Question: Dietary nutritional advice for breast cancer prevention and thoughts on HRT? Carrie: Well, that’s probably better for you when it comes to like nutrient ratios and stuff. But I will say working for an estrogen lab, we’re looking at phase one and phase two detoxification and what we’re trying to assess with estrogen. …
At the end of March, a New York City doctor drew massive attention with his claim, published in a YouTube video, that COVID-19 was more similar to altitude sickness than to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and that it was being treated the wrong way. At the root of his claim was that ARDS patients …
Question: What are causes for night sweats in men? Carrie: Oh. Well, it can be hormonal just like it can be for women. I test all the same hormones in men. I check their thyroid with night sweats. I definitely even check the same thing. I check cortisol and I do norepinephrine markers with night …
Question: With an ovary removed, when should I think about increasing progesterone or estrogen? Carrie: You may actually need more progesterone. Like I was saying in the very beginning of this, that progesterone actually turns into that neurosteroid allopregnanolone, which can cross the blood-brain barrier and bind itself to GABA and affect sleep. It’s very …
Question: Why do I wake up early every morning when I’m depressed? Carrie: Now, with depression, it’s heavily studied if you have an elevated or excessive cortisol awakening response, meaning you go higher, your spike is higher and more dramatic than the average bear, then your risk for morning depression is much higher. The reason …
On September 13, 2020, I made an important update to my position, which is included at the end of the article. You can click through to it directly using this link. Yesterday, Dr. Rhonda Patrick, PhD, of Found My Fitness released an email to her list with the subject “Vitamin D may reduce susceptibility to …