
called titration where we just change
the doses until we find that perfect one
because even though estrogen has this
reputation among people of making you
fetch so because the dose wasn't right
okay
and dr. Laconia is it true that this
sort of I mean we're we just saw some of
the signs of Sai Roy deficiencies so
someone could have a hormone deficiency
a thyroid deficiency and your job is to
sort of size up the situation and figure
out what is actually going on right
exactly and some of these go together I
mean women who are at that menopausal
age they're also very highly likely to
have thyroid deficiencies as part of
that because it's just a well-known fact
that this is something that kind of
comes along with it yeah and what's
interesting when you're talking about
sort of the hormone disruption in the
body there's all kinds of side effects
or symptoms the hot flashes that we saw
we we put up a list here in a little bit
not sleeping fatigue weight gain all
these things and what's so amazing and
mind-blowing to me Leslie is that you
found out about this not by you know
millions and millions of tests and
dollars and all about stuff it was a
blood test y'all mm-hmm that's it right
so what happened okay so you go to see
dr. Lou Coney you get on these
bioidentical hormones what what kind of
changes did you notice well I get leaner
I get stronger and that's a plus for me
I have way more energy I can eat as much
as I want and which I like and I just
feel good turn 50 and you notice changes
I was like this lady is you know it's a
great they're great go ahead dr. Laconia
and show us some of these props that you
bring these this basically is the
hormone that your little friends exactly
say hello that basically is the hormone
cream and it's as easy as this what it's
actually safer to give estrogen through
your skin so you do this oh don't do it
on yourself for TVD years
normally have so Leslie I'll pass them
around so you literally just put every
mornin sperm and rub it together right
and even if somebody hasn't had a full
hysterectomy kind of what Leslie's story
was this could be something that you've
noticed some change over time where I'm
irritable or I'm not sleep right I mean
there are other symptoms yeah and this
is what I really prefer is if I could
come into the scene before a woman
actually has menopause maybe as much as
five years or so okay depending on the
individual where they're having a lot of
hormone changes even though they haven't
actually gone over the waterfall of
menopause you don't I mean so you know
you're starting to feel tired kind of
irritable cranky don't sleep well things
like this schedule I mean I meet all
this as well and we are out of time but
we should point out that every patient
it's a custom program to treat each
patient
I still don't believe you're 57 Leslie
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always great to see both of you you're
in great hands give them a buzz